Tracking every egg? AAAS report lists practical options for regulating human cloning
...to maintaining strict boundaries between fertility clinics and cloning laboratories--are the subject of a report released today by AAAS, the science society. Regulating Human Cloning outlines the results of a recent workshop that brought together scientists, policymakers and others. Participants explored opt...New research establishes genetic associations in hepatitis C
...atment at Infectious Diseases and Gastroenterology clinics at the Eisenhower Medical center participated in this research. After informed consent was obtained blood was drawn from patients; DNA was isolated from the blood and used for analysis. Genomic DNA from 26 hepatitis C patients and 318 healthy control...Location of ulcerations in diabetic patients may be explained by blood flow
... VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Podiatry clinics during calendar year 2001, 45 ulcerations were recorded via podiatric review. Of the 45 ulcerations, 64 percent occurred across the metatarsal heads (13 percent under each of metatarsal heads one through four; four percent under metatarsal head num...A kindler, gentler cut for LASIK
...logy and currently has over 40 lasers operating in clinics around the country. Over 30,000 procedures have been safely completed with the new technology. LASIK, or laser in situ keratomilieusis, surgery reduces refractive error in the eye by reshaping or removing a portion of the cornea with an excimer laser...War on germs gets cutting-edge weapon from ancient world technique
...and hardware and push plates. Other hospitals and clinics are looking into using antimicrobial powder coated materials in emergency rooms, surgery areas and patients rooms, on cabinets, counters and other surfaces. These powder coatings just give us one more weapon against germs, says University of Arizo...National Jewish faculty to present research at American Thoracic Society
...ish hosts one of the largest adult cystic fibrosis clinics in the United States. Abstract: http://www.abstracts2view.com/ats/view.php?nu=ATS3L_5300...Many pregnant women may have depression, but few getting treatment, study finds
... the survey over a three-year period at a range of clinics where pregnant women were awaiting their prenatal doctor's visits. Ninety percent of the women who were approached agreed to complete the survey. Marcus notes that the high participation and completion rate show that screening for depression in the d...Hospital disinfectant effective against Coronavirus (SARS virus) in decontaminating surfaces
...nd FDA/OSHA compliant, has been used in hospitals, clinics and laboratories for over 25 years to disinfect surgical instruments, equipment and environmental surfaces. Sporicidin, developed by Sporicidin International of Rockville, MD, provides 100% kill of all pathogenic vegetative organisms and is categor...New drug enfuvirtide shows promise against drug resistant HIV infection
...and South America. Patients from 48 hospitals and clinics in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil who had had at least six months of treatment with retroviral drugs or resistance to those drugs or both and also carried at least 5,000 copies of viral RNA per millimeter of plasma participated in the W...Pancreatic cancer genes ID'd in most accurate study to date
... pancreatitis patients treated in gastroenterology clinics of the U-M Department of Internal Medicine will also be asked to donate tissue removed during fine-needle aspiration biopsies, so further studies can be done to distinguish cancer from inflammatory disease. In order to expand the study, the U-M team ...New research challenges advice that men should abstain from sex before fertility treatment
...niversity Medical Center, said that most fertility clinics followed the World Health Organisation guidelines of recommending sexual abstinence for two to seven days prior to treatment. "Our data challenge the role of abstinence in male infertility treatments. What we have found is not so relevant to ICSI, w...Women are more likely to suffer recurrent miscarriages if their first child is a boy
...ges. [1] " He studied 204 SRM patients admitted to clinics between 1986 and 2000, and obtained information on subsequent pregnancy outcome in 181 patients admitted before 2000. Among the patients admitted before 2000, only 54.4% of those who gave birth to a boy in their first pregnancy had given birth to a s...Sleep disorders linked to faulty brain chemistry, study finds
...one of the nation's most comprehensive and busiest clinics for patients with MSA, receiving patients via referrals from physicians around the country. In 1998, Gilman chaired a national panel that established diagnostic criteria for MSA. In addition to having a ready source of MSA patients willing to take pa...Stanford research finds gene variations that alter antidepressant side effects
... All of the patients studied in 18 U.S. outpatient clinics were 65 years of age or older. Side effects are particularly relevant in this age group, Murphy said. Older people, for example, are more susceptible to injury from a fall caused by dizziness, which can be a side effect of some antidepressant drugs. ...Egg-sharing does not damage a donors own chance of a baby say UK researchers
...ke part in egg sharing programmes run by fertility clinics are not compromising their chance of having a baby by donating some of their eggs, according to UK research published today (Thursday 30 October) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[1]. The Lister Fertility Clinic in ...Clinical trial patients don't care about study sponsors or physician conflicts of interest
...-based cardiology and internal medicine outpatient clinics about participating in a hypothetical clinical trial for a new drug to help prevent heart attack. At random, they told patients that either there was no conflict of interest for the physician involved, the physician would receive a $2,000 finder's f...UT Southwesterns capital campaign passes $300 million mark
...or medical experience for patients at the center's clinics and hospitals. "Although the donors of this remarkable gift do not desire recognition, their wish is for the medical school to become as well known for excellent clinical care and service as it already is for its outstanding research," said Dr. Kern ...Growth hormone activates gene involved in healing damaged tissue
... The study is apt to provide impetus for high-end clinics and spas already offering growth hormone injections to "treat" old age, but Costa is cautious about drawing any conclusions from his research about the merits of the therapy. "Our liver regeneration studies tell us a great deal about how growth hormo...Whites, African-Americans better rate medical care experiences when seeing same-race physicians
...frican-Americans and 13 whites) at 16 primary care clinics in the Baltimore and Washington metropolitan areas. They approached patients in the waiting rooms and asked for permission to tape record the medical visits. Before the visit, patients completed a short survey about their health status. After the...New advances in thrombosis help further understanding of disease prevention
... currently available. Researchers from orthopedic clinics in the U.S., Canada, and Australia conducted a phase II randomized, double-blind, controlled, dose-response study to investigate razaxaban, a new oral, directly acting inhibitor of coagulation factor Xa. Results showed that razaxaban administered at...