New treatment boosts muscle function in myasthenia gravis
...r the study, 16 people with myasthenia gravis were given daily doses of oral EN101 antisense for four days and monitored for one month. Four of the people later took the drug for a month. The study found that oral antisense reduced disease severity by an average of 46 percent, with patients experiencing i...Regulator of lipid metabolism ensures high quality breast milk
...o figure out what was going on. If the pups were given anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin or ibuprofen, the symptoms reversed and their fur started to regrow. These observations suggested that the milk produced by the mutant mice may be the source of the troubles, explained Wan. A closer inspection ...Even low levels of weekly exercise drive down blood pressure
...king on five days of the week. A further 42 were given the same programme, but for three days of the week. And the remainder were not asked to change their current lifestyle. Pedometers were used to help participants monitor their walking and every participant recorded how long they walked for. Blood...Disability payments may spur drug abuse
...missions that occurs in the first five days of any given month is driven largely by the arrival of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Income (DI) payments. In particular, hospital deaths among SSI recipients increase 22 percent at the beginning of the month. This research wa...Hispanic drug use rises in US culture
...ite patterns of use, which is what we would expect given an acculturation/assimilation model, Akins said. When Hispanics acculturate to dominant American society their substance use behavior appears to mimic that of whites, the culture they are acculturating to. The research also showed that acculturated...Test project of patient-centered medical home model endorsed by American College of Physicians
...de patient-centered care. Enhanced payment will be given to primary care doctors whose care is based on the model and who demonstrate measurable improvements in the overall health of patients. This is what physicians-in-training signed up for when they elected to become internists and this is the care th...Stanford researchers find culprit in aging muscles that heal poorly
...any drugs can block Wnt signaling. "Theoretically, given the number of ways to block Wnt and Wnt signaling, one could envision this becoming a therapeutic," he said. "You could potentially enhance the healing of aged tissues by reducing this effect of Wnt signaling on the resident stem cells." In additio...Galileo to support global search and rescue
...an only 'see' a part of the Earth's surface at any given time and a beacon is only detected when the satellite passes nearly overhead. Also, the satellites have to store the location of the emergency and transmit it to a ground station once one comes into in range, causing a further delay. Search and re...Diet foods for children may lead to obesity
...e to overeat when low-calorie foods and drinks are given to them on a daily basis, and this subverts their bodies' energy-balance system. "Parents and health professionals should be made aware of this and know that the old-fashioned ways to keep children fit and healthyinsuring they eat well-balanced mea...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for medical, energy, environmental breakthroughs
...The keynote address at the awards ceremony will be given by Dean Kamen, an inventor and entrepreneur, recip...iron from the blood (chelation therapy), Exjade is given once-daily as a drink. Iron chelation is often necessary to prevent potentially life-threatening com...Refusal of medical and surgical interventions common among chronically ill elderly
...on was rarely refused. The most common reasons given for treatment refusals were fear of side effects. Patients who refused treatments were more likely to have congestive heart failure, to rate their own longevity at less than two years, and to want their physicians to discuss their prognosis with the...Study reveals gaps in vaccine financing for underinsured children
... public sector, or both. For example, for vaccines given in the private sector, 46 percent of states did no...onjugate vaccine to the underinsured. For vaccines given in the public sector, 17 percent of states were unable to provide publicly purchased pneumococcal co...Sports concussion research using fMRI provides insight for safe return-to-play decisions
...covery. During their fMRI exams, the athletes were given working memory tasks to complete while the brains activity was observed and recorded. As a group, athletes who demonstrated the greatest degree of hyperactivation at the time of their first fMRI scan also demonstrated a more prolonged clinical recove...Early-childhood intervention may improve well-being through young adulthood
... beyond educational achievements is not surprising given the links between education, mental and physical health and behavior, the authors note. Because expenditures for the medical care and justice systems comprise roughly 20 percent of the gross domestic product, the potential cost savings to governments...Trial stops after stroke and mortality significantly reduced by blood
...ontrolled trial, which began in 2001.Patients were given either the placebo or a low dose diuretic(indapamide 1.5mg SR), and an additional ACE inhibitor (perindopril), intablet form once a day. Emeritus Professor Chris Bulpitt, HYVET Principal Investigator from theCare of the Elderly Department at Imperi...... the Spice Box restaurant in Urbana, Illinois were given a free glass of Cabernet Sauvignon to accompany a ...ents at a wine and cheese reception. Again, those given wine labeled from California rated the wine as 85% higher and the cheese as 50% higher. Small cue...It's time to look at health risks in a new light, authors say
...fits of screening tests. Far more weight should be given to absolute risk reduction values. In their book, Rifkin and Bouwer give readers an easy way to visualize the absolute risk numbers through a graphic called the Risk Characterization Theater. This diagram is patterned after a seating chart for a th...U of M report says early-childhood intervention improves well-being through young adulthood
... beyond educational achievements is not surprising given the links between education, mental and physical health and behavior, Reynolds and Temple said in the study. Because expenditures for the medical care and justice systems comprise roughly 20 percent of the gross domestic product, the potential cost s......ation and other high-level thinking" Surprisingly, given how pervasive this view of autism is, it has never been rigorously tested. But a team of scientists in Canada suspected that the tests themselves might be baised and decided to explore the idea in the lab. Led by psychologist Laurent Mottron of the...Highlights from the August 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...ovided by a registered dietitian to the usual care given to obese adults with type 2 diabetes, researchers found the addition of a clinically feasible, modest-cost lifestyle intervention involving an RD did not increase total costs and in some cases saved up to $8,046 per person per year compared with usua...