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Intake of Potatoes Boosts the Immune System

...The use of raw potato starch in this experiment is designed to simulate the effects of a diet high in resistant starch." Humans do not eat raw potatoes, but they do eat a lot of foods that contain resistant starch, such as cold boiled potatoes, legumes, grains, green bananas, pasta and cereals. About 10 ...

New Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatments Found Cost-effective

...ted life year (QALY). The ratio of cost to QALY is designed to present a quantitative estimate of the cost-effectiveness of a therapy. A recent study showed that switching from tamoxifen to exemestane after two to three years of tamoxifen considerably improves disease-free survival compared to tamoxifen alo...

Physical Activity can Be Increased by a Motivating Mail

...cessful efforts by the participants. Researchers designed the program to encourage participants to reach the...mple, the American Heart Association has a program designed for women, Choose to Move print materials available by calling 1-888-MY-HEART), which promotes healt...

Storing Medical Info Under Your Skin

...th concerns. While the devices are removable and designed to stay in place, their small size could allow them to move to other parts of a person's body. They may also cause interference with electrical devices like defibrillators and it has not been determined what impact they would have on prescription d...

US Officials Urge Testing for HIV as Health Crisis Intensifies

...roject, will provide video and discussion sessions designed to help individuals understand the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the prevention and intervention measures during National HIV Testing Day....

Using Portion-control Dishes can Help Obese Diabetics Lose Weight

...d a 650-calorie meal for women. The cereal bowl is designed to allow a 200-calorie meal of cereal and milk. Half of 130 obese patients with diabetes (average age 56) were randomly assigned to use the plate for their largest meal and the bowl when they ate cereal for breakfast. The other half of the partici...

A New Signaling Mechanism in Drosophila

...nd a message can be regarded as a security measure designed to ensure that the signal reaches the receptor cell in the proper fashion, neither too weakly nor too strongly. Using RNA interference techniques (RNAi), the researchers observed that it was necessary to disactivate the signal in both groups of cel...

Tinnitus Patients can Lead a Normal Life

...he discovery that, depriving the auditory passage, designed for hearing, of sound, tends to increase the sensitivity of the ear. In such a way that, when a sound such as a tinnitus - is produced in the passage, it captures it straight away. To avoid this phenomenon, external sound is introduced into the a...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Initiates Patient Enrollment In New Cotara(R) Brain Cancer Trial

...today announced initiation of a new clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of its tumor n...r open label Phase II safety and efficacy study is designed to enroll up to 40 glioblastoma patients who have experienced a first relapse. The study's primary o...

Novagali Pharma Presents Phase III Clinical Trial of Vekacia(R) for Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis

...ility of Vekacia(R) was excellent. The study was designed as a clinical phase II/III, multicenter, randomized parallel group, double masked, dose ranging, controlled study divided in two treatment periods: (I) a four-week prospective, randomized, multicenter, double-masked, three parallel-group, vehicle-con...

US Lawmakers Considering Legislation to Restrict Payments by Drug Companies to Doctors

...cal antipsychotics are second-generation medicines designed to cause fewer neurological complications than conventional antipsychotics. They include aripiprazole (sold as Abilify), olanzapine (Zyprexa), quetiapine (Seroquel), risperidone (Risperdal), and ziprasidone (Geodon). Each is approved by the Food and ...

Weight Control for Obese Diabetics

...a 650-calorie meal for women. The cereal bowl is designed to allow a 200-calorie meal of cereal and milk. Half of 130 obese patients with diabetes (average age 56) were randomly assigned to use the plate for their largest meal and the bowl when they ate cereal for breakfast. The other half of the participan...

Angioplasty may Damage Kidneys

... device was in place for the procedures, and it is designed to remove particles from the vessel, why did patients who had high particle counts before the artery was flushed also have worse kidney function afterwards" The researchers theorize that some blockages are more prone to releasing particles than oth...

Chilean President's Cousin Successfully Tests Allergy 'Knockout' Technique on Mice

...helet and his research colleague Ariel Munitz have designed a small, synthetic, antibody fragment that has the unusual ability of recognizing two targets simultaneously-the receptor CD300a and a mast cell-specific marker. This makes the antibody targets CD300a only on the surface of mast cells, avoiding suppr...

New Innovation in Clubfoot Treatment

...r of orthopedic surgery at the School of Medicine, designed the new dynamic brace, called the Dobbs brace, to ...solid ankle-foot orthosis, an orthopedic appliance designed to maintain alignment of the bones in the foot and ankle. The bar connecting the feet has a releas...

Potential Cure for HIV Discovered

...en slow to materialize." New experiments must be designed to see if the Tre enzyme can be used to recognize these dormant infected cells, he wrote. "Although favorable results would represent perhaps only a baby step toward eventual use in patients, the discovery of the Tre recombinase proves that enzymat...

Boffins a Step Closer to Solving Puzzle of Lou Gehrig's Disease

...Stiefel from Princeton University. The textbook is designed for both undergraduate and graduate students. "All of us who work in the field hope our research will lead to a treatment of ALS. What we really want is to diagnose and prevent ALS before its onset. We're still a long way from that, but we're makin...

Successful Dads Have Not So Successful Daughters

... This caused them to theorise that some genes are designed to benefit just one gender and can handicap the other sex. "We see this sexually antagonistic selection because the male and female deer need to fulfil different requirements in order to be successful," the New Scientist quoted lead author of the ...

UK to Support Third Phase of India's AIDS Control Programme

...so be increased. The NACP III framework has been designed with strong Government of India leadership and in consultation with a large number of donors and civil society organisations. The monitoring and evaluation system has been strengthened at the national and state levels to provide information for pr...

Hong Kong's Shopping Spree Surges On, and on

... the International Commerce Centre. Elements was designed by the architects behind Britain's Bluewater shopping centre. All but two of the spaces have been let, principally to international retailers including high-end British brands Mulberry and Pringle. It will also house a 12-screen cinema with VIP sui...

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