Anti-fungal drug stops blood vessel growth
...find an already approved drug that worked, and the fact that we did was very satisfying, says Liu, whose study appears online in ACS Chemical Biology. As an antifungal drug, itraconazole blocks a key enzyme for making fungal cholesterol, causing these primitive life forms to become fragile and break ap...Spinal manipulation in children studied
...ecise risk estimates can be made. "Despite the fact that spinal manipulation is commonly used on children, exceedingly few serious injuries or adverse events have been reported," said Dr. Kim Humphreys, one of the study authors and dean of Graduate Education and Research at the Canadian Memorial Chiro...XDx presents success with AlloMap molecular expression testing to international transplant community
... Gene Expression Observational (CARGO) study. "The fact that we can accomplish this non-invasively, without requiring a routine biopsy, is likely to impact the care and quality of life of many patients who have undergone heart transplantation." In separate studies, recent data from the Lung Allograft Re...Water flows like molasses on the nanoscale
...t's the first simulation done of these forces. The fact that we have direct measurements married with theoretical results is rather conclusive." Riedo and Landman conducted their experiments in several different environments. They found that the layering effect was more pronounced when water was placed ...Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain
...oductivity at work. While hay fever may remain a fact of life for millions of people, Szeinbach points out the importance of a proper diagnosis. The majority of study participants (405) had a traditional skin-prick test, in which a drop of allergen is placed on a patient's arm or back. The physician the...ISHLT membership explores expansion of computer modeling system for organ allocation
... in order to evaluate whether the recipient may in fact receive the organ. Taking into consideration the novelty of the system, an international representation of ISHLT membership will convene to evaluate this new modeling system to determine its effectiveness and Leah Edwards, Ph.D., United Network for ...UD receives $1.9 million for new spintronics center
...sed on. Yet spintronics is taking advantage of the fact that electrons also rotate around an axis, just as the Earth does," he noted. "This spin creates the electron's magnetic properties, just as the Earth has a magnetic North Pole and South Pole." Electrons can spin in one of two directions--either do...Drug company sales visits influenced doctors, study finds
... after these sales visits is remarkable, and is in fact greater than has been observed in other studies," says lead author Michael A. Steinman, MD, a staff physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC). The senior author is Lisa Bero, PhD, professor of clinical pharmacy and health policy st...Are higher doses of cholesterol drugs worth the extra money? Only sometimes, study says
...st of the time. "This is further compounded by the fact that the higher-dose treatments are less well-tole...d standard-dose statin treatment, but it masks the fact that there may not have been significant differences between the two groups in some of those individ...Hebrew University research shows developmental problems for siblings of autistic children
...roblems with siblings of children with autism, the fact is that to a large extent these problems resolve themselves at a young age without any intervention. Therefore, it is not clear whether prevention programs should be recommended for such children. especially considering the burden that the families a...RAND study finds school playgrounds can help fight childhood obesity
...ually used the school facilities for exercise. The fact that girls with higher BMIs tended to live in areas with locked schools also could signal that the girls live in a more stressful, high-crime area or a neighborhood with less access to stores that sell healthy food. The study is titled "Weekend Sch...Penn researchers find treatment for MS also reduces vision loss in MS patients
...l brain disease have been reported. Despite the fact that vision loss is a common and important cause of disability in MS, the natalizumab clinical trials were the first to include a test of visual function. These trials showed that low-contrast letter acuity eye chart testing is an effective measure ...Not just a menopausal symptom -- men have hot flashes, too
...ew study in Psychophysiology confirms a surprising fact men who have undergone chemical castration for conditions such as prostate cancer experience hot flashes similar to those experienced by menopausal women. Using a technique called sternal skin conductance, doctors were able to positively identify ho...New reflux guidelines released
... This confusing list of symptoms, coupled with the fact that many of these patients do not have visible esophageal erosions, makes diagnosis and treatment of GERD a challenge. Furthermore, non-gastrointestinal entities, such as cardiac or pulmonary disease, may produce symptoms that are similar to those a...Sex and prenatal hormone exposure affect cognitive performance, Yerkes scientists find
...Lead researcher Rebecca Herman, PhD, says the very fact females and males use different strategies suggests there are subtle sex differences in the way the brain develops. As an example of these strategies, Herman said men, when finding a location, generally use north and south as well as distance estimat...Mayo Clinic solves painful puzzle of UT ligament split tear in wrist
...had initially looked like a normal ligament was in fact split open lengthwise, so I was seeing the inside of the ligament." As Dr. Berger performed the ulnar fovea test on subsequent patients and followed with arthroscopic examination, he noticed that a large majority of those with the positive ulnar fo...Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work, Stanford ophthalmologist says
...echanics of vision and the vision of artists. "The fact is that these artists weren't painting in this manner totally for artistic reasons." Degas and Monet were both founders of the Impressionist era, and their artistic styles were well formed before their eye disease affected their vision. But their p...Arsenic in chicken feed may pose health risks to humans, C&EN reports
...ticle points out. Complicating the issue is the fact that no one knows the exact amount of arsenic found in chicken meat or ingested by consumers who frequently eat chicken. Neither the Food and Drug Administration nor the Department of Agriculture has actually measured the level of arsenic in the poul...Jefferson immunology researchers show blood-brain barrier damage could affect MS severity
...the development of disease," Dr. Hooper says. "The fact that the extent of the permeability change correla...e animals can get. "This puts an emphasis on the fact that blood brain permeability changes are an important aspect of the development of a CNS inflammato...Rapid response was crucial to containing the 1918 flu pandemic
...r for emergency preparedness at NIAID. Despite the fact that these cities had dramatically different outco...ave reduced deaths by more than 90 percent. The fact that the early, nonpharmaceutical interventions were effective at the height of the pandemic can inf...