Antioxidants show no clear benefit against cardiovascular events, death in high-risk women
...and Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues tested the effects of these compounds in the Womens Antioxidant Cardiovascular Study, which followed 8,171 women 40 years or older (average age 60.6) beginning in 1995 to 1996. The women, who either had a history of cardiovascular disease or three or more r...DNA vaccine against multiple sclerosis appears safe, potentially beneficial
...the Montreal Neurological Institute and colleagues tested a DNA vaccine, BHT-3009, that encodes a full-length human myelin basic protein. Between 2004 and 2006, the researchers administered the vaccine to 30 patients with relapsing-remitting MS [characterized by symptomatic periods and periods of remission]...Study says COPD testing is not measuring up
...ng, despite previous reports suggesting women were tested less often. COPD is currently the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, and the economic burden of this disease is measured in the billions of dollars but, despite this, it is so often underdiagnosed or misclassified, said Dr. Han. Pr...Study suggests loss of 2 types of neurons -- not just 1 -- triggers Parkinson's symptoms
...r impairments in the mice. Surprisingly, when they tested mice unable to synthesize norepinephrine and that have trouble releasing dopamine properly, they observed symptoms of Parkinson's disease including resting tremor, hunched posture and deficits in coordinated movement. These results indicate that havi...Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's
... developing a version of the protein that could be tested in people with the disease. The approach doesnt ...ocratech, to create a form of LRP-IV that could be tested in people. Zlokovic hopes to have such a product ready for testing within two years. Zlokovic, a s...Pathway links inflammation, angiogenesis and breast cancer
...ity - a measure of angiogenesis. The researchers tested the theory by analyzing breast cancer tumors from 116 patients. They found breast cancer patients whose tumors had the TSC1/TSC2 tumor suppressor complex blocked by phosphorylation did not survive as long as those with an active TSC1/TSC2 (46 percent...UCLA researchers awarded $9M contract for study identifiying antibiotic treatment for MRSA
...ergency departments across the nation. Researchers tested MRSA resistance to antibiotics in a test tube and found that in 57 percent of cases, doctors had prescribed an antibiotic to which the bacteria were resistant. Finding certain antibiotics ineffective against MRSA in a laboratory setting, however, doe...Despite claims, not all probiotics can treat diarrhea say experts
...e bowel. Researchers at the University of Naples tested five different preparations in 571 children with acute diarrhoea. All the children were aged 3-36 months and were visiting a family paediatrician with acute diarrhoea. Children were randomly assigned to receive either a specific probiotic product for...Baby DVDs, videos may hinder, not help, infants' language development
...est viewing category at this age, are, crafted and tested to meet developmental needs of preschool children. We dont know for sure that baby DVDs and videos are harmful, but the best policy is safety first. Parents should limit their exposure as much as possible, said Zimmerman. Over the course of childh...Even older women at high risk have little interest in being tested for HIV, study finds
..., Aug. 7 Few older women were interested in being tested for the virus that causes AIDS despite having sign...Medicine and the studys lead author. Those who are tested tend to do so late in their disease, when they are more likely to have overt symptoms such as opport...To be or not to be a scientist
...ife lab experiments. All 45 students designed and tested their own research and developed their own methodology to research topics ranging from diabetes to sickle cell anemia....Shining light on pancreatic cancer
...ptic version of the new system, a device now being tested during colonoscopies. "Besides improving on the technology, we need to determine whether other medical conditions including other cancer types or diseases of the pancreas such as chronic pancreatitis or acute pancreatitis can be distinguished with ...Science steps in to discover wonders of Toe-tankhamun
...ish Museum, albeit without its mummy, will also be tested at the Human Performance Laboratory at nearby University of Salford. The toes date from between 1000 and 600BC, so if we can prove that one or both were functional then we will have pushed back prosthetic medicine by as much as 700 years, said Jack...Trials underway for 'essential' new TB vaccine
...n 100 (despite BCG vaccination). It has first been tested in HIV negative adult volunteers and these trials are now being stepped down into adolescents, and also into HIV infected adults. Once Dr McShane and her team are fully confident of the safety of the vaccine, and the strength of the immune response i...Brief motivational interviews work best long term for college students sent to alcohol counseling
...t longer than written feedback (which has not been tested in other studies)."...New algorithm matches any tumor cells to best possible anti-cancer treatments
...er Institute (NCI-60), the researchers devised and tested an algorithm designed to match the best potential treatment(s) for a particular tumor in a particular patient. Previously, the NCI-60 cell lines were used to screen more than 100,000 chemical compounds for their anticancer activity. These drug res...Patients with soft tissue sarcomas should be treated at high volume centers
...stry in Florida, the Juan Gutierrez and colleagues tested the hypothesis that soft tissue sarcomas are better treated at institutions with higher volumes of cases. They used the Florida cancer data system, a prospective database of all cancer cases in the state of Florida since 1981, to identify all records...New heart disease risk score will help minimize health inequalities
...SSIGN. They suggest that QRISK should be further tested in other populations, but point out that this is the largest such study to have ever been undertaken, and the first time routine data in a UK general practice population have been used in this way. Study leader, Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox, of T...Holograms make for better vision tests
... of human vision. This approach still needs to be tested on young astigmatic individuals, whose nature of vision is not fully known. The same method has also been found to work well in measuring the refractive error of non-astigmatic subjects. The results of that research will appear in a future issue of......tions in pregnancy. During pre-approval, drugs are tested on relatively few subjects and only side effects w...e effects surface. Most prescription drugs are not tested on pregnant women, said Dr. Katz. So we must start monitoring the effects of these medications as so...