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New Test Predicts CLL’s Sensitivity to Experimental Drug

...ratory profiling operation more automated, looking toward a time when it could be used on a routine basis to assess the vulnerability of patients' cancers to compounds that antagonize BCL-2 or related anti-death proteins. "This is a totally new class of drugs and has the potential to be a major addition t...

Male Fish Cannibalize Its Own Offspring Than Female

...y is a key factor in determining a male's behavior toward his offspring, including whether or not to eat them." Predicted by theory, this pattern had never previously before been demonstrated. Studying Telmatherina sarasinorum, a small, colorful fish found in Lake Matano in Indonesia, the researchers fou...

Activation of a Particular Brain Region Predicts Altruism: Study

... information may help determine how the tendencies toward altruism are established. Source-Newswise SRI...

Poorer Women More Likely to Get Reduced Chemotherapy Dose

...doctors may be anticipating the patient’s attitude toward treatment, the researchers suspect. “We speculate that physicians have concerns about a patient's ability to tolerate the side effects of chemotherapy and that the physician's uncertainty about a patient’s tolerance increases with increasing social...

WHO and U.S. Officials Meet to Discuss Funding to Combat XDR-TB

...aid. He also added that the money also would go toward paying for the staff and transportation required to find and provide treatment for people with TB in rural areas, which would prevent the development of XDR-TB. It is not clear how much the U.S. can commit to XDR-TB because the federal budget has not...

New Software to Help Patients

...mericans now fill their prescriptions, or targeted toward individuals who could use the program on their home computers. 'While I am excited about the potential, I completely understand that this process is in the very early stages,' he says. 'The first round of funding is used to evaluate the market pote...

Einstein's Tea Leaves Inspire New Blood Separation Technique

...here. Thus the microscopic particles spiral inward toward the bottom of the chamber like a miniature tornado, leaving a clear layer of plasma above. Yeo anticipates the technology could be incorporated into a chip roughly the size of a credit card. He said the devices could be produced cheaply with current...

Antibody Therapy Prevents Type 1 Diabetes

...ents, then this may prove to be a significant step toward preventing this disease before it can take hold," he explained. Source-Eurekalert SRI...

Outwardly Expressed Anger Affects Some Women’s Heart Arterie

...Medical Center, said the overt expression of anger toward other persons or objects appears to be the most “toxic” aspect of hostility in women. In fact, the researchers analyzed a variety of measures related to anger, including cynicism, hostile temperament, aggression and suppressed anger. Only expressed a...

Women's Sex Lives Mediocre

...settle for mediocre sex; ? How a woman’s attitude toward motherhood can upset her biological and psychological stability enough to diminish her libido and fertility; ? How menopause presents sexual challenges by instigating both psychological and hormonal changes. Soure-Newswise SRM...

The Uncommon Pathway of Campylobacter Jejuni

...vacuoles, or cellular pockets, that make their way toward the nucleus, and finally locate near the cell's transportation hub, the Golgi apparatus. "It's been known for over two decades that campylobacter can enter intestinal epithelial cells -- but until now no one could show how it was taken up or where ...

Physical Exercise Fights Mental Woes

...ng and mental function and decreases your tendency toward addiction," Marc Siegel, associate professor of medicine at the New York University of Medicine, was quoted as saying by health portal Health Central. "Studies have shown that it works better than some drugs. It's also a great anti-anxiety intervent...

Dawn Machine Beats Wintertime Blues

...ation and negative air ionization - both activated toward the end of sleep – prove to be effective and established treatments for SAD. According to the bright light therapy, SAD sufferers have to sit at a bright light box for 30 minutes during the breakfast time. Dawn simulation and negative air ionizat...

Bottleneck in Blood Supply Makes Brain Vulnerable to Strokes

... and understanding the mechanism is the first step toward understanding how to prevent it.” To determine what happens in the brain during a stroke, the researchers created a tiny clot in a blood vessel in the brain of an anesthetized rat. They used focused laser light to excite a dye they had injected in...

Herpes Simplex and Alzheimer’s Disease Linked to Single Gen

...gether several lines of research that have pointed toward a possible role for herpes in Alzheimer's disease.Ruth Itzhaki of the University of Manchester has led the way with several studies showing a correlation between herpes and Alzheimer's. She has shown that Alzheimer's patients who have the ApoE-4 form...

Cough and Phlegm Cause Fourfold Increase in COPD Incidence

...h previous research, we found that the progression toward airflow obstruction is a continuous and gradual process, where sudden changes are extremely unlikely.” Among the study group, about 77 percent of the 123 COPD cases were smokers. In the sample as a whole, about 55 percent smoked. The authors note...

A ‘Good Samaritan’ to the Aid of Lepes

...bia felt by healthy residents from nearby villages toward the leper colony. Conditions at Tanshan Leper Rehab Village are improving. Houses have been built with government subsidies. Construction has started on a cement road linking the village to the outside world. "I am a candle, I want to brighten up...

Alcohol in Moderation Could Increase the Life Span

...ith a healthy lifestyle, where moderation leads us toward a consumption inspired by quality not by quantity". Source-Eurekalert SM...

CDC Uses Advertising Campaign to Get Kids Moving

...pants about physical activity levels and attitudes toward being active. They found that the more frequently children saw campaign messages, the more physical activity they reported. In addition, their attitudes about physical activity became more positive. Two years into the campaign, children who were...

MIT Creates 3-D Scaffold for Growing Stem Cells

...ferentiating into needed body tissues or migrating toward bone marrow and other natural destinations. "What makes these designer scaffolds particularly interesting is that cells survive longer and differentiate better without additional soluble growth factors," Zhang said. "This suggests that extracellul...

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