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Eurekalert Medical and Health News: 02-07-2005
Scientists in the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University have developed a new diagnostic tool that can quickly and objectively identify disordered auditory processing of sound, a problem associated with learning impairments in many children. With early detection, these children have a high likelihood of benefiting from remediation strategies involving auditory training.
An Indiana University physician and nurse at Riley Hospital for Children have written a book containing both medical and practical everyday advice for families who have children who are HIV positive. Free copies of the book have been sent to pediatric HIV programs around the country.
A UC Irvine Stroke Center study reveals how plaque in the main neck artery plays a critical role in creating blood clots that greatly increase the risk of stroke.
Measuring the quantity of a certain type of immune cell DNA in the blood could help physicians predict whether a bone marrow stem cell transplant will successfully restore a population of infection-fighting cells called T lymphocytes in a child.
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified the mechanisms behind the serious, congenital heart condition that can sometimes develop in children of women with a rheumatic disease.
"Databasing the Brain" is the first book to comprehensively cover neuroinformatics, from relevant computational science and modeling issues to its diverse applications. It discusses the state-of-the-art informatic tools and models and how they are being applied to clinical and basic research. In addition to presenting new ways to acquire, store, visualize, analyze, integrate, synthesize, and share data, this book demonstrates how data obtained using different species, levels of biological organization, and methods can be integrated.
Rice University's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology today awarded the first two grants from its Smalley/Curl Fund for Innovation. One went to a chemist developing self-assembly methods for targeted drug delivery and encapsulation applications, and the second went to a bioengineer and physicist who are studying the optical properties of gold nanorods. The one-year, $15,000 grants are designed to provide seed funds for the development of novel ideas that have broad potential in nanotechnology.
A team of researchers at the University of Bristol is developing a revolutionary new test to detect breast cancer at an early stage. If successful, this test will be effective for women of all ages; given that breast cancer is the largest killer of women between the ages of 35-55 in Europe, the test could have a dramatic effect on the number of deaths from this disease.
A review of 6,658 children age 2-17 receiving transplants in the United States, Mexico and Canada between 1987 and 2002 showed that obese children age 6-12 had a five-year mortality rate more than double that of non-obese children the same age: 12.1 percent compared to 5.4 percent respectively.
Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Genome Center have designed and developed a sensitive new diagnostic technology platform, called "Mass Tag PCR," that can simultaneously screen for multiple infectious agents. This new platform is demonstrated in an assay that detects and discriminates 22 pathogens including viruses and bacteria that can present as clinically similar pulmonary disease.
Oral rehydration therapy, or giving fluids by mouth, is equally effective as giving intravenous fluids to young children dehydrated by common stomach and intestinal inflammations, according to a new study by emergency medicine physicians. Because oral therapy can be started more quickly and is less painful for the child than IV treatment, the researchers say it should be the preferred treatment for children with moderate dehydration.
Twice as many boys as girls are referred to medical specialists for evaluation of short stature or poor growth, according to a new study. The imbalance may reflect society's gender biases about stature, and may have serious health consequences: girls whose growth failure is caused by an underlying disease may be overlooked, or experience unnecessary delays in receiving a proper diagnosis. In addition, short but healthy boys may be more likely to receive unnecessary medical evaluations.
Babies who weighed more at birth had higher rates of digestive and lymphatic cancers in adulthood, according to a new study published in the online edition of the International Journal of Cancer.
There may be more reason than ever to drink your milk and eat your fruits and vegetables. A Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher and colleagues reported today that high consumption of dairy products and fruits and vegetables may lower the risk of disability, especially among black women.
Variation in a taste receptor gene influences taste sensitivity of children and adults, accounting for individual differences in taste preferences and food selection, report a team of researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center. In addition to genes, age and culture also contribute to taste preferences, at times overriding the influence of genetics. The findings may help to explain why some children are more attracted to sweet-tasting foods, as well as why taste and food preferences appear to change with age.
Making New Labour's multi-agency teamwork approach to modernising government effective is a complex challenge, and training to make it work must be planned and funded, warns important new ESRC-sponsored research into delivering children's services.
The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation has awarded Linheng Li, Ph.D., Assistant Investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award. The award of $150,000 over two years supports junior investigators whose work promises insight into the causes of human birth defects. Dr. Li is the fourth Stowers researcher to receive the award.
UCLA scientists have pinpointed a naturally occurring gene mutation in rats' brains that may lead to better treatments for alcohol poisoning and addiction in humans.
Underscoring the value of good prenatal care, new research suggests that early infection may create a cognitive vulnerability that appears later during stress on the immune system.
A University of Central Florida study seeks to find out whether women who follow weight-loss and exercise programs at home fare as well as those who go to a center to work out and meet with counselors. The study is funded by a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health.
In its destructive effect on rural families and their children, methamphetamine may be in a class of its own, based on the first study from an ongoing research project in seven Central Illinois counties, conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. If the children of alcoholics often find themselves in a "thunderstorm" of family problems, then the drug methamphetamine brings a "tornado" by comparison.
Women's health and human-tissue regeneration are the focus of an agreement announced Feb. 4 between the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. The accord is a marriage of basic and clinical research in little-studied areas that could lead to new treatment approaches, said university and hospital officials.
Ultrathin superconducting wires can withstand stronger magnetic fields than larger wires made from the same material, researchers now report. This finding may be useful for technologies that employ superconducting magnets, such as magnetic resonance imaging.
BioMed Central welcomes the announcement of the US National Institutes of Health's (NIH) new public access policy. The NIH calls on all of its grantees to deposit articles resulting from their NIH-funded research in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central and make them freely available within 12 months.
Injuries produced by law enforcement use of so-called non-lethal weapons will be the focus of a study at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, funded by a $104,071 grant from the National Institute of Justice.
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