Study finds drug helps PTSD nightmares
...ng it already in the Northwest alone. So we had to find veterans with PTSD who were not [taking it]." For treating PTSD, prazosin costs 10 to 30 cents a day at VA contract prices. It is not a sedating sleeping pill, emphasized Raskind. "It does not induce sleep. But once you are asleep, you sleep longer...Carnegie Mellon professors question advice for nuclear attacks
... from the blast, you will have 15 to 60 minutes to find shelter, but not enough time to reliably flee the area before the fallout arrives," said Florig. Finally, the researchers analyze how long people should remain sheltered in a contaminated area before it is riskier to stay than to e...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 4, 2007
...eagues point out that scientists were surprised to find that Stardust had collected tiny grains of the mineral osbornite, which chemically is titanium nitride. Osbornite forms only at ultra-hot temperatures of about 3,140 Fahrenheit. Scientists thus concluded that the osbornite could have formed near the ...Weak immune response critical to disease that causes most infant hospitalizations
...e, is important. But it looks like we also need to find a way to control unwanted inflammation and boost the disease-fighting T-cell response." Garofalo attributed the long-lived but mistaken "hyperactive T-cell" explanation for severe RSV to a "bias in the literature" influenced by studies of infection...Jefferson immunology researchers show blood-brain barrier damage could affect MS severity
...e Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories, wanted to find out what factors might affect the onset and severity of EAE (experimental allergic encephalomyelitis), an MS-like autoimmune disease often used as a model. They studied various strains of mice, each lacking some genes associated with inflammation and...Northwestern chemists develop new method for synthesizing anti-cancer flavonoids
...tood; for years organic chemists have struggled to find a good way to make them in the lab. The difficulty was figuring out how to produce a desired molecule in one-handed form, as is found in nature. In attacking this age-old problem, Scheidt and his team discovered a simple chiral catalyst, which com...Carnegie Mellon researcher wins prestigious career award for NSF
...ub together causing friction. It is Higgs' job to find out how abrasive nanoparticles cause this friction, and surface wear, and what kind of detailed experiments and computational models are effective at predicting these tribological phenomena. The study of friction, lubrication and wear is called trib...Kennedy Krieger Institute launches first national online autism registry
...r been done before, through an online registry, to find answers. Designed to drive autism research for...tudies are not completed because scientists cannot find enough qualified participants in a timely manner. By facilitating the process of research recruitme...Did pack-size laws reduce paracetamol suicides or was fall just a coincidence?
...soning or suicide deaths, the research ers did not find any statistical evidence that the fall in paracetamol deaths was any different to the overall decline in poisoning or suicide death rates in England and Wales. The implications of the study are further discussed, in the same issue of PLoS Medicine,...A new, nanoporous ceramic filter offers hope to kidney-dialysis patients
... potential and studied the technical literature to find out whether our material was compatible in life-science applications. "Everything checked out." The company's NIH grant runs through 2007, by which time EMV expects to have developed a prototype that demonstrates the filter's improved efficiency....New research shows why too much memory may be a bad thing
...k book or decision making. "We were surprised to find that halting neurogenesis caused an improvement of working memory, which suggests that too much memory is not always a good thing, and that forgetting is important for normal cognition and behavior," said Gal Malleret, Ph.D., a research scientist at ...Navigating legal minefields of drug industry addressed at UH talk
...arch 27, 2007 In an age when drug companies often find themselves on the receiving end of high-dollar law...people who work in the pharmaceutical industry may find themselves wishing they had a law degree. Thanks to a lecture series sponsored by the University of...Mayo Clinic study shows drug-eluting stent use in heart patients determined more by insurance type
...study found questions this notion. Not only did we find that patients who had managed care, or fee-for-ser...of drug-eluting stents are really uncertain, so to find that nonclinical factors introduce a treatment bias toward drug-eluting stents for this patient grou...MRI contrast agent can detect heart attack in the making
... to peer directly into patients' blood vessels and find dangerous cholesterol-filled plaques before they rupture and cause a heart attack. Scientists at New Yorks Mount Sinai Medical Center and the New York University School of Medicine, under the direction of Dr. Edward A. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., and Dr. ...Light-based probe 'sees' early cancers in first tests on human tissue
...d distinguish it from normal tissue like you would find in the stomach." The fa/LCI device detects irregularities in the nucleus, or central component, of cells, through changes in the way laser light scatters. "The size and shape of cell nuclei are powerful indicators of this precancerous condition cal...Long-term aspirin use associated with reduced risk of dying in women
...lowed almost 40,000 women for 11 years and did not find any reduced risk of cardiovascular or other death associated with aspirin therapy, in contrast to the dramatic risk reduction seen in the Nurses Health Study. "Is aspirin really that good or is there some other explanation for the findings that diff...Studies highlight 'real world' use, safety of drug-eluting stents
...nclude an unselected population, just as you would find in the community." So far, the MATRIX Registry has enrolled more than 1,500 patients treated with the Cypher stent (Cordis, Johnson & Johnson), which slowly releases a coating of sirolimus into the artery wall to prevent overgrowth of scar tissue an...Computerized reminders boost mammography screening rates
...As we get more women screened, we're also going to find cancers earlier, when we're more likely to be able to treat them successfully. The goal is to improve the value of heath care, providing higher quality at lower cost by having all members of the health care team working at their highest potential," D...Transplanting organs from animals to humans -- what are the barriers?
...e of donor organs, researchers have been trying to find ways to transplant animal organs across different species (known as "xenotransplantation"), with the eventual aim of transplanting animal organs into humans. The major stumbling block, says Dr Muhammad Mohiuddin (US National Heart, Lung, and Blood I......an lung cancer Christopher Plass and colleagues find that OLIG1 expression correlates with survival in lung cancer patients and suggest that it could be used in deciding which patients are likely to benefit from more aggressive therapy. Citation: Brena RM, Morrison C, Liyanarachchi S, Jarjoura D, Dav...