Physicists set 'speed limit' for future superconducting magnet
...vin. The good news is that this temperature can be reached by cooling the magnet with liquid helium. If we had found the upper limit to be 2 degrees Kelvin then the cryogenic requirements would be intractable." MR imaging is widely used by hospitals for medical diagnosis, and scientists at universities, na...Using nanomagnets to enhance medical imaging
...er.) Previous studies by other research groups had reached conflicting conclusions on the utility of molecular nanomagnets for MRI, but without accounting for concentration. NIST scientists, making novel magnetic measurements, were able to monitor the molecules' decomposition and magnetic properties as the c...US beats Europe for hypertension treatment
...o. "Overall, less than two-thirds of the patients reached the goals set by expert guidelines." These deficiencies are important, he added, and suggest that "we need to find ways to overcome clinical inertia, the tendency of physicians and patients to rationalize the causes of elevated blood pressure and to...Antenatal fish oil supplements boost kids' hand-eye coordination
...thers completed the study. Once the children had reached two and a half years of age, they were assessed using validated tests to measure growth and development. These included tests of language, behaviour, practical reasoning and hand-eye coordination. In all, 72 children were assessed (33 in the fish o...MIT implant could measure tumor growth, treatment
...could reveal how much of a certain cancer drug has reached the tumor, helping doctors determine whether a tre...'t trust that drugs present in the blood have also reached the tumor, according to Kim. The new technique, known as implanted magnetic sensing, makes use of ...Pilot study successful in taming allergic reactions to food
...earchers increased the subjects dosages until they reached the equivalent of one-tenth of an egg, Burks said. The children then continued to take this maintenance dose daily for the duration of the study. Over time, the children showed both an increase in tolerance to eggs and a decrease in the severity of...Fosrenol data show evidence of trends towards improved bone formation in CKD stage 5 patients
...r pill burden." The majority of participants who reached the K/DOQI target required approximately 3 grams (...and completing 12 weeks of monotherapy, 52 percent reached the target (P Majority of CKD Stage 5 Patients Achieved Phosphorus Control on Reformulated and Hi...'Moral clarity' espoused in debate over health-care reform
... a decade later, the United States' population has reached 300 million, a large percentage lacking adequate--or any--health care. Figures vary, but approximately 45 million Americans have no health insurance at all and another 20 to 30 million are underinsured, while many more are at risk of losing what litt...Drug company reports should be read with caution, warn doctors
... whilst none of the corresponding Cochrane reviews reached the same conclusion. Six of the eight Cochrane reviews analysed had reservations about the quality or relevance of the trials or their findings and two of them noted that the effect decreased with increasing number of patients in the trial. Seven men...Award winning research offers hope for back pain sufferers
...s of Justice. Although her research has not yet reached the clinical stage, she hopes that other University of Manchester students will pick up the gauntlet and take her award-winning work further. "It's fantastic to have my final year project recognised at a national level and to be supported by the U...Williams Syndrome, the brain and music
...entum in recent years. It all started when Bellugi reached out across disciplines and assembled a team of experts under the umbrella of a Program Project from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development to help her trace the influence of individual genes on the development and functioning o...Italian public smoking ban leads to fall in hospital heart attack admissions in under 60s
...s likely to be due to active smoking, a conclusion reached after studying the effects of the ban on the habits of active smokers. "We found that the observed reduction in active smoking after the ban could account for only a 0.7% decrease in admissions and that about a 10% decrease is due to the sharp reduct...Pitt to receive $8.4 million from NIH to determine best treatments for sepsis
...his terrible disease," said Dr. Angus. "Sepsis has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, taking as many lives as heart attacks do. It is essential that we conduct this kind of study to identify the ideal way to stop the rampant inflammation before it reaches the point where it becomes so severe ...Study defines effective microbicide design for HIV/AIDS prevention
...ow in development or testing and five of them have reached the final phase of clinical trials. The Duke group's new model provides a "rational guide" for design specifications that could further improve such microbicides' ability to cut the rate of HIV spread, the researchers said. The researchers now are ...A world first in the treatment of a young patient with a completely blocked yet vital heart artery
...reatment of congenital pediatric patients who have reached adult age or, more recently, on children afflicted...heart sciences, the Sainte-Justine UHC and the MHI reached a collaborative agreement which resulted in the creation of the MHI's Adult Congenital Heart Centre....Rochester launches Cancer Stem Cell Research Program
The promise of cancer stem cell research has reached a critical point and the University of Rochester Medical Center is establishing itself as a leader in the field by creating a Cancer Stem Cell Research Program. The Medical Center's top scientists are collaborating to discover cures for cancer by ...First evidence that musical training affects brain development in young children
...thematics and IQ. The Canadian-based researchers reached these conclusions after measuring changes in brain responses to sounds in children aged between four and six. Over the period of a year they took four measurements in two groups of children those taking Suzuki music lessons and those taking no musi...Newly discovered behavior in cancer cells signals dangerous metastasis
...the cancer cells to revert to epithelial when they reached a new destination, so they could stabilize to populate a new tumor site. "Our findings validate that tumors are highly complex in their behavior and don't necessarily need a gene mutation to alter their behavior," said Sebastian Oltean, M.D., Ph.D.,...ACTOS (pioglitazone HCl) demonstrates significant improvements in cardiovascular outcomes
...ary endpoint was reduced by 10 percent but had not reached statistical significance by study end (P=0.095). The principal secondary endpoint showed that ACTOS significantly reduced the combined risk of heart attacks, strokes and death by 16 percent (P=0.027) in high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes....MRI can track survival of pancreatic islets after transplantation
...egan to drop immediately after transplantation and reached a plateau at 10 to 14 days. The researchers note that much of the early islet death probably was caused by factors other than rejection, such as damage during the transplant procedure. However, by day 10 the mice with normal immune systems showed a...