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Esophageal Cancer Rates Climb With Obesity

...at U-M between 1977 and 2006. Profound obesity was defined as a body mass index of 35 or more. Those 133 patients were matched to a randomly selected control group of non-obese patients undergoing the same procedure. Both groups were matched for factors including gender, age, year of operation and pre-existi...

Research on Human Metabolic Disorders

...atched the published performance of human cells in defined conditions. Researchers can use the computationally based database to quickly discover the effects on a given cell type of changing the performance of any of the 3,300 known human metabolic reactions operating in that cell. The tool is designed to ...

HIV Dementia Alarmingly High in Africa

... published Jan. 29 in Neurology. HIV dementia is defined as memory, learning, behavioral and motor disabilities that interfere with normal daily life and in extreme cases lead to total disability and a bedridden state. Unlike Alzheimer’s- and stroke-induced dementia, HIV dementia is treatable and potential...

Excessive Drinking, Not Alcoholism, may Lead to Most Alcohol-Related Problems

...s assessed the prevalence of "excessive drinking," defined to include: binge drinking, heavy drinking, alcohol-impaired driving, and alcohol dependence. "We found that in New Mexico, most excessive drinkers are not alcohol dependent," said Roeber, "and that binge drinking is the most prevalent form of exc...

Experts Confirm the Double Dose Flu Vaccine for Infants

...s during the 2003-2004-flu season. The kids were defined as being partially vaccinated if they had one shot more than 14 days before the first influenza-like illness visit, and fully vaccinated if they had the full two shots more than 14 days before the first visit. In all, 28 percent of the children wer...

Hypertension Treatment: US Beats Europe

... patients had their blood pressure under control – defined as less than 140/90 mm Hg – compared to 31 percent to 46 percent in Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain or France. The study authors caution, however, that better blood pressure control in the United States "should not be too quickly praised...

Antiviral Drugs Curb Influenza Virus

...ound a significant reduction in infectiousness, as defined by reductions in influenza illnesses in household contacts, when oseltamivir was used for treatment of ill persons, but not when zanamivir was administered. Although these results are of interest, the authors stress that the numbers were small and co...

Drawing Parallels to H5N1 Virus and a 1918 Flu Virus

...d by H5N1 virus on human population is not clearly defined now but all the same preparedness to face the impact of this strain would be helpful. As far as H5N1 virus is concerned, it has to combine with another strain or mutate to cause an outbreak in human population. JYT...

Human Pheromones: Fact and Fiction

...ally, pheromones are divided into classes that are defined by characteristics of the responses.' Chemical signals that elicit immediate behaviors are described as releaser pheromones. Examples of releaser pheromones include mating attractants such as bombykol and danger-signaling alarm pheromones released ...

Read This Now Not Later!

...ities people have -- anxiety, panic -- they can be defined as a special case of procrastination.' The financial angle includes an average loss of $400 per year, caused by delay in filing taxes and last minute Christmas shopping with credit cards being five times higher. According to Steel, it is easier ...

Hypertension, Prehypertension in Youngsters Linked With Heart Enlargement

...sability and death," he said. Prehypertension is defined as systolic blood pressure higher than 120 mmHg bu...g but lower than 90 mmHg, or both. Hypertension is defined as a systolic blood pressure greater than 140 mmHg or a diastolic blood pressure greater than 90 mmH...

More Americans Die Due To Side Effects From Prescription Drugs Every Year: Report

... a March 2 conference at the College of Law. It is defined as using information about a person’s genetic makeup to tailor strategies for the detection, treatment or prevention of disease. The incorporation of personalized medicine into everyday clinical practice faces significant hurdles, the authors wrote...

Potential Key to Brain Blood-Flow Disorders Explored by Scientists

...the calcium signals within astrocytic endfeet, and defined the spatial context of vasoactive signals generated by endfeet. This vasodilation was restricted to a short stretch of the vessel centered on the endfoot, suggesting that endfeet function as individual “vasoregulatory units” in the brain. One of many...

Women Drinkers Could Face More Depression

...n leads to drinking or whether the relationship is defined by something else,’ the research said. Andy Bell, of the Mental Health Alliance, an umbrella group of charities and health professionals, agreed it was still not clear what came first - the drinking or depression. ‘We know the link (between binge ...

Uric Acid -Biomarker for Dementia

...ts with uric acid levels in the high-normal range, defined as 5.8 to 7.6 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) in men and 4.8 to 7.1 mg/dL in women, had the lowest scores on tests of mental processing speed, verbal memory and working memory, regardless of age, sex, weight, race, education, diabetes, hypertension,...

Binge Drinkers on the Rise

...ast 0.08 percent. Binge drinking is now commonly defined for men as having five or more drinks of alcohol in a row and for women as having four or more consecutive drinks. Data analyzed from 15,000 US high school students showed out of the almost half of them who drank, an astounding 64 percent admitted t...

Uric Acid Levels (High-Normal) Associated With Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly

...d working memory. High-normal uric acid levels, defined in this study as 5.8 to 7.6 mg/dL for men and 4.8 to 7.1 mg/dL for women, were more likely to be associated with cognitive problems even when the researchers controlled for age, sex, weight, race, education, diabetes, hypertension, smoking and alcoho...

How Many Genes Does It Take to Learn? Lessons from Sea Slugs

...lear counterparts in humans and can be linked to a defined neuronal circuitry, including a simple memory-forming network. "In the human brain there are a hundred billion neurons, each expressing at least 18,000 genes, and the level of expression of each gene is different," said Moroz, who is affiliated wit...

MIT Creates 3-D Scaffold for Growing Stem Cells

...hemselves. Adding motifs With the addition of defined amino acid fragments called active motifs, the scaffold can be fashioned to coax stem cells to behave in certain desirable ways-such as differentiating into needed body tissues or migrating toward bone marrow and other natural destinations. "What ...

Gene Therapy for Hereditary Immunodeficiency Diseases

...om other therapeutic approaches. Gene therapy is defined as the introduction of genes into tissues or cells via gene transfer, with the purpose of deriving a therapeutic or preventative benefit from the function of these genes. Gene transfer is achieved using a vector – a kind of vehicle that carries the g...

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