Heading to Siberia: UH signs agreement with Russian Academy of Sciences
...ement opens up further opportunities for UH of not only research collaboration with the highly regarded Russian Academy of Sciences, but also the exchange of students and faculty. ...Borderline personality disorder shows improvements with intensive psychotherapy
...ot just trivial changes, said Lenzenweger. TFP not only helped reduced suicidal behaviors, but also seemed particularly helpful in reducing irritability and angry behaviors. Kernberg noted, We are pleased about the progress in the empirical development of a psychoanalytic treatment for borderline patien...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
...layed a strong role. Conservative Protestants were only 65 percent as likely as Catholics to have executed a DPAHC. And not surprisingly, the odds of naming a proxy were lower for individuals who scored higher on a measure of "fear of death." The study further examined whom people chose as their DPAHC. ...New study reports hotel guests at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning
...es where CO poisonings had occurred and found that only 12% had installed CO detectors after the incidents.... In 101 sites where no CO poisoning had occurred, only 11 % had installed CO detectors in guest rooms. Dr Weaver continues, Despite evidence of efficacy,...UK and other European countries should introduce universal childhood hepatitis B vaccination
...sk strategy. At-risk vaccination programmes mean only those people at the highest risk of contracting th...epatitis B universal vaccination is ultimately the only way to eliminate HBV transmission and new cases of hepatitis B. Indeed, global efforts to control an...Meningitis: effectiveness of preventive vaccination demonstrated
...esent at the surface of the meningococcus provides only partial, temporary immunity in very young children...ssible for African countries. These have available only the polysaccharide vaccine, less expensive at 0.3 to 0.5 euro, but which, because of its low immunit...UK scientists set their sights on cure for AMD
...sel formation in wet AMD, but these approaches are only suitable for certain patients and are often only temporary. Thanks to a 4 million donation from a US private donor, the London Project will now be ...GSK announces launch of largest ever Phase III trial in lung cancer treatment
...n the cancer treatment paradigm. I believe we have only just scratched the surface of what is possible and look forward to seeing the results of the Phase III trial in due course. Based on these encouraging data, GSK also announced today the opening of patient recruitment to the randomized and controll...Advances in understanding bipolar disorder topics of press briefings June 7, 8
... on Bipolar Disorder, held every two years, is the only venue in the world devoted exclusively to highlighting new research into understanding bipolar disorder, which affects both adults and children, devastates families, accounts for nearly half of all suicides in the United States, and costs billions of...Born to lose: How birth weight affects adult health and success
...or poor health as an adult by over 70 percent. Not only does birth weight have large and lasting effects a...l income, and parental fertility timing. Not only does low income and lack of health insurance during pregnancy increase the likelihood of poor birth ...Low-carb diets' effects linked to rise in newly identified 'starvation hormone'
...e FGF21 in their livers, the special diet resulted only in fatty liver, high blood lipids, and reduced blood ketones, due at least in part to altered expression of key genes governing lipid and ketone metabolism. Meanwhile, Kliewers group identified the FGF21 endocrine hormone as a mediator of peroxisom...USC researchers show that molecular markers predict tumor recurrence
...stigator on the study. These molecular markers not only help us to identify patients who are at high risk,...ts with higher risk for tumor recurrence and treat only those patients....Benefits of trastuzumab are lasting, reducing both HER2 + breast cancer deaths and recurrence
...eloped a recurrent tumor or have died, compared to only 222 in the trastuzumab group. These results mea...of congestive heart failure (22 versus 1). But the only cardiac death occurred in the chemotherapy group, she says. We have learned that cardiac toxicity th...What's the fat content? Whether or not you notice depends on how you think
...write. Individualists ignore the context and focus only on product features. The authors conclude: Our findings fill important gaps in both self-construal and categorization research. An implication of the greater category of membership inclusiveness by individualists is that their stereotypes may be mo...New drug shows promise in treatment of advanced thyroid cancer
... More importantly, it prevented tumor growth. In only 10 out of 60 patients (17%) did the tumors continu...was fatigue, affecting 50 percent of patients, but only 5 percent had severe fatigue and only one patient left the trial for this reason. Axitinib also cau...Researchers call for investigation into links between khat use and psychiatric disorders
... for self-medication. The researchers suggest that only by improving the quality of future research, and i... a new model to understand consumption of khat not only among migrant communities in the West but also in conflict and post conflict settings. This will tak...Institute of Medicine Advisory: Public health physicians
...opies of the report will be available to reporters only beginning at 2 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 5. THE REPORT IS EMBARGOED AND NOT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE BEFORE 10 A.M. EDT WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6. REPORTERS CAN OBTAIN COPIES by contacting the National Academies' Office of News and Public Information at tel. 202-3...After epilepsy surgery, quality of life related more to seizures than memory
...y memory problems. Quality of life scores declined only for those who had both seizures and memory problems, which was eight percent of the participants. Because certain risk factors make people more likely to have memory problems after surgery and other risk factors make people more likely to continue...Low doses of ecstasy associated with decline in verbal memory
...lation. The fact that Ecstasy appeared to affect only verbal memory points to specific brain areas and chemicals that may be affected by the drug, the authors note. The main underlying factor seems to be a depletion of serotonin in Ecstasy users, a depletion that might be reversible, they write. Seroton...Stanford researchers track human stem cells transplanted into rat brain
...ld expect to find in that part of the brain. The only problem was that in order to find out where the ce...amage to the rats' ability to move or learn. The only situation that rendered the neural stem cells immobile was the healthy adult rat brain. As with Stei...