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Drug Eluting Nanostructured Coatings Enable Targeted Drug Therapy for Orthopedic Patients

... and length scales of the tubes. By changing these physical parameters of nanotubes, they could precisely control the dosage and deliver drugs at physiological rates for desired duration of time. In the case of orthopedic implants with nanotubes on the implant surfaces, drugs such as antibiotics can be load...

Vitamins may Not Ward Off Pneumonia

...tors as smoking, body-mass index, alcohol use, and physical activity, he and his colleagues found that intake of vitamin A, C, or E had no effect on the chances of developing pneumonia. Similarly, the investigators report in the April issue of The American Journal of Medicine, there was no relationship betw...

UCLA Imaging Study Reveals How Pure Oxygen Harms the Brain

...and blood pressure; and the insula, which monitors physical and emotional stress. All this activity awakened the hypothalamus, which regulates heart rate and hormonal outflow. Activation of the hypothalamus triggered a cascade of harmful reactions and released chemicals that can injure the brain and heart....

Sling Surgery Better Than Burch for Treating Stress Incontinence in Women

...ired that women have no symptoms of leakage during physical activities, no leakage during a valsalva and cough stress-test, and no re-treatment for the problem. Overall success required that women meet SUI-specific treatment goals, have a negative pad test and have no leakage episodes recorded on a three-day ...

Exercise may Help Breast Cancer Patients to Lead a Healthy Life

...n, who had survived breast cancer, and to show how physical activity, and more specifically the intensity and amount of physical activity before and after cancer treatment, can affect future symptoms and quality of life. Cancer...

Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle During Adulthood may Delay Old Age Disability

... adulthood may help prevent or delay the onset of physical disability as we age. The study found that older ...y of excess weight in midlife or earlier had worse physical performance than those who were normal weight throughout adulthood or became overweight in late adul...

Psychological Bullying Hits Just as Hard

School bullying doesnt have to leave physical bumps and bruises to contribute to a hostile and potentially dangerous school environment. Behavior that intentionally harms another individual, through the manipulation of social relationships (or relational aggression), is just as significant a co...

Obesity Might Lead to Severe Persistent Asthma Attacks: Study

...nd obesity are linked; it is possible that reduced physical activity caused by more severe asthma may lead to weight gain," Holguin added. The researchers state there may be a connection with the hormone leptin, which is produced by fat cells and plays a role in body weight regulation. Previous research sug...

Drink, Binge and the Genetic Link

...stablish familial alcohol-dependence. Although a physical trait, endophenotypes are not visible but can be measured and they help to reveal the biological basis of a disorder. The electrical activity of the brain is one such endophenotype, which can be evaluated using electroencephalography (EEG). The e...

Research may Yield Improved Treatment for Diseased Lungs

...able Chesler to use transgenic mice to explore the physical role of collagen-mediated large-artery stiffening in pulmonary arterial hypertension. She will induce large-artery stiffness in the mice in a process that mimics scleroderma, a disease in which the body produces too much collagen, the body's ubiquito...

Hypnotherapy may Help Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

... IBS is a very common disorder, but conventional physical treatments often do not work very well and patient...an emotional, mental, or psychosocial problem to a physical complaint). This has led to the idea that IBS has a psychological as well as a biological basis and ...

Researcher Studying Disease That Cripples Newborns

...tardation. Children with CDM1 face a lifetime of physical and occupational therapy and require special educational programs. Currently, there is no treatment that either slows down or cures this disorder. Changing this prognosis is a goal of Dr. Mahadevan. Over the next two years, the Rachel Fund will be ...

Adult Down Syndrome Clinic Opened at UAB

...ealth disciplines, including occupational therapy, physical therapy, nutrition, psychology, social work, genetics and audiology. Lose says he hopes to add financial planning services in the near future....

Shortage of Doctors and Nurses Affects AIDS Treatment in Africa

...e Account has committed an $140 million to improve physical infrastructure at health facilities. But no plans have been made to recruit the 600 additional health care workers needed to staff the facilities. "People living with HIV/AIDS do not only need drugs and clinics; they need trained, motivated health ...

Our Medieval Ancestors Were More or Less Similar to Us Than Previously Thought

... similar height, our predecessors suffered similar physical ailments to ours today, such as back and joint problems. Only two skeletons had evidence of tuberculosis and there were just four cases of polio, Payne said. English Heritage senior curator Kevin Booth said the two million pounds project provide...

Olive Stones to Depollute Industrial Sewage Water

...annery or galvanizing industry. Biosorption is a physical and chemical process, which enables certain types of biomass for example, agricultural residues- to retain the hard metals found in industrial sewage water. The main advantage of this research is that olive stones are used. Germn Tenorio points out: ...

Domestic Violence in Australia Leads to Number of Suicides

...k factors - such as tobacco, drug and alcohol use, physical inactivity and poor eating habits - together account for 32 per cent of the total burden of death and disease affecting Australians in 2003. The report confirms that cancer has overtaken heart disease as the leading cause of death and disabling ill...

Oops I Did It in the Washroom - Britney and Ryans Tryst

...ebrity. After all they are human too with the same physical and emotional needs....

Sheep Offer Model for Undernourishment in Pregnant Teen Girls

...h nourishment for their fetuses to develop without physical deficits. These studies may also have implications for managing pregnancies of adolescent human females, who, in increasing numbers worldwide, are bearing offspring before they have finished growing. A team of scientists, headed by Dr. Jacqueline...

Attitude Determines How Much Exercise is too Much

...e right reason in mind, but those participating in physical activities due to compulsions or in spite of injur...involved in activities or professions that require physical beauty or high levels of physical performance, such as athletes and dancers, are particularly vulner...

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