Kidney donation program may provide more matches for previously incompatible recipients and donors
... a small (regional) or large (national) pool. The researchers compared the optimized algorithm with the scheme c...on and their willing and eligible live donors. The researchers found that a national optimized matching algorithm would result in more transplants (47.7 percent vs...No strong evidence linking mercury levels with worse neurobehavioral performance in older adults
In a study of older adults, researchers did not find a definitive association between bloo...ercury in whole blood samples was measured and the researchers used multiple linear regression to examine its associations with scores from 12 neurobehavioral test...Being obese, underweight, associated with increased risk of death
...h and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES). The researchers estimated relative risks of mortality associated w...02 data to estimate excess mortality in 2000. The researchers found that relative to the normal weight category (BMI 18.5 to less than 25), obesity (BMI 30 or gre...Heart failure drug associated with higher risk of death
...he increased mortality risk was seen even when the researchers focused on data from the two clinical trials that used the starting dose of nesiritide that is now recommended to physicians. Aaronson hopes the new finding will give physicians better perspective on the risks of nesiritide, which is perceived as bei...Researchers develop 'genetic blueprint' to predict response to esophageal cancer treatments
ANAHEIM - For the first time, researchers appear to be able to use a comprehensive panel of ...e American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report that six different gene variants ca...CML found to wield 'death factor' that kills normal blood marrow cells
...sed on surprising results from animal experiments, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer C...eath protein to kill normal bone marrow cells, the researchers suggest that a therapy that could disable 24p3 might prove useful to CML patients when combined with...Technique may speed drug production, reduce costs and waste
University of Toronto researchers have a developed a new chemical reaction that coul...ontaining carbon and nitrogen. In the process, the researchers used a metallic element as a catalyst to form two chemical bonds and create a diverse range of indol...Increasing benefit seen in novel drug that treats Gleevec resistance
...D. Anderson enrolled patients in the study, as did researchers at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. Giles presented first results of the therapy in fewer patients last December at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology....Short sugar chains-a future drug for Alzheimer's?
...reby triggers amyloid deposits. In experiments the researchers have used genetically altered mice that produce mu...also occur in other types of amyloid deposits, the researchers conclude that the connection is generally valid. "The findings provide hope that short segment...Football is a pain in the neck
...ions to concussions, strains and sprains. Overall, researchers discovered those playing football suffered significantly more neck injuries, than those playing hockey or soccer. Sport Overall neck injuries Football 5.85 Hockey 2.8 Soccer 1.67 (expressed as number of neck injuries for e...World-leading scientific databases now accessible via handhelds
...best research data, and this advancement will give researchers the ability to log in even when they are away from their desktop workstations during a meeting with colleagues, attending a conference or while taking a break from the lab." The demonstration illustrated the ability to retrieve and analyze informati...Study links cigarette smoking with progression of multiple sclerosis
... in the General Practice Research Database (GPRD), researchers identified 179 British patients who were originally diagnosed with relapsing-remitting MS, a form of the disease in which symptoms fade and recur in unpredictable patterns. Patients who were current or past smokers were 3.6 times as likely as patien...Study shows antibiotic treatment does not reduce risk of secondary cardiac events
...t attack or improve overall cardiac outcomes. ACES researchers randomly assigned 4,012 men and women to receive either once-weekly doses of Azithromycin or a placebo for one year, starting in 1999. After an average follow-up of 3.9 years, there was no significant reduction of cardiac events, defined as death, he...New research reveals common beliefs about gender differences in health
New research from University of Glasgow researchers on lay perceptions about gender differences in health reveals that both men and women believe health risks are higher for their own sex than for the opposite sex. But, it also shows that males think that men are fitter and females think women are mor...Feeling safe and secure? CUMC scientists find it's all in the caudoputamen
...the way people think about anxiety disorders. The researchers Michael Rogan and Nobel laureate Eric Kandel dis... of happiness, which has generally been ignored by researchers as well as physicians, may be equally important in the disorders. "The missing part of our picture o...Football players are sportsmen most at risk of injury
...mmers had relatively few injuries (28.1%). The UK researchers carried out an initial Training of Young Athletes Study (TOYA) between 1987 and 1992, recruiting 453 participants aged between 8 and 16. The study showed a low prevalence of sports injuries over a three year period, but the authors decided to revisit...Trusts perform better on chemical incidents but protective suits and tents still imperfect
... week in Emergency Medicine Journal . Birmingham researchers sent a questionnaire to all UK acute hospital and ambulance trusts and organised simulated incidents at two acute trusts in the West Midlands, England. Research in 1999 showed that most trusts were woefully unprepared to deal with chemical incident ...New study shows antibiotic treatment does not reduce risk of secondary cardiac events
...risk factors for preventing coronary events." ACES researchers randomly assigned 4,012 men and women to receive either once-weekly doses of azithromycin or placebo for one year. After an average follow-up of 3.9 years, there was no significant reduction of cardiac events, defined as death, heart attack, unstabl...Louder neurons form more connections, Stanford research shows
...bstance that kept the fish alive but immobile. The researchers could then focus video cameras on the fish's devel...l formed extensive branching structures, which the researchers call the neuron's arbor, most of those branches eventually receded while neighboring neurons formed ...Used in a new way, RNA interference permanently silences key breast cancer gene
ANAHEIM - In laboratory mouse experiments, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer C... protein that the gene encodes. In this study, the researchers used a lentivirus (a type of retrovirus) to deliver a specifically designed long-acting small interf...