A University of Virginia Health System researcher and colleagues have just published findings showing that just a few targeted counseling sessions had a notably positive impact on women at high risk for binge drinking, unplanned pregnancy and exposure to alcohol during pregnancy. The counseling technique, called motivational interviewing (MI), has proven effective after just four counseling sessions.
Researchers in the School of Dentistry at the University of Manchester have created a unique way of identifying osteoporosis sufferers from ordinary dental x-rays.
The collaborative work being performed by professionals across medical disciplines in the promising area of molecular imaging — from research scientists to nuclear medicine physicians, urologists, radiochemists and even veterinarians — provides encouraging news in fighting prostate cancer. This type of progressive — or translational — research can be seen in two papers published in the January issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been helping the Department of Energy analyze the genome of a “paper-eating” bacterium that could have uses in producing ethanol, but also shed light on how “gliding” bacteria move. The two functions could be related.
Infection with the human papilloma virus, the major cause of cervical cancer, is forever. The virus remains latent in skin cells, ready to flare up at any time to create warts on the skin or the genitals. A new finding by UC Berkeley’s Michael Botchan and colleagues offers hope that a drug can halt spread of the virus into new cells, and perhaps even eliminate the virus from the body.
Mercury released into the atmosphere is concentrated in aquatic food chains, giving rise to harmful levels in biota in sensitive regions.
Men with high blood pressure who have a drink or two per day may be at lower risk for heart attack than men who don’t drink at all, new research suggests.
Regular use of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins is not associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer, according to a population-based case-control study.
Several chemotherapy drugs can only be given at certain doses because they’re highly toxic to healthy cells, and at those doses, the concentration of the drug that reaches cells in the tumor may be quite low. Scientists have been investigating the use of liposomes, hollow spheres of fat molecules, to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to tumors. These liposomes melt and release their contents when exposed to heat.
A new study finds that, among a group of men in Israel, men with only daughters had a 40 percent higher risk of prostate cancer than men with at least one son. The study raises the possibility that some mutation or variant on the Y chromosome may be involved in prostate cancer.