Mayo Clinic Cancer Center prostate SPORE grant renewed
...st common cancer among men, but we are continually gaining a better understanding of the disease, and advancing toward better treatments and someday hopefully a cure," says Dr. Tindall. "The SPORE grant allows our team of scientists and clinicians to further research in the arenas of diagnosis and individua...Kennedy Krieger awarded $9 million to study learning disabilities in growing ranks of adolescents
...lities in children grades three through eight. By gaining a deep understanding of learning disabilities in these children, more effective educational interventions can be developed to improve the country's literacy. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), only 33 percent of th...Ultrasound mammography, volcano monitoring for aircraft safety
...n tigers and monkeys, Fitch and his colleagues are gaining knowledge on the acoustic principles underlying such impressive vocalizations. However, he says, certain vocal adaptations remain mysterious, such as the laryngeal air sacs seen in many primates including our own nearest cousins, the great apes. Th...'Erectile dysfunction' drugs heighten natural anti-cancer activity
...llers as a component of air-polluting smog, but is gaining importance in medical research for its cell-signaling duties and its ability to divert soldiering T-cells that patrol and protect. The Hopkins team also analyzed gene expression patterns of the myeloid-derived suppressor cells and found that silden...Even slight holiday weight gain can set stage for obesity, health risks
...e yearly and endanger health. "The problem is in gaining a pound or two and not working it off, even with good intentions and New Years resolutions. The gain stays on and adds up each year; in a decade its 10 or 20 pounds," said Lona Sandon, assistant professor of clinical nutrition. "That can lead to obes...Sutent achieves first line EAU approval for kidney cancer
... good and intermediate risk, just two months after gaining EU marketingauthorization for first line use in all patients with advanced and/or metastatic renal cellcarcinoma (mRCC).1 These new EAU guidelines, issued today in Berlin, put Sutent,the first multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor to be approved i...Premiere cancer organizations partner to reduce disparities, prevent incidences
...ate the barriers preventing these populations from gaining access to knowledge about the latest advances in cancer research, treatment and prevention." "The time is ripe to close the gaps in research and access to quality care that cause breast cancer to be deadlier for some women than others," said Susan ...Exercise science principles strengthen swallowing rehabilitation
...sical rehabilitation and sports training have been gaining attention in dysphagia rehabilitation, Dr. Burkhead proposes more emphasis on these theories and more studies to learn to optimize these principles. Dr. Burkhead asserts that many of the treatment techniques used in physical rehabilitation or athle...Why losing money may be more painful than you think
... most of these gambles involve the chances of both gaining and losing money," says Dr Ben Seymour from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London), who led the study. "Although we already know an impressive amount about how the brain learns to predict financial gains, until ...UQ research heralds vaccine technology breakthrough
...t vaccines,Dr Scott Thomson. Professor Tindle said gaining Dr Thomson's expertise was a coup forthe project. "If anyone's going to get the (vaccine) it's going to be Scott," Professor Tindle said....Stenting of abdominal arteries offers welcome relief for 'intestinal angina'
... abdominal pain, and a similar percentage reported gaining weight. Fifteen patients (19 percent) later developed renarrowing of the stented artery. Of these, 3 were treated medically and 12 (92 percent) had repeat procedures to reopen the artery, including laser treatment in 8. At 1 year, 91 percent of patie...Calcium plus vitamin D supplements may help prevent weight gain in postmenopausal women
...en taking placebo, these women had a lower risk of gaining weight in both small amounts (2.2 to 6.6 pounds) and moderate amounts (more than 6.6 pounds) and had a higher likelihood of maintaining a stable weight (within 2.2 pounds of starting weight) or losing weight (more than 2.2 pounds). "Prevention of w...Hexavalent chromium in drinking water causes cancer in lab animals
...rvices. The NTP began work on this compound after gaining input from the public and a panel of scientific experts about the study design....New perspective on brain function now possible
...area of keen interest for research, especially for gaining an understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders," says Professor Lars Farde at Karolinska Institutet and AstraZeneca. "All anti-psychotic medicines currently available on the market work via the dopamine system, for example. However, it may well turn ...Antipsychotic drugs increase risk of death in older people with dementia
...authors suggest that "expenditures associated with gaining insurance will increase in a predictable manner to levels similar to those of persons who are already insured." An editorial writer says the findings do not show that having health insurance necessarily improves health care (Editorial p. 814). But th......ns, atoms that have acquired an electric charge by gaining or losing one or more electrons, are found naturally in the brain, as are other ions such as zinc and iron. Increasing evidence now links these naturally occurring ions to amyloid assembly and to Alzheimer's disease, says David Lynn, PhD, Emory profe...