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DelSite Working Toward Solving Delivery of Influenza Vaccine in Pandemic Situations

...a powder and reconstituted with sterile water just prior to injection. GelVac(TM) powder formulation also has a strong immuno-enhancing or adjuvant-like effect when it is injected after reconstitution through sustained release of the injected antigen. This effect could provide protection for more people at...

Sleep Deprivation can Affect Competent Decision-making

...ccording to the authors, the new findings build on prior research that has shown that sleep-deprived participants choose higher-risk decks and exhibit reduced concern for negative consequences when performing a variant of the Iowa Gambling Task. While well-rested participants learn to avoid high-risk decks...

Fertility Rates Felled By Diabetes

...Ishola Agbaje: "Diabetes will affect many more men prior to and during their reproductive years." He added that up to one in six couples needs specialist help to conceive. Co-author Professor Sheena Lewis stressed it was not possible to say whether the DNA damage caused by diabetes would have the same ...

Doctors Warned Against Encouraging Elective Caesareans

...ions. 'More than 1 percent of pregnancies with a prior caesarean section had one of these events, which had a 50 percent increase compared to women without previous caesarean section. 'This has important implications on the management of these pregnancies. It also introduces new and important evidence ...

Placental Problems in Women Linked With Caesarean Section

...l abruption. More than 1% of pregnancies with a prior Caesarean section had one of these events which had a 50% increase compared to women without previous Caesarean section. This has important implications on the management of these pregnancies. It also introduces new and important evidence in the deba...

Vitamin Extends Life in Yeast, Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Find

...s found in humans. The new work builds on Brenners prior discovery of the vitamin, termed NR (nicotinamide riboside), a natural product found in milk. Like the B3 vitamin, niacin, NR is a precursor to a versatile cellular factor that is vital for all life. The factor, called NAD, short for nicotinamide a...

New Therapies may Help to Avoid Transplant in Some Heart Failure Patients

... at implant and at the time of removal of the LVAD prior to transplantation found evidence of important improvements. The size of the heart muscle cells, the amount of the fibrous collagen and levels of the protein TNF-alpha all decreased significantly between pump implant and heart transplant signs of...

Estrogen May Be a Good Therapy for Women Before They Turn 65

..., how long or recently she took it or what kind of prior therapy she used," said study author Victor W. Henderson, MD, of Stanford University. "Further studies are needed to support these findings and learn more about how hormone therapy affects the long-term cognitive health of women who begin use befor...

Human Rights Activists Sleepless In Seattle

...ing the operation on a minor like Ashley without prior permission from a court was a violation of Ashley's constitutional and common-law rights. Incidentally, the operation has halted the physical and sexual development of Ashley, as well as her ability to become pregnant. In response, the hospital a...

Meditation May Fine-Tune Control Over Attention

...g during the test, their improvement suggests that prior training can cause lasting changes in how people allocate their mental resources. "Their previous practice of meditation is influencing their performance on this task," Davidson says. "The conventional view is that attentional resources are limited...

Swallowing The Bitter Pill-Oral Sex Linked To Oral Cancer

...se blood or saliva samples indicated that they had prior HPV infection were 32 times more likely to develop oropharnygeal cancer, which affects the throat, tonsils and back of the tongue. Also, those people who had had more than six oral sex partners were 8,6 times more likely to develop the HPV-linked c...

Younger Women At Risk Of Heart Disease

...8 percent) saw their primary provider for symptoms prior to having a heart attack. And only 56 percent of the women said their doctors said their symptoms were heart-related. And this was among a group of women almost all of whom had a family history of heart disease. "This is really the first time resea...

States' Spending may Help Keep Childless Seniors Independent

...earch and Policy. "There has been little evidence, prior to this study, to show that spending more money on these services helps seniors avoid or delay placement in a nursing home." Some states spend as little as $35 per person each year on home- and community-based services for seniors, while other stat...

Transplanted Heart Goes to a Second Recipient in a Rare Surgery

...iods without blood flow while the heart is removed prior to each transplantation may damage the heart muscle further. Czer said that the short time the heart spent in the first recipient may have been critical to the success of the retransplantation. With longer periods, there may have been more signific...

Gene Thought to Help Kill Cancer Cells may Actually Help Them Thrive

...cancer patients had been treated with chemotherapy prior to surgery, and some had not. At this point researchers didn't consider whether the patients actually had malignant tumors or had been treated with chemotherapy. However, they found that the gene expression profiles of the tumors clustered the chem...

Out of Reach may Not Always Save You from Catching Cold

... measure the distance a droplet travels in the air prior to drying. "The significant part of our research has found that rather than the droplet falling directly to the ground after leaving the mouth, the liquid component of the droplet dries in the air and the dry residue travels large distances When a ...

Albuterol may Be Helpful for Infants Suffering from Bronchiolitis

..., Paul Walsh, MD, originally preferred epinephrine prior to conducting this study. The other investigators were Kemedy McQuillan MD, John Caldwel Pharm Dl and Stephen J Rothenberg PhD....

Soy Products a Double-edged Sword for Breast Cancer

.... Some found that feeding genistein to female rats prior to puberty reduced the number of chemically induced mammary tumors. Other studies showed that estradiol, a primary human estrogen, spurs the growth of existing estrogen-dependent breast tumors. Helferich and colleagues demonstrated that like estr...

Coverage for Childrens Mental Illness Reduces Out-of-Pocket Spending

...e effect on the use of mental health services. But prior to the release of this study, Barry and Busch said little has been known about how state policies affect the financial burden of seeking mental health treatment. Using data from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 National Survey of...

Antibody-based Therapies Effective at Controlling Malaria

...ides both a test for therapeutic antibody efficacy prior to clinical trials in humans and an important tool in malaria vaccine development....

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