Fatal brain disease holds clues to dementia
...m molecule to cell to learning and memory, and can relate this to a particular area of the brain," Dr Hannan...how a genetic change affects wiring of neurons and relate that to changes in learning, memory and behaviour in Huntington's disease." "By better understanding...OHSU study says national injury prevention program working
...dding, "It's a matter of getting good speakers who relate to the audience."...Removing the spleen may help fight leukemia, mouse model suggests
...es various factors, among them MCP and VEGF, which relate to the immune system and promote formation of new blood vessels. Secretions of these factors cause leukemic cells in the spleen to multiply. In this study, Dr. Ben-David's team showed that these factors might contribute to the progression of breast ...3D atlas will help navigate the spinal cord
...st hypotheses inspired by human considerations and relate data from experiments in animals back to humans. The proposed description of the structure of the spinal cord will be based on a comprehensive use of neurochemical markers (chemoarchitecture). Many pathways in the nervous system contain a particular...Accessible technology and rehab medicine help Americans with disabilities in today's work force
...le with disabilities. "As a blind physician, I can relate to the importance of continuing to adapt our rehab practices to ensure that patients will be able to function in the technology age," Wainapel said. "Despite having a progressive degenerative retina disorder that was diagnosed during childhood, acces...Injuries higher among obese people, study finds
...dividual body mass index (BMI) measurements, which relate a person's weight to their height. The National Institutes of Health recommends that BMI be used to classify someone as underweight, at a normal weight, overweight or obese, said Xiang, who is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at Ohio State U...Arts program provides services, guidance to HIV/AIDS patients
...g disagreeable happen in your life, it's harder to relate to others to know, first-hand, what it's like when -- as Paul Simon says in one of his songs -- your life is on fire." In the end, she said, that's what the program's participants share: the need to pick up the pieces of their former lives out of t...LSUHSC innovation in patient safety training to improve surgical outcomes
...ram that has connected independent technologies to relate laparoscopic surgery to a "live patient" in an environment with the look, feel, and function of a real minimally invasive operating theater. Through industry partnerships, LSUHSC faculty have equipped a minimally invasive operating room with new-er...Percutaneous aortic valve replacement
...ll for some patients. Two most recent developments relate to a custom retrograde delivery system, as well as a larger 26mm size valve. Dr John Webb (Vancouver, Canada) is the only physician approved yet for investigating these new iterations. He has successfully performed a number of cases using the custom ...New book explains age-old mystery of geometrical illusions
...been 'Well, OK, that's interesting. But how do you relate this concept of vision to physiology and this anat...he phenomenology of what we see, but how does that relate to the neurons that we know and love?' "The answer is, we don't know," said Purves. "That's going t...Other highlights in the October 5 JNCI
... risk of some adult cancers. However, studies that relate having been breast-fed with later risks of cancer have been inconclusive. To determine the associations between breast-feeding during infancy and adult cancer incidence and mortality, Richard M. Martin, B.M., Ph.D., of the University of Bristol in En...Study focuses on age of first alcoholic drink
...dency or anti-social personality disorder does not relate to age of first drink. However, the number of conduct disorder symptoms a child has does relate to the age of first drink," said Samuel Kuperman, M.D., corresponding author and professor of psychi...Anemia associated with higher risk of death in the elderly
...oncentrations in elderly individuals and how these relate differentially to outcomes, evaluate the causes of increased mortality in individuals with low and high hemoglobin concentrations, and assess whether treatment of low hemoglobin in the general population reduces mortality."...Diabetic blacks have less coronary artery disease than diabetic whites
...eath rates from heart attack and stroke. This may relate to the fact that blacks don't always have equal access to quality healthcare," Freedman said. "But once you have equal care, there are differences in outcome that suggest that biologic differences exist in atherosclerosis." Freedman said 14.9 percent...RNA splicing occurs in nerve-cell dendrites
...capability in dendrites, the investigators hope to relate this capacity to memory and learning, as well as cognitive dysfunction. Senior author James Eberwine, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology, and lead authors Kevin Miyashiro, and Jason Glanzer, PhD, both in Eberwine's lab, report their findings in this week...Mental health services underutilized by cancer patients
...can Cancer Society. The study, one of the first to relate prevalence and use of mental health services and terminal cancer patients, suggests that Caucasian patients and patients who discuss their psychiatric complaints are more likely to receive care. Cancer patients have several factors that contribute ...Mayo clinic study finds occupation and education influence risk for Parkinson's disease
... these are indirect indicators of factors that may relate to brain degeneration. And now what we need to do is use these clues to try and identify those molecular level events that differentiate these people." Suggested Applications of Study Findings The utility of the study's findings concerning occupa...U of MN study finds type of childhood cancer relates to physical problems later in life
...at childhood-cancer survivors experience as adults relate to the type of cancer they had and the treatment they received. The findings indicate long-term follow up care and physical rehabilitation may be important for more than 20 percent of childhood-cancer survivors. This study of nearly 11,500 childhood-...NYU Child Study Center raises $4 million at eighth annual child advocacy award dinner
...n with Autism are now much more able to engage and relate to others and to their world. Some do move into productive lives in rewarding ways, but they still struggle. Fortunately, the range of potential outcomes is much broader than was true in the past. But for the majority of these children their lives......ow the residents and collect biological samples to relate mortality and disease incidence to genetic, environmental and occupational exposures, diet, other lifestyle factors and health behaviors. A smaller five-year investigation, funded for $2.9 million by the National Cancer Institute, will specifically l...