UI research aims to help patients with spinal cord injury
...rvention is a critical consideration in efforts to preserve the musculoskeletal system after SCI and that future studies must address efficient methods to deliver these therapeutic stresses to the entire lower extremity," Shields said. The results may also be useful for astronauts who experience bone loss and...Should older men be screened for prostate cancer?
... quality of life. More conservative treatments may preserve quality of life, but may not be appropriate for those cases where the disease is progressing more quickly. In the face of these uncertainties, what is the appropriate age to stop screening? Although guidelines suggest that men 75 years or older may ...New radiation protection technique results in reduced physician exposure
...e weight of a lead gown." This new technique may preserve these physicians' ability to benefit patients. "It may extend by years their ability to apply the skills they have developed over long careers of serving patients," said Dr. Magram. "America's medical community adheres to the ALARA principle (as lo...Study finds most Americans have good vision, but 14 million are visually impaired
...und, the more likely it is that treatment can help preserve your vision." The study authors made the following recommendations: Health care professionals should talk to their patients about the importance of eye health and encourage them to participate in routine vision screenings and eye examinations. Pe......e active when we do this, but our challenge was to preserve the broad topography by not presenting sounds too loudly," Petkov explains. This was an interesting observation for the Max Planck researchers because noise affects the auditory cortex, leading to hearing loss, which also probably disrupts such organ...HAQ responsiveness is inversely associated with mean duration of RA in clinical trials
...he potential to reduce or prevent joint damage and preserve joint integrity and function) and placebo. As functional assessment by the HAQ is a key outcome measure in clinical trials and practice, the research aimed to further investigate the effects of disease duration on its sensitivity to change. Using a g...Duke researchers link newly discovered gene to hereditary neurological disease
...th physical therapy to improve muscle strength and preserve range of motion. In their study, the Duke researchers found that one form of hereditary spastic paraplegia is linked to a gene called REEP1. The gene normally produces proteins that support the cell's energy source, the mitochondria. But a defect ...Sandia work launched on space shuttle shows live cells influence growth of nanostructures
...cted nanostructure is, he says, "an amazing way to preserve a cell." The cells already have emerged still viable after examination in electron microscopes and after X-ray exposure in Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Photon Source, where the accelerating voltage ranges from one to 20 keV, says Brinker....Radiation-killed bacteria vaccine induces broad immune response in mice
...lt to create live, attenuated vaccines that safely preserve the pathogen's ability to trigger strong innate and adaptive immune responses. "By showing that whole, irradiated bacteria can form the basis of a vaccine that elicits a strong response from both arms of the adaptive immune system, Dr. Raz and his co...Heat therapy for cancer may be key to 'Lance Armstrong Effect'
...ct as fire blankets to coat the nuclear matrix and preserve it from heat damage. These so-called "heat shock proteins" also have a second role as "chaperones" to other proteins, ensuring their proper interaction and shape, and, depending on these interactions, may play a role in cancer-cell death. Prelimin...Researchers find 'secret weapon' used by SARS virus
...that degradation takes place, how an RNA virus can preserve its integrity when it makes a protein that breaks down RNA, and whether a mutated non-RNA-degrading SARS coronavirus could constitute a workable SARS vaccine are all issues that Makino's group intends to pursue. "The main concern for everybody is whe...Smoking out the links between nutrition and oral cancer
...and fortified foods that not only helps create and preserve cells, but is also critical for synthesis of DNA; the latter serves as a universal set of blueprints for cells and which, if sufficiently altered, often leads to cancer. "It's possible that diminishing folate in cells may cause the cellular milieu to...NJIT offers new certificate to fight digital and physical terrorism
...wn as computer crime. Students are taught how to preserve material to be used as evidence in civil, criminal, or administrative cases. Counter-Terrorism Ethical Hacking explores computer and network vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them as well as how criminals, hackers or cyber-terrorists can exploit...2006 Science-in-Society award winners announced
...s, Madagascar may be the place where a struggle to preserve the Earth's diversity of life will be won or lost. The judges described Fantastic Forests as "enchanting and original," and "a remarkable example of how effectively the Web can and should be used in conveying information and interpretation." Book--...HIV drug could be used to prevent cervical cancer, say University of Manchester researchers
...lace of surgery which many women dislike and fully preserve the cervix. First we need to demonstrate that it can be effective." ...Radical surgery for kidney cancer is risk factor for chronic kidney disease
...nly the cancerous part, we are much more likely to preserve a patient's normal kidney function and avoid the long-term consequences of chronic kidney disease."...Transfusion-free surgical program reduced use of blood products for all liver transplant patients
...ansmission of unknown pathogens, and also helps to preserve blood bank resources, which consequently reduces the overall procedure cost. "Surgeons are the leading consumers of blood products, and it is important that we are leaders in promoting transfusion-free techniques. In conclusion, we propose that the...Insulin receptor stops progression of Alzheimer's disease
...revent several components of neurodegeneration and preserve learning and memory in rats with induced Alzheimer...ble to bypass the defects in insulin signaling and preserve the cells that need insulin to thrive. PPAR molecules go directly to the nucleus of cells and tell D...Gladstone investigators identify a new protective action for the powerful anti-HIV factor, APOBEC3G
...plexes during CD4 T cell activation, we could both preserve the potent anti-HIV effect of the small form of A3G and the protective function of the large A3G complex against select mobile genetic elements," Greene said. Gladstone scientists are now exploring various ways to achieve this desired balance....Eating walnuts with high-fat meals helps to protect arteries against short-term damage
...ut unlike olive oil, adding walnuts also helped to preserve the elasticity and flexibility of the arteries, re...ds and the right combinations of foods can help to preserve people's health. "This demonstrates that the protective fat from walnuts actually undoes some of th...