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An 'elegant' idea proves its worth 25 years later

...ow assure prompt treatment. "We’re teaching all medical students at Hopkins to consider hyperammonemia and immediately do blood tests when they see a combative, lethargic or comatose newborn or child," she says. "The longer the hyperammonemia lasts, the higher the risk for brain damage." "This is a hap...

Does amateur boxing cause brain damage?

...our results suggest CSF-analysis could be used for medical counseling of athletes after boxing or head injury," said Hietala. The study was extended to soccer players heading the ball repeatedly from long and high goal kicks. No increased levels of biochemical markers for brain damage in cerebrospinal flu...

pHLIP, a novel technology to locate and treat tumors

...or Oleg Andreev said, “We believe that universal medical tests to reveal many health problems at earlier st...otein folding, and made a discovery with important medical implications that wouldn’t have happened without the ideas and approaches used in that work,?Engelma...

Novel system developed to turn data into real-time, interactive 3-D images

...s with a dramatically improved ability to evaluate medical images that are commonly used. This patent-pending...iewing of large image data sets from virtually any medical imaging device and has led to a licensing agreement with Northeast-Ohio-based Standing Rock Imaging,...

Cancer patients monitor fatigue in real time

... diagnosed with acute myelocytic leukemia may seek medical care because of the extreme fatigue," Hacker said. "Cancer can cause fatigue directly or indirectly by spreading to the bone marrow, causing anemia and by forming toxic substances in the body that interfere with normal cell functions. "People who ...

Risk of lymphoma increases with hepatitis C virus infection

... is much higher among U.S. veterans who use the VA medical system (5 percent) than in the general population, where only 1.6 percent carry the virus. Several factors have likely contributed to this higher prevalence, including demographics, socioeconomic status, and particularly a history of injection drug ...

Molecule that destroys bone also protects it, new research shows

...dical Sciences, is senior author. Jeffrey J. Yu, a medical student and doctoral candidate who is a researcher working in Gaffen’s lab, is first author. Gaffen and colleagues conducted the research in mice bred to have no receptors for IL-17. Other researchers had shown previously, using rats and mice as...

Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine

...niversity of Manchester discovered the evidence in medical papyri written in 1,500BC ?1,000 years before Hipp...any of the remedies had therapeutic merit." The medical documents, which were first discovered in the mid-19th century, showed that ancient Egyptian physici...

Warts vaccine -- 1 of many in pipeline

...anned to be a one-stop shop at the PA Hospital for medical research and health care, catering for medical discoveries, clinical trials and drug manufacture. "Conducting trials in Australia gives Australi...

DNA repair proteins monitored at double-strand break

...DNA-damaging radiation. So this work has important medical implications for these and other diseases linked to disruption of double-strand break repair." The assay, developed by Elijahu Berkovich, Ph.D., in Kastan’s laboratory, demonstrates how key repair proteins, such as ATM, NBS1, XRCC4 and gamma-H2AX...

LIAI scientists make important finding on cytomegalovirus transmission

...hese studies lend credibility to the idea that the medical community should be looking at IL-10 as a molecular candidate that might be used to control persistent viral infections." Ware and Croft’s next step will be conducting animal studies with the IL-10 suppression and the OX40 enhancement combined int...

Study shows continued success for new HPV vaccine against virus responsible for cervical cancer

... Researchers at more than a dozen international medical centers evaluated the efficacy of quadrivalent vaccine targeting HPV types 6, 11, 16, 18 in more than 12,000 women ages 15 to 26 in 13 countries for nearly three years. They found a near 100 percent efficacy rate in prevention of HPV types 16 and 1...

HIV survival improves if patients stay in care

...g people alive, understanding the value of regular medical care is crucial," said Dr. Thomas Giordano, assistant professor of medicine ?infectious diseases at BCM and lead author of the report. "We know that adherence to medications is critically important," said Giordano. "Patients who have trouble taki...

Magnetic computer sensors may help study biomolecules

...biomolecules simultaneously for massively parallel medical and forensic studies—a sort of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) for biosciences. Spin valves are made by stacking thin layers of materials with different magnetic properties. Their net magnetization can be switched on and off by applying an ex...

Researchers attach genes to minichromosomes in maize

...ltiple foreign proteins and metabolites useful for medical purposes. Because of their protein-rich composition, a part of the maize kernels (called an endosperm) can be used to grow animal proteins and human antibodies that treat diseases and disease symptoms. Minichromosomes could enable new and better prod...

DNA-damage test could aid drug development

...uld obtain human bone marrow that's left over from medical procedures." "If you could change the micronucleus assay to have a human cell readout, that would be pretty amazing," says Samson. Down the road, she suggests, such a test might offer a new way to examine how different individuals respond to chemo...

100 percent of pregnant women have at least one kind of pesticide in their placenta

...he parents, their places of residence, profession, medical history, anthropometric information, age, tobacco habits, lifestyle and diet during pregnancy, among other factors. The study made at the UGR [ http://www.ugr.es ] has facilitated research into the association of the characteristics of parents, ne...

Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles

...(MRI) scanners are becoming an increasingly useful medical tool. However, they produce very loud noise that may pose a hazard to both participants and scanner operators. Acoustical researchers are devising various approaches to making the machines quieter. A UK team (including Deborah Hall, MRC Institute o...

Researchers develop way to calculate speed of bacterial sex

...science scenarios, but also with relevance to some medical scenarios." ...

Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia

... global level have the potential to greatly impact medical practice. Future experiments focused on correlating these lipid signatures with the clinical outcomes of patients could yield an important tool for designing the best treatment for each patient, Kaddurah-Daouk said....

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