A compound already used to treat severe sepsis could open up a new approach for treating stroke. Activated protein C directly protects brain cells that normally die as a result of a stroke by curbing cells' auto-destruct program.
A study of post-menopausal women who took the drug gabapentin to control hot flashes shows that it appears to be a safe and effective alternative to hormone replacement therapy.
The first detailed analysis of blood mercury levels in infants who received vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal indicates that blood levels of mercury in children are comfortably below current safety limits.
The University of Rochester Medical Center is leading a nationwide study of approximately 900 patients that will focus on adults who were vaccinated as children.
Scientists have discovered that a medication used to treat advanced prostate cancer actually turns on a molecule known to cause cancerous cells to grow.
A new oral anticoagulant, ximelagatran, was at least as effective as warfarin (commonly known as Coumadin) at preventing blood clots in the legs, and was easier to monitor, according to a study of 680 patients at 74 sites around North America.
A rendezvous between the maggot and some of biology's hottest technology has yielded new clues about the signals that enable cancer cells to grow. A study of fruit-fly larvae has pinpointed a DNA sequence that largely controls when cells divide and multiply.
Curcumin, a substance in curry long believed to have health benefits, seems to protect skin during radiation therapy, according to results of a pilot study with mice.
A new study of seat belt use among adults severely injured in motor vehicle crashes shows the gap between African Americans and Caucasians is nearly gone, at least in one large U.S. city.
Chemists have invented a new type of "antisense" technology that provides a simpler and less expensive method to knock out RNA. For their first demonstration the team disabled in the test tube an RNA molecule from a microbe that causes thrush.
Children and teens in the United States who were surveyed after the Sept. 11 attacks were significantly more worried about how to cope with stress than those surveyed before, while parents surveyed after 9/11 actually worried less about their children coping.
There's little room for nonsense in medicine. Stopping even just a little molecular nonsense would open up new vistas for pharmaceutical companies and could help alleviate many types of disease, say scientists.
Scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found that the enzyme cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) plays an essential role in bone formation during skeletal repair.
Scientists have made a key finding about the cause of the most common form of muscular dystrophy in adults, myotonic dystrophy. The research explains how a faulty gene stops the body from making a protein crucial for muscle control.
People with a handgun in the home are more than twice as likely to kill themselves compared to similar people who don't have access to handguns.
Scientists are bellying up to the challenge of creating an edible vaccine to confer protection against human papilloma virus (HPV), one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases and the cause of virtually all cases of cervical cancer in women.
Vitamin E, a compound suspected of playing a role in preventing prostate cancer, interferes with two proteins that play a central role in the development of the disease.
Basic studies with yeast, together with a new father's shock at the horror of a devastating childhood disease and a serendipitous guess by researchers, have led to important new findings about the molecular cascade of events involved in Batten disease.
A pilot study shows that breast cancer patients who suffer hot flashes as a side effect of tamoxifen therapy got significant relief from a common seizure medication, gabapentin.
The ethical dilemmas made possible by genetic technology, including genetic discrimination in the workplace, as well as a review of the latest research and the status of legislation, are among the topics at a symposium on genetic privacy and discrimination June 14-15.
Doctors' ability to diagnose skin problems ranging from common allergic reactions to rare and potentially deadly diseases like anthrax more than doubled when they had access to a new software system stocked with images.
Teenagers who sport body piercings are more likely to take part in several risky behaviors than their unskewered counterparts. Girls with body piercings are more than twice as likely as other girls to smoke, to skip school, or to have had sex.
Pimple. Blackhead. Zit. You name it -- until now. Dermatologists are out to create a lexicon, a controlled vocabulary, to use when culling medical databases, for telemedicine, or for simple information-sharing to streamline communication about skin conditions.
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