Alcohol-impaired driving on the increase, study shows
A national survey has found that after a long, slow downward trend alcohol-imp... the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, also found that four out of five episodes of alcohol-impaired driving were reported by people who also reported...Number and quality of kidney transplants much greater if national matching program adopted
...tching algorithm might improve matches that can be found in a small (regional) or large (national) pool. T...y transplantation and live donors. The researchers found that a national optimized matching algorithm would result in more transplants, better matches and mo...Spice it up or just veg out, either way you may be helping to defend against cancer
...ntioxidative and anti-inflammatory activities, and found that it exhibited anticancer activity against panc... treated human pancreatic cells with capsaicin and found that it disrupted the mitochondrial function resulting in the release of cytochrome c, which induced...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
... the data from 21 studies, Cochrane Review Authors found evidence that positioning infants on their fronts ...ffected people is unknown. Alzheimer's disease is found in over 50% of people with dementia at autopsy. It is the commonest single cause of dementia affecti...Combination chemotherapy shows small survival benefit in advanced stomach cancer
...eceiving combination versus single-drug care, they found that half the patients receiving combination treat... the three-drug therapy is recommended, the review found that large single doses of 5-FU were more likely to cause death than gradual intravenous administrat...Mercury levels and cognitive function investigated in adults
Although the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish are well known for their health benefits, ... adults between the ages of 50 and 70 years. They found that blood mercury levels were not consistently associated with adverse performance on a broad range...Kidney donation program may provide more matches for previously incompatible recipients and donors
...tching algorithm might improve matches that can be found in a small (regional) or large (national) pool. T... willing and eligible live donors. The researchers found that a national optimized matching algorithm would result in more transplants (47.7 percent vs. 42.0...No strong evidence linking mercury levels with worse neurobehavioral performance in older adults
...tudy in the April 20 issue of JAMA. Mercury can be found throughout the environment, and enters the air during fossil-fuel combustion, mining, smelting, and solid-waste incineration, according to background information in the article. It is converted to methylmercury by microorganisms, enters the food chai...Being obese, underweight, associated with increased risk of death
...stimate excess mortality in 2000. The researchers found that relative to the normal weight category (BMI 18.5 to less than 25), obesity (BMI 30 or greater) was associated with 111,909 excess deaths and underweight (BMI less than 18.5) with 33,746 excess deaths. Overweight was not associated with excess mo...No improvement in overall survival with lymph node removal in treatment of advanced ovarian cancer
...se women required blood transfusions. "This study found that 1) the addition of systematic lymphadenectomy to cytoreductive surgery prolonged progression-free survival, which, in turn, may have an important impact on the quality of life of patients with advanced ovarian cancer; [and] 2) systematic lymphad...Findings about anti-cancer agent could make it more effective
...FdUMP[10] works to damage DNA, the genetic "code" found in all cells. The results were reported in Anaheim, Calif., today at the American Association for Cancer Research's 96th Annual Meeting and will be published June 1 in Cancer Research. Eleven years ago, Gmeiner set out to develop a compound that wo...Researchers develop 'genetic blueprint' to predict response to esophageal cancer treatments
...at work well together for patients," Wu says. They found that patients with the best outcomes were those who had gene variants that were less effective at neutralizing the killing power of the cancer treatments. Conversely, patients whose genes efficiently counteracted chemotherapy and radiation treatment ...CML found to wield 'death factor' that kills normal blood marrow cells
...rican Association for Cancer Research (AACR), they found that CML does not "crowd out" normal blood cells in the bone marrow, as has long been thought, but actually kills those healthy cells through use of a unique cell "death factor." Those destructive proteins, known as lipocalin 24p3, work to promote th...Technique may speed drug production, reduce costs and waste
...fies the creation of the basic molecular framework found in many natural products and popular pharmaceuticals like some cholesterol-lowering drugs. Until now, synthesizing this framework - an indole - was inefficient, requiring six to 10 steps and often producing toxic by-products. "This new method only ta...Electroshock therapy speeds improvement in schizophrenia patients
... the medication group," reviewers found. They also found "very limited data" suggesting that people treated...h ECT than with antipsychotic drugs. A small trial found more impairment with ECT and antipsychotics combined than antipsychotics alone. "However," authors n...Study shows antibiotic treatment does not reduce risk of secondary cardiac events
...England Journal of Medicine. Previous studies have found the bacteria Chlamydia pneumoniae in the arterial ...d the Azithromycin coronary events study, or ACES, found no benefit from treating the C. pneumoniae bacteria with an antibiotic in order to reduce the risk o...New research reveals common beliefs about gender differences in health
...nsights about gender identity and difference. They found that each gender tends to think risks are higher f... of mortality amongst women in the UK. (One study found that 30 year old women with chest pain were much less likely than 30 year old men to be given a card...Researchers determine two arthritis medications are safe and effective for children
...of The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids), has found that two arthritis medications (methotrexate and leflunomide) commonly used in adults are safe and effective in children. This research is reported in the April 21, 2005 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. "Our study showed that both metho...Feeling safe and secure? CUMC scientists find it's all in the caudoputamen
... a reduction of fear, and it's no surprise that we found that the safety sound reduces neural activity in t...la," Michael Rogan says. But Rogan and Kandel also found that the safety signal traveled through other, previously unknown circuits that lead to the brain's ......njuries of people with long term sport involvement found significantly more soccer players (63.3%) sustaine...compared to just 28.1% of swimmers The study also found that tennis players had significantly more upper-limb injuries while soccer players had more lower-l...