Implanted medical device aims to lower blood pressure
...ill be tested for effect in the operating room and then turned off for one month, to ensure there are no health problems associated with the implant. At one month, a graduated scale of stimulation will be applied until the best possible blood pressure response is achieved. Patients will be evaluated on a ...New approach to eye training may significantly improve performance
...ree volunteers started with the noisy displays and then switched to clear. Over five days, the volunteers made nearly 4,000 practice judgments in each condition, with accuracy measured every 180 trials. The researchers found that those who first trained on the clear displays approximately doubled their e...Statin simvastatin linked to protection against endothelial dysfunction in diabetic rats
...abetes. The researchers induced diabetes in rats, then treated half of the diabetic rats with simvastatin. After four weeks the untreated rats had high levels of cholesterol and various indicators of endothelial dysfunction in the vessels of the heart, eye, and kidney. The rats that received 5 mg of sim...Asthma patients' immune systems respond differently with allergies
... patients were not experiencing rhinitis symptoms, then cultured with a type of prostaglandin, a substance that causes inflammation. In nine of the ten asthma patients, leucocytes produced a greater amount of the cytokine IL-5 when isolated during the no symptoms season, whereas five of the nine showed a...Autistic children's abnormal metabolic profile findings
...) and non-autistic controls (205), the researchers then looked at common polymorphisms in genes that could directly or indirectly affect these metabolic pathways and induce oxidative stress. Three (the catecho-O-methyltransferase gene, the transcobalamin II gene, and the glutathione-S-transferase M1 gene)...Study shows new antipsychotic drug prevents brain loss in schizophrenia
... adolescents will become schizophrenic, and we can then begin to test the preventative power of treatments."...Study shows light therapy to effectively treat mood disorders, including SAD
...l the studies that are methodologically flawed and then conduct a meta-analysis of those that are well-designed, you find that light therapy is an effective treatment not only for SAD but also for depression." The use of bright artificial light for people with SAD, a recurring depression that develops in ...BI-RADS lexicon for ultrasound useful for differentiating benign from malignant solid masses
...e BI-RADS lexicon for ultrasound. The results were then compared to the biopsy findings. The researchers found that the descriptors were highly predictive for both malignant and benign masses. For malignant lesions, descriptors such as "spiculated margin" were accurate in 86% of the instances, "irregular...Different antipsychotic medications may have different effects on brain volume
...sonance imaging (MRI) assessments at baseline, and then at 12, 24, 52 and 104 weeks of treatment in a five-year longitudinal study conducted at 14 academic medical centers. A matched sample of 58 healthy volunteers underwent MRI and were compared on brain volume measures. "The principle new finding of th...In treatment of depression, cognitive therapy and medication both effective
...ce or twice weekly for the middle eight weeks, and then once weekly for the final four weeks. At eight weeks of treatment, response rates were 50 percent in the medication group, 43 percent in the cognitive therapy group, and 25 percent in the placebo group. Of the 47 patients who received an augmented m...Angiogenesis factor may help tumors prepare the way for spread to lymph nodes
...roduce elevated levels of VEGF-A. The researchers then induced the development of benign and malignant skin tumors in both the transgenic mice and normal mice in order to identify differences that could be attributed to elevated levels of VEGF-A. The transgenic mice were found to develop both benign pap...Education program reduces incidents of shaken baby syndrome
...ed in shaken baby syndrome cases. The parents were then asked to sign commitment statements, which also gathered demographic and other information about the responders. The regional incidence of abusive head injuries among infants and children less than 36 months of age was tracked from December 1998 to...Differential heart-attack risks among blacks, whites remain mystery
... chain reaction in which first LDL cholesterol and then calcium builds up on the inner walls of blood vessels. Although African-Americans typically have two to four times the amount of Lp(a) in their blood as whites, the Lp(a) proteins in whites tend to be shorter and stickier than the Lp(a) in African-Am...West Africa: meningitis epidemics driven by the wind
...odels of annual climate cycles. These indices were then correlated with epidemiological datasets coming fr... meningococcus transmission. The same analysis was then conducted on the atmospheric humidity index. It reinforced the message of these results, the lowest ...Onion compound may help fight osteoporosis
...ne loss was a peptide called GPCS. The researchers then obtained a group of isolated bone cells from newbo...lls to parathyroid hormone to stimulate bone loss, then exposed some of the treated cells to GPCS. Treatment with GPCS significantly inhibited the loss of b...Antioxidant may have adverse effects in head and neck cancer patients
...ient in a more biomarker-integrated approach. Only then will we be able to discover that elusive 'golden apple' of chemoprevention."...Maternal iron deficiency disrupts mother/child interaction
...nteracting. Half of the iron-deficient women were then given iron supplements. After nine months, all of the women, those who received supplements and those who did not, as well as the group of iron sufficient women, were videotaped interacting with their babies again. Analysis of the tapes showed that...Music improves sleep quality in older adults, researchers find
... group before they started using the technique and then monitored over the three-week study period. The sleep quality of the control group, who did not use the music tapes, also was assessed over the same period. People in the music group showed significantly better scores in overall sleep quality and in...US service academies to collaborate with UNC, Andrews Air Force Base, Duke in knee injury study
...take-off box and lands on a force plate. He or she then immediately jumps vertically as high as possible. The force plate and a transmitter, in combination with sensors worn by the participant, will provide data on kinematics (body motion) and kinetics (forces affecting motion) of the lower limb. Two cam......ndage, which builds up a map of the wounds that is then transmitted to a specially developed monitor. Dr. McAdams is also a director of Ulster based Sensor Technology & Devices, a business which specializes in the application of sensor technologies to all aspects of physiological measurement, and which d...