Saliva test offers new window on caffeine/stress response
...ioral health, who led the study, explains that our fight or flight response produces not only the familiar dry mouth, pounding heart and sweaty palms that accompany a stressful experience but also body chemistry changes that could result in health consequences. Using doses of caffeine equivalent to drinki...Fighting the battle against disease - Leeds researchers take on the world
...V. Leeds researchers will play a major role in the fight against the world's three biggest killers in a 5m programme spanning countries from China to Nepal and Bangladesh to Uganda. The five-year project will help ensure that the best treatments reach those in most need as quickly as possible, and that eff...New insights into the link between rheumatoid arthritis and cancer
...ch plays an integral role in the body's ability to fight infection. While various studies have affirmed this link, none have been able to pinpoint the specific effects of disease activity on lymphoma risk, let alone distinguish them from the effects of disease treatment. Are certain RA patients more vul...Mailman school researchers studying link between obesity and the urban environment
...e rise in obesity. And that is why it's so hard to fight the epidemic. You don't have one target to hit, you have one thousand targets to strike to win."...Jefferson Pancreatic Cancer Conference Feb. 24 highlights treatments, trials, vaccine research
...otherapy, or using the body's own immune system to fight cancer. Dr. Jaffee and her colleagues have recently reported encouraging early results of a vaccine for pancreatic cancer. After two years into a study of 60 patients, the researchers found that 88 percent lived for one year and 76 percent for two ye...What constitutes acceptable earthquake risk in the Central United States?
...theory, we hypothesized that competing goals would fight for resources. After looking at the baseline data, we found that, as predicted, the concern for earthquake safety decreased as the push for economic development increased." Using the same measures, Gillespie and colleagues simulated the comparison fo...Stroke patients regain ability to communicate through use of speech generating device
... put the user in a state of arousal not unlike the fight or flight response caused when a predator approaches, and increases a patient's concentration and involvement. Previous study done by researchers Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves of Stanford have documented the patient's response to this type pf stimul...Not every stutterer is a problem case
...flow with behaviour patterns where they attempt to fight against or avoid their disability. One sign of the...k of fluency in speech, accompanied by attempts to fight against this or to avoid speaking, is characteristic of the child's language, the parents should def...Canadian researchers discover a natural defence mechanism for Alzheimer's disease
...elieve that this is new and powerful weapon in the fight to conquer Alzheimer's."...Climate change may affect length of respiratory infection season
...viruses' survival or affect our bodies' ability to fight off infection. "It is known that as the temperature gets colder, a lot of respiratory infections increase... There must be some link with the temperature or the season to explain precisely why this is happening," Dr. Donaldson said. However, he added...Preventing toxic side effects of inflammatory disease therapy
...that could help scientists develop better drugs to fight autoimmune and inflammatory disorders such as mult...y response when there are no foreign substances to fight off, or the defense system goes into "overdrive" and forgets how to turn off. In these diseases, th...First disease-specific (breast cancer) protein library opens new drug paths
...ficantly advance the pace of drug discovery in the fight against breast cancer, Harvard Medical School investigators announce in today's online Journal of Proteome Research that they have created the first publicly available library of reliably expressible proteins of a human disease, in this case for brea...Aussie of the Year announces new vaccine trial
...s first cervical cancer vaccine will be tweaked to fight the most common sexually transmitted disease, genital warts. Australian of the Year and University of Queensland (UQ) cervical cancer vaccine creator Professor Ian Frazer launched a therapeutic vaccine trial for genital warts today (Tuesday, Februar...Ronald Breslow to receive 2006 Othmer Gold Medal
...k offers promise of important breakthroughs in the fight against cancer, by modulating gene transcription in cancer cells." Breslow is celebrating his fiftieth anniversary on the faculty of Columbia University, which he joined after undergraduate and graduate training at Harvard. He played a key role in t...Awards totaling $6.2 million to create major genetic testing lab at University of Iowa
...rver Laboratory will be a powerful addition to our fight against this impending epidemic of blindness." Blinding eye diseases include macular degeneration (including age-related macular degeneration, or AMD), glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa, diabetic retinitis and many others. Most of these diseases have si...Jan/Feb Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...physicians in end-of-life care, suggesting that to fight illness at all cost and prolong life with no quality may be as wrong as assisting in their death. He contends that patients often need the help and permission of their physicians to die. Boy Scouts for Henry By Richard E. Allen, M.D., M.P.H....Controlling neglected tropical diseases will boost fight against HIV, TB, and malaria
... details below. Achieving success in the global fight against the "big three" diseases--HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, which together account for 5.6 million deaths a year--may well require a concurrent attack on the world's most neglected tropical diseases, says a team of researchers in the intern...Infant transplant patients resist infections that kill adult AIDS patients
...' immune systems can be identified and enlisted to fight viruses without T cells, it perhaps could be therapeutically manipulated in adult patients to arrive at new and better treatments for various diseases involving immune system deficiencies. "We were struck by the fact that when a heart transplant is c...International breast health guidelines
...lines "provide an essential, practical tool in the fight against breast cancer in limited- resource countries as well as a plan to expand and improve health-care systems. We're pleased to help make the Guidelines available to cancer researchers and advocates, health-care professionals, and policy makers a......before it is proven that the compounds effectively fight cavities in humans, caution Qing-Yi Lu, Ph.D., a c...derived from licorice root have been shown to help fight inflammation, viruses, ulcers and even cancer, according to the researchers....