Category: Medicine
22 January 1997
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Heart-Felt Chaos
In almost every episode of the TV hospital drama ER, doctors rush to a gurney, yell "Vfib!" and slap electric paddles onto a patient's chest. It's a drama that occurs...
17 January 1997
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He Shot Down the Tiny Adult Theory
Tomorrow is the birthday of German surgeon and physiologist Kaspar Friedrich Wolff, born in 1733. Regarded as the founder of embryology, Wolff published in 1759 a revolutionary work called Theoria...
16 January 1997
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Mouse Model for Inherited Coronary Clogging
Scientists have bred a new kind of mouse that suffers from atherosclerosis when fed a high-fat Western diet. The finding, reported in tomorrow's Science,* offers a model for probing the...
15 January 1997
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Herpesvirus Isolated From Kaposi's Sarcoma
Researchers have isolated a new strain of herpesvirus from cells of Kaposi's sarcoma, the most common cancer in AIDS patients. The achievement, reported in tomorrow's issue of the New England...
15 January 1997
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A Coming Plague of vCJD?
LONDON--An epidemic of a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was linked last fall to "mad cow disease" could be unfolding, warned British scientists in a press conference here today. Although only...
14 January 1997
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AIDS Drug's Safety in Spotlight
A controversial new study has put a cloud over one of the most stunning successes in AIDS. The anti-HIV drug AZT, when given to pregnant women infected with HIV, can...
13 January 1997
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Four Snag Japan Prize
Groundbreaking work on cancer-causing chemicals and new manufacturing paradigms has earned four U.S. and Japanese researchers the 1997 Japan Prize, a lucrative award that sometimes foreshadows a Nobel Prize. The...
10 January 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
No Sheepishness in Launching This Field
Tomorrow is the 73rd birthday of one of the founders of neuroendocrinology, Roger Guillemin. He and a competing group led by Andrew Schally showed that the hypothalamus, a brain region,...
9 January 1997
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A Gentler Way to Test for Killer Brain Disease
There's only one sure way to know whether someone is suffering from a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was linked last fall to "mad cow disease": Wait until the person dies,...
9 January 1997
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Bacchus Knows Best: Cancer Drug in Grapes?
A battery of lab tests has indicated that a chemical found in grapes and other fruits and vegetables is a potential antitumor agent. But experts caution that the compound, described...
8 January 1997
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Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise
After decades of disappointment, U.S. and European scientists have created a synthetic vaccine that offered some protection against malaria in a small pilot test. The preliminary findings, reported in today's...
8 January 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Evidence for Gulf War Syndrome?
WASHINGTON--The controversy over Gulf War syndrome is unlikely to die anytime soon: Several studies released at a press conference here today suggest that the vague symptoms reported by some Gulf...
7 January 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
An Immune Killer's Modus Operandi
Scientists appear to have unraveled a mysterious chain of biochemical events that leads to scleroderma, a sometimes-fatal immune disease. But experts disagree about whether the findings, reported in the current...
3 January 1997
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Hormone Offers Mice Fat Chance at Puberty
Leptin, a hormone that became famous in 1994 for its potential antiobesity effects, may also play a key role in the onset of puberty in mice, says a report in...
2 January 1997
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Are Healthier Children More Prone to Asthma?
The recent sharp rise in asthma in developed countries may be caused in part by a decline in other childhood maladies, new findings suggest. An article published in tomorrow's issue...
31 December 1996
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Immune Boost Wards Off Malaria
Scientists have found that a jolt from a versatile immune-system chemical, interleukin-12, protects monkeys from malaria. The findings, reported in the January issue of Nature Medicine, suggest that the chemical...
31 December 1996
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Live Monkey AIDS Vaccine Safe After All?
A pilot study of a live vaccine against the monkey version of the AIDS virus may ease one fear about such vaccines: that they should never be used in newborns....
30 December 1996
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Why Heat Makes Injured Tissue Hurt
Scientists have discovered a biochemical pathway that may explain why sunburns and other injuries ache when exposed to heat, says a report in the latest issue of The Proceedings of...
24 December 1996
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Selenium's Surprising Anticancer Power
In a stunning finding, daily supplements of the trace element selenium have been found to reduce the risk of several types of cancer in patients with a history of skin...
