Five studies look at risks of differing particulate matter, including exposures on 9/11
...lung disease, and increased risk for emergency and clinic visits, and hospitalizations, and even death. Based on epidemiological data, EPA standards set in 1997 set, for the first time, separate standards for small airborne particles. ULTRAFINE PARTICLES BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY THAN FINE PARTICLES, SCIENTIS...Drug combination increases life span of mice with ALS
...ssive," says Dr. Angela Genge, director of the ALS clinic at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital. "The approach that Dr. Kriz and Dr Julien use is uniquely helpful in screening for potentially effective therapies in this cruel, currently incurable disease. Every gain gives us hope for the futu...APOE genotype identified as risk factor for diabetic peripheral neuropathy
...ients were enrolled in the study from the diabetes clinic at Northeast Medical Center in Concord, North Caro...ents were seeking care at a comprehensive diabetes clinic and their glycemic and triglycerides may have been under better control and more uniform than the ge...National vision experts converge for research symposium
...me to the University Eye Institute, a full-service clinic serving more than 30,000 patients each year. The institute provides UH's optometry students and residents with comprehensive in-house clinical training, as well as diverse clinical experience during externships in some of the 95 affiliated hospitals ...AVANT to develop an oral anthrax and plague vaccine for U.S. Department of Defense
... AVANT's vaccine candidates have been shown in the clinic to be well tolerated by humans. Moreover, results of a Phase IIb challenge study with AVANT's Peru-15 cholera vaccine candidate demonstrated the ability of a single dose of that vaccine to protect subjects against moderate or severe diarrhea followi...Scientists discover what makes human embryo attach to uterus
...hers own cells. The research done at the private clinic was conducted with private funds. To confirm the link between the sticking process and the embryos preparation for implantation, the scientists coated latex beads with carbohydrates that normally bind L-selectin, and demonstrated that the beads bound...Presence of certain tumor markers for melanoma could signal best results for vaccine
...vaccine, and thus potentially could be used in the clinic to help assess the treatment's likelihood for success. "It is likely that melanoma cells with decreased expression or loss of MAA are of a selected aggressive phenotype with greater advantage to progress and escape host immunity, thus adversely affec...Study finds more than 1 in 10 pregnant women drink alcohol
...ed 1,131 pregnant women, ages 18-46, in obstetrics clinic waiting rooms about their alcohol use. Questions about alcohol use were included between other survey questions about overall health, exercise and tobacco use. The women also answered questions about their drinking habits in the year prior to becomin...Wistar-developed antibody shows promise against brain tumors in Drexel trial
...in a Wistar laboratory showing such promise in the clinic against difficult-to-treat brain tumors," says Russel E. Kaufman, M.D., director and CEO of The Wistar Institute. "The process of translating basic discoveries into new therapies is often a lengthy and challenging one, but the reward can be profound...First genetic findings in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorders
... in the aetiology of this disorder. The University clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of Wrzburg has investigated the etiology of early onset OCD in both family-based studies and longitudinal studies for many years. These studies demonstrated high prevalence of this disorder in the relatives of OCD ...Health care rationing in Germany
...ospitalisation were 50 percent lower than those of clinic residents who had either not reached the legal retirement age or who were only a few years past it. Old and terminally ill patients were responsible for the lowest costs overall. Declining expenditures indicate health rationing, where expenses and o...Bio-X to fund 21 new interdisciplinary research projects
Imagine going to your favorite clinic and swallowing a miniature TV camera that lets your doctor instantaneously examine the inside of your esophagus and stomach. Or imagine having your damaged cornea surgically replaced with an artificial one. Such futuristic scenarios may become realit...Northwestern launches major gene banking project
... Participation in the NUgene project requires one clinic visit during which a single blood sample will be collected. DNA samples will be purified with the AUTOPURE LS from Gentra Systems Inc,. an automated instrument that purifies up to 96 samples of RNA and DNA from blood in about eight hours and tracks e...Light to moderate drinking during pregnancy can affect adolescent growth
...egnancy were recruited from an outpatient prenatal clinic between May 1983 and July 1985. The women were interviewed in their fourth month of pregnancy (n=1360), seventh month, and at delivery (n=763). The MHPCD project evaluated the women (or current caregiver) and their children at eight and 18 months, ...Scientists discover genetic defect responsible for microcephaly
... Special Children. Dr. Morton, who established the clinic as both a pediatric practice and a genetics diagnostic laboratory, saw the first case of Amish microcephaly in 1988 when a family asked him to come and see their child. That family led Morton to dozens of other families who had had children with the ...Queen's invention connects brain functioning to limb control
...tor control, we can take that information into the clinic and start to look at different patient populations to develop diagnostic tools and provide quantitative information on what the specific deficits are," says Dr. Scott. "That helps to both identify sub-groups of different diseases or deficits, and to ...Long-term studies show most intersex adults happy with gender assignments at birth
...s from the archives of the pediatric endocrinology clinic at Johns Hopkins, where their subspecialty was fou...he historical files of the pediatric endocrinology clinic at Johns Hopkins, participated in the study. All had the XY genotype and an intersex syndrome. The 3...M. D. Anderson receives one of its largest private research gifts
...ision of translating knowledge from the lab to the clinic and of taking clinical observations back to the laboratory," says Dr. John Mendelsohn, president of M. D. Anderson. "Making new therapies available to patients as quickly as possible is our responsibility as scientists and care givers." The Commonwe...Newer design of close-up computer monitors increases ease of use
...irector of the computer vision clinic at Ohio State, conducted the study with Neil Bergstrom, the vice president of business development at Iridigm Display Corporation in San Francisco. At the time of the study, Bergstrom was t...Scientists at TSRI receive $9.6 million to develop treatment for common cause of vision loss
...sic science laboratory observation as close to the clinic as we can," says Martin Friedlander, M.D., Ph.D., the principal investigator on the grant, an associate professor in TSRI's Department of Cell Biology and Chief of the Retina Service in the Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery at Scripps ...