Nutritional advice improves health of children in developing countries
...ations, group sessions on growth monitoring, and a system of accreditation for centres. 380 mothers were enrolled into the trial from August 1999 to February 2000--half from the catchment area of the intervention centres and half from the centres that did not have the intervention programme. Field workers v...New fat is needed to clear old fat from the system
...e, the enzyme missing in the FASKOL mice. When the system takes in high amounts of glucose, fatty acid synthase in the liver makes it into new fat. In addition to fatty livers, the transgenic mice developed low blood sugar levels on the zero fat diet. Both symptoms were reversed with dietary fat, and in fa......anadians and the sustainability of our health care system to disseminate unbiased information, monitor the use of prescription drugs and detect both expected and unexpected outcomes....Innovative study finds way to 'bio-synthesize' an anti-cancer compound
...tide. When scientists did not find such a chemical system related to patellamides in the microbe's draft genome sequence, they examined alternative biosynthetic mechanisms. Because it is a peptide, a ribosomal mechanism was an obvious possibility. In a collaboration with Schmidt, TIGR scientists looked for...Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century
ATLANTA -- A comprehensive system of vaccine development in the U.S. resulted in a r... not be taken for granted, however, as the vaccine system now faces numerous challenges in manufacturing and development, according to a review article in the...Saving virtual lives with nanobots goal of UH-led project
...y involves a collaborative multi-agent programming system of nanobots, and you must give them intelligence the algorithm so they know how to react in their environment." To put it very simply, a computer program written by Team ContAInment tells the nanobots to move up, down, left or right or to follow...Wiley to publish UICC TNM Atlas in July 2005
...Sixth Edition. TNM is the internationally approved system for staging cancer developed by the UICC. TNM Atla...e illustrations of head and neck tumors, digestive system tumors, lung and pleural tumors, tumors of bone and soft tissues, skin tumors, breast tumors, gyneco...Active vaccine prevents mice from developing prion disease
...In response to these proteins, the animal's immune system produces antibodies that will destroy them any tim... To create a vaccine that could rally the immune system of mice, the NYU researchers designed a vaccine in which scrapie prions were attached to a genetical...PENN researchers use robotic surgery
...er patients. The self-contained daVinci robotic system has three main components: a mechanical robot with three multi-jointed arms; a computer command center several feet from the patient, where the doctor sits, and a 3-D computer monitor similar to a "viewfinder" that affords a magnified view of the sur...Tamoxifen shows no benefit, risk for breast cancer survivors' heart health
...and 2000. Of 11,045 women in the Kaiser Permanente system who were diagnosed with breast cancer over two decades, 134 women experienced their first heart attack-also known as a myocardial infarction-in the years after treatment. For their analysis, researchers matched each of the 134 women to two other wom...Changes in brain receptors linked to seizures and anxiety during the menstrual cycle
..., formerly known as PMS) and other central nervous system symptoms associated with the menstrual cycle. The study "Ovarian Cycle-Linked Changes in GABAA Receptors Mediating Tonic Inhibition Alter Seizure Susceptibility and Anxiety" is published in Nature Neuroscience. It is available online beginning May 15...Presence of high-risk prostate cancer can be predicted without a biopsy, new study says
... is the most commonly used prostate cancer scoring system and is considered one of the most important prognostic indicators for prostate cancer. The score is based on tissue findings throughout the prostate that correlate with the aggressiveness of a tumor. High Gleason scores are indicative of aggressive c...Blocking the Odc gene is effective in preventing cancers
...homa (BL). BL is a cancer of B lymphocytes, immune system cells that produce antibodies. The researchers showed that either treatment with Odc-suppressing drug DFMO or the loss of one of the two copies of the Odc gene in a B lymphocyte impairs Myc's ability to stimulate uncontrolled cell division. The team ...Babies' cries linked to their health
...point toward a capacity problem in the respiratory system as well as an increased tension and instability of neural control of the vocal tract. "Given the results of earlier studies relating cry characteristics to known neurological compromise, these findings suggest that at-risk infants have undetected neu...Study finds ADHD improves with sensory intervention
...al to the three basic sensory systems: The tactile system controls the sense of touch, the vestibular system controls sensations of gravity and movement, and the proprioceptive system regulates the awareness o...Dermatologists use immunotherapy to treat warts
...munity) into warts appears to stimulate the immune system and successfully treat the injected wart and also helps to treat distant non-injected warts, according to a study in the May issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Warts are unsightly and often tender or painful, causing...Changing medication packages could help patients follow prescriptions, study suggests
...tolic pressure is 80. "This suggests that a better system of packaging for medications helped people take their medications properly, said Philip Schneider, the study's lead author and a clinical professor of pharmacy at Ohio State University. He presented the findings on May 16 in Washington , D.C. , at th...Biologic therapies for bowel disease show promise in clinical trials
...'s disease, where a misfiring of the body's immune system is believed to be related to the inflammation obse...a (TFN-a), a protein produced by the body's immune system that is thought to contribute to the inflammation in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. A tota...The link between physical activity and ovarian cancer
...lar moderate physical activity enhances the immune system and improves the antioxidant defense systems both of which may help prevent cancer. This would help to explain why vigorous activity did not show beneficial effect in this study: too much exercise may cause immune suppression and in extreme cases cou......important than what could be offered in the health system for cancer," Dr Prior said. "It's not to say the ...ase would control them and the whiteman's hospital system compromised their cultural needs. Aboriginal families and groups, not individuals, decide about can...