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Common Ingredient in Big Macs and Sodas Can Stabilize Gold Nanoparticles for Medical Use

...mbia has found that a plant extract can be used to overcome this problem, creating a new type of gold nanoparticle that is stable and nontoxic and can be administered orally or injected. Because gold nanoparticles have a high surface reactivity and biocompatible properties, they can be used for in vivo (in...

‘Delayed Reaction’ to Radiation Therapy Takes the Life of a Woman After 30 Yeas

... such a treatment when it is designed to help them overcome a disease. But I must bear in mind that the way in which radiotherapy was approached has now been refined. In 1971 the world was a different place and doctors felt that the important thing was to zap the cancer without much thought for the consequenc...

New Cost-cutting Cancer Drug Delivery System

...e enabled the company to develop a system that can overcome these difficulties. The firm has created a biodegradable, hydrophilic material that can be used with traditional therapeutic agents and thus greatly improve solubility of the drug. In addition to this, the firm points out that most compounds used ...

Hearing Impaired Student Captures International Performance Award

...ruggle, but it often speaks about a strong will to overcome any circumstance. Yet there is an inexplicable calmness and depth in his music. I always feel Beethoven telling me himself, ‘Accept your flaw. Know who you are.’ ” In 2001 Cheong was awarded a full scholarship to WVU, followed by graduate assistant...

Standardized Diagnostic Test for Learning Disabilities

...t also those with a small delay that a student can overcome in a short period. After analyzing the results of the test, the testers will also know if a child has a disability or difficulties that stem from low intelligence. The treatment recommended as part of the new program is also different from currently ...

US Health System Getting Worse, Says Expert

...plexing problems of access, quality, and cost, and overcome considerable political and economic obstacles, as well as institutional resistance to change, she concludes. Source-Eurekalert...

Cleft Palate in Fetal Mice Prevented by Treating

... "Over time, I expect we will have the ability to overcome these obstacles," said Longaker. "This is the true value of having one of the best children's hospitals in the country integrated within a school of medicine renowned for its research capabilities. With interdisciplinary teamwork, we may be able to d...

Scientists Develop a Harmless Multi-Tasking Reovirus

...ultaneously, but through different mechanisms, may overcome the resistance to treatment that is typically seen in cancer. In addition, this double attack on cancer could point to new treatment regimens based on conventional therapies like radiation and chemotherapy with biological agents. Source-Eurekalert ...

New Inhaler is Child's Play

...r mask. One major issue the developers hoped to overcome was the fact that there is high variability in the mass of the drug that is actually delivered to a patient's lungs when using inhalation devices. This is not solely down to the design of the device itself, but also individual patients' compliance wi...

Parasomnias are Common in Children: Study

... to take an active approach in helping their child overcome a sleep disorder, to consult with their child’s pediatrician, and for an office evaluation of a child with any Parasomnias to be thorough. Thornton B.A. Mason II, MD, PhD, of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Allan I. Pack, MBChB, PhD, ...

Learning Slows Physical Progression of Alzheimer's Disease: Study

...decline, but the effects were not strong enough to overcome later and more severe pathology," Green said. "We are now investigating if more frequent and vigorous learning will have bigger and longer benefits to Alzheimer's disease." LaFerla and other colleagues developed the transgenic mice used in this stu...

Hypertension Treatment: US Beats Europe

...t, he added, and suggests "we need to find ways to overcome clinical inertia, the tendency of physicians and patients to rationalize the causes of elevated blood pressure and to delay stepping up treatment." The researchers used data from 2004 collected by Cardio-Monitor - an ongoing survey of physician vis...

AIDS Healthcare Foundation to File Lawsuit Against Pfizer

...se of Viagra among men who have sex with men might overcome the erection-inhibiting effects of alcohol or drugs such as crystal methamphetamine and ecstasy. The suit will ask that Pfizer stop running ads that promote Viagra as a lifestyle drug and that the company fund ads promoting awareness about the ris...

Is Your Child Dyslexic-Take a Ten-minute Test

...agnosed, these language disorders can be helped or overcome with the right treatments and professional help.” A pilot project is currently being carried out at Aberdeen University to help trainee teachers to spot dyslexia in young pupils. THE GAPS test which will cost fifty pounds, takes about ten minutes ...

Special Children Need to Be Taught Sexual Safety

...l children. Every community has the strength to overcome child sexual abuse. The key to preventing sexual violence is to build on those strengths and diminish the influence of those conditions that perpetuate abuse. We need to know what a safer community that protects children from sexual abuse looks like....

A New Therapy for CFS

...after his marriage. After trying unsuccessfully to overcome what he thought were lingering effects of the flu, he had no choice but to drastically curtail all his activities and eventually stop working. During his longest period of extreme fatigue, 13 1/2 weeks, Manson said, "My wife literally thought I was...

Cartoons Superimposed With People's Faces Help Autistic Children Learn Emotions

... to somehow find a way to get autistic children to overcome their fear of looking at people's faces so that they can start learning about how expressions arise. This is a way to ease them into reading faces." People's faces were superimposed on trains and cars in a series of five-minute episodes of a cartoo...

Not to Be Frozen

... makes a difference is that it will now be able to overcome problems of convenience. Being able to be stored in a simple fridge, instead of freezer, it can now be readily available in schools, pharmacies, groceries, etc. Hence MedImmune is urging health providers across US to adopt the intranasal spray. Flu...

Researchers Looking for Genes That Control the Brain

...of the brain in healthy subjects, we’ll be able to overcome the ‘chicken-and-egg’ problem that’s constantly there in clinical research.’ Source-Newswise SRM...

A Transplant in Time - Scientists ID Window for Tissue Transplant

...ether human or pig, could one day help the body to overcome genetic diseases. Source-NewswiseBR>SRM...

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