HAQ responsiveness is inversely associated with mean duration of RA in clinical trials
... response signal of functional improvement, and to discriminate this signal from responses seen with placebo treatment" concluded Dr. Daniel Aletaha, Department of Rheumatology, Vienna Medical University, Wien, Austria and the study's lead author. "This research indicates that assessment of functional outcomes ne...BMI cannot predict outcome for people with heart disease
...ults therefore demonstrate the inability of BMI to discriminate between body fat and lean muscle, they conclude. "Rather than proving that obesity is harmless, our data suggest that alternative methods might be needed to better characterise individuals who truly have excess body fat, compared with those in whom...Seeing two figures in coordinated action helps brain pick out movements of one
...nds that the human visual system is better able to discriminate the movements of a single person when his or her actions are coordinated in a meaningful way with a second individual. When shown a pair of figures in motion, for instance, the brain is better able to pick out an individual if it perceives that one...First evidence that musical training affects brain development in young children
...ompleted a music test (in which they were asked to discriminate between same and different harmonies, rhythms and melodies) and a digit span memory test (in which they had to listen to a series of numbers, remember them and repeat them back to the experimenter). Analysis of the MEG responses showed that across ...Emotional control circuit of brain's fear response discovered
...ioral trick, however, the researchers were able to discriminate between brain circuitry that detected this emotional conflict from circuitry that resolved this conflict. They found that the amygdala generates the signal telling the brain that an emotional conflict is present; this conflict then interferes with th...New dyslexia theory blames 'noise'
...UCLA found that children with dyslexiastruggled to discriminate similar sounds, like "spy" and"sky," because they weighed irrelevant differences insounds equally with key distinctions. Manis also cited research from Finland and the UnitedStates showing that infants with dyslexic parents lagbehind their peers in...Two central mysteries in genome inheritance solved at UCSD
...ied a separate protein complex that helps the cell discriminate between correct and incorrect spindle connections,...osomes and microtubule polymers, which operates to discriminate between correct and incorrect chromosome-spindle attachments. Each replicated chromosome is compris...How your brain helps you become a wine expert
...likewise, the floral-exposed subjects could better discriminate among floral smells. In other words, study participants exposed to one minty odor became experts in other minty smells. Testing showed subjects retained their new expertise for at least 24 hours. "When you have prolonged sensory experience with one...Brain studies reveal the mechanisms of the voluntary control of visual attention
...cyclist off to the side -- we tend to more quickly discriminate or detect changes there than at other locations in our visual field that are not so attended," Woldorff said. Previous studies, including several by the Duke researchers, have associated such attentional processes with brain activity that occurs in ...UK government is failing sex workers
...nation, yet they argue that UK government policies discriminate against the most disadvantaged. Criminalisation of prostitution limits access to health and social care and contravenes United Nations' guidelines on human rights. "Only by moving prostitution out of the criminal justice system and focusing on publ...Prematurity more accurately predicted by advances in proteomic technology
...reviously developed the novel MR scoring method to discriminate healthy from diseased women in whom preterm delivery is impending and the health of the fetus is in danger. MR scoring relies on identification of a group of proteins that serve as biomarkers characteristic to women who will deliver preterm. A nor...Molecular marker may help identify pancreatic cancer, and possibly predict survival time
...tic tumors of unknown primary neoplasms or to help discriminate between benign and malignant neoplasms that would otherwise be indeterminate by routine histologic and immunohistochemical analysis." "More importantly, data such as ours, in which it is possible to begin to differentiate between patients with bet...Detecting cold, feeling pain: Study reveals why menthol feels fresh
...g menthol. The genetically engineered mice did not discriminate between warm and cold surfaces until the temperature dropped to extremes. "It's been known for years that menthol and related cooling agents evoke the psychophysical sensation of cold somehow by interacting with the aspect of the sensory nervous s...Dartmouth's alternative breast imaging techniques sort abnormal from normal tissue
...increase in contrast between 150 to 200 percent to discriminate between breast cancer and benign tissue. We put our new imaging techniques to the test to quantify their effectiveness, said Steven Poplack, associate professor of radiology and OB/GYN at Dartmouth Medical School, and co-director for breast imagi...Future therapies for stroke may block cell death
..., he said, drugs must be designed that are able to discriminate between various forms of histone deacetylase. Kozikowski said the new findings, performed in collaboration with Dr. Brett Langley at the Burke-Cornell Medical Research Institute in White Plains, N.Y., are significant, and that "other exciting resu......mportant is that other measures of obesity did not discriminate beyond traditional risk factors, whereas WHR did. The results are most astonishing and may be influenced by the age distribution of the study, Dr. Erbel added. During life, the likelihood of coronary artery calcium increases more in men than in wom...