Vacuum cleaning ineffective in allergy avoidance
...s performed." The Woolcock study also showed the type of vacuum cleaners with rotating brushes in the head removed more dirt and allergen from the carpets than those without. However, rotating brushes may serve to kick dust up into the air if the suction component of the cleaner is not operating properl...Keeping pain and fatigue on the run
...ssful treatment. What we need to know now is what type of activity is best and why....Asthmatx completes enrollment in pivotal study of bronchial thermoplasty
... and productive cough. These symptoms were of the type expected following bronchoscopy in patients with asthma, and resolved on average within 7 days with either no therapy or with standard medical care. The frequency and types of respiratory-related adverse events were similar in both groups from 6 wee...Study: Chain-owned nursing homes hurt by too much standardization
..." Chain-owned nursing homes are the predominant type of institutional care provided in the United States, yet studies have shown that the patient care received in chain-owned nursing homes is generally not on par with the patient care received in nonprofit and singly-owned nursing homes. However, littl...Clinical trial data for Perforomist Inhalation Solution presented at International ATS Conference
...ffective disease control, but also through using a type of drug delivery that many patients prefer." ...wide for more than two decades. Nebulization is a type of drug delivery that converts liquid medication into a mist that patients inhale through a mouthpie...Veterans exposed to Agent Orange have higher rates of prostate cancer recurrence
...shing PSA levels back up. In fact, following any type of prostate cancer treatment, men routinely get PSA levels checked for the rest of their lives. Without cancer recurrence, they should stay at zero....House dust may protect against allergic disease early in life
...part of the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria, a type of bacteria that often causes disease. Endotoxin is released when the bacteria dies or is damaged. The new study found that the lower the amount of endotoxin in young childrens homes, the more likely they were to have wheezing or eczema by age 3. The...Sleep apnea may increase risk of diabetes
...leep apnea are at increased risk for developing of type II diabetes, independent of other risk factors. The findings are being presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference, on Monday, May 21. The study looked at 593 patients at the VA Connecticut Health Care System referred fo...Targeted nanoparticles incorporating siRNA offer promise for cancer treatment
...One of the primary challenges associated with this type of therapy is delivering the therapeutic agent into the body and then to the tumor in a safe and effective manner. By using targeted nanoparticles, researchers have demonstrated that systemically delivered siRNA can slow the growth of tumors in mice ...Quality improvement effort pays off in diabetes care
...nnual meeting in Seattle found that poorly managed type 2 diabetes costs the U.S. health system an extra $22.9 billion a year in direct medical costs. Diabetic complications cost almost $10,000 per patient each year, concluded the author of that study, Willard Manning, PhD, a University of Chicago health...Hair relaxers do not increase risk
...st use, number of burns experienced during use, or type of relaxer used," stated Rosenberg. "Of particular interest, null associations were observed among younger women, who used relaxers at earlier ages and more frequently than older women. Thus, the findings provide empirical evidence that hair relaxer...Hair straightening chemicals not linked to breast cancer risk in African-Americans
...found no increase in breast cancer risk due to the type of hair relaxer used or the frequency and duration of use. Women who used relaxers seven or more times a year over a 20 year span or longer had the same risk as women who used the chemicals for less than a year, researchers say. This is good news,...Long-term anti-clotting therapy sweetens stenting outcomes in diabetic patients
...opidogrel therapy may be helpful regardless of the type of stent because it prevents blood clots from form...did not further reduce risk. "Regardless of the type of stent, clopidogrel should be continued for more than 6 monthsand perhaps for as long as 1 yearin ...How insulin-producing cells develop -- new finding could help fight against diabetes
...ould then transplant beta cells into patients with type 1 diabetes. In this type of diabetes the immune system attacks patients' beta cells and at the moment few patients with the c...JCI table of contents -- May 17, 2007
...pproach to prevent and treat insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes. TITLE: Acute exercise increases triglyceride synthesis in skeletal muscle and prevents fatty acidinduced insulin resistance AUTHOR CONTACT: Jeffrey F. Horowitz University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Phone: (734) 647-1...High-quality child care for poor children found to offset the risk of later depression
...f depression than their peers who were not in this type of care. The early educational intervention also appears to have protected the children to some extent against the negative effects of their home environments. These findings highlight the value of investing in high quality early childhood experience...Implanting dopamine generators in brain cells obtains improvement in Parkinson's in monkeys
...eriments and in humans. The advantage of this cell type with respect to others is the possibility of carrying out autoimplants, thus avoiding tissue rejection or immunosupressor treatment. Research Research was undertaken with monkeys who had Parkinson's induced by the administration of a neurotoxin...New breakthrough treatment for spinal cancer patients at Mount Sinai
...benefit of Novalis is that it's the most conformal type of tumor treatment available at the present time." ...The quest for an effective HIV vaccine presents new possibilities, challenges
...rs. Johnston and Fauci assert. Vaccines of this type present several complications, however. T-cell-mediated control of HIV infection may not stave off disease forever. Additional human studies would be needed to determine if the vaccine also reduces the spread of HIV. Finally, an HIV vaccine that dela...Pioneering study maps attention, memory and language links in the human brain
...heses about what we expect if we deliver a certain type of stimulus. We'd see what effect it would produce in our model." Simulating brain activity in the mathematical model "would take the whole question of language processing beyond 'blobology' -- where you're just looking at blobs of activation in t...