Study says COPD testing is not measuring up
.... Han. Other good news is that women and men fared virtually the same when it came to spirometry testing, 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 bill...Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's
...ed version of sLRP, known as LRP-IV, soaked up and virtually eliminated amyloid-beta. The compound had an even more dramatic effect in mice with features of Alzheimers disease: LRP-IV lowered the levels of amyloid-beta in their brains by 85 to 90 percent. The mice that received the compound also had improved l...MRI finds breast cancer before it becomes dangerous
...hreat to the women affected), high-grade DCIS will virtually always break out of the milk ducts, and then will become dangerous, biologically aggressive high grade invasive breast cancer. This makes it all the more important to discover such high-grade DCIS. Until To date mammography was the 'gold standard' ...Trials underway for 'essential' new TB vaccine
...n Africa, of a strain of tuberculosis resistant to virtually all known drugs against TB. To have a new tool for preventing TB would be a great step forward."...UCLA, Italian chemists move closer to solving Lou Gehrig's disease mystery
... different from the normal protein, but others are virtually identical to the normal protein yet they all cause the disease, said Valentine, a member of UCLAs Molecular Biology Institute. That was the real mystery. You wrack your brain: What is similar among all these proteins" They seem so different. How can...Smoking rate has plummeted in New York City
...y increased the tobacco tax, eliminated smoking in virtually all workplaces, and launched hard-hitting anti-tobacco ads. By all indications, the interventions have made a difference. Hard-hitting ads work, said Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas R. Frieden -- especially when theyre paired with a tobacco tax and sm...Herceptin does not increase heart failure in patients long term
...-up, the incidence of congestive heart failure was virtually unchanged 3.8 percent of patients who received Herceptin and chemotherapy experienced congestive heart failure, compared to 0.9 percent of patients in the control group. Congestive heart failure was measured using a Multiple Gated Acquisition scan, ...New perspective on brain function now possible
...transmitters in the human brain and is involved in virtually all brain functions. But even though researchers' PET cameras can produce images of other important neurotransmission systems, such as the dopamine and serotonin systems, until now it has not been possible to capture images of the glutamate system. T...Study reveals aspirin's colorectal cancer prevention mechanism
...COX-2. The incidence of COX-2-negative tumors was virtually the same among those who did and did not take aspirin. "These results will allow us to test another hypothesis: that in patients who have had colorectal cancer or polyps in the past, expression of COX-2 in the earlier lesion might indicate those f...Extremely drug resistant TB a growing problem in India
...s patients (including many people living with HIV) virtually untreatable using currently available anti-TB drugs. Recent findings from a survey conducted by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that XDR-TB has been identified in all regions of the world but oc...SCAI highlights study using wireless technology to speed care of heart attack patients
...eterization laboratory's 5 PM closing time, it was virtually impossible to begin catheter-based treatment within 90 minutes. In fact, the average door-to-intervention timean alternative term used in this study to reflect the full range of catheter techniques available to interventional cardiologistswas nearly ...Mayor of New York proposes preventing 100 million deaths from tobacco
...ncrease the price of retails cigarettes and making virtually all indoor workplaces smoke free. Within two years the proportion of adult smokers in the city dropped from 21.4% to 18.4%. It says: "Taxation is the most effective way to reduce tobacco use, and it accounted for more than half the decline attribut...Smokeless cannabis delivery device efficient and less toxic
... to Abrams. "Using CO as an indicator, there was virtually no exposure to harmful combustion products using the vaporizing device. Since it replicates smokings efficiency at producing the desired THC effect using smaller amounts of the active ingredient as opposed to pill forms, this device has great potent...Genetic markers in surrounding tissues linked to breast cancer tumor grade, presence of metastases
...e in patients with, for example, breast cancer (or virtually any malignancy) respond differently. The complexities of genetic alterations in breast cancer may provide a primary basis for these consequent (secondary) clinicopathological features, an idea supported by prior positive correlations between certain ...India's DBT and IAVI forge partnership to develop 'next generation' vaccine candidates
... immune response to HIV-infected cells. Yet today, virtually all current vaccine candidates in the pipeline are based on cell-mediated immune responses alone, failing to target the second critical arm of the human immune system. "DBT brings enormous strengths in peptide and protein design to this collaborat...'Wrapping' Gleevec fights drug-resistant cancer
...part of the protein that imatinib targets. "Like virtually all proteins, KIT has packing defects that leave some hydrogen bonds poorly shielded from water attack," Fernandez said. "These bonds, which are called dehydrons, are in the twilight zone between order and disorder." In KIT, there is a dehydron nea...Good news on heart attack and chest pain
...ients in the study received a statin in 2006, when virtually all such patients should receive the cholesterol-lowering drug. And only 53 percent of STEMI patients received emergency angioplasty, when it has repeatedly been shown to be life-saving in such patients. "The U.S. especially has a lot of ground to...Weak immune response critical to disease that causes most infant hospitalizations
...nited States, respiratory syncytial virus, infects virtually all children by age two. Along with the influenza virus, RSV is a major contributor to the approximately two million infant deaths worldwide caused every year by respiratory infections, according to the World Health Organization. Worse yet, theres no...Hospital errors rise 3 percent -- HealthGrades patient-safety study
...atient safety incidents among Medicare patients at virtually all of the nation's nearly 5,000 nonfederal hospitals. Additionally, HealthGrades applied its methodology to identify the best-performing hospitals, or Distinguished Hospitals for Patient Safety, which represent the top five percent of all U.S. hospi...Forsyth scientists wiping out tooth decay through school-based cavities prevention program
...ounds of the Forsyth model of prevention there was virtually no new tooth decay. ForsythKids confronts one of todays most pressing oral health challenges: delivering effective oral health care to children at risk of decay. The goal of the program is to increase access and improve health, while creating ...