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A New Ultrasound Technique to Detect Breast Cancer

...on is the addition of a piece of software that can translate the data to determine how much the tissue is distorting. This Elasticity imaging ultrasound technique, if confirmed by a larger study, could be used as an effective tool for early breast cancer detection....

RU-486, The Abortion Pill, May Quell The Breast Cancer Gene

...y raised the curiosity of the scientists who could translate the success in the mouse model and reflect it on better drugs for humans. Once scientists are able to nail how BRCA1 actually causes tumors, it will enable the knowledge to tide over the bad effects of BRCA1. As part of the research, Lee and colle...

Aggressive Stem Cells Might Improve Transplant Outcome

... are needed to confirm this initial finding and to translate it into better treatment for children. “Such information will help clinicians rethink how they can do bone marrow stem cell transplantation so that the risk of infection is lowered in their patients,” Barfield said. Sourc-Newswise SRM...

Colonoscopies Can Help Prevent Colon Cancer; Only When Done Properly

...nding slightly more time in the procedure seems to translate into a better outcome for patients," said study co-author Dr. Robert L. Barclay, a partner in Illinois-based Rockford Gastroenterology Associates. PRI...

Genetically Modified Cells Attack Tumors

...in humans. That knowledge should make it easier to translate these laboratory findings to the clinic, the researchers said. The ability to target tumors with CPT-11 suggests that this technique could let clinicians treat tumors in humans more effectively while avoiding side effects caused by damage to normal...

Adults Who Go to Bed Lonely Get Stress Hormone Boost Next Morning

...iology and health. “Stress systems are designed to translate social experience into biological action,” she said. “They are designed to be a conduit from the outside world to our internal worlds so that we can better respond to our social context. The overarching question of my studies of these systems in a va...

Inflammatory Genes Linked to Salt-Sensitive Hypertension

...as cancer, Alzheimer’s and diabetes, may also help translate stress into high blood pressure. “There is a concept that hypertension is an inflammatory condition,” says Dr. Haidong Zhu, molecular geneticist at the Medical College of Georgia. She’s among the scientists who believe the connection between stress...

Gender Of Children May Be Linked To Risk Of Prostate Cancer

...rtainly attracts the attention, but it doesn't yet translate into useful advice for men until other complex genetic studies are done. "Further research to confirm these findings in men from other parts of the world is needed "We also need to uncover exactly what it is about the Y chromosome, which only men ...

Lost That Lovin' Feeling? Don't Blame the Pill

...cluding testosterone, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to a loss of libido. Chemical changes occurred, but they did not apparently impact sexual behavior for the vast majority of women,’ he said. Similarly, the effect of progestin on women’s sexual desire was not dramatic. ‘A small minority of all the ...

Nurses Ease the Wounded Heart

...es this reaction as 'when clinicians are unable to translate their moral choices into ethically appropriate action' and adds that 'moral distress is a critical, frequently ignored problem in health care work environments. Unaddressed, it restricts nurses' ability to provide optimum patient care and to find job...

Billions of Dollars Saved in U.S. By Polio Vaccination

...mated that these historical and future investments translate into over 1.7 billion vaccinations that prevent approximately 1.1 million cases of paralytic polio and over 160,000 deaths, thus saving Americans hundreds of billions of dollars in treatment costs. Dr. Stephen Cochi, U.S. Centers for Disease Contr...

Chain-Smokers can Kick the Habit –A ‘brainy’ Iea

... lies in the center of the brain and is thought to translate information from other parts of the body into feelings such as hunger, pain or cravings for a drug. The study published in the journal Science, was inspired when one of the scientists involved in the work, noted the case of a person who lost the u...

A 'Damaged' Brain May Ease Urge To Smoke

...rom other parts of the body and is thought to help translate those signals into something we subjectively feel, such as hunger, pain, or craving for a drug. Compared to other brain regions, the insula has not attracted very much attention in drug addiction research until now, but some imaging studies have sho...

A Protein in Brain Cells Controls Obesity: Research

...le in the brain and body even further, and hope to translate their findings into clinical research involving humans. They hope that their findings will help lead to better tactics for understanding the causes of obesity and its consequences, including Type 2 diabetes, and perhaps better methods for preventing ...

Researchers On The Path To Building Bone

... production led to greater bone density. If we can translate these findings to human conditions such as osteoporosis or bone fracture, we can potentially not only prevent bone loss, but actually increase bone density in humans as they age.” Humans lose bone as they age, in part because of the loss of osteobl...

Effective Marketing of Multivitamins Essential

...h," he concludes. "At best, the research needed to translate scientific knowledge into policy will require a robust interaction between the public and private sectors in a regulatory framework that supports and rewards investment in good science." Source-Eurekalert PR...

Madness- the Genius Connection

...olution, that would normally confer advantage, may translate into a disadvantage if the prefrontal cortex is impaired, as in schizophrenia. "Normally, enhanced cortex connectivity with the striatum would provide increased flexibility, working memory capacity and executive control. "But if other genes and ...

Standard Therapy More Effective in Common Fertility Disorder

...r, the tendency to ovulate more frequently did not translate into a significantly greater number of pregnancies for the combination group. Dr. Legro said that these findings were consistent with earlier studies that also reported an increase in ovulation from the combined therapy and that these early observ...

Smoking Alters the Human Brain Like Those in Animals Using Illicit Drugs

... of two specific enzymes found inside neurons that translate chemical signals outside the neuron, such as the neurotransmitter dopamine, into chemical signals and changes inside the neuron. They found elevated levels of these enzymes in the smokers, but, more interesting, levels remained high, as compared to n...

Sleep Deprivation Could Affect Brain Function

...d be conducted as laboratory results do not always translate to real world situations. Source-IANS...

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