UT Southwestern sports medicine doctor pedals advice on gearing up for safe cycling season
DALLAS April 21, 2005 So what if you're no Lance Armstrong, six-time winner of the Tour de France. Even beginning cyclists should be armed with health information that can help reduce strain, injury and infection, says Dr. Luis Palacios, associate professor of family and communit...Genetic variation linked to alcohol dependence found in a Russian population
... "These findings help demonstrate that regardless what different environmental factors in Russia may be at play, the genetic variations still seem to be influencing risk in that population," said Jaako Lappalainen, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry in the Center for the Translational Neuroscience o...Canadian youth 4th highest in international obesity study
...this alarming finding is one that runs contrary to what the research team expected. Surprisingly, as consumption of candy and chocolate increased, the likelihood of being overweight decreased. "This does not mean that eating sweets in large quantities is recommended for young people," says Dr. Janssen, p...Monoclonal antibody cures West Nile virus-infected mice
...on cases of dengue worldwide every year. "A lot of what we're learning from the West Nile virus antibody will be of consequence for the development of a pediatric dengue vaccine," says co-author Daved Fremont, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics and of pathology and immuno...Study sheds light on age-related changes of prion diseases
...tein. In addition, it will be important to address what features of the aging cell are most involved in defective protein folding, the understanding of which may result in novel therapeutic strategies for halting these devastating diseases."...New grants to Georgetown to help build national cancer biomedical informatics grid
...active grid has the potential to change everything what we do, how we do it, and the speed by which we can...m of 15 researchers at Georgetown participating in what is dubbed "caBIG," or the "Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid" project, sponsored and funded by the ...New study shows simple actions wipe out huge higher heart risks for Asian diabetics
... for this community group. The researchers studied what the effect would be of a special effort to target and reach out to the Asian community on the issue of diabetic and related health care. This effort attempted to overcome the health care delivery challenges posed by that community and tried to addres...Data suggest bypass surgery free of long-term brain effects
...and other disorders. "In this paper, we reassessed what we think we know about cognitive decline attributable to the use of cardiopulmonary bypass versus cognitive decline due to pre-existing vascular disease of the brain," said Selnes. "Just about everyone agrees that some patients do suffer cognitive de...Exercise slows development of Alzheimer's-like brain changes in mice, new study finds
...understand those mechanisms, to learn how much and what kind of exercise is best, and to see if these same effects occur in humans."...A new look at genes that cause testicular cancer
... cancer. "Certainly, we will now be able to study what these genes do in the embryo and how they do it, and so gain unprecedented insight into what goes wrong in a cancer cell," he said....Color doppler sonography speeds detection of serious illness in premature infants
...e, diverticulitis and ischemic bowel. To determine what constituted abnormal blood flow in the bowels of infants, researchers first compared the CDS data from the 30 premature and full-term newborns having suspected or proven NEC with a control group of 30 premature and full-term newborns without evidence...'Fickle' enzyme helps protect, but also can promote heart failure, animal study shows
...eve this enzymatic uncoupling is key to explaining what happens to cause heart enlargement and pumping failure. "In these animals, it was better for the heart not to have NOS3 than to have the enzyme in its uncoupled state," says Kass. In a second experiment to see if the effects of hypertrophy could be r...Children do well with shorter fast before surgery
...re the safety of children, so they are sticking to what they know to be safe fasting policies. Things are beginning to change but change is slow," Brady says. Dr. Donna Caniano, a pediatric surgeon at Children's Hospital of Columbus, Ohio, and chairperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics surgery sect...Study of iron overload yields surprising results
...d iron overload, when should they be screened, and what screening methods should be used. At the start of the study in 1999, it was known that most cases of hemochromatosis in Caucasians result from a mutation in the hemochromotosis (HFE) gene. The mutation, known as C282Y, was first discovered in 1996. L...OHSU study finds ginkgo beneficial for MS symptoms
...But she emphasizes that "every MS is different, so what might work for me may not work for anybody else. But when it comes to alternative medicine, I'm all for that."...Lower vaccination rates put children at risk
...the study's co-authors. Physicians may not realize what a growing phenomenon CAM has become over the past few years. Nor do parents necessarily understand the importance of sharing information about their child's alternative therapy, said Dr. Vohra, who is also director of the CARE program (Complementary ...Little evidence found for IVF as most effective infertility treatment
...le data and allows it to be viewed as a whole; and what we see so far is that the kids are fine," says Dr. Robert Rebar, executive director of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine....Antibiotic might fight HIV-induced neurological problems
...d-brain barrier, the biological "wall" that limits what can pass from the blood into the brain. Other researchers have reported that this antibiotic can protect brain cells in animal models of other diseases -- multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, stroke and more. The dr...Patients swallow 'camera-in-a-pill' to help doctors check for diseases of esophagus, GERD
...medical residents and to make sure they understand what the patients would experience, he and several other physicians each swallowed a capsule. Brown said it was easy to do, and he sees great benefits to patients. "It's a simple, safe and less invasive alternative. There is immediate recovery since there...Specific behaviors seen in infants can predict autism, new research shows
...roundbreaking work that is pushing the frontier of what we know about the biological nature of autism, and why it emerges so early in life," says Dr. Zwaigenbaum. "Our hope is that it will lead to the development of new and earlier treatments that could make a huge difference for these children." Second ...