Traditional Chinese exercises may increase efficacy of flu vaccine
...niffling-sneezing season approaches, theres also a hint of hope present in the pre-germ-season air. In a study scheduled for publication in the August issue of the American Journal of Chinese Medicine, a team of kinesiologists at the University of Illinois suggest that older adults who adopt an exercise r...Journal Sleep: Advanced cancer patients have less quality sleep
... since in cancer, an initial sign of a symptom may hint the underlying cause of that symptom and, thus, indicating the need of a more effective symptom management," said Mystakidou. "Poor sleep quality must be taken into account when treating cancer patients. Clinicians must appreciate the often multifa...Ruling out pulmonary embolism with a simple bedside protocol
...believe more than ever that every patient with any hint of a life-threatening illness should have the most...tify not ordering a test on every patient with any hint of PE in their history or physical examination. The presentation is entitled Prospective, Multicen...Jefferson immunology researchers show blood-brain barrier damage could affect MS severity
...lity changes in all of these animals and the first hint that permeability doesnt always equal disease," he says. Dr. Hooper notes that the work is part of the long-range goal of determining the exact role of blood-brain barrier permeability in disease. "These results tell us a great deal about the mechan...Steroid use fails to boost pregnancy rates in infertility treatments
... baby after each treatment cycle. That tantalizing hint of benefit may nevertheless encourage some practitioners to continue routine use of glucocorticoids for their IVF patients, said Randall Hines, M.D., director of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Mississi...Study shows six-injection allergy vaccine tames hay fever for at least 2 years
...n. Together, the researchers believe these results hint that AIC is successfully reprogramming the immune system to tolerate the presence of allergen, without over-reacting. "Re-establishing immune tolerance to allergens really is the ultimate goal in allergy research," said University of California, Sa...Major cancer study aims to identify protein markers for early-stage disease
...Elevated levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) hint at the presence of prostate cancer, while elevated levels of cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) suggest possible cancer of the ovary or other organs. However, both tests have "false negatives" or "false positives," making them unreliable. If mass spectromet...AIDS study challenges conventional treatment guidelines for HIV patients
...more complex scenarios of disease progression, and hint at indirect processes though which HIV can induce damage to the immune system, which cannot be adequately captured by measuring HIV levels in the blood....Mayo Clinic links allergies to Parkinson's disease
...e clues in this study may give scientists a strong hint about inflammation's role in Parkinson's. "This is exciting, because we may be able to develop medications to block the inflammation," he says. Parkinson's is a complex disease, says Dr. Bower, because many factors can contribute to its developm...Penn researchers calculate how much the eye tells the brain
...ing, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience. "Our findings hint that sluggish cells might be 'cheaper,' metabolically speaking, because they send more information per spike. If a message must be sent at a high rate, the brain uses the brisk channels. But if a message can afford to be sent more slowly, the brain u...UCI researchers find that, even at rest, men's and women's brains behave differently
...ings are intriguing because they provide the first hint of what could be a fundamental difference in how the brain is wired in men and women," said Cahill, a fellow at UCI's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. "If, even in a resting state, the brain shows such differences between the sexes...Study finds some people in pain unlikely to seek treatment
... The rapid increases in pain medicine prescription hint at a population of patients with unmet pain needs, according to the study. Barbara Yawn, M.D., an Olmsted Medical Center physician and an author of the study, says, "Identification of patients in pain is essential to successful pain care. Despite si...Researchers use brain scans to predict behavior
...not paying attention to the right area. After the hint and prior to the appearance of the moving dots, re...terns that reflected whether the subjects used the hint or not, scientists found they could frequently predict whether a volunteer's response would be right...Single dose of chemotherapy is as effective as radiotherapy for testicular cancer
... primary tumours when first diagnosed is the first hint that it may now be safe to embark on studies of testis conservation instead of hemi-castration." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper)...Teen-agers with Type 1 diabetes already developing cardiovascular disease
...e wall of the main neck artery. That thickness can hint at atherosclerosis progression. Atherosclerosis, an accumulation of cholesterol-containing plaques along the artery walls, can eventually cause heart attack, angina and stroke. The researchers found that teen-age boys, but not girls, with type 1 diab...High cost of malpractice insurance threatens supply of ob/gyns, especially in some urban areas
...e not statistically significant, this result could hint at a worse situation in meeting the ob/gyn needs in these areas. Malpractice insurance premiums vary widely from state to state. Florida is the highest-premium state, with an average 2004 premium of more than $195,000, followed by Nevada, Michigan, t......t of agitation, the review finds. The studies also hint at some cognitive benefits from the drug for patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, which occurs when brain cells are starved of oxygen by blocked or diseased blood vessels. However, these changes were not clinically signif...