LAP-BAND System surgery improves insulin resistance
...ian practice performing LAGB surgery. Patients had previously been screened by a physician and determined to be appropriate candidates for surgery. The intent was to follow patients for one year post-surgery. As of March 2007, 12 men and 17 women have been followed for six months post-surgery. Before surgery,...Mayo Clinic research in cardiovascular disease presented at Experimental Biology 2007
...uggests that nanoparticles potentially represent a previously unrecognized factor in the development of arteriosclerosis and calcific arterial disease. Calcium deposits clog blood vessels and damage major organs, such as the heart. But the molecular mechanisms that kick-start this process, called pathologic c...Magnesium loss in patients given monoclonal antibodies
...-effect in patients given these antibodies has not previously been fully assessed. Prof Sabine Tejpar and colleagues therefore studied prospectively the degree of hypomagnesaemia in 98 patients with metastatic colorectal cancer treated with these antibodies. 95 (97%) of patients had decreased serum magnesium...Correlation between bile duct obstruction and ductal cancer found
...cancer cell growth and aggressiveness had not been previously investigated. These new findings are highly significant for two reasons, says Dr. Sirica. First, they establish an important correlation between bile duct obstruction and bile duct cancer, suggesting growth regulatory mechanisms that could be ...UN engages banks to light up rural India; Solar loans, energy access transform life for poor
... solar power lack of financing. Asking customers previously to pay cash for solar systems meant asking them to pay upfront an amount equal to 20 years of electricity bills." With just $1.5 million, the project has posted very high returns in four years, causing a 13-fold increase in the number of solar syst...Scientists find missing link to understand how plants make vitamin C
...ll studied. Mutations in this plant gene had been previously linked to low levels of vitamin C. So the hunt was on to determine how its product would contribute to vitamin C synthesis. The researchers, led by Brenner and Clarke, reconstituted in test tubes the long mysterious seventh step in vitamin C syn...New biotech company to commercialize novel UD gene-repair technology
... and chief executive officer of OrphageniX. Herr previously was the director of science and technology at the University City Science Center of Philadelphia. Sickle cell anemia and spinal muscular atrophy are among the diseases that OrphageniX is targeting, according to Herr. Sickle cell anemia affects an...Speeding 'fingertip' discovery -- 20 years of protein info in 1 place
...phoMotif Finder, which was incorporated into their previously established Human Protein Reference Database. Human Protein Reference Database now contains about 16,000 phosphorylation sites described in the literature and the PhosphoMotif Finder tool allows any researcher to find potential phosphorylation sites ...US critical care delivery system in critical condition
...and tier the critical care system, similar to what previously had been done by the U.S. trauma system. Such a system would require the most critically ill patients to be seen in top-level critical care centers. Lower-level centers would not provide ongoing critical care services, but would need to transfer crit...UQ researchers identify thousands with curable high blood pressure
...d by surgery to be ten times more common than was previously suspected. Once thought to be rare, the Endocrine ...as responsible for more cases of hypertension than previously thought. PAL affects the lives of possibly more than 300,000 Australian aged between 20 and 80, abou...Smoking ban dramatically reduces air pollution in Irish pubs
...f workers to particles," said Dr. Clancy. "We have previously shown that a reduction of particle levels in ambient air resulted in marked health benefits in terms of respiratory and cardiovascular mortality." According to the investigators, the volatile hydrocarbon benzene was used as a marker for carcinogeni...Wired for sound: How the brain senses visual illusions
... be processed separately, then merged together, as previously assumed, but that an almost-simultaneous integration of the sensations may actually take place in the brain." The UCSD scientists measured event-related potentials (ERPs), brain responses that are directly related to the perceptual experiences indu...Mayo Clinic solves painful puzzle of UT ligament split tear in wrist
...explain much of the wrist pain for which the cause previously had been unknown," Dr. Berger concludes. "It's especially gratifying to not only diagnose the reasons for the pain, but also to have such an effective treatment." ...Combined imaging approach may provide better identification of difficult-to-diagnose brain clots
...e blood flow has been partially reestablished in a previously blocked vessel. Research has shown that cerebral veins partially or fully blocked by a blood clotwith or without treatmentcan open spontaneously, open partially or remain blocked. These blockages can stop blood flow to the brain and increase the p...Study recommends universal newborn screening for cystic fibrosis
... the cost of a newborn screening programme had not previously been studied. Cystic Fibrosis screening hit the headlines in November 2006, when it was announced that UK Chancellor Gordon Brown's baby son Fraser had been diagnosed. Babies are routinely screened for the condition in Scotland (since 2003), Wales ...Washington University surgeon develops treatment for foot deformity
...the way the casts are molded, he says. "What has previously been lacking in any cast treatments for CVT is a lack of understanding by orthopaedists as to how the joints in the foot move and work together," Dobbs says. "Now, thanks to the work of Ignacio Ponseti, we do have a better understanding of the mechan...Kennedy Krieger Institute launches first national online autism registry
...among affected children in ways that have not been previously possible. Research Recruitment - IAN will match parents of children with autism with local and national IRB-approved research studies for which they are uniquely qualified. Each year, many autism studies are not completed because scientists canno...Scientists identify cells responsible for relapse after treatment in common childhood cancer
...nt. Of these, most will never be cured. "We have previously shown that these relapses were due to small numbers of cells which survived the treatment administered to the patient," said Prof Norris. "However, it has been unclear whether these cells developed resistance to chemotherapy during the course of tr...New research shows why too much memory may be a bad thing
... highly sensitive to interference from information previously stored in memory, forgetting such information may therefore be necessary for performing everyday working memory tasks, such as balancing your check book or decision making. "We were surprised to find that halting neurogenesis caused an improvement ......by proving a scientific theory incorrect. It was previously thought that dopamine neurons, called D2 neurons, were responsible for the devastating symptoms seen in Huntingtons disease but the Florey researchers have proven that loss of D1 neurons causes many of the fatal diseases disabling symptoms. In Hunt...