Nutritional supplement reduces need for traditional ulcerative colitis treatment
... people with ulcerative colitis. Moreover, people who took the oral supplement were less likely to start...tudy shows that patients on corticosteroid therapy who were given the oral supplement vs. a placebo had a significant reduction in the dose of corticostero...2005 Potamkin Prize goes to neurologists for research in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...uids." John H. Growdon, MD, of Harvard University, who chaired the committee that selected the Prize recipients, said, "Dr. Morris' research has sharpened the boundary between truly healthy brain aging and incipient Alzheimer's disease. After establishing sensitive methods to distinguish Alzheimer's, he ...50 years after Salk polio vaccine: Status of global eradication efforts
WHO: David L. Heymann, M.D., who leads the worldwide polio eradication effort for the World Health Organization (WHO) Robert A. Keegan, deputy director, Global Immunization Division, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Heidi J. Larson, Ph.D., senior advisor, Immuni...Vaccine against cervical cancer and genital warts shows promise
... most effective if implemented in 10-13 year olds, who are likely to be HPV negative. Large-scale trials of the vaccine are currently underway. Dr Villa comments: "In the developed world, full implementation of cervical-cancer screening has substantially shifted the burden of HPV infection from cervical ...Fink receives National Pharmacy Leadership Award
...ticipation in all pharmacy activities. UK students who are members of the College of Pharmacy's chapter o...cter and Gamble is given annually to an individual who has exemplified leadership qualities in support of the pharmacy profession. The individual chosen mu...Asthmatics naturally deficient in antiviral immunity, report scientists
...tic group compared with the healthy control group, who were almost completely protected from infection of their lung cells. The asthmatic cells displayed very deficient interferon responses, and the researchers found that replacing the interferon protected these cells from infection, making them behave l...Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
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... head by showing that alcohol consumption by women who are breast feeding reduces their milk supply, rather than boosting it. New evidence shows that alcohol consumption causes hormonal disruption, decreased lactation performance and diminished milk supply. The findings were published today in the April ...Study finds that women with PCOS are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease
Women who suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), one of the most common causes of female infertility in the U.S., have an increased chance of developing cardiovascular disease, according to a new study published this month in The Journal of Clinical End...A possible new phase for rheumatoid arthritis treatment
...ese patients with very early arthritis. Patients who eventually developed persistent rheumatoid arthritis had a cytokine profile that was different from that seen in patients in the early phases of other arthritic diseases, and also from that in longstanding rheumatoid arthritis - suggesting a distinct...People can learn motor skills by watching
...ormances. Their experiments indicate that subjects who watched a video depicting a person learning a moto...argets. They then divided the subjects into groups who watched videos of a person learning to operate the device when the handle was subject to either a cl...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
... reported by people with fewer financial resources who also became disabled. Although the difference ease...ed on an analysis of data from 478 older Americans who were interviewed regularly and in depth for as long as nine years, before and after they suffered a ...Bacterial infection associated with heart attack in young men
...od of 600 men: 300 men between 30 and 50 years old who had been hospitalized for a previous heart attack, and 300 matched controls. Because the subjects were in the military, the researchers could examine blood samples that were collected and stored in the Department of Defense's serum repository before ...Women with heart attacks benefit from stenting
...." The study involved 2,082 heart attack patients who arrived at the hospital within 12 hours after symptoms began. Patients were randomized into four treatment groups: 518 received balloon angioplasty, 528 received balloon angioplasty plus abciximab, 512 received stenting alone, while 524 received st...Vigorously active adolescents are leaner, fitter
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...g as big a problem as it is here," says Dr. Gutin, who will lecture to faculty and students on the health... certain areas with U.S. faculty and professionals who can provide it. Dr. Gutin has been studying fitness and fatness since the 1970s, well before its lif...ISHLT updates guidelines for heart and lung transplants
...ulation, and with it, a greater number of patients who would benefit from a transplant. "There are now a lot of patients who are viable transplant candidates who probably would not have been considered before because of their...'Promiscuous' area of brain could explain role of antidepressants
...pressants work would come as welcome news to those who suffer from depressive disorders, a leading cause of disability worldwide. Over 14 million adults experience depression each year in the United States alone. "Instead of taking serotonin up as they normally would into serotonin neurons, it is taken u...Belgium doctors treating critically ill infants favour legalising euthanasia
...cs of these patients, and the attitudes of doctors who care for these patients. Luc Deliens (Vrije Univer... all neonates and infants in the whole of Flanders who died between August 1999 and July 2000. 292 children were born alive and died in Flanders within the...Doctors who continue performing intimate examinations unchaper...nce will arise for other healthcare professionals, who until now may see patients unaccompanied."...