Doctors pioneer new area of cruelty free product development
...M) announced today that it has developed an animal serum free diagnostic test used to measure insulin levels in diabetes patients. Linco Research, Inc., a leading manufacturer of testing supplies based in St. Charles, Missouri, is now marketing the test internationally. The announcement of the new test com...Testosterone therapy may help elderly men with mild Alzheimer's disease
...re employed in this study, and who suffer from low serum T [testosterone] levels, testosterone therapy may be a reasonable consideration."...Vitamin D can play role in lung health
...ination centers, had spirometry performed, and had serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D measured. Vitamin D measurements were divided into five groups (quintiles), ranging from more than 85.7 mL to less than 40.4 mL. After adjusting for gender, age, ethnicity, body mass index, and smoking status, the differences betw...200 proteins which detect diseases of the liver
... apolipoprotein A1, has been detected in the blood serum of liver cancer patients. For this reason it is especially relevant in the area of diagnosis". Proteomics: new technologies for studying proteins The work of Dr. Enrique Santamara allows clinical practitioners to discover "the alteration of protei...Insulin levels and resistance linked to risk of pancreatic cancer
...t from the ATBC study to determine whether fasting serum insulin and glucose concentrations were associated with risk for incident pancreatic cancer. The study consisted of 29,133 male Finnish smokers ages 50 to 69 years. The study included 400 randomly sampled subcohort control participants and 169 incide...Whooping cough persistence traced to key toxin
...ltural Sciences. Tests on infected mice show that serum antibodies are usually able to clear the germ from the lungs by recruiting large numbers of neutrophils, a type of white blood cells that kill germ cells, by surrounding and absorbing them. But while the technique is successful against B. bronchisept...Women who undergo reconstructive breast implantation frequently develop short-term complications
...e infection, blood clotting, seroma (collection of serum in the tissues) and skin perforation. Forty-nine percent of these complications occurred within three months and 67 percent within six months. Additional surgery was required for 21 percent of the women, while 3 percent underwent additional nonsurg...Men with erectile dysfunction have increased risk for cardiovascular events
...unt included age, body mass index, blood pressure, serum lipids, diabetes, family history of heart attack, race, smoking history, current use of antihypertensive medication, physical activity, and quality of life. Of the 9,457 men randomized to placebo, 8,063 (85 percent) had no cardiovascular disease at s...Effective government/industry collaboration bolsters flu vaccine supply
...tem response to the vaccine, researchers collected serum samples from the study participants both prior to vaccination and 21 days afterward. "The vaccine performed extremely well and very similarly to other influenza vaccines already licensed in the U.S.," notes Dr. Treanor. "It wasn't surprising consider...UCSD researchers state vitamin D needed to cut cancer risk
... of scientific papers on the relationship of blood serum levels or oral intake of vitamin D with risk of certain types of cancers published worldwide between January 1966 and December 2004. Sixty-three observational studies of vitamin D status in relation to cancer risk, including 30 of colon cancer, 13 of...Dietary intake of antioxidants associated with reduced risk of age-related macular degeneration
...logical studies evaluating both dietary intake and serum levels of antioxidant vitamins and AMD have provided conflicting results. One study (called AREDS) showed that supplements containing 5 to 13 times the recommended daily allowance of beta carotene, vitamins C and E, and zinc given to participants wit...Antibiotics do not prevent recurrent myocardial infarcts in subjects with periodontitis
...ntal pathogens, was studied in the saliva, and the serum antibodies for these bacteria were measured using a method developed and used only at the Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki. Periodontitis is an infection of the gingiva and tooth-supporting tissues that destroys the tissue fibres and a...Obesity in middle age linked to higher risk of hospitalization and death in older age
...diabetes and elevated levels of blood pressure and serum cholesterol. However, controversies persist as to ...ess and diastolic blood pressure 80 mm Hg or less, serum total cholesterol level less than 200 mg/dL, and not currently smoking; moderate risk: nonsmoking an...Caloric restriction appears to prevent primary aging in the heart
...much lower in the caloric restriction group. Their serum levels of a pro-inflammatory molecule called tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFa) were significantly lower. They also had less C-reactive protein (CRP). In addition, they had lower amounts of a substance called transforming growth factor-beta (TGFb), ...Drug cuts sleep apnea in heart failure patients
...a test of acidity or alkalinity), a measurement of serum electrolytes, a pulmonary function test, plus other measurements at the start of the study and at the completion of each arm (acetazolamide and placebo). "We hypothesize that with long-term drug therapy, as sleep-related breathing disorders improve,...News nuggests: University of Pittsburgh health sciences research roundup
...s of at least two of three markers (interleukin-6, serum amyloid A, and C-reactive protein) had a more than four-times greater risk of dying compared to women who had no elevated markers. According to the lead author, Kevin E. Kip, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology, GSPH, this was a higher conferr...Warning of risk to breast cancer patients from vaginal oestrogen
...ven extremely low levels, the researchers measured serum oestradiol[3] in six women on adjuvant AI therapy ...n, said: "Our results showed a significant rise in serum oestradiol levels two weeks after starting Vagifem in six of the seven women (five of those on Vagif...Hepatitis C recurs rapidly after liver transplant
... is removed from a patient with Hepatitis C (HCV), serum viral levels plummet. However, after receiving a healthy liver transplant, virus levels rebound and can surpass pre-transplant levels within a few days, according to a new study published in the February 2006 issue of Liver Transplantation, the offic...Anti-malarials most effective in lupus patients genetically at risk of high levels of TNF-alpha
...to treat systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), bring serum levels of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha)... IL-10 genes. Lopez et al. then measured TNF-alpha serum levels in 171 of the SLE patients and 215 of the controls. The patients were asked precise questions...Predicting the risk of death in patients with known coronary artery disease
...C-reactive protein (CPR), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and serum amyloid A (SAA) protein, can help in identifying patients at risk of CAD and in improving prognostic estimates. In this study of over 1000 patients who underwent coronary angiograms and were followed for an average of 8.5 years, several biomarkers e...