Study shows new antipsychotic drug prevents brain loss in schizophrenia
...und that, on average, haloperidol-treated patients lost about two percent of their gray matter, or about 1...d patients and the normal volunteers. Patients who lost gray matter, particularly in the frontal lobe of the brain, also had greater problems with cognitive...Endangered species: Who will teach anatomy in 2010?
...eceiving training in gross anatomy, most are being lost as teachers during their postdoctoral years," the article's authors state. They attribute this loss of potential gross anatomy educators to faculty members' perceptions that research contributions are valued over teaching contributions, and to severa...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...c and diastolic blood pressure also were those who lost the most body fat, particularly abdominal fat, and gained the most muscle. These changes in body composition were more closely related to reductions in blood pressure than improvements in fitness. Overall, results for both improvements in fitness a...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
...s to help congestive heart failure patients regain lost heart function, reversing the disease's effects on heart structure in two ways and easing their disabling symptoms, researchers reported here today at the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. A prospective study of t...Suicide in one partner substantially increases suicide risk in the other
...s, who ran nearly a fourfold risk. But men who had lost their partner to suicide were 46 times as likely to commit suicide themselves. This was around three times the risk of women bereaved by suicide. Men might be less likely to seek support, or have untreated or undetected mental illness, suggests the ...Public leadership in neurology award honors Leeza Gibbons for Alzheimer's awareness efforts
... the American Academy of Neurology is essential. I lost my grandmother to Alzheimer's disease, and I lose a little more of my mom to this thief of memories everyday. Because of that, I am deeply invested in the American Academy of Neurology's powerful work." Her advocacy has aimed to take the shame and st...Easing the anxiety of pregnancy after miscarriage
...e degree of personhood assigned by the mother to a lost fetus; the amount of anxiety experienced in a curr...ing this pregnancy to term?' 'What do you feel you lost in past pregnancies?' 'Are you expecting the worst to happen in this pregnancy?'" In Japan, acknowl...Virtual colonoscopy: Virtually promising
...tive preparation, the need for conscious sedation, lost sleep, time lost from work, the need to arrange for someone to drive the patient home, and risk for perforation excee...Fatal brain disease holds clues to dementia
...is showed that the Huntington's diseased brain had lost its ability to change wiring patterns and suggests that the neurons were unable to reorganise themselves and strengthen their nerve connections. Humans with Huntington's disease also have problems with touch perception. While more research is needed,...'Fickle' enzyme helps protect, but also can promote heart failure, animal study shows
...g the researchers to conclude that the enzymes had lost their protective value to the heart during hypertrophy. Biochemical analysis revealed that mice with NOS3 had a mix of two chemical forms of the enzyme. The form of NOS3 that works best with the BH4 cofactor dominated in the non-enlarged hearts bu...New prognostic markers help identify risk of relapse
...elapse. "Many traditional predictive factors have lost their significance over time, so there is a real need to find new markers that can be used to identify high-risk patients," said A/Prof Glenn Marshall, Director of the CCC&BD and Head of the Molecular Carcinogenesis Program at CCIA. "Our work is the...Vascular structure and function improve with diet and exercise
... found that the 22 female and 16 male participants lost weight and improved their exercise capacity on the program. Treadmill tests were used to measure exercise capacity (VO2 max, the maximal volume of oxygen exchanged during exercise) at the beginning and end of the eight-week period. Average VO2 max ...Journal study suggests many glaucoma patients don't take medication properly
... $100 billion in resulting hospital admissions and lost productivity. Dr. Robin's study compares medication refill rates for two groups of glaucoma patients. The first group takes a single medication for one year without needing a second medication to control intraocular pressure. The second group takes...MRI study shows hormone leptin alters brains, may ease cravings of people with obesity gene
...ation both deficient in Leptin and morbidly obese lost about half of their body weight while regulating their own food intake. Impact: The findings suggest Leptin may play a role in modulating personal behavior and perhaps food cravings. Background: Leptin is a protein hormone that plays an...Spinoff company receives $2.5 million NIH grant to build prototype scanner
... tumors located in the middle of the breast may be lost among the overlapping layers of healthy tissue above and below (structural overlap). "CBCT eliminates structural overlap for a clearer view of early tumors," Ning said. "At the same time, the prototype machine captures images by rotating around the...Penn study shows liver receptor key to diet-dependent differences in blood lipid levels
... beneficial effect of the increased LXR levels was lost when mice were treated with the experimental drug.... a low-fat, healthy diet. However, this benefit is lost when a potent drug is added to the system. "The reason is that a different set of target genes is tu...Biologic therapies for bowel disease show promise in clinical trials
...Americans and leads to many millions of dollars in lost productivity and missed days of work every year. IBD is an umbrella term referring to several chronic diseases that cause inflammation of the intestines, including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Symptoms for both conditions are very simila...Testicular cancer gene in mice may offer clues to origins of cancer in men
...'t filled in the picture yet, but when dead end is lost or not expressed in germ cells, they don't die as ...elopment of the cancer results when the infant has lost both copies of his dead end gene." The researchers theorize that testicular cancer that develops in ...Surgery no better than rehabilitation for low back pain
...d to account for close to 120 million UK work days lost per year. The trial involved 349 chronic back pain patients from 15 centres across the UK. 176 patients were assigned to spinal fusion surgery and 173 to an intensive programme of rehabilitation, led by physiotherapists, involving daily exercises and...University of Pittsburgh study shows using expanded critera donors is safe
...rred in four out of 86 patients and no grafts were lost to HBV recurrence. Of those patients who received HCV positive livers, 15 of 62 patients who received HCV positive grafts have died; two deaths were due to HCV graft failure and another two were HCV related. One patient has been re-transplanted for r...