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Twiggy Slams Ultra Thin Actresses

...k Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. "It's scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them. I'd love there to be la...

Parkinson's Mutation Stunts Neurons

...iversity, said their findings could lead to animal models for studying the form of PD and ultimately to new ...del for the form of PD. "These cellular and animal models may promote the discovery of effective therapeutics for LRRK2-associated disease," they wrote. Sour...

Technology Predicts Outcome of Child Heart Surgery

...es in the cardiac cycle, also called a 4D MRI. The models allow surgeons to visualize the direction of blood... “We use the MRI images and time data to create models of these children’s vascular systems and hearts to simulate how they currently work and how they cou...

Advertising Blamed For Kids' Poor Choices

... TV shown in schools; magazine ads with stick-thin models and toy and other product "tie-ins" between popular movie characters and fast-food restaurants. The academy suggests that the federal agencies should ban junk-food ads during shows aimed at young children, limit commercial advertising to 6 minutes ...

Research In A New Direction To Develop Innovative Psychotropic Drugs

...brain; continued skepticism of results from animal models for certain disorders; an outdated paradigm of tre... schizophrenia. Because of limitations in animal models of complex psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, investigators were often not discouraged by neg...

A New Rapid 3-D Cell-Growth Technique For Growing Heart Muscle

...ratory. Active programs include tissue-engineering models for cardiac muscle, tri-leaflet valves, cell-based...e. 'Fundamentally, we're interested in creating models of the different components of the heart one by one,' says Birla. 'It's like building a house – y...

Johns Hopkins Computer Scientists Unravel 'Language Of Surgery'

... who are in the process //of building mathematical models to represent the safest and most effective ways to...ion research, scientists say that the mathematical models would be the safest and most effective way to perform surgery, including tasks such as suturing, dis...

Video Games Fun but Pose Social, Health Risks

... coveted as these new video game systems and other models are, some parents may want to think twice before buying them for their children and teens, a University of Florida child psychologist says. With more educational games hitting store shelves and one system, the Nintendo Wii, actually requiring play...

Robotic Model To Teach Surgical Skills

...cientists at Johns Hopkins are making mathematical models to depict the safest and most effective ways to pe...‘the language of surgery.' To develop mathematical models for this language, we're borrowing techniques from speech recognition technology and applying them t...

Compellis Pharmaceuticals Gets Patent for Obesity-Fighting Nasal Spray CP404

...in animals. The results of the Pre-clinical animal models were published in Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior. Chris Adams, president and chief executive officer of Compellis Pharmaceuticals says that the PATENT for CP404 marks a significant milestone in the company’s history as it the first issued...

Targeting a Single Gene Could Inhibit Bone Decay and Stimulate Bone Growth

... even higher levels and who also present exemplary models for the academic community. Choi, who is originally from Seoul, South Korea, has been at the University of Pennsylvania since 2001. PENN Medicine is a $2.9 billion enterprise dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical resear...

Survival of Mice With Human Breast Cancer Extended by Monoclonal Antibodies

...asizing." The antibody was tested using in vitro models of tumor cell growth, in assays to determine its a...to damage or kill cells (cytotoxicity), in various models of cancer metastasis, and, finally, in mice with metastatic breast cancer. "In addition to provid...

Increase Testosterone Levels To Slow Down Alzheimer’

...red in the different groups of mice. The castrated models that received the placebo showed poor working memory and high brain levels of Aa. However, both Aa accumulation and cognitive decline were prevented in mice treated with the hormone therapy. "Although the results of the study predict that androgen ...

Anti Allergy Drugs Reduce Tumor Growth

... patients." The JNCI study demonstrates in mouse models of human pancreatic cancer that the cromolyn-gemcitabine combination reduced cancer growth by 85 percent compared to control animals, Logsdon says. "Cromolyn used alone actually had a good effect on reduction of tumors compared to control animals, wh...

Gene Therapy for Hereditary Immunodeficiency Diseases

...ect collaboration across disciplines, using animal models and clinical studies. An acute need for research exists, especially regarding the development of efficient and safe vectors for gene transfer. Source-Eurekalert SRI...

UN Leader to Deliver Speech Against the Spread of HIV/AIDS

...velopment plans. While noting that existing mental models or worldviews have failed to see the full potential for utilizing Information and Communications Technologies (ICT's) in meeting these challenges, he will articulate potential solutions based upon the experience of SACI. Points of contact of these po...

New Study Challenges How Regulators Determine Risk

... that the major issue is that the risk assessments models used by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration fail to accurately predict responses in the low-dose zone, that is, where people live most of their daily lives. Calabrese also says challenging the existing d...

Researchers Identify New Drug Targets for Cancer

...rs in the Cleveland lab created and analyzed mouse models with cells having a highly variable number of chromosomes to discover if such aneuploidy made the mice more tumor-prone. “We found that, with age, having cells which inherited the wrong composition of chromosomes resulted in a larger number of spon...

Genetic-Engineered Cows Resist Mad Cow Disease

...cipate that prion protein-free cows will be useful models to study prion disease processes in both animals and humans." SRI...

Drop That Glossy, Girl!

... exposure. Some European fashion shows now require models to have a BMI of at least 18, and magazine editors say they include information about healthy eating and exercise in their articles. As researchers say, young girls are the most likely to spend time reading magazine articles dealing with the best w...

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