23 December 1996
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Time Taps AIDS Researcher for Top Award
In an honor that has never been bestowed upon a single scientist, Time magazine has named David Ho, head of New York City's Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC), its...
23 December 1996
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Clue to the Origin of Sporadic Breast Tumors
Researchers have detected genetic aberrations in healthy tissue of some breast cancer patients who do not seem to possess a genetic predisposition to the cancer. The finding, reported in the...
19 December 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Breakthrough of the Year: New Weapons Against HIV
In recognition of stunning advances in both clinical and basic research related to AIDS, the editors of Science have chosen new weapons against HIV as the Breakthrough of the Year...
19 December 1996
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Judge Finds Breast-Implant Health Evidence Beyond Pale
Heeding advice from an outside scientific panel, a federal judge in Oregon this week ruled that evidence linking silicone breast implants to immune disorders in 70 women was too weak...
19 December 1996
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Infectious Protein Strains No Longer Strain the Truth?
The heretical idea that prions--naked protein particles without a stitch of genetic material--can cause transmissible disorders such as mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in people has just received...
18 December 1996
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Beating Chlamydia at Its Own Game
Scientists from the University of Washington have unraveled the mystery of how Chlamydia bacteria bind to and infect host cells. The finding, reported in the current issue of the Journal...
17 December 1996
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This Little Piggy Organ Going to Market?
LONDON--Claims in the British media this week that the government is set to give the green light to transplantation of organs from genetically modified pigs into human patients have been...
13 December 1996
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Breathing Less Easy in Arizona
Arizona's warm, dry climate has long been a magnet for people with respiratory problems. But a report in today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) indicates that its climate is...
10 December 1996
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Preventing TB in Well-Fed Mice
Since the time of Charles Dickens, people have known that tuberculosis and malnutrition walk hand in hand, especially in developing countries. Poor diets, experts know, can compromise the immune system....
9 December 1996
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A Mousetrap for Cancer
Researchers have tricked a mouse's immune system into launching a vigorous attack against cancer cells. The body's natural defenses do not usually recognize tumor cells as foreign invaders and therefore...
6 December 1996
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Driving Polio From India
New Delhi--As part of a massive attempt to eradicate polio from a region, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plan tomorrow...
3 December 1996
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Beefing Up AIDS Patients
Daily injections of human growth hormone (HGH) appear to counteract the devastating and sometimes deadly effects of weight loss and atrophy often seen in AIDS patients, according to a study...
2 December 1996
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Scientists Stumble Onto Potential New Class of Drugs
Researchers searching for a compound that could block the addictive effects of cocaine may have overturned an unwritten law of neurological drug design. For many years, scientists have assumed that...
25 November 1996
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Shedding Light on the Sun's Cancer Threat
Sunlight may use a one-two punch to trigger skin cancer. Ultraviolet (UV) rays damage a key gene in skin cells involved in fighting off tumors, and at the same time...
22 November 1996
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Aspirin Soothes Overexcited Rat Nerves
Aspirin appears to protect against damage to rat nerve cells inflicted by the amino acid glutamate, which has been implicated in some chronic degenerative diseases. But some experts are skeptical...
22 November 1996
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Hope to Prevent Bacterial Baby-Killer
A new vaccine may prevent dangerous infections in infants and their mothers. A vaccine against group B streptococcus (GBS)--which causes serious infections in nearly two of 1000 newborns and kills...
21 November 1996
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Faulty Protein Linked to Lou Gehrig's Disease
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Scientists have discovered two mutations that may be major contributors to the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease. The finding, presented here today at the...
21 November 1996
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Homing In On a Gene for Prostate Cancer
Scientists have found a small region on a human chromosome harboring a gene that substantially increases the risk of prostate cancer, says a Report in the 22 November issue of...
19 November 1996
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Time to Get Tough on STDs
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Prompted by alarming statistics on the incidence and costs of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States, a blue-ribbon medical panel today called for a national campaign against...
18 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Potential Drug to Improve Memory
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A pill that boosts memory power may not be as far-fetched as it sounds. Ampakines, a class of compounds that make nerve cells more sensitive to the amino acid...
15 November 1996
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Rare Disease Penetrates Baltimore
As if America's inner cities aren't troubled enough, now they have a newly recognized problem to contend with: leptospirosis. A report in today's Annals of Internal Medicine has shown that...
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