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A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...ting to study the basic biology of the disease and methods of caring 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 resear...

White Blood Cell Booster May Help Cancer Patients Avoid Deadly Complications

...w recommendations also suggest that we need better methods to identify patients who are at higher risk of developing febrile neutropenia, and future studies will be aimed at doing just that." White blood cell boosters can have side effects, including bone pain, which need to be reviewed and discussed with e...

Harnessing Immune System Power Heralds Next Era of Cancer Treatment

...ram would enable researchers to continue advancing methods by which immune activating cells from humans are modified in the laboratory, and infused into patients where they will trigger other immune cells to seek out and destroy cancer. "Tumours avoid immune attack by convincing the immune system that they...

Dietary Counseling Leads to Weight Loss

...ietary and lifestyle modifications are the primary methods for treating and preventing obesity but the net effect of dietary counseling for weight loss had not been published until now. "We did not know how much weight people lost on average through weight loss programs or how long it took them to gain it ...

Scientists Find Single Circuit Channeling Depression in Rats

...of the single circuit for depression could lead to methods doctors could use to better diagnose and quantify the problem in their human patients. "The holy grail of psychiatry is to try to find final common pathways that can make sense of how genes and life experiences end up with the same result," he said...

An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

...ng petroleum from existing American reserves. Such methods of carbon dioxide sequestration also trim the impact of greenhouse gases on the environment. Andrews notes the process which was based on formulas developed by two German chemists in the 1920s is already proven to be successful, both scientifical...

The Hospital Superbugs

...factors are important we should be able to develop methods of preventing C.diff causing disease. As well as knocking out genes the ClosTron technology can be used to insert them. Professor Minton hopes this will improve their chances of; (i) developing new anti-cancer treatments that are delivered by the ...

Scientists Destroy Cancer Cells Using Electric Pulses

...tageous in comparison with the currently available methods for destroying tumours using heat or freezing, as these techniques may damage healthy tissue or leave malignant cells. The researchers said that IRE allowed them to adjust the electrical current and reliable kill the targeted cells. "The reliab...

Discourage Less Educated Women from Conceiving , Says New Zealand Academic

...ld-ranked expert on intelligence. He said easier methods of contraception, or even contraception in the water supply, could be used to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies to less educated women. "The lower down the educational scale you go, the less people are in control of their lives, and less i...

A New Study Throws Limelight in HIV Vaccine Production

...puter-intensive, cutting-edge statistical research methods to investigate how the HIV virus mutates to escape...inal idea for the development of these statistical methods came from Dr. Bette Korber at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Korber and co-researchers Dr. Tanmoy B...

Tobacco Industry Promotes Antismoking Campaigns

...ces have been aggressively quashed through various methods found Temple University Assistant Professor Jennifer K. Ibrahim , co-author of an analysis in the August issue of the American Journal of Public Health. In the article, Ibrahim tracks the rise and fall of state and national efforts to curb smoking ...

Organic Farming can Feed the World, U-M Study Shows

...efute the long-standing claim that organic farming methods cannot produce enough food to feed the global popu...al farms in developing countries, as low-intensive methods on the same land. Researchers from the University of Michigan found that in developed countries, y...

Organic Farming Can Feed the World

... the long-standing assumption that organic farming methods cannot produce enough food to feed the global population. Researchers from the University of Michigan found that in developed countries, yields were almost equal on organic and conventional farms. In developing countries, food production could doub...

Nodal Status is the Best Predictor in Esophageal Cancer

...ated into a revised TNM system or that traditional methods of assessing prognosis should be altered. However, they added, histomorphological response might be a surrogate for nodal status and residual tumour volume therefore presenting the option of a non-operative approach in cases where the likelihood of...

Hyperthermia With Chemotherapy Improves Sarcoma Healing

...ectiveness and superiority of the combined-therapy methods are proven, in comparison with results from chemotherapy alone. The study of 341 high-risk patients with deep, local sarcomas shows a significant improvement in the response of the tumour and in the survival of those patients who were treated by me...

Determining the Sex of the Baby in Wild West Way

...the amniocentisis through the stomach. These new methods which have no regulatory control are disturbing indeed. This can result in the termination of pregnancies in cases where the sex of the baby is not according to preference. There are still doubts on the accuracy of the tests. The experts are also con...

First Drug for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

...g their lives. Treating these disorders involves methods geared toward making the behavior go away, or become extinct, but the molecular mechanisms underlying the extinction process are not well understood. However, Tsai said, studies have shown that some of the molecular machinery that initially encodes...

Singapore's Dr. Love Brings Good Sex to Indonesia

...amed "Dr. Love" for his flamboyant, unconventional methods of sex education for Singaporeans, unveils his multi-media empire to Indonesians. They are invited to send anonymous text messages to ask an artificially intelligent avatar, "Nova," any question they have relating to sex, Dr. Love explains. They ...

Probable Health Monitor Sends SMS of Emergency Alerts and ECG

...reatment can be given if problems arise. Available methods of heart monitoring usually restrict the mobility of patients to a hospital or a single room. Thulasi Bai and S.K. Srivatsa of the Sathyabama University in Tamil Nadu, have developed a wearable cardiac telemedicine system that allows post-cardiac pa...

CT Scan Radiations may Lead to Cancer

... disease has led to the development of noninvasive methods for CAD diagnosis, including the 64-slice computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA; combines multiple X-ray images with the aid of a computer to produce cross-sectional views of the heart and coronary arteries). It has been predicted that CTC...

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