Detecting cold, feeling pain: Study reveals why menthol feels fresh
... how thresholds for temperature are determined, we gain insight into how these thresholds change in the setting of injury, such as inflammatory and nerve injury, and how these changes may contribute to chronic pain," says senior author David Julius, PhD, chairman and professor of physiology at UCSF. Th......n their amount of LDL cholesterol, reversed weight gain - losing on average half a kilo, felt less tired and had reduced their risk factors for heart disease. Until recently many doctors considered this condition not worthy of treatment. Now a new study led by Dr Jolanta Weaver of Newcastle University a...Follow-up care for breast cancer patients is 'devalued and deregulated'
...specialists more quickly. Cancer specialists would gain more time to concentrate on patients with more complex needs, while patients would gain better care and psychological support in their local communities. Peter Donnelly, the lead author ...Scavenger cells may have role blocking obesity, Stanford study shows
...y missing PPAR-gamma in macrophages caused mice to gain about 20 percent more weight than their normal counterparts, and predisposed them to the development of diet-induced insulin resistance. "We predicted that the inflammation might be higher and there might be insulin resistance, but it was a surprise ...Keeping pain and fatigue on the run
...ined vigorous activity levels reported less weight gain and cared more about their appearance. Since excess body weight is associated with increased recurrence of breast cancer and lower survival rates this can only be a good thing. The message then is clear: It is never too late to start. Even for th...The hepatitis C link: Diagnose, treat, transplant
...quire orthotopic liver transplantation, as well as gain insight as to why these organs may have a slower rate of fibrosis than non-HCV infected donor organs." Dr. Kwo will present this study on Sunday, May 20, at 8:45 a.m. in Room 207. ...International cooperation boosts EarthCARE
...y a 150-km swath multi-spectral imager in order to gain across track information needed for the retrieval of three-dimensional structures of clouds and aerosols. The corresponding short- and long-wave radiation into space will be measured using a broadband radiometer with three viewing directions (nadir, ...How insulin-producing cells develop -- new finding could help fight against diabetes
...n looking at cells in vivo, enables researchers to gain a greater understanding of when and how different genes are being switched on. ...Quality versus quantity -- transforming kidney transplant policy
...al. Patients would be ranked based on the expected gain in years-of-life compared to continuing dialysis. However, such a system comes with a number of significant trade-offs, with some ethnic and age groups being more likely to benefit from transplants, and therefore ranking higher than others. The chall...Africa's doctors' access assessed
...en if some have to use their local Internet caf to gain access. An international group from five countries in Africa and the UK set out to assess how effective open access publishing initiatives are in Africa. The researchers surveyed over 300 postgraduate doctors and research scientists to determine t...Fingerprint instead of blood sample
...l and his team expect that we will soon be able to gain information about the lifestyle of the person who made the fingerprints, which could shrink the pool of suspects. In this way, it should be possible to use fingerprints to detect drugs, medications, or food that have been consumed, and also to diagno...Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia
...ly tuned map of an individual's overall health and gain information about how an individual is responding ...er antipsychotics, but several still induce weight gain and diabetes. Schizophrenic patients were found to have lower levels of the lipids used to make me...Alzheimer's weight gain initiative also improved patients' intellectual abilities
...vidual patients they found that the largest weight gain in the intervention group was 7kg (15.4 pounds) an...nd control groups and a strong link between weight gain and improved intellectual ability. "I hope that it will stimulate further lines of enquiry as ther...Thymus transplants gives hope to babies with fatal immune disease
...infants, surgeons must remove all or part of it to gain access to the heart. The removed thymus tissue is grown in culture for several weeks in a laboratory while researchers ensure that there are no diseases present in the tissue. Strips of tissue are then implanted in the baby's thigh, where they attrac...AGA Institute takes leadership role in exploring obesity and its complications
...that all medical disciplines reviewing this report gain a better understanding of the disease that will help them in the treatment of their patients. ...Calcium plus vitamin D supplements may help prevent weight gain in postmenopausal women
...men who take calcium and vitamin D supplements may gain less weight than those who do not, although the ov...um. "Because weight loss or prevention of weight gain is likely to have significant health benefits for middle-aged women, early to middle menopause may b...Experts debate role of stenting, bypass surgery in left main coronary artery disease
...edical therapy. Later, bare metal stents failed to gain footing as an alternative to surgery after several studies showed unacceptable rates of death and repeat procedures. Drug-eluting stents (DES) have markedly changed the landscape, said Dr. Mehran. This breakthrough technology once again raises the...New therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative diseases
...se by these illnesses. In short, the goal is to gain more knowledge about the molecular bases of these pathologies, define therapeutic targets (molecules of the cell that recognise a pharmaceutical drug and thus respond to it) and, in the last analysis, to come up with pharmaceutical medicines that imp...Childhood obesity intervention shows promising results
...e, early elementary school children reduced weight gain over one school year. The multi-faceted program w...r-age percentile)* to report a reduction in weight gain among children who participated in the Shape Up Somerville (SUS) intervention, as compared to childr......n-Americans affected by HIV/AIDS, and they seem to gain a lot of knowledge and strength from their religious communities," she says, adding that about 50 percent of participants, again, mostly blacks, believed their spirituality helped them live longer. Researchers hope the new study will help discover ...