2007 ARVO Annual Meeting draws spotlight on aging eye
...and still growing, addressing the issues of vision loss in the older population is, now more than ever, of paramount importance....U of MN doctors uncover treatment for advanced ALD patients
...s and with ALD it breaks down over time and causes loss of hearing, sight, mobility, and general nerve function. Left untreated, patients with ALD will die, usually within three to five years of diagnosis. There is no cure, but the progression of the disease can be halted with a bone marrow transplant. ...Multiple low-energy plasma skin treatments may help diminish facial wrinkles
...-reported redness lasted six days. No scarring or loss of pigment occurred. When examining the biopsied skin tissue under a microscope, the researchers found that a new band of collagen, the primary protein in skin, had formed in the inner layers of the skin. "The healing time in our study averaged ap...Updated guidelines advise focusing on women's lifetime heart risk
...or women who need to lose weight or sustain weight loss have been added minimum of 60-90 minutes of moderate-intensity activity (e.g., brisk walking) on most, and preferably all, days of the week. The guidelines now encourage all women to reduce saturated fats intake to less than 7 percent of calories i...Injection of 'skin filler' material appears to stimulate collagen production
...skin, hydrating and firming its structure, and the loss of hyaluronic acid with aging is associated with skin dehydration and wrinkling. Because hyaluronic acid degrades rapidly in the skin, the commercially available version is cross-linked, or bound to itself chemically to increase stabilization. Fra...Panel presents Agricultural Biosecurity & Sustainability Strategies at 2007 AAAS Meeting
...and/or mortality, disruption of food distribution, loss of consumer confidence in the food supply, busines...s, financial instability of rural communities, and loss of public confidence in the food supply. Fletcher will discuss strategies currently in place and wha...Older adults face double whammy when it comes to body fat
...veloping appropriate interventions that target fat loss while preserving skeletal muscle to prevent disability and other obesity-related illnesses."...Assessing the cost of juvenile arthritis
...disease. Researchers also asked parents about time loss from their work and days missed from school for the children. The study was the first to quantify an association between JIA disease activity and health care costs and found that the difference in annualized average direct medical costs for the JI...Space technology benefits medical community
... the extremities can potentially lead to permanent loss of function. Raynaud's can occur on its own, or be secondary to another condition, such as auto-immune disorders like scleroderma or lupus. Field Trials The device recently underwent initial testing on patients with Raynaud's being treated at the...Take fatigue seriously, says University of Alberta researcher
...hat resembles delirium, emotional numbness, sudden loss of energy, difficulty both in staying awake and in sleeping and complete social withdrawal. "It is important to recognize the difference between tiredness and fatigue, because fatigue is a marker that the body is not able to keep up," says Olson. "...Grants from leading eye research foundation surpass $9M in 2006
...g us closer to our goal: the eradication of vision loss to diseases of the eye." RPB grants are available to scientists at every stage of their careers, including RPB's top award, the Jules and Doris Stein RPB Professorship, which provides $500,000 over five years and up to $150,000 in a matching grant ...Repeat bone mineral density scans do not appear helpful for predicting fractures in most older women
...ith clinical factors that contribute to rapid bone loss and younger women in early menopause. "However, our results do suggest that, for the average healthy older woman 65 years or older, a repeat BMD measurement has little or no value in classifying risk for future fracture--even for the average older w...Transdermal vaccine effective in treating Alzheimer's disease in mouse model
...st whether the transdermal vaccine can curb memory loss in Alzheimer's mice as well as reduce their "senile" plaque burden. "If those studies show clear cognitive benefits," Dr. Tan said, "we believe clinical trials to evaluate a beta amyloid skin patch or topical cream in patients with Alzheimer's would ...Common blood pressure drug treats muscular dystrophy in mice
...e ability to regenerate and repair, which leads to loss of muscle function, explains Cohn. TGF-beta never had been implicated as a cause of the inability to repair muscle in DMD. So the researchers examined muscles from mice genetically engineered to have DMD and found evidence of increased TGF-beta a...Pittsburgh ear study finds that fluid in the ear does not impair development in children
...her investigators reported had warned that hearing loss associated with persistent otitis media in young children might result in long-term impairment of their development. Because of this, official guidelines were developed recommending that young children with middle ear effusion lasting for as long a...JRRD releases single-topic issue focused on vision rehabilitation
...paired individuals. Forty-one subjects with vision loss participated in our study to determine the minimum...litation programs for older adults to mitigate the loss of competence in later life due to sensory impairment. Historical perspective on the development ...FSU study: Can prunes reverse bone loss after menopause?
...lp keep the doctor away by actually reversing bone loss in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis or osteo... susceptible to fractures due to osteoporotic bone loss -- and up to 20 percent of that loss can occur within just five to seven years after menopause. Wh...Scripps research combination therapy obliterates new vessel growth in tumors and retinopathy
...ast majority of diseases that lead to catastrophic loss of vision. A number of angiostatic molecules have been used to impair blood vessel formation as clinical adjuncts to conventional radio- and chemotherapy. Others have proven to be modestly effective in treating neovascular eye diseases. The new st...New treatments prevent brain injury hours after stroke in rats
...atively low toxicity." In addition, he says, NAD+ loss occurs after PARP-1 activation, meaning that NAD+ might be used later after injury than GT. Ying is currently investigating this question. Finally, says Ying, recent studies have suggested that NAD+ plays an important role in basic biological proces......lacebo. For those who stopped, there was a modest loss of BMD, but not a dramatic loss." The study found differences in bone loss in those who continued versus those who stopped but the differences were surprisingly modest and the...