Tag: "knowledge" at medical news

Biologics valuable treatment option for patients with inflammatory bowel disease

...ased on expert presentations of current scientific knowledge about IBD and subsequent discussion. Co-chairs of ...cision of how to treat patients requires extensive knowledge of treatment options and the patient, including whether intense therapy is needed and who may respon...

A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...g for patients who have the disorder. Based on the knowledge that Alzheimer’s is a disease of tau tangles as well as AB plaque, these scientists were already developing a mouse that spontaneously overproduces tau proteins. Mayo Clinic researchers were the first to genetically engineer a mouse to express a mut...

Acute Mountain Sickness may Lead to Pulmonary or Cerebral Edema

...nce of AMS. The study aimed to characterize the knowledge among high-altitude trekkers regarding symptoms, p... and treatment of AMS, and to examine whether this knowledge is translated into practice. 92 percent had heard of AMS prior to their current trip. Overall, aw...

Drinking Problem Plagues 30% Americans

...andstill since the early 1990s, Theres a lot of knowledge about how to treat. Whatever the reason, people arent getting treatment. The research found that about 18% of adults reported abusing alcohol during their lifetime, and almost 13% said they had become dependent on it. Alcohol abuse developed at an...

Prions Prevent Alzheimers Disease

...il at how the prion protein controls beta amyloid, knowledge that could be used to design anti-Alzheimers drugs. Theoretically, if we can find a way of mimicking the prions function we should be able to halt the progress of Alzheimers. However, theres still a lot of work to be done in looking at levels of prio...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

... named Khalid Ahmed, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation. Footage of Dr. Ahmed after the incident, shown on British television on Tuesday, appeared to show a young man. He was severely burned in the fire, and is under guard in a hospital near Glasgow. On Tuesday, Britains BBC-2 broad...

Australian Father Gets 15 Year Jail Term for Forcing Bestial Acts on His Daughters

...th suspended jail sentence for one count of carnal knowledge and was released on a good behaviour bond....

Anchoring Lives Aboard Warship: Nimitz

...est fighter aircrafts, and only a handful have the knowledge that the largest warship in the world has a 53-bedded hospital ward and a three-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU). It acts as the hospital ship for not just USS Nimitz with a 5,000 odd crew, but the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, that includes half-a-d...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...ning by doing project', as we want to increase our knowledge of hydrogen as well as stimulating wider interest in more environmentally friendly fuels." Thirteen Toyota Prius hydrogen cars have been acquired for HyNor at an exorbitant rate of 60,000 each. These are the only hydrogen cars in Norway, and are le...

Exercise Reduces Inflammation

...gular exercise. According to the researchers, that knowledge could potentially lead to a better understanding of the relationship between exercise and inflammation. The objective of their research was to examine the independent effect of parasympathetic tone in this case, determined by assessing heart-rate ...

Indian Fashion Beckons International Models

...at working here will help them not only in gaining knowledge about this country's fashion but also provide their career an added boost. "It's a great experience to work in India as in Europe Indian fashion is very respected," said Barbora Brabcova of the Czech Republic. "When I go back to my country, I'll ha...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

...or both equine and human health. For example, the knowledge gained concerning the correlation between fortified forage and lack of exercise and obesity in the horse can be immediately utilized by veterinary clinicians and owners who can now consider altering their existing feeding and management programs. H...

Experts Propose New Criteria for Alzheimer's Diagnosis

... of date due to unprecedented growth of scientific knowledge in the field. "(These existing criteria) are the prevailing diagnostic standards in research; however, they have now fallen behind the unprecedented growth of scientific knowledge. Distinctive and reliable biomarkers of AD are now available through...

Afro- American Women Have More Aggressive Breast Cancer

...e to explore future research that will enhance our knowledge and allow better understanding of these biological differences, and devise better treatment plans that could potentially be effective," says Dr. Mitchell. Because the findings are similar to those in the federal database, says Dr. Morris, "This mea...

Obesity Drug may Hold Potent Cancer Treatments

...are designing potent cancer treatments using their knowledge about an obesity drug, orlistat (Xenical or Alli) that was found to kill cancer cells in the laboratory . The drug binds and interacts with a protein found in tumour cells and blocks the protein's function and causes cell death. The study was con...

Advancement in Gene Associated With Colon Cancer

...wn to be exceptionally fruitful in contributing to knowledge about the genetics of leading cancers. This is due to the unique characteristics of the population and our ability to study it in a representative manner. Unraveling the mysteries of the susceptibility to disease is moving rapidly since the publica...

Study Confirms No HRT Benefit for Older Women

...day, make an important contribution to the body of knowledge about HRT when it is initiated in older postmenopausal women. The WISDOM team identified 5,692 healthy women registered at general practices in the UK, Australia and New Zealand with an average age of 63 years and 15 years after the menopause. T...

40 Percent of Community Pharmacists Dispensed Off-label Drug

...the 482 randomly-selected pharmacists gained their knowledge of off-label dispensing through work experience rather than education. While all licensed medicines used to treat children have been rigorously tested before their general use, not all are specifically licensed for use by children says Dr McLay. ...

Researchers Develop Tool to Gauge Quality of Life of Hepatitis B Patients

...p measure outcomes and also to equip patients with knowledge to help them better select between competing disease management strategies....

Tourettes Syndrome in Children may also Result in Superior Learning Skills

...nd only on conceptual knowledge. The motor skill knowledge associated with manipulated objects also depends on procedural memory. But unlike in the past tense task, where some accuracy was lost to the speed of the response, the researchers did not observe any loss of accuracy in the picture-naming test by ch...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10