New mangosteen research establishes xanthone measurement standard
... and in accordance with AOAC protocol, performed a single lab validation to quantify xanthones through comparison measurement of detector response factors of individual xanthones. Walker said the research team chose the whole mangosteen fruit rind as the starting point because it holds the highest concentr...College students who pull 'all-nighters' and get no sleep more likely to have a lower GPA
...ege students involves "pulling all-nighters", or a single night of total sleep deprivation, a practice assoc...collected in this study indicate that the use of a single night of total sleep deprivation is not an effective practice for achieving academic goals," said Pa...Weill Cornell Medical College announces gifts totaling $400M
...ounced today is $250 million -- believed to be the single largest gift ever given to a medical college -- fr...llion is the largest gift to the University from a single individual. To date, Mr. and Mrs. Weill and the Weill Family Foundation have given more than $500 m...Advocates ask fashion industry to support braille clothing tags; talking Web site
...illions of people. If White Cane Day is the only single day that exists for them, then White Cane Label is pretty obvious, says Brill, who graduated in May from RIT with a bachelors degree in advertising and public relations. This is a new idea; its never been done before, she says. We are very confid...Split the difference: Pill-splitting study looks at cost-saving step that could be used by millions
...patients were all being treated by physicians at a single UMHS health center. They were also better educated...ered for inclusion in the program. U-Ms use of a single prescription drug plan that provides prescription coverage regardless of which health plan an indivi...Brightening prospects of using fluorescent nanotubes in medical applications
...t 100,000 laid side-by-side to span the width of a single human hair. In the last five years, scientists have discovered that some individual nanotubes are fluorescent. That is, they glow when they are bathed in light. Some glow brightly. Others glow dimly. Some glow in spots. Others glow all over. Until no...How to lose weight and not go hungry: HU researcher develops drug that mimics feeling of 'fullness'
...oss. In experiments with mice, it was shown that a single oral administration of BL-3020 led to reduced consumption over a period of 24 hours. Over a 12-day period of daily dosages, the mice weighed 40 percent less than the average for mice of their size and age who were not being given the compound. The...Aging stem cells in mice may hold answers to diseases of the aged, Stanford study finds
...lood-forming stem cells of mice engineered to have single mutations that make them especially prone to accumulating additional genetic errors. In each of the three different types of mutant mice they studied, the stem cells appeared to behave normally and to produce new blood cells. However, the full trut...Folic acid supplements do not appear to reduce risk of colorectal tumors
...yet again, the principle that chemoprevention with single agents is problematic. Similar to the increased risk of lung cancer observed with beta carotene supplementation, selection of resistant clones is as plausible an outcome of the use of single-agent chemoprevention as it is of single-agent chemotherapy...Old memory traces in brain may trigger chronic pain
...ct on suffering. Chronic pain is not caused by a single mechanism, Apkarian noted. Sensory abnormalities in people with chronic pain probably drive this memory abnormality. About 10 percent of the United States population suffers from chronic pain, of which the majority is back pain. One of Apkarians...U-M study finds lymphoma drug effective over long term
...t take months to deliver. But Bexxar is given as a single treatment, completed within one week, which makes it an extremely convenient regimen for patients," Kaminski says. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the nation's sixth leading cause of cancer death, is a cancer of the lymph system, which is part of the immun...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
... study focused on public high school students in a single urban area, our results are likely generalizable to urban youth across the United States, the authors conclude. Questions about violence, depression, anxiety, substance abuse and suicidality are all extremely important and should be included as part ...Genetic variations may predispose some men to suicidal thoughts during treatment for depression
...luding 54 (10 percent) of the 539 men. Two of five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)variations that occur when a single building block of DNA is alteredwere significantly and strongly associated with the onset of suicida...Aluminum foil lamps outshine incandescent lights
...an pack an array of more than 250,000 lamps into a single panel. Completing the panel assembly is a glass window 500 microns (0.5 millimeters) thick. The windows inner surface is coated with a phosphor film 10 microns thick, bringing the overall thickness of the lamp structure to 800 microns. Flat panels wi...May/June Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...mmon strategies in achieving high-quality care, no single approach dictated superior performance.Different Paths to High-Quality Care: Three Archetypes of Top-Performing Practice SitesBy Chris Feifer, Dr.P.H., et al A GUIDE FOR CHANGE IN IMPROVEMENT OF CARE This article presents a framework for physic...Genetic mutations identified for type of gastric cancer
...on younger than 50 years; 12 families had either a single case of diffuse gastric cancer diagnosed in a pers...lotype (a group of alleles of different genes on a single chromosome that are closely enough linked to be inherited usually as a unit), suggesting a founder e...VEGF Trap shows activity in patients with advanced ovarian cancer
...rial, VEGF Trap is administered intravenously as a single agent in one of two dose levels. It works by blocking the development of new blood vessels to the tumor (angiogenesis) which stops tumor growth and the spread of cancer to other parts of the body (metastasis). It can also result in tumor shrinkage. V...Targeted, oral agent Enzastaurin shows favorable results
... further evaluation of en-zastaurin in NSCLC, as a single agent or in combination, is warranted, said chief investigator for the study, Gerold Bepler, M.D., Ph.D., chief of thoracic oncology at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida. Additional data presented at ASCO th...Clinical data suggest potential versatility of ALIMTA-based regimens in lung cancer
...arch has indicated that oxaliplatin and ALIMTA, as single agents, have shown activity in NSCLC, and ALIMTA has shown synergistic effects when combined with platinum-based drugs. , This preliminary study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the combination as first-line treatment for NSCLC.......been what the British call one-off cases isolated single efforts attacking a single problem. But the wide needs of the DHS in many areas for parallel products led to the RAW effort, ...