Improvements in critical care decrease risk of post-injury multiple organ failure
...year period ending December 31, 2003, to determine whether the incidence and severity of multiple organ failu...ver the course of the last decade and to determine whether risk factors for multiple organ failure had changed over the course of the study. Multiple organ fai...Researchers prevent post-traumatic brain damage
...now need to target the cell cycle in brain injury, whether it is with this drug or others," Faden said. Eventually, the researchers hope to use a drug of this type right after trauma, perhaps through an injection via the nasal passages--an idea Di Giovanni says the group is exploring....Changing medication packages could help patients follow prescriptions, study suggests
...her adverse events were noted. "If people can tell whether or not they have taken their medication on a particular day, it improves the chance that they will take the medicine properly," Schneider said. "It's often hard to put all of the information a patient may need on to one container." About 50 million A...The link between physical activity and ovarian cancer
...ions. Unique to this study was the examination of whether activity-related cancer risk varied by tumor type. Results showed that for moderate recreational activity there was a decreased risk of certain types of ovarian tumors but not for others. No previous studies had examined the relationship between tumo...Lower doses of chemotherapy equally effective in most children
...ors such as gender, race, white blood cell counts, whether the patient had an extra copy of certain chromosom...mosomes were the only two factors that played into whether our patients would have a reoccurrence or not do so well with lower doses of our chemotherapy regime...Survival rates higher for children receiving living donor liver transplant
...urgency status and medical condition, to determine whether the type of graft or differences in the pre-transplantation characteristics of the patients were responsible for the lower graft failure rate of living donor transplantations. "We determined that graft and patient survival in the pediatric population...Aspirin use may protect against colon cancer recurrence, reduce risk of death
...y participants' use of acetaminophen to determine whether the benefits attributed to regular aspirin and COX-2 inhibitors had a non-specific analgesic effect and found no recurrence or survival benefit. Fuchs, who is also an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, says the next step is t...Nutrition gene key in regulating immune system
...pacted downstream of GCN2. Another big question is whether T cells deactivated by this system can be reactivated. Knowing the role of the GCN2 gene makes it easier for scientists to watch what happens to the T cells affected by IDO in a living organism. "We know that IDO itself is an important pathway. Evid...Tobacco brands still common in PG-13 movies, despite '98 Master Settlement
...d presence of tobacco brand appearances in movies, whether paid for or not, undermines the intent of the MSA and limits the favorable impact the MSA could have on preventing youth smoking."...Mayo researchers seek methods to make new cancer therapies available more quickly
...n Cancer Endpoints (ACCENT) Group that is studying whether there are ways to make results of clinical trials in oncology available more quickly, to provide effective treatments to patients faster. "We found last year that outcomes after three years were highly predictive of the five-year outcomes, so we went...Exercise reduces risk of recurrence and death in early stage colon cancer patients
...til now, when doctors were asked by their patients whether they should exercise, some of them probably said it would be a good idea, but it wasn't a firm recommendation without data to support it." The health benefit was found among patients whose activity levels ranked in the top two-fifths of the group, co...Breast cancer chemotherapy regimen associated with life-threatening complications
...n regimens, as well as safety and cost issues, and whether some drugs should be used outside of clinical trials. Etienne G. C. Brain, M.D., of the Ren Huguenin Cancer Centre, Saint-Cloud, France and colleagues describe the adverse events associated with the chemotherapy in a breast cancer trial. The randomiz...Timing of introduction of gluten into infant's diet associated with appearance of celiac disease
...ealth Sciences Center, and colleagues investigated whether there was an association between timing of exposur...ong-term follow-up of this cohort may help clarify whether earlier exposure to gluten results in a real increased risk of celiac disease, an earlier presentati...Newly discovered 'branding' process helps immune system cells pick their fights
...reign proteins," he says. "We're now investigating whether such modifications can cause T cells to attack the beta cells." Damaging oxidative reactions are also believed to play a role in atherosclerosis. Scientists suspect oxidative damage in the blood vessel walls may lead to immune reactivity that contri...Pilot studies to look at how mind drives or prevents disease
... and Social Psychology, and Moynihan, will look at whether behavioral training can increase the response to f...f the URMC Department of Dermatology, will examine whether stress and lack of sleep precede bursts of psoriasis in patients in her dermatology clinic. Psoriasi......er pleasant or unpleasant odors. Also, they tested whether a change in the amount of "sniffing" in response to an odor label might influence the results, finding no effect. They emphasized that they used word labels so that the cognitive input would be "high level and semantic," as opposed to a picture, whic...Dietary vitamin E may lower risk of Parkinson's disease
...colleagues did a meta-analysis to try to establish whether vitamin C, vitamin E, and b carotene can lower the risk of PD. The investigators searched for relevant studies from 1966 to March 2005. They combined the data from eight studies and found that moderate dietary intake of vitamin E decreased the risk ...Asthma drug fluticasone works as well as other drugs at half the dose
... symptoms like wheezing and shortness of breath or whether any of the treatments led to more severe asthma attacks. "A clear recommendation for fluticasone over the older agents cannot be made on the basis of every outcome from this review, but in the most severe patients fluticasone may confer an advantage ...Low back pain relief, causes, measurement & prosthetic fit, production, comfort
...ers relief from low back pain This study examines whether individuals with chronic low back pain demonstrate exercise-induced pain reduction. Eight patients with chronic low back pain received a pressure pain stimulus to the nondominant index finger immediately before and after cycling. Pain ratings were as......son in tolerance and open-mindedness". When asked whether they would be willing to continue with the study for another month it is Dorotha who best sums up the general feeling: "I think I could have but now that I know I'll soon be getting up, I want to get walking again, even though I know it won't be easy...