Clinical Research

Getting More Accurate Assessments Of IVF Success Chances

Couple-and treatment-specific factors can be used to provide infertile couples with an accurate assessment of the likelihood of having a successful outcome following in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) using a new prediction model created by Scott Nelson from the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2011 - 10:05pm

Nrf2- Antioxidant Protein Also Promotes Clogging Of Arteries

Why haven't antioxidant therapies yielded more positive results?   The answer may be that Nrf2, a protein that plays an important role in some antioxidant therapies, may not be as effective due to additional mechanisms that cause it to promote atheros ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 22 2012 - 4:34pm

Breast Is Best?

I think I can safely assume that when it comes to feeding newborns, people have heard that if possible breastfeeding is best- immune system, bonding, etc etc. But when do you wean? Ten years ago, the World Health Organization recommended that mothers " ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Jan 14 2011 - 4:03pm

Big Breakfast For Weight Loss? No, Fewer Still Calories Is Still The Only Way

In every study done over the last 70 years, since weight loss research began, the one solution guaranteed to work was ingesting fewer calories than you burn.   Nevertheless, any number of gimmicks have come into fashion. One claim is that eating a big brea ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2011 - 1:41pm

What The Watson Supercomputer Winning Jeopardy Could Mean For The Future Of Medicine

I don't get excited about the singularity the way some on Science 2.0 do (and certainly elsewhere) though I admire the optimism.    So when I got an email from a publicity person at PBS about NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien’s report on th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 14 2011 - 7:33pm

Smoking May Increase Risk For Lung Disease

Despite the culture war on smokers, the idea that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer or lung disease is largely a myth.   Anti-smoking groups are a multi-billion dollar industry on their own and continued marketing is a key part of maintaining the revenu ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2011 - 11:53am

Music As Medical Measurement

Case study: Patient Ashley has Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder characterized by albinism, vision impairment, and bleeding disorders such as chronic hemorrhages. H-PS is particularly damaging to the lungs. Location: "Children's ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Apr 15 2011 - 1:47pm

Tako-Tsubo: Can We Diagnose And Treat True Heartbreak?

In 2003, Rollin McCraty, the Director of Research at the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California, published an e-book called The Energetic Heart: Bioelectromagnetic Interactions Within and Between People. In it he explains his research on an el ...

Article - Christie Sosa - Apr 25 2011 - 11:47pm

Can Older Diabetics Relax About Their HbA1c?

If you’ve been managing type 2 diabetes for a while, you know that current advice is to maintain your glucose levels at 7 percent or less, as this is where blood glucose levels are for non-diabetics. A large observational trial published online this week, ...

Blog Post - Ryan Luce - Apr 28 2011 - 1:30pm

ERBB4 Gene Associated With Congenital Heart Defects

What helps can sometimes hurt.     ERBB4, a gene known to be important in cardiac development, has been associated with congenital heart malformations that result in obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract.  Left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2011 - 12:08pm