Cells derived from heart stem cells can repair heart attack damage
... attack, then using ultrasound echocardiography to measure the ability of the hearts to pump blood throughout the body. The hearts treated with cardiosphere-derived cells performed an average of 15 percent to 20 percent better than those treated with either of the controls. "It was remarkable to see this im...OHSU study reveals each persons' activity level appears intrinsic, possibly tied to genetics
...s more chances to interact socially. To accurately measure activity levels, both groups of monkeys wore activity monitors attached to loose-fitting collars. Data from the monitors in both groups of monkeys revealed that within each group there was great variability in animals' activity levels. The most ac...Combination treatment for brain cancer not detrimental to patients' quality of life
...ndomised phase III trial involving 573 patients to measure health-related quality of life (HRQOL). They used specialised questionnaires to assess HRQOL at baseline and every 3 months during treatment with either radiotherapy alone or Temozolomide and radiotherapy until the disease progressed. Baseline questi...Treatment has demonstrated improvement in physical function and kept joint damage from progressing
...ients treated with methotrexate alone. HAQ scores measure a patient's ability to perform activities of daily living such as dressing, walking, and grooming. The ENBREL TEMPO study randomized 686 patients with RA, of which 638 were included in the three-year radiographic analysis. Patients received either...Study shows success and less risk in treating kids with heart rhythm problems
...e heart, the catheter can be steered by doctors to measure electrical activity and pinpoint the source or sources of the child's heart-rhythm problem. Conventionally, doctors have steered the catheters using fluoroscopy, or X-rays beamed from below the patient that show the probe as a solid object. U-M cardi...Drug compound restores youth to aging arterial cells in elderly hypertensives, Hopkins study shows
...body. Diastolic pressure, on the other hand, is a measure of the pressure against arterial walls when the heart is resting and refilling between beats. The Hopkins researchers found that alagebrium, formally known as ALT-711 or 4,5-dimethyl-3-(2-oxo-2-phenylethyl)-thiazolium chloride, reduced stiffening in ...Aspirin reduces stroke risk in women, not men
... physicians to prescribe aspirin as a preventative measure for those women who do not suffer from the potential gastrointestinal side effects of the drug. "As opposed to the situation with men, aspirin tends to be under-prescribed for women," Berger said. "There is no reason for this to be the case aspirin ...Higher placental weight associated with increased maternal breast cancer risk
...hesized that placental weight could be an indirect measure of hormone exposure during pregnancy. Sven Cnattingius, M.D., Ph.D., of Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues investigated the possible associations between indirect markers of hormonal exposures during pregnancy, such as placental...Dogs ease anxiety, improve health status of hospitalized heart failure patients
...rest group. Systolic pulmonary artery pressure, a measure of pressure in the lungs, dropped in the volunteer-dog team group 5 percent during and 5 percent after therapy. It rose during and after therapy in the other two groups. The volunteer-dog team group showed more improvement than the volunteer-only gr...High tech imaging tells the tale of plaque from the inside out
...excites" molecules in the plaque while researchers measure the "time" that molecules stay in the excited state. This time is specific to different types of molecules, which helps researchers determine the "exact composition of the plaque." When plaque has a thin, fibrous layer or cap over a large core area ...Exercise linked to reduced breast cancer risk
...going back as far as age 10, to develop a lifetime measure of each woman's exercise activity. Popular activities included walking, aerobics and cycling. Of the 4,538 women with breast cancer, 1,132 (about 25 percent) reported no exercise activity since age 10. Of the 4,649 women who had not had breast cancer...Lifestyle modification plus medication more effective than medication alone
...researchers included the fourth treatment group to measure the effectiveness of weight-loss medication combined with brief lifestyle modification counseling delivered by primary care providers. The researchers looked at this type of therapy as a possible model for delivering lifestyle modification therapy i...Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development tipsheet
...and at discharge to develop treatment plans and to measure blind rehabilitation efficacy. Patients completed ...e and need refinement to provide the most accurate measure of blind rehabilitation training. Word-recognition assessment in noisy background, pg 499 Rese...Riding roller coasters may actually be 'death-defying' for people with heart disease
... maximum speed of 75 miles per hour. G-force is a measure of the magnitude of forces several times higher than the value of the earth's gravitational force. To rule out heart disease, all participants had a thorough physical examination before taking part in the study. At rest, before riding the roller coa...Grant will fund study of tics and Tourette syndrome
...hree- and six-month intervals. The primary outcome measure is the change in tic severity assessed by an independent evaluator blind to treatment assignment. This $3 million grant complements an identical study funded last year by NIH to evaluate the same behavioral intervention in children. Other collabora...Imperial receives Gates Foundation grant to develop new tests for managing AIDS treatment
... to develop a simple, affordable and rapid test to measure the health of the immune system in HIV/AIDS patien...tive' will develop an easy to use device which can measure CD4+ T-lymphocytes in HIV+ patients. The CD4 cell count measures the number of these critical diseas...Thanksgiving gluttony misaligned with 'intuitive eating' approach examined in new study
...ive Eating Scale, developed by Hawks and others to measure the degree to which a per --on is an intuitive eater, researchers found that intuitive eating was significantly correlated with lower body mass index, lower triglyceride levels, higher levels of high density lipoproteins and decreased risk of cardiov...Penn research permits first-ever visualization of psychological stress in the human brain
...employed in our study arterial spin labeling can measure cerebral flood-flow directly," states John A. Detr...e magnet and used as the natural contrast agent to measure cerebral blood-flow." Researchers at Penn's Center for Functional Neuroimaging have been at the fo...Mother-to-child transmission of HIV
...o delivery. Until recently, it was not possible to measure the extent of these microtransfusions for a particular delivery, but now scientists have developed an assay based on umbilical cord blood that can do this. In this study, the researchers made use of this new assay to ask whether there is a link betwe...In autism and related disorders, recognizing emotion is different than identity
...nction. The individuals took a variety of tests to measure famous face recognition, recognition of non-facial emotional cues (from voices or bodies), recognition of basic emotions (happy, sad, angry, fearful), and recognition of a complex mental state (reflective, aghast, irritated, impatient) presented by a...