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Study shows interruption of antiretroviral therapy increases risk of disease and death

...interruption strategies that may enhance patients' quality of life and limit adverse drug effects. The stra...d as a potential treatment strategy to enhance the quality of life, limit side effects, and allow for the emergence of the predominant wild-type virus in patie...

Inflammation markers identify fatigue in breast cancer survivors

...and persistent fatigue. "It is such an important quality of life issue. Many patients are surviving from th...we can also address the functional declines in the quality of life of these patients." Dr. Irwin defined the fatigue biomarker in collaboration with Alicia C...

Genetic 'roadmap' charts links between drugs and human disease

...ed through additional work, gedunin disrupts a key quality control mechanism in the cell. Another key finding suggests a new way to overcome drug resistance in cancer. Using the Connectivity Map, a scientific team led by Scott Armstrong, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospi...

Embryos exposed in 3-D

...generative medicine promises to improve health and quality of life by supporting and activating the body's natural healing abilities. ...

New technology enables faster, more efficient cell harvest: Cell therapy meeting study

...generative medicine promises to improve health and quality of life by supporting and activating the body's natural healing abilities. ...

Important gene controlling tree growth and development found

...ramatically improved growth and also "tailor made" quality parameters suited for improved pulp and paper production, better construction materials and enhanced bioenergy production. Trees are extremely important for life on earth. They are often a dominating part of the ecosystems and 30 per cent of the ear...

Serotonin, acting in a specific brain region, promotes sleep in fruit flies

...t many behaviors, also appears to promote lasting, quality sleep in an animal model for understanding how sleep is regulated. While central to the lives of most animals, the proper regulation sleep remains a largely enigmatic process. The findings are reported by Quan Yuan, William Joiner, and Amita Sehgal...

'Smart' genetic therapy helps the body to heal itself

... could be both improved therapy to enable a better quality of life for SMA patients, and also the introduction of neonatal screening so that therapy could be started before the first symptoms appear." Another study involving valproate will be presented by Professor Aurora Pujol, of the Medical and Molecular...

Patients to benefit from novel technology revolutionizing high-speed molecular imaging

...ter image acquisition times, provides better image quality and opens the door to new diagnostic procedures us...day's 20 minutes for a cardiac scan), better image quality (up to two times the image resolution) and the potential for new diagnostic procedures employing sim...

Cutting calories slightly can reduce aging damage

... is better to protect what is there to improve the quality of life than to have to resort to invasive procedures." In the study, which followed the rats over their lifespan, one group of animals ate as much food as they wanted and did not exercise, another group of animals exercised lightly and were fed sli...

Choosy females make colourful males

...ttention to traits that reveal something about the quality of a male. As a result, females are likely to share the same preferences. In Lake Victoria cichlid fish, Martine Maan found a solution for this paradox: in different species, different traits reveal male quality. She examined two closely related sp...

UNH researcher restoring oyster reefs to Great Bay

...ish and Game Department. Also, the effect on water quality could be significant: Each oyster, says Grizzle, pumps 20 or so gallons of water each day through them, retaining particles as small as a virus. "They're marvelous filters," he says. Further, he notes that oyster reefs, much like seagrass beds or c...

New research: Soy germ isoflavones reduce bone loss

...atural, effective way to significantly improve the quality of life for postmenopausal women. ...

Researcher studies, treats military with 'silent disease'

...g with treatments and how the disease affected the quality of their lives. From the start, Sjogren wanted to ...o these people over time? How does it affect their quality of life? What happens when you treat them? "We just don't know what the impact of hepatitis C is. T...

UCLA study of community health project shows how group dynamics affect fitness, eating habits

...ur goal is to increase life expectancy and improve quality of life for all ages by helping communities support programs that eliminate health disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minorities," said study co-author Lark Galloway-Gilliam, executive director of Community Health Councils. "The focus of th...

UCI scientists find chlorine may contribute to ozone formation

...zone chemistry, especially in California where air quality is such an important issue." ...

Brain-computer link lets paralyzed patients convert thoughts into actions

...ne day providing improved independence and overall quality of life." The BrainGate System consists of a 4x4... far from perfect. It is bulky and cumbersome. The quality of the signal can vary from patient to patient and from day to day. A great deal of work remains to ...

MatBase -- A new transcription factor knowledge base released by Genomatix

...es, each entry in MatBase is thoroughly tested for quality and usability for functional analysis of DNA regul...essential for all further downstream analyses. Our quality standards were the key to success for MatInspector, the de facto gold standard in gene promoter anal...

Ultra low-dose estrogen shown safe for post-menopausal women

...ial effects of estrogen on cognitive abilities and quality of life. A group of 417 post-menopausal women aged...dized cognitive tests and a test of health-related quality of life at the beginning of the study, after one year, and after two years. At the end of the stu...

Even when faint, ovary scent draws sperm cells

...ly be used as a diagnostic tool to determine sperm quality or as a therapeutic procedure in male infertility," Jacobson said. The project is a collaboration between research groups led by Jacobson and IUB Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Milos V. Novotny. Their work led to the development of a "flow-th...

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