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NIH announces phase III clinical trial of creatine for Parkinson's disease

... Participants will be in the phase III study for five to seven years. The effort will be led by Karl Ki...le who have been diagnosed with PD within the past five years and who have been treated for two years or less with levodopa or other drugs that increase the...

Mother knows best: Plant knowledge key to childhood health in remote Amazon

... determined there is a likelihood of nearly one in five children being severely stunted, while families in which mothers possess high levels of plant knowledge have fewer than one in ten children with severe stunting. The other two measures found similar results, with knowledge of local plants significant...

Recently discovered species gain protection

...d frog species occur within the new reserve, as do five additional species so new to science that they are still awaiting formal descriptions. At least one of these species is believed to be found only at this site, known as La Forzosa, and belongs to one of the most globally threatened amphibian groups, ...

Turtles are loyal in feeding as well as in breeding

...les were also tracked when they nested again up to five years later and returned to the same foraging sites. Green turtles have been observed cropping sea grass gardens to encourage new growth, so there could be a benefit to them returning to foraging grounds. Loggerheads have an omnivorous diet, inclu...

Adding radiation decreases breast cancer recurrence

...gests that women also benefit from the recommended five years of tamoxifen treatment for hormone responsiv...rs compared to women who completed the recommended five year course. Based on these study findings, the authors "recommend that mastectomy or breast cons...

Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain

...ich could indicate an allergy. About one out of five participants in the study underwent a blood test that evaluates the reaction of immunoglobulin E (IgE) to specific allergens, such as pollen from grass and trees. IgE is an antibody that triggers allergic reactions. In a previous study, Szeinbach fou...

Multiple malaria infection inhibits spread of parasite

... Koundou, the number of infectious bites was about five times as high as in the capital. There previous research had revealed 177 infectious bites. Test The existing laboratory test for malaria immunity did not yet work optimally. Therefore the researchers first modified this method before starti...

Army research mission focused on autism

...edical, can produce better outcomes. We don’t have five to ten years to wait to find out which treatments work with which kids. We need these answers now." With a mission-driven approach, the ASDRP offer three types of funding opportunities: To encourage new research ideas and bring more investigators ...

Magnetic system could be key to surgery without scars

... the art for laparoscopic surgery requires four or five holes. The question behind this is, can we do the surgery through only one hole and can we hide the hole in a cosmetically advantageous or less painful location,?Dr. Cadeddu said. Study researchers concluded that “the ability to reduce the number ...

Fish can determine their social rank by observation alone, study finds

...le in the center of the tank. Surrounding him were five smaller compartments, each with a solitary male ri...e sure that the bystander had never met any of his five potential rivals. Although the bystander remained alone in his cubicle and never swam with the ot...

Newly discovered fish named after New York aquarium biologist

...he newly described black and gold cichlid is about five inches long, and known locally as a "garaka." It occurs in several river system in the northeastern part of the country. Loiselle himself has discovered ?? fifteen freshwater fishes during his fourteen years of field work in Madagascar He is con...

Light-based probe 'sees' early cancers in first tests on human tissue

...ndoscope might be ready for the clinic in three to five years, he said. ...

Volcanic eruptions, ancient global warming linked

...al warming that raised sea surface temperatures by five degrees (Celsius) in the tropics and more than six degrees in the Arctic. The findings were reported in this week’s edition of Science. The study is important, experts say, because it documents the Earth’s response to the release of large amounts...

Growth hormone to boost athletic performance risks diabetes

...s and gradually increasing amounts of insulin over five days, after which he was discharged. His symptoms completely cleared up, and he was no longer diabetic. The use of growth hormone has steadily risen among amateur athletes and bodybuilders all round the world, say the authors, because it is easy t...

Cryoablation -- A new treatment option for some kidney tumor patients

...rs." While the researchers caution that they need five to 10 years of follow-up to be able to consider this a curative treatment, they are optimistic about future findings. ...

New test helps identify hepatitis C patients at high risk of developing cirrhosis

...genetic makeup. The Stanford group was one of the five sites that helped determine that the genetic test can identify patients who are at high risk of developing cirrhosis from chronic hepatitis C infection. That means high-risk patients could be directed toward a long course of expensive, debilitati...

MIT's ocean model precisely mimics microbes' life cycles

... its 10-year virtual evolution -which took four to five days on a cluster of parallel computers-is a phytoplankton community with members that are characteristic of observed phytoplankton communities, including plants similar to prochlorococcus that are extremely abundant in the warm mid-latitude Atlantic...

Does a peptide affect the heart's response to social isolation?

... animals were exposed to a mild social stressor (a five minute social interaction test with an unfamiliar animal). Results The researchers found that: the animals exposed to isolation had an increase in heart rate and a reduction in heart rate variability. The administration of oxytocin...

Genes and genius: Researchers confirm association between gene and intelligence

...clude many subtests. For this study, subjects took five verbal subtests and four performance subtests, but the genetic variations influenced only performance IQ scores. "One way to measure performance IQ may be to ask people to order pictures correctly to tell a story," Dick explains. "A simple example...

Chromosomal microarray analysis proves accurate

...ifying the problem in all children, but there is a five to 12 percent chance that it will identify an abnormality in children with various disabilities where the previous chromosomal testing did not. This study involved two versions of the test, and the newer version was more successful in identifying chr...

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