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Yearning -the Most Intense Emotion in Bereavement

...: “This study basically shows that yearning is the dominant negative grief symptom following the loss, not disbelief, sadness or depression.“And, overall, the main reaction was a high degree of acceptance”, she adds. <BR...

Industry-funded Breast Cancer Trials More Likely to Yield Positive Results

...wever, as industry funding becomes an increasingly dominant source of research funding, clinical questions that aren’t directly related to drug development may be neglected, Peppercorn said. Such questions include the optimal duration for giving a medication or whether certain groups of patients benefit from ...

Program Helps Reduce Binge Drinking

...m was modified to better address and impact UTEP’s dominant minority population – 72.5 percent of its students are Hispanic. In discussing the myths of how to sober up, for example, program administrators remind students that their blood alcohol levels will not decline if they have a bowl of hot menudo, a Mex...

Religiosity May Be Instrumental In Preventing The Spread Of HIV-AIDS

... of spreading HIV to others.” Religion remains a dominant force in America today, but the main focus of many faith communities is sexual abstinence, rather than examining how else religious beliefs may help to prevent the spread of HIV, Galvan said. “This study suggests that there's a role for religious i...

Discovery in Male Mice Gives Hope in Providing Clues to Find Infertility in Men

...ity in mice. Because this is the first time that a dominant mutation that leads specifically to infertility in...ity in mice. Because this is the first time that a dominant mutation that leads specifically to infertility in a mammal has been discovered, the researchers say...

Satraplatin Benefits Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer Patients

...sions. Pain associated with bone metastases is the dominant cause of morbidity in patients with metastatic HRPC. Increase in prostate specific antigen (PSA) was not part of the progression endpoint. PFS at the median demonstrated a 14% improvement in patients who received Satraplatin plus prednisone (11.1 wee...

New Agent to Fight Genetic Disorders Found

...lly every human condition caused by or worsened by dominant defective genes. Examples include: Huntington’s disease, familial high cholesterol, polycystic kidney disease, some instances of glaucoma and colorectal cancer, and neurofibromatosis, among others. "Zorro-LNA is a new substance that targets DNA and...

Scientists Predict Bleak Future For Life

...en if matter begins to decay, it will still be the dominant sort of stuff in the universe," says physicist Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University, and lead author of the new study. "That's why I've kind of said that diamonds are forever", he quips. Krauss and colleague Robert Scherrer of Vanderb...

US Doctors 're-evaluating' Conjoined Twin Surgery

... to uncover the cause of the brain swelling in the dominant twin, Anastasia, which halted the first of what was to be a series of surgeries on Wednesday. The top of Tatiana's head is fused to the back of her sister's head, in a rare medical disorder known as total angular craniopagus. The girls' brain tiss...

Brain Swelling Halts Conjoined Twin Surgery

...l they determined the cause of the swelling in the dominant twin, Anastasia, which was discovered after neurosurgeons took out a section of skull to expose the brain tissue. "After removing the bone, it became apparent that the brain tissue was swollen, despite the fact that measures had been taken to preve...

Intensive Psychotherapy Provides Helping Hand in Borderline Personality Disorder.

...or of psychiatry at Weill-Cornell, that focuses on dominant emotionally charged themes that emerge in the relationship between patient and therapist. As the patients moved through the yearlong treatments, they were carefully assessed on a wide range of psychiatric symptom and functioning domains, such as de...

Dystonia Awareness Week: 4 -11 June, 2007

...nheritance of generalized dystonia is due to the dominant nature of the gene(s) involved. This means, a parent affected with this type of dystonia has a 50% chance of passing the affected gene/s to the offsprings. Adults who develop dystonia may also have inherited a defective gene, though it is difficult t...

Tobacco Menace and What can Be Done About It

...ut from then over next five decades, it became the dominant form of tobacco. From 1995, cigarette consumption declined dramatically. Though it is a good sign, the other side of coin that is worrying is an increased trend in other forms as well as more number of females and young population joining the list of...

Climate Change Signal Detected in the Indian Ocean

...he El Nino Southern Oscillation and considered the dominant influence on Southern Hemisphere atmospheric variability. Dr Alory said climate models used in the IPCC Fourth Assessment show that changes in westerly wind patterns are expected to intensify in a global warming scenario and to accentuate the south...

Fecal Bacteria, a Source of Contamination

...e study revealed that cattle and wildlife were the dominant sources of fecal bacteria found in water and stream sediment samples at the main study site located in an upper reach of the creek. While the two methods led to similar overall interpretations, using both methods together gave us a clearer picture ...

Researchers Identify Immune Dysfunction in Melanoma Patients

...f vaccines to treat cancers. "We think this is a dominant way that immune dysfunction occurs in people with cancer," said senior author Peter Lee, MD, associate professor of medicine. Lee was interested in melanoma rather than other forms of cancer in part because of the deadly nature of the disease, whic...

Male Pheromones Build Brain Cells in Female Mice

... tend to create new brain cells when they detect a dominant male's urine, a discovery that outlines how chemi...searchers observed that mice exposed to urine from dominant males showed around a 25 per cent in crease in new neurons in two brain regions-hippocampus and the ...

Fishes Use Threat of Punishment in Mating Process

... keep subordinate fish from challenging those more dominant than themselves. In fact the subordinate fish deliberately diet - or starve themselves - in order to remain smaller than their superiors and so present no threat that might lead to their being cast out, and perishing as a result. Many animals hav...

High Nonfasting Triglyceride Levels Linked With Cardiovascular Risks

...l] phenomenon in which remnant lipoproteins play a dominant role. If this is true, increased levels of nonfasting triglycerides, reflecting increased levels of remnant lipoproteins, may predict risk of myocardial infarction (MI; heart attack), ischemic heart disease (IHD), and death, the authors write. Brge...

Autoimmune Response in Multiple Sclerosis

...fic characteristic of these destructive T cells is dominant in driving the development of EAE/MS. In a study appearing online on July 12 in advance of publication in the August print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Eli Sercarz and colleagues from the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studi...

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