Drug treatment improves learning in mice with Down syndrome symptoms, Stanford/Packard study shows
... several days before any effect was detected, and, once established, the effect lasted for up to two month...known as long-term potentiation. In general terms, once a threshold of activating signals has been achieved, a neuron becomes permanently more sensitive to ...Healthy women with high cholesterol at increased risk of stroke
...cluding that cholesterol levels were measured only once and that participants in the study were all health professionals and mostly white....K-State National Agricultural Biosecurity Center director speaker at AAAS Biosecurity Symposium
...ur herds and flocks from intentional disease is at once more difficult and it requires a different set of tools than we have used in our ongoing struggle with natural disease," he said. ...Tobacco companies obstructed science, history professor says
... facing dozens of potentially ruinous lawsuits are once again attempting to manufacture doubt. "The tobacco industry is now trying to win their cases by rewriting history, saying that everyone knew but no one had proof," said Robert N. Proctor, a professor of history at Stanford. "What they're saying is...Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting
...iplinary research in child development. SRCD meets once every two years, creating opportunities for scientists to report on significant developments in basic child development research, including research on applied practice and policies that affect children. Some of the topics that might interest repo...Scientists create dual-modality microbeads to improve identification of disease biomarkers
...shed from each other. Its similar to bar-coding -- once you barcode the beads and put them in the urine or blood sample, you can remove them and decode what proteins or viruses have attached to individual beads based on their spectral signature," explained Sathe. The process of creating these beads is q...Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes
...ns carried by damaged nerves from the retina. "And once you have a good model of how the human brain works," Serre explained, "you can break it to mimic a brain disorder." One brain disorder that involves distortions in visual perception is schizophrenia, but nobody understands the neurobiological basis f...Preclinical results of Geovax's AIDS vaccines demonstrate potential to protect against disease
...irus and then placed on drug therapy. Thereafter, once early drug therapy had temporarily reduced virus levels, the monkeys were vaccinated with the SIV version of GeoVax's DNA/MVA vaccines. Six weeks after vaccination, drug treatment was discontinued. The SIV virus levels temporarily rose in the vacci...Prostate cancer patients see high survival rates with seed implants
...to a grain of rice, contain a radiation dose that, once implanted, delivers concentrated radiation to the prostate, sparing surrounding organs and tissue. Doctors in this study evaluated the long-term results of permanent seed implants in men with early stage prostate cancer. Nearly 2,700 men were studie...Study tests oral insulin to prevent type 1 diabetes
... testing whether an insulin capsule taken by mouth once a day can prevent or delay diabetes in a specific group of people at risk for type 1 diabetes. An earlier trial suggested that oral insulin might delay type 1 diabetes for about four years in some people with autoantibodies to insulin in their blood...Take fatigue seriously, says University of Alberta researcher
...ity to light and the limiting of social activities once viewed as important. Individuals with exhaustion report frank confusion that resembles delirium, emotional numbness, sudden loss of energy, difficulty both in staying awake and in sleeping and complete social withdrawal. "It is important to recogni...Media coverage of autism differs dramatically
...MR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella that was once linked with autism in a widely refuted study. Only 13 percent of published research was about environmental triggers of autism. "What was very interesting is that media frequently reported being very skeptical of the MMR evidence, as was scientific...Chronic pain up almost 40 percent among US workers in past decade
... ER (tramadol HCl) extended-release tablets, taken once daily, have been shown to relieve moderate to moderately severe chronic pain in adults who need around-the-clock treatment for an extended period of time." Addressing Pain at Work There have been positive changes in the workplace in the last d...100 percent juices found as beneficial to health as fruits and vegetables
...imers disease than those who drank juice less than once per week....Topical anaesthetic spray delays ejaculation by five times as long says new study
...groups were advised not to use the spray more than once in any 24-hour period to avoid possible bias resulting from too frequent ejaculation. Participants were also issued with a stopwatch so that they, or their partner, could measure the time lapse between penetration and ejaculation. 20 TEMPE users an...Regular acupressure can significantly reduce agitated behavior in dementia
...n verbal and physical attacks and wandering. But once the four-week treatment period ended, agitation levels started to rise again, suggesting that acupressure needs to be provided on an ongoing basis. 20 patients were studied over six weeks, including one week before the treatment started and one wee...Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
...e conditions and duration of clinical surveillance once a case is confirmed. Ideally, confirmed cases "should be isolated in an acute admissions setting," the authors say, adding that XDR-TB patients should be quarantined separately from MDR-TB "as the latter is potentially curable." WHO guidelines rec...Health providers could save billions without compromising health care says drug study
...statin and 69 (99 per cent) stayed on the new drug once they'd switched. The patient who was switched back to atorvastatin reported experiencing visual symptoms at night on simvastatin. The clinical outcome ten months after the switch was positive. There was no significant change in blood cholesterol...New fat, same old problem with an added twist?
...previous studies in animals and humans, indicating once again that trans fats negatively affect LDL and HDL cholesterol. Surprisingly, the interesterified fat had a similar, though weaker impact on cholesterol. "In this study we discovered that trans fat also has a weak negative influence on blood gluc......ces well as a lack of herd immunity. China has once before shown that the control of syphilis is possible, and the authors urgently call for a new national campaign of affordable syphilis screening and treatment....