Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...es currently emerging from nanotechnology research with the potential to transform the lives of billions o...e new, inexpensive materials, devices, and systems with unique properties. Goals of the CPGGH study included identifying and ranking the 10 nanotechnology a...Older children can benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
...trial show that many children age seven through 17 with amblyopia (lazy eye) may benefit from treatments t...roved the vision of many of the 507 older children with amblyopia studied at 49 eye centers. Previously, eye care professionals often thought that treating ...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
...ious studies have found smokers recently diagnosed with medical conditions are more interested in, and suc...to Matthew M. Clark, Ph.D., a psychologist working with the investigative team, they found that the more abnormal screenings a smoker received, the more lik...Few women at risk for breast cancer willing to use drug to prevent the disease
...lifornia, Davis and her team interviewed 255 women with significant risk factors for breast cancer. The in...isk women are unwilling to consider tamoxifen even with extensive education about its potential benefits and harms."...Little answers to world's biggest problems
...es currently emerging from nanotechnology research with the potential to transform the lives of billions of the world's most vulnerable inhabitants. In a new study by researchers at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB), published in PLoS Medicine , the open access global health jour...Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
...ggest that widespread mammography screening, along with improvements in imaging technology and increased b...cases the treatments that should be given to women with these conditions, primarily LCIS, is unclear," Li said. "Another problem is that we are not very goo...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
... the most common open-heart surgery in the country with more than 300,000 patients undergoing the procedur...for the first time the surgeons can take a picture with a direct way to assess how efficient their procedure has been." As a cardiac surgeon, Pelle...University of Kentucky physician publishes fibromyalgia study in Arthritis & Rheumatism journal
...eep problems. Fibromyalgia is difficult to treat, with most patients continuing to have persistent sympto...myalgia is unknown. In the study, patients treated with Lyrica experienced a greater reduction in pain compared to those who received placebo. The benefit...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...o attract or bind other proteins through a column with the drug bound to it. She then made the playing f...an appropriate time scale. In conjunction with the sequence technique, Sakiyama-Elbert and her group developed a mathematical model that identifies...Tops in technology: UH math professor honored for aneurysm work
... men interested in information technology. Along with the other award winners, Canic was selected based ...for women. In particular, Canic has collaborated with researchers at the Texas Medical Center to develop improved stents to treat arteries damaged by aneu...Chemical present in clear plastics can impair learning and cause disease
...y of Helen Hayes Hospital, who conducted the study with Csaba Leranth, M.D., professor in the Department o... in the hippocampus, an area of the brain involved with expression of sexually differentiated behaviors, as well as with formation and retention of memory. ...Obesity and insomnia linked by excitability of brain cells
...asticity of the hypocretin neurons correlates well with its involvement in the control of arousal and aler...ted hypocretin system. Therefore, he said, "people with weight and sleep problems could benefit from cutting back on stressful aspects of their lives, rathe...Probable cause sequences for WTC collapses finalized
...ced window breakage. These fires, in combination with the dislodged fireproofing, were responsible for a...will be released for public comment in June, along with the draft of the final investigation report and drafts of 27 reports from the remaining five project...Breakthrough findings by Ume researchers link obesity to diabetes
... in the Western world. Obesity is also associated with an increased risk of various types of cancer. Chi... This theory is supported by the finding that mice with an increased number of GPR40 receptors on their beta cells develop diabetes. GPR40 belongs to the cl...Evaluating virtual reality therapy for treating acute post traumatic stress disorder
...lling explains, "Our goal is to provide therapists with innovative tools and techniques for early interven...to combat. We also hope that this type of therapy, with its videogame-like qualities, will resonate well with the current generation of warfighters." The pr...Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
...e satellite images of the disaster zone. It begins with a train derailment, and then the situation gets wo...t. The EURATECH 2005 exercise begins on 10 April, with the two-day simulated disaster officially commencing on the morning of 12 April. Part of the aim of ...The mental, emotional and sexual health of people with learning difficulties who are gay, lesbian and bis... Norah Fry Research Centre, working in partnership with Terrence Higgins Trust and REGARD, found significant barriers were put in the way of people with lea...Columbia research suggests need to rethink causes of heart failure
...ity of heart failure cases might be better treated with drugs to target specific disorders that are causin...he more than 5 million people in the United States with heart failure, more than half have heart failure despite the heart having normal pumping function. ...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...ly one in three patients rushed to emergency rooms with heart attack symptoms do not receive these potenti...ies appeared to show that vitamin E was associated with better outcomes, but when the proper studies were conducted, it turned out not to be the case." Whil...Traditional risk factors best predictor of CVD death in kidney patients
... disease risk factors are more strongly associated with risk of death from cardiovascular disease than newer, emerging risk factors in older people with chronic kidney disease. These results from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-funded Card...