African Americans fare less well than whites after stroke prevention surgery
...w Commission database to identify all elective CEA procedures performed in all non-federal acute care hospitals ...ated on by surgeons who performed a high volume of procedures were less likely to have a stroke during surgery, and that whites were twice as likely to undergo th...Innovative method for gene therapy of heart disease shows promise in animal studies
...therapy." Stents are commonly used in angioplasty procedures for partially blocked coronary arteries. After a small balloon is inserted through a catheter and inflated to widen a narrowed artery (the angioplasty procedure), an expandable wire scaffolding (the stent) is left in the artery to keep it open. Howev...Carolina scientists the first to identify and purify liver stem cells
...n be used to treat many patients, and the surgical procedures will be much safer and easier on the patient and much more economical than whole-organ transplantation," Reid said. "We believe that if transplanted liver stem cells and other diploid cell subpopulations can expand and differentiate in a patient wit...... adventitious presence. Proposed quality assurance procedures provide for positive identification, traceability, and control of seed through each step of the production process. "Adventitious biotech presence can only be minimized by enhanced quality assurance procedures, not post-production testing," Condon no...Save that tiger - Texas A&M vets set first-ever surgery
...eart surgery program so that we can perform bypass procedures on pets and other animals," Fossum says. Heart disease, including the need for valve replacement or repair, is common in dogs. Established in 1916, the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine is one of the world's leading institutions in animal he......onals should be thoroughly familiar with insertion procedures before inserting MIRENA. Once MIRENA is removed, fertility returns rapidly. Approximately eight out of every 10 women who want to become pregnant will become pregnant in the first year after MIRENA is removed. "My patients are very excited about th...Ancient underground fractures may threaten ground water supplies
...be found if you follow careful procedures in excavating a pit." For example, one study reported in the special issue involved a test pit Christy and several colleagues dug in Madison County to search for evidence of fractures. The ...February 15, 2001, deadline for science writing award
... . Inquiries concerning the award or nominating procedures should be directed to the ACS Awards office at 800-227-5558, ext. 2109 or by writing to the Awards Office, American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036.......ervice and the additional bill for drugs and extra procedures could add significantly to the cost for couples.Disposal of extra embryos generated could cause ethical and religious dilemmas while problems related to multiple pregnancies still occurred and added significantly to the number of premature births and...Maryland crab shell team wins top engineering award
...abs. Within weeks, Lenhart and Payne had developed procedures and generated gram-quantities of chitosan. In 1996, the Condon-Payne team was awarded state grants from the Maryland Industrial Partnership (MIPS) program to develop a crab chum-to-chitosan process and to perform a preliminary economic analysis. Th...Los Angeles oiled bird rescue center opens
...irds for hydration before they are cleaned; andthe procedures involved in the cleaning of an oiled bird. OTHER VISUALS: Large outdoor aviaries with pools forpelicans. Hospital area's two-way communication system soschoolchildren and other visitors can see and talk torehabilitators as they care for injured birds...LSU veterinarians deliver cloned calves by caesarian section
... has been extracted. Cyagra then performs numerous procedures to mimic natural occurrences of cell reproduction ...ves they are most likely a cause of the artificial procedures and culture media used in producing the clones. "It was suggested to us that the calves be treated..."Soft" science? Fat's health impacts are often oversimplified, Science news feature contends
...ined: Between 1979 and 1996, the number of medical procedures for heart disease increased from 1.2 million to 5.4 million a year, the American Heart Association reports. Since the early 1980s, obesity has increased dramatically in America, from 14 percent of the population to over 22 percent, and diabetes is al...UCLA/Pitt researchers transform human fat into bone, muscle, cartilage
...e of stem cells will accelerate development of new procedures for repairing and replacing damaged, dead or missing tissue in people. "Until now, we had not identified a good source of stem cells, which can be thought of as the building blocks of tissue engineering," said Dr. Marc Hedrick of the UCLA School of...Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute develop a new 'kit' to screen mercury in fish
...nmentalists, since their current mercury detection procedures demand that they catch whole fish and bring them into the laboratory for slow, expensive and complicated testing. "This method could be made field ready," he says. "Environmental professionals could test the fish and then release them back into the w...K-State veterinarian's lab site for DNA registry
...aluate the state of the science and to develop the procedures and a program for consideration for implementation...l investigations. In fact, we use almost the exact procedures including evidence seals and chain-of-custody tracking." Based on Fenwick's findings and recommenda...Nature sights and sounds can ease pain of common lung procedure
... that they should be considered for other invasive procedures such as endoscopies, sigmoidoscopies or interventi...player. Thirty-nine similar patients underwent the procedures without distraction therapy, but with comparable levels of care and pain control. Both groups of su...Software to make testing of new generic drugs more thorough
... said. She added that the same procedures she, Herderick, and their colleagues developed could be adapted to compare any two sets of curves. Powers and Herderick collaborated with Robert Bartoszynski, a former p......t's new approach could lead to new waste treatment procedures - and even a boost to nuclear medicine. A main component of President George W. Bush's energy policy is to increase use of nuclear energy. However, according to Abraham Clearfield, a professor of chemistry at Texas A&M, "to accept this part of Bush p...