Shining light on pancreatic cancer
...heir study to breast cancer, lung cancer and other variations of the disease. While the new techniques must undergo further study before its effectiveness can be confirmed, the researchers have partnered with American BioOptics to fully develop the technology. In July, American BioOptics received an NSF Small...Wesley Research Institute study targets pharmacists to help diabetes sufferers
...derstanding of how lifestyle influences day to day variations in blood glucose levels. If the particular cause of the unhealthy level is better understood, it may be corrected through lifestyle changes. Funded by the MBF Foundation, the project is providing participants with education and advice about the con...Women's mortality rates for cardiovascular disease differ widely among hospitals
...rcent of the potentially preventable deaths. Wide variations were found across the 19 states evaluated. For example, Arizona had an overall risk-adjusted mortality that was 31 percent lower than Iowa during the years 2003 through 2005, across the six procedures and diagnoses studied. The study, including t...Genetic variations may predispose some men to suicidal thoughts during treatment for depression
Genetic variations may help explain why some men with depression deve...ers performed additional analyses suggesting these variations are not linked to suicidal thoughts and behaviors in men before treatment. No statistically signific...Gene variations point to why lung cancer drugs work better in Japanese vs. US patients
...study suggests the reasons appear to lie in subtle variations in certain genes that govern how the body metaboli...ound differences in four. In patients with certain variations in the CYP3A4 gene, it took 2.75 times longer for their lung cancer to progress than in patients wit...Follow-up care for breast cancer patients is 'devalued and deregulated'
...ely); average follow-up time was five years, with variations from one year to over ten years. Discharge at three years was arranged most frequently for patients considered to be at low risk; metropolitan hospitals tended to provide longer follow-up than district hospitals for patients at high risk from either...Study: Chain-owned nursing homes hurt by too much standardization
...oaches to delivering nursing home care and whether variations impact the quality of care. For the study, the researchers surveyed 203 nursing homes in Michigan and North Carolina and examined the effects of corporate standards and training in three areas: administrative processes, clinical processes, and fa...Drug treatment slows decline in lung function in COPD patients, TORCH study finds
...er BMI. The researchers also looked a geographic variations in lung function decline, and found that COPD patients who lived in East Asia and Eastern Europe lost lung function at a slower rate than those who lived in the United States or Western Europe. The study did not address the possible causes for this g...State spending keeps childless seniors out of nursing homes
...ity of Illinois at Chicago, sought to determine if variations in state spending had an effect on nursing home admissions, and whether a senior's family status also played a role. Although the association was not statistically significant older people with living children, they found that doubling state HCBS exp...States' spending may help keep childless seniors independent
...etween 1995 and 2002, the researchers examined how variations in state spending affect risk of nursing home admissions and whether the effect is different for those who have family and those who do not. They found that higher state spending on home- and community-based services was associated with a lower ris...Patients with 'bleeding' strokes less likely to get prevention treatment
...ical School in Boston. "It could be influenced by variations in hospital practice, availability of smoking cessation counseling, patient characteristics or socioeconomic factors, for example. The study didn't collect detailed data on the reasons for not offering intervention." "The Get With The GuidelinesStro...Forensic pathologists tell physiologists what they know about death and what puzzles them
...Wisconsin, also in Milwaukee, will look at genetic variations accounting for differences in metabolic rate among...cent of methadone deaths may be related to genetic variations that result in varied metabolic rates. Pharmacogenomic testing at autopsy could become a major tool ...Racial disparities in treatment of patients with cirrhosis and complications of portal hypertension
... "We have shown that there are striking racial variations in surgical and endoscopic procedures used in the inpatient management of complications of portal hypertension in the USA," the authors report. "The reasons for these racial differences are unclear from this study." While non-medical factors such ...Parents can sneak veggies into kids' diet
...to eat vegetables. The researchers developed two variations of pasta, and served the dishes to 61 children between 3-5 years of age on different occasions. One dish had a higher calorie density (1.6 kilocalories per gram), while the second dish was 25 percent lower in calorie density (1.2 kilocalories per gra...Inflammatory system genes linked to cognitive decline after heart surgery
...for this decline. The researchers selected known variations in 37 genes that previous studies had implicated in various impairments of cognitive and mental function. When they looked at more than 500 heart surgery patients and correlated cognitive decline with the patients genetic makeup, they discovered that...Pistachios lower cholesterol, provide antioxidants
...eek break between each diet. All three diets were variations on the Step I Diet, a cholesterol-lowering diet in general use. The diets included a Step I Diet without pistachios which had 25 percent total fat and 8 percent saturated fat; a Step I Diet including 1.5 ounces of pistachios per day which had 30 perc...Richard Mayeux awarded AAN Potamkin Prize for Alzheimer's research
...tremendous honor," said Mayeux. "Understanding how variations in genes interact with environmental factors will help to create risk profiles and design better treatments for Alzheimers disease, including the possibility of prevention or delay." The Potamkin Prize is made possible by the philanthropic contribu...Gender and age can be determined from face silhouettes
...silhouettes, we have discovered the types of shape variations that determine the gender, age, and distinctiveness of a face. ...Link found between teens' stress levels and acne severity
...ecause sebum production is known to fluctuate with variations in temperature and humidity. In Singapores tropical climate, temperature and humidity are consistent throughout the year.......to understand recent and current distributions and variations in snow and ice. ESA satellite data images, microwave data, and even sensitive gravity measurements will be used to try to understand changes in the global ice sheets. For this purpose, ESA issued, at the end of 2006, a dedicated Announcement of...