New LASIK research reveals unexpected finding: Key to better-than-20/20 vision is in the flap
...blade or a laser to create the corneal flap in the first step of the procedure. "It turns out that the flap... LASIK has always been a two-step process. In the first step, the surgeon makes a thin flap and folds it back for the second step, where an excimer laser is...Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's may be delayed, says major clinical trial
...a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) during the first year of the trial, but by the end of the 3-year st...indings, from the Memory Impairment Study, are the first to suggest than any agent can delay the clinical diagnosis of AD in people with MCI. The effects of ...Jefferson researchers find timing of post-epilepsy surgery seizures predicts outcome
...hat patients who had an initial seizure within the first four months of surgery were less likely to do as w... post-surgery, asking if the length of time to the first seizure mattered to the individual's prognosis. "The evidence shows that having the first seizure wi...Delay in Alzheimer's disease onset seen for first time
... Minn. -- A study led by Mayo Clinic shows for the first time that a drug appears to have a slowing effect ...lems associated with Alzheimer's disease. Over the first year of the three-year trial, mild cognitive impairment patients treated with donepezil had a reduce...Anxious and pessimistic personalities linked to Parkinson's disease later in life
...istic personalities and Parkinson's. "This is the first study that took a group of people with documented personality characteristics but no symptoms of Parkinson's disease and showed that those with high levels of an anxious or pessimistic personality are at higher risk for developing Parkinson's disease...Scientists identify protein that controls cancer cells
...ls. "We were very surprised when we saw it for the first time," said Debinski. "We had to learn more about ...to the work on Fra-1 in brain tumors. "She was the first to spot that Fra-1 is elevated in glioblastomas ," said Debinski. The goal of the Brain Tumor Center...Essential tremor associated with increased risk of dementia
...o did not have the movement disorder. "This is the first study to suggest that essential tremor is associated with the development of dementia," said study author Julin Benito-Leon, MD, PhD, of Mostoles General Hospital in Madrid, Spain. "We don't yet know whether the dementia is due to the same underlying...Ovary removal elevates risk for Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism
...tion is linked to parkinsonism risk. "This is the first direct confirmation that reduced estrogen produced...creases the risk of parkinsonism; this is also the first general population study addressing this question," says Dr. Rocca. "Removal of both ovaries directl...NY Academy of Sciences reveals how scientists plan to combat bioterrorism & deadly pathogens
...Biodefense Seminars ( www.nyas.org/biodef/ ). The first lectures focus on smallpox and anthrax from both clinical and research perspectives. Dr. Gregory Poland of the Mayo Clinic provides the introduction. Future reports will feature the latest information on dengue, plague, lassa fever, and hantaviruses....Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...physiology and a wide spectrum of disease, but the first step in studying this ecosystem is to figure out w...The paper by Eckburg and Relman is intended as the first of several studies looking at how microbial communities vary according to host, diet, geography, dis...Independent voice rises to help consumers navigate health care
...d (51 percent) were uninsured at the time of their first call to a health consumer center, only 31 percent were uninsured when they were contacted a month later. "This suggests that the HCA played a role in helping consumers obtain coverage," Nascimento said. "Moreover, the HCA appears to be making a cont...Cleveland physician to receive Benjamin Spock Award
...ldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., will be honored with the first Benjamin Spock Award for Compassion in Medicine by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization. The award will be presented to Dr. Esselstyn on April 16 at PCRM's 20th Anniversary Celebra...... issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine , is the first large epidemiologic study to define patient popula...aginal ejaculation. This study is also one of the first data sets to address the concerns of female partners. Both members of the couples studied were asked...Researcher sheds light on ghostwriting in medical journals
...department of physiology and biophysics, it is the first degree-granting master's program in complementary and alternative medicine in the United States. Dr. Fugh-Bermans research focuses on herbs and dietary supplements, women's health, the assessment of benefits and risks in alternative medicine and con...Hormone aids recovery in rats with hemorrhagic stroke
...emorrhage, which is a type of stroke. "This is the first evidence that erythropoietin has a therapeutic effect in hemorrhagic stroke," said study authors Dong-In Sinn, MD, and Jae-Kyu Roh, MD, of the Stroke & Neural Stem Cell Laboratory, Department of Neurology at Seoul National University Hospital. Erythr...Special physical therapy technique successful for chronic back pain
... included two physical therapy sessions during the first week, then a session once a week for an average of five months. The sessions also included breathing techniques. Patients were also given a home exercise program. Of the 102 people, 92 had significant improvement in their pain and were able to return...Drug may help MS patients with laughing, crying spells
...en than those taking the placebo did. "This is the first drug designed specifically for this condition," sa... the treatment showed improvements as early as the first week of treatment....Ibuprofen may lower risk of Parkinson's disease
...f Parkinson's disease. "Our previous study for the first time showed that regular users of non-aspirin NSAIDs had a lower risk of Parkinson's disease than non-users. There has been evidence suggesting a role of neuro-inflammation in the disease process, and our previous study indicated that non-aspirin NSA...College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
...f psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and first author of the study. "We ask them to tell us how ...are way too big. This tells us a few things. The first is that we have totally failed to teach students some of the most basic information about alcohol - ...Alcohol magnifies the rewarding effects of smoking, even for light smokers
...nt of psychiatry at the University of Chicago, and first author of the study. "Prior to our study, research examining alcohol's effects on smoking urge included direct smoking 'cues,' such as having smokers hold a cigarette or view smoking images. However, these cues can exert their own effects on cigare...