Traditional Chinese exercises may increase efficacy of flu vaccine
...d trial Yang is confident that further study will yield more substantive proof of a link between Taiji and Qigong and immune function. And he said he was not surprised that this preliminary examination indicated a link. Because the curriculum is holistic, it touches people on many fronts, he said. So it...Novel candidate biomarker for heart failure also strongly predicts risk of death
... we could harness the information these biomarkers yield to better adjust therapies in the same way that antibiotics are chosen based on the organism causing the infection that would be revolutionary. A condition in which the heart muscle is damaged and cannot pump blood efficiently, heart failure is...It's time to look at health risks in a new light, authors say
...und by subtracting 1 percent from 2 percent, would yield the absolute risk reduction: 1 percentage point. But the authors learned that drugs companies, journalists and some medical professionals often rely on a different measure: relative risk reduction. This term compares only the raw numbers of people ...Statin drugs may delay progressive artery damage in children
...tion of statin therapy in FH children, which might yield a larger benefit in the prevention of atherosclerosis later in life, said Barbara A. Hutten, Ph.D., senior author of the study. In our opinion, physicians should consider statin treatment for all FH children who are 8 or older. FH leads to severely ...Organic farming can feed the world, U-M study shows
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional farming on the same amount of land---according to new findings which refute the long-standing assumption that organic farming methods cannot produce enough food to feed the global population. Research...Chemical in brain acts like a fuel gauge
...ven on a full stomach. Solving the puzzle would yield new insights in the fight against diabetes. Neuroscientists at the University of Southern California provide a partial answer in the July 4 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Their study, highlighted by the journal on its news page, identifies a...Tony Hunter receives Robert. J. and Claire Pasarow Award for Cancer Research
...d in cancer. Tyrosine kinase research continues to yield huge dividends as researchers pinpoint the damaged tyrosine kinase genes. These mutations lead cells down the road to cancer. Dr. Hunter has received many other honors, including the 2005 Wolf Prize in Medicine, Israel's top recognition for achiev...JRRD releases single-topic issue on pain and pain management
...t, warrants further investigation and is likely to yield valuable data regarding the optimal application of this technology. A closer look at pain and hepatitis C: Preliminary data from a veteran population, pg. 231 Many veterans who have hepatitis C also experience pain. Researchers are learning how...Developments in tissue engineering offer new sources for stem cell treatments
...sue from rat specimens and processed the tissue to yield the stem cells, which were then suspended in a phosphate-buffered solution (PBS) and injected into the bladder and proximal urethra of 16 Sprague-Dawley rats. A control group of 16 animals received PBS injection alone. Results showed that the cells d...Cow protein aids in treatment of gastrointestinal disorder
...n called lactoferrin to the existing treatment may yield more effective results, with fewer of the side effects associated with common antibiotic treatment. Lactoferrin has previously been found to be effective at inhibiting the growth of microorganisms and reducing the side effects of antibiotics, respe...Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia
...tures with the clinical outcomes of patients could yield an important tool for designing the best treatment for each patient, Kaddurah-Daouk said....VA should revise its methods for evaluating and rating PTSD in veterans
...specific to PTSD to replace current standards that yield a crude and overly general assessment of PTSD disability, said the committee that wrote the report. It urged the VA to base compensation decisions on how greatly PTSD affects all aspects of a veteran's daily life, not just his or her ability to be g...How plastic is your brain? UH engineer seeks answers
...sticity can be manipulated. "This research may yield new medicines and treatments that could help repair brain damage," he said. "First you have to understand the baseline and determine how plastic the adult brain is on its own, and then you can to try to increase the level of plasticity through thera...DOE commits $27.5M for uranium contaminant transport field studies
...Remediation Project, believes the field study will yield important data to support future decision making for environmental remediation. "Results from the study will be extremely useful to the regulators, stakeholder groups and DOE when conducting evaluations of the remedial action alternatives under cons...Synthetic production of potential pharmaceuticals dramatically simplified by Scripps research team
...ine organism samples in quantities great enough to yield the volume of a given compound needed for research and clinical trials, much less commercial production, making better and cheaper production means all the more critical. For the production of some products, both natural and man-made, the use of pr...IceSAR campaign provides glimpse of future Sentinel-1 images over ice
...or Sentinel-1 is to ensure that the satellite will yield data with the quality and timeliness that users truly need. It is not surprising therefore, that airborne campaigns play an important role in helping with the design of these missions as the experiments carried out simulate satellite data long before...Metacognition: Faced with a test, rats can check their knowledge first
...ve a large reward, but that failing the test would yield no reward. Declining the test would yield a small reward. Therefore, animals faced with the decision of taking or declining the test would, in...Dialysis patients with metabolic syndrome show increased risk for heart disease
...drome and the earlier stages of kidney disease may yield important insights into the diagnosis of kidney disease itself....Positive results more likely from industry-funded breast cancer trials
.... The industry studies were also more likely to yield positive results; 84 percent of industry-supported studies showed positive results, compared with 54 percent of non-industry studies. Its been seen again and again in various branches of clinical medicine that studies that involve pharmaceutical i...Panel presents Agricultural Biosecurity & Sustainability Strategies at 2007 AAAS Meeting
...s of a terrorist attack include reductions in crop yield and quality, increased production costs and food prices, financial instability of rural communities, and loss of public confidence in the food supply. Fletcher will discuss strategies currently in place and what is still needed to keep U.S. crops saf...