Scientists show how thinking can harm brain cells
...e synaptic dysfunction with inflammation, which is virtually all of them." In lab studies, brain cells were treated with diazoxide, a drug investigated for use in ischemic heart disease and strokes. Pretreatment before exposure to PAF prevented dendritic beading and preserved synaptic functions, the studies sh...Lung-sparing treatment for cancer proving effective
...nd a sterotactic body frame that keeps the patient virtually immobile, physicians escalated radiation dosages, directing it all to the tumor site and sparing health surrounding tissue. The mapping allows physicians to administer higher doses of radiation while safeguarding uninvolved tissue and organs. Patie......ction by 85 percent. Larger doses of the compound virtually obliterated all signs of precancerous tissue. The team's research on gene expression patterns and knock-out mice also revealed that CDDO-Im works by activating a protein called Nrf2, the master switch that controls other genes crucial to cell-surviva...Study finds government advisories on fish consumption & mercury may do more harm than good
...IQ points per newborn baby, could be achieved with virtually no nutritional losses. However, if pregnant women were to decrease their fish consumption by one-sixth, the loss of omega-3 fatty acids during pregnancy would cut the nutritional benefit by 80%. If other adults were to also decrease their fish inta...Three-year SAPPHIRE and US carotid feasibility trials demonstrate durability of carotid stenting
...RE trial, at 36 months the incidence of stroke was virtually identical for both CAS and CEA (7.1% for CAS and 6.7% for CEA, P = 0.945). The 3-year incidence of stroke across the randomized and non-randomized CAS treatment groups in SAPPHIRE and the USFS had only an average increase of 4.0% over the 30-day str...Aussie blokes dying for a health policy, say UWS men's health experts
...eloping men's health policies. "Australian men are virtually dying for a national health policy. Since the early '90s, federal and state governments have flirted with specific policy initiatives for men's health, and while there has been some progress in states like New South Wales and South Australia there ha...Scientists pinpoint inflammation gene
...ing inflammation, which plays an important role in virtually every disease of major public health importance."...A new analysis of a standard brain test may help predict dementia
...s. It also identified individuals who would remain virtually unchanged over the same time span. The EEGs were almost 95 percent accurate in identifying those who would decline cognitively and those who would not, according to the study. "Our results suggest that quantitative analysis of the EEG is sens...Medication appears effective in treating teen heroin addiction
...Despite the need to identify effective treatments, virtually no research has been conducted to systematically characterize or evaluate treatment interventions for adolescent heroin and opioid abusers. Lisa A. Marsch, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Vermont, Burlington, evaluated the relative effic...Yale procedure cuts recurrence of aggressive uterine cancer
...s form of uterine cancer. Once the disease recurs, virtually no one is cured." The team reviewed 74 stage one patients with UPSC who underwent complete surgical staging, or hysterectomy with removal of pelvic and para-aortic lymph nodes and fat pads, at Yale between 1987 and 2004. Cancer recurred in 43 perce...K-State researchers designing better drug to treat cystic fibrosis
...ells and animals. From all of that they can change virtually the way this ion channel assembles. Some of the compounds that he has designed work at very low concentrations but lack some of the chloride specificity that it once had. Their presentation discussed how the researchers back-designed the channel pore...Olive oil contains natural anti-inflammatory agent
...startled to notice that the throat sensations were virtually identical." Taking their lead from the cues provided by olive oil's throaty bite, the scientists systematically evaluated the sensory properties of an unnamed chemical compound thought to be responsible for the throat irritating property of premium...Gene found in 90 percent of breast cancers may be cancer vaccine target
...l embryonic development is found at high levels in virtually all forms of breast cancer, according to a new study led by Laszlo Radvanyi, Ph.D., associate professor of breast and melanoma medical oncology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The finding, published in the Aug. 2, 2005, issue...Less than 1 percent of health plan members are diagnosed with alcohol use disorders
...atment of diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma or virtually any other health condition." There were some bright spots in the data, Dr. Goplerud said. Seventy-five percent of plans require primary care physicians and behavioral health care providers to use screening tools that have been proven effective, a nu...Missing eyeglasses make life a blur for a third of nursing home patients with Alzheimer's disease
...ients may become so sensory deprived that they are virtually shut off from the outside world." The research recommends labeling eyewear so it can be returned to its owner in case it is misplaced, having a spare pair of glasses to replace a missing pair and ensuring all nursing home residents receive annual or...Other highlights in the July 20 JNCI
.... Other oncogenic types of HPV are responsible for virtually all remaining cases. A pooled test for 13 types of HPV is currently being used for triage of equivocal cervical cytology results in women of any age and as an adjunct screening test with cervical cytology for women ages 30 and older. However, it was ...Swamped city: New Orleans and nature
..." the city, which sits well below sea level and is virtually surrounded by water, has been profoundly affected by its precarious location and the wetland environment from which it emerged. "It basically tells the story of New Orleans as a place that was an ill-suited site to become a major metropolitan area...Potent spice works to block growth of melanoma in lab test
...cumin can inhibit cancer growth. "Curcumin affects virtually every tumor biomarker that we have tried," says Aggarwal. "It works through a variety of mechanisms related to cancer development. We, and others, previously found that curcumin down regulates EGFR activity that mediates tumor cell proliferation, and...Women's health suffers under welfare reform, study says
...higan School of Public Health. "But there has been virtually no attempt to ask what effect these changes would have on the health of the affected people." Kaplan is lead author of an article in the July issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The study looked at data from 1996 to 2000 when welfare refo...Routine vaccination could eliminate Hib disease in children in developing countries
...ed by Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) has been virtually eliminated from children in The Gambia after the introduction of a nationwide vaccination programme. In 1997, a trial in over 40,000 infants in The Gambia found a Hib vaccine* was 95% effective against the diseases associated with Hib. (Lancet 1997; ...