Breast-feeding still best despite environmental chemicals in human milk
...-feeding is widely accepted internationally as the gold standard for infant feeding and has unparalleled advantages for both infants and mothers," said Berlin, chair of the workshop and co-author of the journal article. "Advantages for infants include protection from infectious disease, optimal growth inc...Gold nanoparticles show potential for noninvasive cancer treatment
...r cells. Building on their previous work that used gold nanoparticles to detect cancer, they now are heati...nanoparticles). "In an earlier study we showed how gold nanoparticles could be bound to malignant cells, making cancer detection easier. Now we have examine...Dipyridamole, ASA and warding off stroke
...in doses between 75 and 150 mg/d should remain the gold standard of treatment to prevent stroke in high-risk patients (those who have had a previous stroke or a TIA), according to Dr. Sudlow's analysis. Further, the addition of dipyridamole, as now recommended by NICE, is rarely justified, even in-patient...Purdue's gold nanorods brighten future for medical imaging
...by shining a laser through the skin to detect tiny gold nanorods injected into the bloodstream. In tests ... assistant professor of biomedical engineering.The gold rods are about 20 nanometers wide and 60 nanometers long, or roughly 200 times smaller than a red bl...Characteristic cardiac scar pattern predicts risk of fatal arrhythmias
...thmia-related sudden death, these could become the gold standard for screening who really needs or does not need a defibrillator," says the study's senior author, electrophysiologist Henry Halperin, M.D., a professor of medicine, radiology and biomedical engineering at The Johns Hopkins University School ...Statins reduce the risk of stroke and death after carotid artery surgery
...roke and death after carotid surgery, which is the gold standard procedure for patients with severe carotid artery disease at risk of stroke from that disease." Carotid artery disease occurs when the carotid artery, a large artery in the neck that serves as one of the major blood supplies to the brain, be...MR-guided laser effective in treating liver tumors
...and may one day replace traditional surgery as the gold standard of treatment. "Many surgeons are already performing local ablation instead of resection, because they have already recognized the positive effect of local ablation," he said. "I believe that minimally invasive tumor ablation together with ch...Noninvasive ultrasound treatment shrinks fibroids
... the United States. "Hysterectomy is currently the gold standard of therapy for uterine fibroids," Dr. Fennessy said. "However, women are increasingly seeking minimally invasive or noninvasive alternatives to hysterectomy." Dr. Fennessy and colleagues studied 160 women with symptomatic fibroids treated as...Iron-rich rice improves iron status of women
...status. In a nine-month, double-blind study -- the gold standard of research methods -- the iron status of women who ate biofortified, iron-rich rice was 20 percent higher than in women who ate traditional rice. "Although this sounds like a modest increase, it means that instead of 50 percent of women ge...Pain and its impact on the treatment of rheumatic disease
...hat works to relieve rheumatic pain? "There is no gold standard regarding the ideal management of chronic pain in rheumatic diseases," observes Dr. Fitzcharles. "Ideal pain management should encompass a wide range of both pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions." The authors culminate with...Researchers identify key protein involved in neuropathic pain
...a Research Chair in Neuroplasticity and Pain. "The gold standard for diagnosing neuropathic pain is history and physical examination. But many people want objective proof that something is pathophysiologically different. We are hoping to develop a probe that can measure the response of microglia in people...NCI issues clinical announcement for preferred method of treatment for advanced ovarian cancer
...proach, but it has not been widely accepted as the gold standard for women with ovarian cancer," said Armstrong. "There has been a prejudice against IP therapy in ovarian cancer because it's an old idea, it requires skill and experience for the surgery and for the chemotherapy, and it's more complicated t...Gold nanoparticles, radiation combo may slow Alzheimer's
... Using test tube studies, the scientists attached gold nanoparticles to a group of beta amyloid fibrils, incubated the resulting mixture for several days and then exposed it to weak microwave fields for several hours. The energy levels of the fields were six times smaller than that of conventional cell p...New cocoa evidence on why plant foods are beneficial to cardiovascular health
... health. "Applying accepted causality criteria and gold standard methodologies, we have been able to advance our understanding of the relationship between the intake of certain flavanols present in cocoa, their absorption into the circulation, and their effects on cardiovascular function," said lead autho...Study sets new gold standard for initial antiretroviral treatment of HIV infection
...another three-drug combination long considered the gold standard. Reporting in the Jan. 19 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers showed that after one year of treatment, a regimen of antiretroviral pills, called tenofovir DF (Viread) and emtricitabine (Emtriva), plus efavirenz (S...Viral, gold nanoparticles can assemble themselves to potentially find and treat disease
... report that they have created a way for viral and gold particles to "directly assemble" and potentially s...ions. The study defines how assembled particles of gold - a metal that is not rejected by the body - could possibly be "tuned" to destroy tissue or emit sig...St. Jude conducts first large-scale bird flu genome study
...mas Chair at St. Jude. "This information is a true gold mine, and we are inviting all of the miners to help us unlock the secrets of influenza." Webster is an internationally renowned expert on bird flu viruses and a co-author of the report that appears in the January 27 issue of Science. St. Jude was u...Improved diagnostic technology for Crohn's disease
...nventional enteroclysis, previously considered the gold standard, as an imaging method for the evaluation of the small bowel in patients with Crohn's disease, a new study shows. Crohn's disease is an inflammatory disease of the intestinal wall. Complications of Crohn's disease, such as abscesses, and sten...Who's the liar? Brain MRI stands up to polygraph test
...ng a method that is verifiable against the current gold standard method of lie detection--the conventional polygraph," said lead author Feroze B. Mohamed, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology at Temple. Dr. Mohamed explained how the standard polygraph test has failed to produce consistently reliable re...University of Queensland and Harvard Medical International to nourish the health workforce
...d up with Harvard Medical International to deliver gold standard training to health and medical educators..... "Busy clinicians will now be able to achieve the gold standard for medical education internationally, without having to travel to Boston. "In Brisbane, t...