Coenzyme Q10 does not improve Parkinson's disease symptoms
...s disease and other disorders, our study failed to show improvement of Parkinson's disease symptoms and did not meet its primary or secondary end points," which were changes on scales that measured Parkinson's disease symptoms and their effects on physical and mental functioning, the authors write. "Our s...'Lite' low tar cigarettes impair blood flow as much as regular cigarettes
...n the non-smokers. The authors say their results show that both light cigarettes and regular cigarettes impair blood flow through the coronary arteries to a similar degree. They add that many smokers switch to low tar, low nicotine cigarettes in the mistaken belief that they will reduce some of the haza...Mammography rates declining in the United States
... between 2000 and 2005. This is the first study to show that the trend is nationwide among women for whom ... use has been the subject of debate. Prior reports show that between 1987 and 2000, screening rates among women over 40 years old increased from just 39 per...A self-fulfilling prophecy in bleeding stroke?
...d no limitations placed on their care, the results show that a major factor has been overlooked in the way ICH patients' survival is calculated. Until ICH scoring tools can be adjusted, "this suggests that physicians should be more humble about our ability to predict an ICH patient's prognosis, particu...States' spending may help keep childless seniors independent
... has been little evidence, prior to this study, to show that spending more money on these services helps seniors avoid or delay placement in a nursing home." Some states spend as little as $35 per person each year on home- and community-based services for seniors, while other states spend more than $1,3...Bare-metal stents are better for some heart patients
...betes which can complicate surgery. The results show the coronary interventional procedure was successful in all patients where a total of 82 heart lesions were treated with bare-metal stents. The second, non-cardiac, surgery was performed an average of 47 days later. All were performed under general ...Dealing deadly cancers a knockout punch
...trial. "It is hoped that the trials will clearly show that Reolysin alone or in combination with either radiation or chemotherapy can stop or reverse the growth of advanced cancers without adding harmful side effects," said Dr. Mettinger....Study offers clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'
...he coronary arteries on the tip of a catheter, may show whether the patient has clogged arteries or unstable plaques that are not visible on coronary angiography. These findings will help guide long-term treatment. "Because we don't yet know what causes this phenomenon, we don't know what the best long...JCI table of contents: May 10, 2007
... Wagner and colleagues from Harvard Medical School show that mice engineered to lack the gene CalDAG-GEFI ...ard Lee and colleagues from Harvard Medical School show that ST2 and its recently identified ligand IL-33 work together to protect the heart in times of car...HPV infection linked to throat cancers
.... In a surprising twist, Gillison says their data show no added risk for HPV carriers who smoke and drink alcohol. "Its the virus that drives the cancer," explains Gillison, an assistant professor of oncology and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins. "Since HPV has already disrupted the cell enough to steer ...Study implicates protein as a trigger of advanced prostate cancer recurrence
...stood what that conversion means. "Our experiments show that this heretofore understudied protein Ack1 may be crucial in at least a portion of these tumor recurrences. Nupams study nails down the mechanism by which that conversion happens." Among the experiments were those that involved mice that were u...$30 million boost to dementia research
...tello's Intergenerational Report issued last month show that over thenext 40 years: the population will...age pensions and aged care. The projections also show that by 2047, Australia's total population will be 28.5 million, 38 per centlarger than June 2006. A...US movies expose youth to billions of smoking images
...es have in influencing teens to smoke. The studies show that movies deliver billions of smoking impressions to American teens; and that even teens outside the U.S. are affected by smoking images in films distributed internationally by American studios. In a report published in today's Pediatrics, "Expos...A frown or a smile? Children with autism can't discern
...sm Research in Seatlle, researchers from UCLA will show that children with autism cant do this. They hear ... is significant, Davies said. While the results show the key role of eye gaze in signaling communicative intent, it also shows that autistic children, ev...Meditation may fine-tune control over attention
...target," Davidson says. The results of the study show that devoting fewer neural resources to the first target leaves enough left over to attend to another target that follows shortly after it, he says. Because the subjects were not meditating during the test, their improvement suggests that prior tr...Stroke risk nearly doubles for siblings of people who have had a stroke
...American siblings was even greater. "The findings show there may be a genetic link to ischemic strokes in this ethnic group," said study author Lynda D. Lisabeth, PhD, with the Stroke Program and Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. "Other possible explanations could inc...Once-yearly treatment significantly reduces bone fractures in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis
...weeks issue of The New England Journal of Medicine show that a once-yearly treatment significantly reduced...cid) Injection or placebo. Results from the study show that Reclast reduced the frequency of fractures among the areas of the body that are typically affec...Chronic fatigue syndrome impairs a person's slow wave activity during sleep
... first four non-REM periods each night in order to show comparability, revealed that SWA, or other sleep E...sults are very different. Depressed women did not show a blunted SWA response to sleep challenge. The present CFS study included only women, and none had ...Brains scans of symptomatic Gulf War veterans show differences
...o returned with multiple health symptom complaints show significant differences in brain structures from their fellow returnees without high numbers of health symptoms, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurologys 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28 May 5, 2007. ...Culture sculpts neural response to visual stimuli, new research indicates
... visual stimuli. "These are the first studies to show that culture is sculpting the brain," said Park, principal investigator on the study. "The effect is seen not so much in structural changes, but at the level of perception." Park also will present these findings at the May 2007 meeting of the Assoc...