Drug treatment improves learning in mice with Down syndrome symptoms, Stanford/Packard study shows
...elieve that the key to the improvement lies in the fact that PTZ blocks the action of an inhibitory neurotransmitter called GABA. Normal brains maintain a precise ratio between neuronal excitation and inhibition that allows efficient learning. In contrast, its thought that Down syndrome patients have too ...African scientists will train at Emory University in latest drug discovery techniques
...able of responding to global healthcare needs. The fact that several small pharmaceutical companies are beginning to spring up in Africa makes this an ideal time to develop a drug discovery training program," says Dr. Liotta. Dr. Liotta and his colleagues recently formed iThemba, a start-up biotech comp...Medicalize me: Experts look at how our perceptions of illness are shaped
...w out of an international workshop, zero in on the fact that even the word medicalization has a different ...cide whether to say yes or no to each request. The fact that physicians themselves are exposed to the same ads, and are part of the same society as their pa...Doctors test effort that helps people understand health risk information
...udies we know of to go beyond simply exploring the fact that there are problems with how well people understand numbers and quantitative messages, says Schwartz. This study considers one concrete effort to teach people how to understand risk. The authors tested two parallel, randomized groups of people,...Study links attempted suicide with genetic evidence identified in previous suicide research
... linkage studies are not always consistent, so the fact that all three studies, including ours, point to the same region of the genome is a good indication that we are on the right track toward identifying a gene or genes that play a role in why a person chooses to take his or her own life, says Willour. ...Tobacco companies obstructed science, history professor says
...sults stretching back to the 1940s to show that in fact some people were ignorant of the risks. "Millions of people in the '60s, '70s and '80s didn't know that tobacco caused lung cancer or heart disease," Proctor said. "An increasing number knew, but not everyone knew. And not everyone knew because the i...Concentrations of certain toxins in breast milk are low, study finds
...living in urban areas," Buckley said. VOCs are a fact of modern life nearly every human on the planet has at least a trace of these compounds in their body. The focus should be on minimizing our exposure to their sources, Buckley said. "With respect to automobile sources of air toxics, the level of t...Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes
... are used in the physiology lab," said Serre. "The fact that this system seems to work on realistic street scene images is a concept proof that the activity of neurons as measured in the lab is sufficient to explain how brains can perform complex recognition tasks." Making it More Useful The model use...Two-thirds of nursing students believe it's wrong to lie to patients, twice as many as in 1983
...e information to patients. It may also reflect the fact that in 1983, when the first study was carried out...ges found in the 2005 study is probably due to the fact that older nurses are less likely to live on site in residences and more likely to have domestic res...Assessing the cost of juvenile arthritis
...urgeries, and inpatient stays, probably due to the fact that some were recruited from orthopedic clinics. When comparing direct medical costs of JIA patients with recent cost estimates for asthma, JIA appeared to be more costly, mostly because of higher medication costs. The current study does not quan...Novel Ames Lab composite may replace depleted uranium
...e shows susceptibility to shear localization. "The fact that this occurred at low strain rates is very remarkable," said Sordelet. "It's extremely suggestive that you would see it at dynamic deformation rates, as well, which is what's needed for KEPs." Sordelet is optimistic about the potential for the ...RAND study finds higher quality outpatient care greatly benefits chronically ill patients
...uality of medical care have been confounded by the fact that the sickest patients usually receive the largest amount of medical care, according to John Adams, a RAND researcher and co-author of the study. But because their burden of disease is so large, these same patients are usually those most likely to...Mayo Clinic research shows young people who died suddenly and inexplicably had genetic heart defects
...autopsies could not ascertain cause of death. "The fact that conventional autopsy fails to provide an answer is, in fact, a key clue that the killer may be LQTS or CPVT," says Michael J. Ackerman, M.D., Ph.D., the study's chief author who heads the Mayo Clinic Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Lab...Men warned of osteoporosis problems by McMaster researcher
... paper is intended to make physicians aware of the fact that they can no longer overlook diagnosing osteoporosis in their male patients. "That's the bottom line. We want to bring all the research we have to the forefront and we want to bring it to the desk of Canadian physicians." The CMAJ paper supplem...Worldwide Parkinson's cases will double in next 25 years
...that impairs motor skills and walking. Despite the fact that the disease is treatable with a combination of medications, therapy and exercise, many individuals in the developing world do not receive appropriate care and may not even be aware of their diagnosis. Dorsey and his colleagues noted that in door...Existing research supports metabolic syndrome link to cardiovascular disease
...lar disease,. "What was fascinating to us was the fact that all this controversy in the field existed des... need the metabolic syndrome to remind them of the fact that an obviously overweight or obese individual with a bad lifestyle is at increased risk of cardio...Human circadian clocks couple to local sun time
...es coupled to so-called local sun time despite the fact that people live and work according to a common "social time" that is determined by time zones. The work also indicated that city dwellers appear to experience a relatively decreased influence of local sun time relative to those living in more sparse...New angiogenesis inhibitor has promise for treating deadly brain tumor
...es an adequate supply of oxygen to the tumor. The fact that combining angiogenesis inhibitors with other therapies improved survival for some patients supports a theory developed by Rakesh Jain, PhD, director of the Steele Laboratory in the MGH Department of Radiation Oncology, that the agents temporaril...Study demonstrates long-term durability of Plicator procedure
...He doesn't anticipate much drop-off in numbers. In fact with time, he anticipates better results, because this study reflects the early experience of the Plicator. As time has passed the physicians using this device have developed newer techniques at placing the sutures."We're much better at performing t...Bayer and Onyx announce pivotal Nexavar kidney cancer study published in NEJM
... patients; hazard ratio 0.77, p=0.02), despite the fact that nearly half of placebo patients had "crossed over" to Nexavar. Patients continue to be followed and a final survival analysis will be available in the first half of 2007. The Phase III data published in NEJM have previously been communicated at...