Excess Drinking Shrinks the Brain
Too much alcohol has a greater effect on women, study found MONDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- The more alcohol you drink, the more your brain shrinks, a new study has found. "The take-home message is that, if you drink a lot, you're going to hurt your brain," said Rajesh Miranda,...Nanomedical approach targets multiple cancer genes, shrinks tumors more effectively
Nanoparticles filled with a drug that targets two genes that trigger melanoma could offer a potential cure for this deadly disease, according to cancer researchers. The treatment, administered through an ultrasound device, demonstrates a safer and more effective way of targeting cancer-causing gen...Transplant Drug Shrinks Tumors in Women With Rare Lung Disease
Sirolimus reduced growths by 50% for sufferers of LAM THURSDAY, Jan. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Women who are struck by a rare lung disease could find their tumors shrink by 50 percent with the help of the transplant drug sirolimus, a new study suggests. The Cincinnati researchers who m...Pollution shrinks fetus size: Brisbane study finds
Exposure to air pollution significantly reduces foetus size during pregnancy, according to a new study by Brisbane scientists. Queensland University of Technology senior research fellow Dr Adrian Barnett said the study compared the foetus sizes of more than 15,000 ultrasound scans in Brisbane t...Drug combination shrinks breast cancer metastases in brain
SAN ANTONIO, Texas--A combination of a "targeted" therapy and chemotherapy shrank metastatic brain tumors by at least 50 percent in one-fifth of patients with aggressive HER2-positive breast cancer, according to data presented by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators at the San Antonio Breast...Aging heart changes shape, shrinks and loses pumping function too
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have evidence to explain why the supposedly natural act of aging is by itself a very potent risk factor for life-threatening heart failure. In a study to be presented Nov. 4 at the American Heart Associations (AHA) annual Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Fla., the ...Drinking Heavy Amounts of Alcohol Shrinks Your Brain
Drinking heavy amounts of alcohol over a long period of time may decrease brain volume, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28 May 5, 2007. The study involved MRI scans of 1,839 people from the Framingham...Chemotherapy Drug Shrinks Brain Tumors
Cancerous brain tumors appear to respond favorably to the drug temozolomide when used as primary chemotherapy after surgery, and the treatment appears to work best in people missing a certain gene. The study was published in the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Rese...Norwegian Glacier Shrinks and Marine Life Poisoned as the Globe Warms
More and more literally devastating evidence of global warming keeps coming up from across the world. A glacier in Norway is shrinking fast and toxic Californian// seawaters are killing marine life in their thousands. Global warming continues to wreak havoc. A couple of days ago it was report...New Cancer Treatment Shrinks Pancreatic Tumor
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- A new cancer treatment is realizing outstanding results against pancreatic cancer. Following five weeks of treatment, a patient's large, stage 4 tumor was reduced in size by 70%. After seven more weeks of treatment, it no longer could be definitely identif...Oh, My Aching Back: Give Me a Shot of Ozone
...al system. And the interventional radiology oxygen/ozone treatment takes a minimalist approach. It's all about being gentle," said Murphy. "Ozone shrinks disk volume; this is why it provides pain relief," said Murphy, whose second study explored the mechanism of why oxygen/ozone treatment works. The bon...New type of drug shrinks primary breast cancer tumors significantly in just 6 weeks
Berlin, Germany: A drug that targets the cell surface receptors that play an important role in many types of cancer can bring about significant tumour regression in breast cancer after only six weeks of use, a scientist told the 6th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-6) today (Thursday 17 Ap...Reactivated gene shrinks tumors
Many cancers arise due to defects in genes that normally suppress tumor growth. Now, for the first time, MIT researchers have shown that re-activating one of those genes in mice can cause tumors to shrink or disappear. The study offers evidence that the tumor suppressor gene p53 is a promising t...Overfishing large sharks impacts entire marine ecosystem, shrinks shellfish supply
Fewer big sharks in the oceans mean that bay scallops and other shellfish may be harder to find at the market, according to an article in the March 30 issue of the journal Science, tying two unlikely links in the food web to the same fate. A team of Canadian and American ecologists, led by world...Ultrasounds show mothers' drinking shrinks fetal brain
Routine ultrasounds show that heavy drinkers who continue to imbibe after learning they are pregnant may carry fetuses with reduced skull and brain growth compared to those of abstainers or quitters, says a new study. Although the alcohol-exposed babies' growth remained within normal range, the f...A crystal ball for brain cancer?
...tients like McNabb, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Avastin last month for the treatment of brain cancer. The powerful drug shrinks tumors by choking off their blood supply. Half of patients don't respond to the therapy, though, exposing them to unnecessary side effects and medica...From cars to cancer: UH professor employs auto industry tools for tumor therapy
...st perfectly," he said, and they may be "too good to be true." "A tumor shrinks as it responds to the treatment," Dong said. "Unfortunately, as they do, th...n oncologists can reduce the radiation treatment volume. "Say the tumor shrinks by half. Then you can reduce the target volume and spare the normal tissue,...Oh, my aching back: Give me a shot of ozone
...ical system. And the interventional radiology oxygen/ozone treatment takes a minimalist approach. It's all about being gentle," said Murphy. "Ozone shrinks disk volume; this is why it provides pain relief," said Murphy, whose second study explored the mechanism of why oxygen/ozone treatment works. The bon...Rhode Island Hospital study finds link between obesity, type 2 diabetes and neurodegeneration
...ratio, providing evidence that obesity with T2DM is sufficient to cause mild global atrophy in the brain. De la Monte says, "In essence, the brain shrinks and several biochemical and molecular abnormalities found in patients with AD, including brain insulin resistance, develop with chronic obesity and T2...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- April 16, 2008
... drug from destruction by stomach acids. Upon exposure to the alkaline environment of the small intestine, the site of insulin absorption, the polymer shrinks and releases insulin. The addition of wheat germ agglutinin, a type of sticky plant sugar, allows the polymer to stick to the small intestine for prol...2 new therapies show promise for cancer patients
...iance between TGen and Scottsdale Healthcares Clinical Research Institute. Basal Cell Carcinoma In the first trial, a novel molecule, GDC-0449, shrinks tumors in basal cell carcinoma (BCC) while having limited side effects, including a loss of sense of taste, and a small amount of hair loss and weight...Novel CU-Boulder technique shrinks size of nanotechnology circuitry
A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light. Like current methods in the nanoengineering field, one color of light inscribes a patt...Surgeon Performs First Single Incision Peri-Umbilical Laparoscopic Surgery in the State of Missouri
...our to six small incisions. Dr. Wagner refers to the single-site procedure as PULS-Peri-Umbilical Laparoscopic Surgery. This single belly button scar shrinks over time until it is practically undetectable. Eliminating the need for multiple laparoscopic port incisions from the procedure offers patients the p...PDHI Launches Short Form of Its ConXus Profile Health Assessment
...ves paper-processing costs while maintaining reporting integrity." The short-form HRA includes about 40 instead of 70 questions. The user report shrinks to about 5 pages, and the paper questionnaire to 4 pages. The short form delivers all the functionality required to assess a participant's current hea...The I of the storm: iPhones, iPains, and iProblems
...e brilliant engineers and high-tech wizards have very often missed out on matters of iconization. We have now entered into a time where cyber-branding shrinks the globe by the seconds, and only professionally structured corporate image and name identities have a chance to play out the real marketing and bran...