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A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

... focus our research on ways in which we can make a difference in the lives of our patients, both today and tomor...high doses of the NSAIDs would be needed to make a difference in Alzheimer’s risk. This meant that a compound that could successfully and significantly lower AB4...

Complementary Therapy may Reduce Pregnancy Chances in Women

...y problems than non-users, says Dr. Boivin. This difference in stress may mean that women used CATs for stress reduction, and if this were the case it would be important for future research to establish whether CATs achieve this goal more effectively than conventional psychological therapies. So far, resear...

Nutrition Education Has Proved to Be Futile

...t the growing epidemic of childhood obesity. No difference in the amount of fruits and vegetables eaten by ki...t they actually eat. But the program really made a difference in how kids were feeling about fruits and vegetables. They really had a more positive attitude towar...

Cheap Indian Medicines Illegally Flooding Pak Markets

...through green channels because of their huge price difference in the two countries. According to the Daily Times, passengers coming from India prefer carrying cheap drugs, as the prices of Indian drugs are far cheaper than those of Pakistan. Dr Qaiser Waheed, President of Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufactur...

Cat Exposure Increases Bronchial Responsiveness

...veness. Among people with any sensitization, the difference in BR between those who had low versus high exposure to cat allergen was almost as great a difference as that between non-asthmatic and asthmatic individuals in the United Kingdom centers of the ECRHS. ...

Dietary Counseling Leads to Weight Loss

...People don't have to lose 100 pounds to make a big difference in their health." The study, "Meta-analysis: Effect of Dietary Counseling for Weight Loss," appears in the July 3, 2007, issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. To reach Dr. Dansinger, contact Catherine Bromberg, Tufts-New England Medical Center (6...

New Clues About Multiple Sclerosis

...logy. Rinker says the reason for this biological difference is unknown, but may be related to differences in genetic background. It remains possible that genes are unevenly distributed between ethnic groups to account for different susceptibility to some diseases, said Rinker. In MS, recent genetic studies...

New "second-line" AIDS Drug Shows Promise in Trials

...ld or moderate" in severity, with generally little difference between the etravirine-takers and the placebo group. Etravirine, made by a Belgian firm, Tibotec, has been closely followed by AIDS campaigners. Antiretroviral drugs, as drugs to combat HIV are known, can save people with the AIDS virus, although...

Autism Children can Be Diagnosed Within One Year of Age

...ows for early intervention, which can make a major difference in helping children with autism reach their full p... potential for intervention that can make a marked difference in that child's outcome." While there are currently no standardized, published criteria for diagno...

New Insights into Prion Propogation

...looked at prion protein in another fungus. A key difference between the two is that the yeast prion proteins are rich in the amino acids glutamine and asparagine in the regions of the protein used to transform them into a prion. In contrast, the fungal prion lacks a rich supply of these amino acids -- a chara...

High-risk Patients Need Better Guidance on What is and Isnt a Heart Attack

...ly they would like patients to be able to tell the difference between the two types but in reality they do not. In particular, high-risk patients with ischaemic heart disease (IHD) - which causes a reduction in the blood supply to the heart, usually felt as angina - are given varying advice from doctors, heal...

Discourage Less Educated Women from Conceiving , Says New Zealand Academic

... IQ, but that class can be. "There is no genetic difference between Maori and Pakeha in terms of genes for intelligence," he said. Flynn, said in a socially mobile society such as New Zealand's, those who remained uneducated had poorer genetic material in terms of IQ. Over time poorer genes would take their...

Protein That Absorbs Lipids may Provide Future Weight-loss Strategies

...ce lacking the protein, she could not find any net difference in their fat absorption. In the present study, the researcher has found the reason why it was not possible to identify a difference. She says that CD36 normally absorbs fatty acids in the upper, or proximal part of the intestine, but in its absenc...

Liver Cancer More Prevalent in Males

...in said. However, the missing IL-6 made no further difference in female mice. The researchers then treated normal male mice with estrogen, and exposed them to DEN. The IL-6 level in those males was reduced to the same level as in female mice, as was the degree of liver injury. Experiments on specialized cells...

Prions Capacity can Be Aggrevated by Solid Particles

...ficiently in animal populations. "We found a huge difference between infectious agent alone and infectious agent bound to these soil particles," says Aiken, the senior author of the new study and a professor of comparative biosciences in the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. "We observed an almost 70...

Grandparents' Care Makes Grandchildren More Caring for Them

...nts than did grandsons. However, in reality, no difference was noted in the actual support given to grandparents between granddaughters and grandsons. "It is important to note that while the grandchildren felt an emotional connection to past experiences, grandparents need to feel that they are also helpin...

Americans Grow Shorter, Blame It on Weak Healthcare

...out of seven Americans is uninsured; it's also the difference in approach. Specifically, public-sector healthcare puts a greater emphasis on prevention, while the US system creates incentives to treat illness rather than prevent it. This leads not only to much greater costs -- the United States spends about ...

Erection Drugs Don't Boost Men's Self-esteem

...th normal sexual function. However, there was no difference in the levels of the above for men who were taking...terventions for their ED." "In fact there was no difference in the reports, regardless of whether they were on drugs," Dr Matic added. A spokesman for Viagra ...

Delay in Cancer Diagnosis for Children

...sion. In three of seven such studies, there was no difference in survival or even a better prognosis for delays in diagnosis. The others reported poorer prognosis the longer the delay. This finding could, the authors surmise, could be that aggressive disease presents early and therefore, at more treatable sta...

Ice Bath by Sports Star Questioned

...ext day. In fact it was found that there was no difference in physical pain measurements such as swelling or ...id he did not find it surprising that there was no difference between the two samples. "I don't find it hard to believe that the ice doesn't have any long-term ...

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