Inflammation linked to chronic pain: Study
...hind paws of mice, causing inflammation. They then tracked brain activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) a region of the brain associated with pain and other functions such as decision-making and emotion. In tests performed one hour, six hours and one day after injection, they found that NR2B protei...Progress conference on child survival as called for in 2003 Lancet series to take place next week
... progress towards improving child survival will be tracked in a series of 2-yearly rolling meetings, the first of which takes place at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Dec 1314. The conference is called Tracking Progress in Child Survival: Countdown to 2015. The Lancet comments: "The fou...Tiny self-assembling cubes could carry medicine, cell therapy
...c container's location in the body could easily be tracked by magnetic resonance imaging. The method of making these self-assembling containers and the results of successful lab tests involving the cubes were reported in a paper published in the December 2005 issue of the journal Biomedical Microdevices. In ...Sequence-based early warning system for the detection of MRSA outbreaks in hospitals
...which is time consuming. Established outbreaks are tracked by molecular typing. To improve the speed and reproducibility of this process, DNA sequence-based approaches are used but are usually still too expensive for routine use. However, just typing a single locus -- the S. aureus protein A (spa) gene -- i...Flu not the only germ threat this time of year
...at the University of Rochester Medical Center have tracked the dangers from one of the most common bugs, RSV, and they say the threat to some groups of people, such as the elderly, equals that from flu. Even though flu gets all the press, RSV is a stealth bug worthy of attention too. Ann Falsey, M.D., and Ed...Researchers isolate causes of cognitive loss following coronary artery bypass surgery
...ed over the past 10 years at Wake Forest, the team tracked particles called emboli and gaseous bubbles going to the brain during the surgery. Team members believe the emboli are the cause of the neurological deficits. Patients on whom the heart-lung machine was not used had significantly fewer emboli than p...Low-fat diet's benefits for women less than expected, Stanford researcher says
...ausal women between the ages of 50 and 79 who were tracked over the course of a little more than eight years on average, making it the nation's largest long-term study of a low-fat diet. The goal was to test a widely held theory that low-fat diets helped reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. Forty per...Study shows media coverage on flu influences parents to vaccinate their children
...ing software and other media sources. Coverage was tracked for VUMC references with mentions of "flu" and "influenza" in print, wire services, radio, Internet news and television on the local and national levels. "It was gratifying for our office to have the opportunity to participate in this study," Howser ...Stanford researcher says new data confirms they help women avoid hip fractures
...ausal women between the ages of 50 and 79 who were tracked over the course of seven years. Researchers wanted to determine whether women who took the supplements could reduce their risk of bone fractures, especially hip fractures, and colorectal cancer. Half of the trial participants were randomly assigned t...Teen sexual encounters not only a result of unsupervised afternoons
...ng sex. Through the teen's diaries, researchers tracked other elements that might affect frequency or likelihood of sexual intercourse including arguments with partners, general mood, amount of time spent with their partner, sexual activity the previous week and parental monitoring. The diary entries sho...Cigarette smoking nearly doubles risk for root canal treatment
... System in Boston. The study, which began in 1968, tracked how men's dental and physical health progressed over the course of 30 years. "Men visited the study site every three years where they were checked for signs of caries, or cavities, tooth restorations and periodontal disease. Clinicians also took mou...Community-wide health program slows creep toward heart disease
... 750 residents from another Dutch region were also tracked between 1998 and 2003, but the second community was not exposed to the programs encouraging residents to become more active, reduce their fat intake and stop smoking. The study appears in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medici...Newly discovered killer cell fights cancer
...e next step of their investigation, the scientists tracked the location of fluorescent-tagged IKDCs and their...pring into action," says Housseau. Then, the group tracked the cells to the main messenger center of the immune system - the lymph nodes. Here, they found app...Elderly have higher risk for cardiovascular, respiratory disease
...,000. Using billing records for 1999 to 2002, they tracked daily counts of hospital admissions for eight major outcomes heart failure, heart rhythm disturbances, cerebrovascular events such as stroke or brain hemorrhage, coronary heart disease, peripheral vascular disease or narrowing of the blood vessels, ...Diabetics who control blood sugar today are more likely to have healthy feet and nerves tomorrow
...dopt tight blood sugar control, and the EDIC study tracked all patients' health. The new paper reports results from eight years of neuropathy assessments under the EDIC study, among 1,441 DCCT participants who had no symptoms or signs of neuropathy at the end of the DCCT. The symptoms and signs were assessed...Cardiac devices during hospital stays linked to better outcomes
...with congestive heart failure (CHF) that initially tracked outcomes of almost 49,000 patients. Abraham was a member of the Optimize-HF national steering committee. Of those evaluated in the follow-up group, 132 patients received the CRT devices while they were hospitalized for such symptoms associated with ...'Fringe' plastic surgery procedures more hype than reality, ASPS says
...ch the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) tracked these procedures for the first time, the reality i...nation began in 2004. Based on these reports, ASPS tracked this and other touted procedures to verify whether or not the reality equaled the hype. In 2005, jus...HIV infection rates down one-third in south India, University of Toronto study
...ich appears online in the Lancet's March 30 issue, tracked HIV prevalence among young women attending pregnancy or antenatal clinics in India's southern and northern states. Researchers used HIV trends among young women attending antenatal clinics as a proxy to monitor trends in new infections among the gene...New research shows second-hand smoke raises diabetes risk
...o were white or African-American. The authors then tracked how many participants developed glucose intolerance - where the body can no longer produce enough insulin to regulate blood sugar - over 15 years of follow-up. The study found that smokers had the highest risk, with 22% of them getting the disease ov...No link between estrogen-only therapy, breast cancer in postmenopausal women
... the study, which was stopped in 2004, researchers tracked nearly 11,000 women nationwide for about seven years. The women were between the ages of 50 and 79, and had previously undergone a hysterectomy. Half of the women were given a form of estrogen known as conjugated equine estrogens, while the other hal...