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Habitual Consumption of Alcohol Linked With Sleep-related Breathing Disorder in Men

... an SRBD, perhaps by reducing upper airway patency via reduced dilatory muscle tone, or by blunted ventilatory response to hypoxia,” said Peppard. “Based on the previous experimental evidence, men and women with an SRBD, or those particularly susceptible to an SRBD, should be advised to avoid alcohol nea...

Physicists Unite To Develop Anthrax Detection Method

...oach femtosecond adaptive spectroscopic techniques via CARS (FAST-CARS). The research reported in Science represents further refinement of the FAST-CARS method, using ultrashort broadband pulses for the first two laser bursts and a longer, tailored narrowband pulse for the third laser probe. “This co...

Anticancer Effects of Curcumin Revealed

...sing the PC-3 cell-line. Curcumin was administered via an oral route to all mice (5 days per week for 4 weeks) except for the control group which only received cottonseed oil. Study groups (5 mice each) were divided as follows: (1) curcumin therapy alone, (2) gemcitabine alone intraperitoneally, (3) radi...

Study Challenges Conventional Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

...nal metabolism, one that causes further cell death via acidosis, an abnormally high buildup of acid in blood and tissue.” Instead, the researchers found that in the first 12 to 48 hours following traumatic injury, the brain takes up and apparently consumes more lactate than at any other time. They disc...

Sleep Disorder Linked to Heart Failure Patient Deaths

...y pressure (CPAP). The device applies air pressure via a mask placed over the nose during sleep. The continuous air pressure flows through the nose into the throat, propping it open and preventing it from collapsing during sleep. This allows a person to breathe without interruptions. There were no dea...

Phone Counseling Helps Patients Improve Eating and Exercise Habits

...ed participants nutrition and exercise information via an initial face-to-face meeting and printed materials. One reviewed study aimed to increase walking. It began by offering participants detailed feedback on whether their initial level of walking was consistent with recommended levels. Counselors a...

Early Estrogen Therapy May Reduce Cardiovascular Risks

...an estrogen, estradiol, delivered through the skin via a patch is equally effective as, and potentially safer than, oral estrogen. Researchers have speculated that this method may be safer since transdermal estrogen does not go to the liver in high concentrations and has been shown to have little or no e...

Drug Used to Prevent HIV Transmission from Mother to Child Damages DNA

...by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and is available online via Wiley InterScience at (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/emm). Researchers led by Dale M. Walker of Experimental Pathology Laboratories in Herndon, VA, administered AZT in varying doses to female mice and rats during the last 7 days of gest...

John Hopkins Hospitals- Now at Tokyo

...rs can get advice from colleagues at Johns Hopkins via videoconference and patients can be referred to the hospital in Baltimore for treatment unavailable in Japan. Bilingual staff, nutritionists and cosmetologists are on staff. Fees start from 80,000 yen for a one-day appointment to 2 million yen for ...

Learning Words by Inference More Powerful for Toddlers

... the young children would learn words more quickly via inference. According to her preliminary results...Meredith's result suggesting that knowledge gained via a child's own inferences is sometimes more powerful and longer lasting than knowledge gained through...

Indian Healthcare Sector Will Grow Faster, Says Federal Minister

...inked with two super speciality hospitals of India via satellite, it has been stated. SR...

Estrogen Protects Liver After Traumatic Injury

...estrogen that cannot enter cells, thus acting only via cell surface interactions. As expected, rats affected by trauma-hemorrhage released high levels of liver enzymes associated with liver damage. However, treatment with surface estrogen decreased the amount of enzymes released. Further, such treatme...

White House Press Secretary to Battle Second Round of Colon Cancer

...s is colon screening. Colon screening performed via a test called the colonoscopy should be mandatory for all persons above 50, say doctors. "Everybody is supposed to get screened for colon cancer right after they reach the age of 50," says DuBois, "because the risk of cancer started increasing dram...

Inquiry into Past NHS Treatment Disaster

...dly infections by almost 2000 hemophilia patients, via blood transfusions, in what is acknowledged as the biggest treatment blunder in the history of UK’s National Health Services. The incident took place in the late 70s and early 80s where out of 4,670 hemophiliacs who received transfusions with don...

Lesser the Better- Minimally Invasive Surgery Breakthrough

...maneuvering surgical instruments into the abdomen, via the belly button or throat. “A fixed hole has a limited working envelope that is conical in shape,” said Dr. Jeffrey Cadeddu, associate professor of urology and radiology and director of the Clinical Center for Minimally Invasive Treatment of Urolo...

Antioxidant Molecule Could Help Minimize Stroke-Linked Brain Damage

... says. "That suggests that this peptide is working via inhibiting CD36 pathways." The exact mechanism by which SS31 inhibits CD36 remains unclear, she says. "We have theories -- for example, it may block binding of CD36 with LDL cholesterol, reducing LDL oxidation. But there could be multiple pathways....

Testing Time for Patients - Undue Delays in Getting Test Results

...005/2006. Worse still, the results reach Doctors via informal channels, or may even be overlooked; in some cases a tacit agreement between the department and the Doctor regarding an impending report, would have the Doctor conjecture the diagnosis. Some doctors go a step further and make their own con...

Micro-jets for Painless Needle-free Injections

...ould be required in order for them to be delivered via this new method, but the ultimate aim of the research group is to establish a technology platform that could be used for the delivery of a variety of vaccines and biotech drugs. "The pulsed micro-jets…open up new possibilities in needle-free delive...

Transcendental Meditation Can Help

...alidation of the outcomes of this study is planned via a large, multi-center trial with long-term follow-up. According to the study authors, TM most likely improves heart failure by reducing sympathetic nervous system activation associated with stress that is known to contribute to the failing heart. ...

A Novel Treatment for KSHV-infected Lymphomas

...lopment by inducing cell-cycle arrest or apoptosis via a complex signal transduction network referred to ...s. These results demonstrate that p53 reactivation via Nutlin-3a is an efficient treatment for KSHV-lymphomas in mice and suggest a novel therapeutic strat...

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