Date:4/7/2011

a coma, and loved ones at the bedside try to peel away the veil by talking or reading aloud. Some of us have done it ourselves, desperately hoping for any hint of wakening or awareness. For Theresa Louise-Bender Pape, who studies patients with traumatic brain injury in various stages of coma and recovery, the "it can't hurt" reasoning just isn't good enough. She needs evidence. She wants answers. Pape has made it her life's work to develop therapies that will, essentially, jump-start the lives of veterans, warriors and civilians in vegetative and/or minimally conscious states, and she will speak Wednesday about two of her ongoing innovative clinical trials: one that pipes familiar voices into the ears of unconscious patients and one that sends magnetic pulses into the neuronal centers of the brain. Pape's talk will be in Room 101 of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. 10:30 a.m. (AAA)

Short-Term, High-Fat Consumption May Be Beneficial to the Heart

Approximately 1 million Americans suffer heart attacks each year, and about 400,000 of those attacks are fatal. A key cause of heart attacks is atherosclerosis, a process in which cholesterol builds up in the arteries and impedes the ability of blood to flow to our most vital organ. Atherosclerosis often is associated with a high-fat diet in humans, but, in a new study using an animal model, researchers have found that a high-fat diet for a very short period can protect the heart from heart attacks and result in less tissue damage when heart attacks occur. 12:45 p.m. (ASPET)

Aerobic Exercise May Improve Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Walking on a treadmill for one hour a day may slow the progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in obese people with prediabetes by jump-starting their metabolisms and slowing the oxidative damage wrought by the condition, according to new research. A study of 15 obese people with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease revealed tha
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Contact: Suzanne Price sprice@nutrition.org 301-634-7235 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Source:Eurekalert

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