U of M report says early-childhood intervention improves well-being through young adulthood
...he Chicago Longitudinal Study and began in 1986 to investigate the effects of government-funded kindergarten programs for 1,539 children in the Chicago Public Schools. Reynolds group studied the long-term effects of the Child-Parent Center in Chicago. A total of 1,539 low-income minority children who were born i...Investigating the causes of Parkinson's disease
...440,000 by the Parkinsons Disease Society (PDS) to investigate the causes of the condition. Dr Lynn Bedford, of...ence as well as health and social care projects to investigate the causes, treatment, prevention and cure for Parkinsons.......ese ideas, Gustaf Edgren and colleagues set out to investigate whether there is a history of increased cancer diagnoses among individuals that receive blood transfusions from people who donate blood while unaware of their cancers. Using registry data from Sweden and Denmark , the authors created a database from ...Organic farming can feed the world, U-M study shows
... about compiling data from published literature to investigate the two chief objections to organic farming: low yields and lack of organically acceptable nitrogen sources. Their findings refute those key arguments, Perfecto said, and confirm that organic farming is less environmentally harmful yet can potenti......d or prohibited. Further research is needed to investigate the presence of antibiotics in edible parts of pla... ongoing at the University of Minnesota to further investigate the potential fate and transport of antibiotics introduced to the environment from livestock operati...Damon Runyon renews its $2.25 million investment to support young clinical cancer investigators
...er. Using novel epidemiological analyses, he will investigate the association between lower levels of circulating adipokines, obesity and the presence of Barretts esophagus. Dr. Rubenstein holds joint appointments at the University of Michigan Medical School and the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Medical Ce...DFG approves 11 new Collaborative Research Centers
...ne, material science and the natural sciences will investigate the development of new technologies and methods of..., a peculiarity that SFB 677 Switch Functions will investigate in greater depth. One of the objectives of their work will be to develop autonomous molecular switch...Snoring in children might be an allergic type disease
...titute of Medical Research said the study aimed to investigate whether the risk factors for snoring among pre-school children with rhinitis were similar to those for allergic diseases in a group of children who have been monitored since before they were born. Our findings were consistent with the view that sno...Medical management of another condition may not lead to early cancer diagnosis
...patients," Zafar said. The researchers expect to investigate ways in which to get some of these co-morbidity patients into cancer clinical trials, which can offer new treatment options that might produce better results, Zafar said. Zafar said an important takeaway message is that screening is important, whet...MRI detects cancers missed by mammography in breast cancer patients
...stectomies because physicians there have no way to investigate the findings seen on the scan. New guidelines, issued in April by the American Cancer Society ( http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp ), recommend that women who are at high risk of developing breast cancer receive both annual MRI and mammog...Study explains why patients with OSA are at higher risk for cardiovascular disease
... According to Dr. El Sohl, further research will investigate if the improvements in vascular function correlate with actual improvements in the sleep patterns of patients with OSA. ...Papillomavirus vaccine could substantially reduce cervical cancer incidence
...ound the world formed the Future II Study Group to investigate the efficacy of the vaccine. For women who have never had sex, the vaccine was 99% effective in stopping cervical cancer (adenocarcinoma in situ), and pre-cancerous lesions. When data from women who could have been exposed was included, the vaccin...Researchers find deadly prescription drug effects 6 years before FDA
...erns Feinberg School of Medicine. They swoop in to investigate early signs of trouble years before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) takes notice. A new study by Bennett, the A.C. Buehler Professor in Economics and Aging at Northwesterns Feinberg School of Medicine, and a hematologist and oncologist at No...Possible new breast cancer gene
...BRCA tumor suppression, now becomes a candidate to investigate as another breast cancer disease gene in families that do not have BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, but have a history of breast and/or ovarian cancer," says Greenberg. "In collaboration with other researchers we are currently looking to see if families th...NY-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center doctors present at 2007 AUA Meeting
...to be fully elucidated. This study was designed to investigate these relationships, specifically the effect of prostate volume on biopsy and pathologic Gleason sum discordance. The study found that patients with large prostates are more likely to have lower Gleason sum, locally confined and less aggressive patho...Study reveals aspirin's colorectal cancer prevention mechanism
...idence of those tumors that rely on COX-2." To investigate that theory, the research team compiled data from two ongoing prospective research studies the Nurses Health Study (NHS) and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS). Both studies gather comprehensive health information on their participants...Stem cells provide clues to cancer spread
...Manchester study used embryonic stem (ES) cells to investigate how some tumours are able to migrate to other part...ncer Research (PICR), used embryonic stem cells to investigate how the protein E-cadherin stopped cells from migrating during normal growth. The team found that,...Passengers, not just mobile phones, contribute to road accidents
...that, "Further well-designed research is needed to investigate the factors underlying the increased risk for phone use and passenger carriage and the ways in which the risk can be reduced. Research of this kind can provide an excellent basis for examining road safety policy, with the opportunity to reduce both m...Researchers investigate impact of lifestyle on GI health
...wn gastric emptying. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a fatty soup consumed before a meal might reduce food intake in both lean and obese subjects and whether this possible inhibitory effect would be related to changes in gastric functions. For the study, investigators recruited 12 lean and ...Transplanting human gut bugs into mice helps understanding of metabolic system
...hich might be causing chronic health problems, and investigate what effects different foods and probiotics can have on improving overall health," he added....