Electronic records to improve care for children with asthma
...rgency room visits, hospitalizations and specialty clinic visits, to patients' ambulatory health records. "This consolidation of health records will considerably diminish fragmentation of care," said the grant's principal investigator Richard Shiffman, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and anesthes...Link between immune protein and longer survival in melanoma patients identified
...s that research can be brought from the lab to the clinic in a matter of days, rather than months or years. "We are quickly retargeting vaccines at U.Va. to be used in patients, taking advantage of our observations," Mullins said. Last year, Dr. Craig Slingluff, professor of surgery at U.Va. and di...Promising results in the battle against incurable ALS muscle disease
...ntroversial method of treatment, whose path to the clinic can be quite long. VEGF prolongs the life of ALS rats So, investigation into a possible treatment using the VEGF protein has never been abandoned. Now, research from Erik Storkebaum and Diether Lambrechts, under Peter Carmeliet's direction, ha...Gene therapy shows promise in model of Parkinson's disease
...cher. "These observations could translate into the clinic either through a direct gene therapy approach or through the identification of small drugs which enhance the expression of the endogenous parkin." The next step, Lo Bianco notes, is to scale the system up to a primate mode...Academy meeting highlights advances in detecting Amish, Jewish, and Icelandic genetic diseases
...facility located in southeastern Pennsylvania. The clinic manages the care of children with a variety of met... and genetic disorders; eighty-five percent of the clinic patients are from the Plain sects (Amish and Mennonite). Over the past six years, the clinic has str...In wake of Lyme disease vaccine for people, mice may be next in line for shots
...in Connecticut, running what amounted to a medical clinic for mice The mice were trapped live in the one- and two-hectare forest plots. After anesthetizing mice, the researchers would weigh each mouse, draw blood and count ticks. Mice often are loaded with ticks she's seen as many as 60 stuck to...US Oncology, Inc. plays role in newly approved ABRAXANE for metastatic breast cancer
... Women taking ABRAXANE also spent less time in the clinic receiving their chemotherapies," said Joanne Blum M.D. who was the principal investigator of the US Oncology clinical trial of ABRAXANE. To date, the formulation of insoluble tumor-fighting agents, such as paclitaxel, has required the use of solvent...Protein adiponectin appears protective against heart disease
... at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a clinic to which doctors refer patients with lipid metabolism disorders. "Adiponectin also seems to act as an anti-inflammatory molecule," he said. Investigators found that for people with type 1 diabetes, decreased concentration of adiponectin was associ...DNA molecules used to assemble nanoparticles
...y and easily in many different ways would enable a clinic to offer 25 different "flavors" of dendrimer with only ten synthesis steps, Baker said. Baker foresees a nanoparticle cluster in which a single dendrimer carries three single-strands of DNA, each with a sequence specific to the DNA attached to other...Parents' attitudes to sperm donation still some concerns about being open
... researchers interviewed 46 families from a London clinic who had a 4 to 8-year old child conceived through DI. They found that 39% were inclined to openness and 61% were not. Thirteen per cent had already told their child, 26% intended to in the future, 43% had decided against telling their child and 17% w...Recognizing new aneurysm syndrome can save lives
...ified in time." Sadly, one patient who came to the clinic with widely spaced eyes and aortic aneurysm died j...nts of an 18-month-old girl had brought her to the clinic because of a heart murmur caused by a connection between her lungs' main blood vessel and the aorta....First step towards a non-invasive screening test for early signs of testicular cancer
...The value of this method for diagnostic use in the clinic requires further, careful validation in a large series of patients and controls, but the preliminary results are promising." At present, the preparation, staining and analysis of a semen sample takes just over a day in total, but Dr Hoei-Hansen said ...Incubator company at NJIT develops lifesaving MRI coil for small animals
... and are essential to the MRI's operation. An MRI clinic may have as many as ten coils, each designed for specific anatomical parts (spine, head knee, jaw, etc). The antennas inside the coils are primarily made of copper operating at room temperature. They cost between $10,000 and $75,000 (the latter for...Gene variations explain drug dose required to control seizures
...on for a dosing scheme that could be tested in the clinic to assess whether pharmacogenetic diagnostics can improve dosing decisions, he added. In particular, it may be clinically relevant to determine whether physicians can safely increase drug doses more rapidly for some patients. Such a trial might also ...Gene mutated in cancer found in some with autism
.... Twelve of the 18 patients were identified during clinic visits; six, who had classic autism and macrocephaly, were selected from the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange, a gene bank for autism. Of the 18 patients, three males (17 percent) age 2 to 4 years showed mutations in the PTEN gene. The locations of t...Standardized microarrays may bring us one step closer
... "If microarrays are to be used effectively in the clinic to diagnose patients and design patient-tailored therapies, they will need to be like any other clinical tests; they will need to be standardized." "No individual lab could do something like this. A study of this magnitude requires a substantial comm...Newly discovered genetic disease sheds light on body's water balance
...conducting a series of further studies in both the clinic and the laboratory to better understand how these mutations affect water balance....Gene implicated in chronic kidney disease
... Most dialysis patients undergo the procedure at a clinic three times a week for several hours. While the causes of FSGS remain unclear, earlier evidence had linked three other genes to FSGS or FSGS-like diseases. The previously identified genes serve in the formation of structural proteins that support the...Technique may allow cancer patients to freeze eggs, preserving fertility before starting treatment
...-M expects to make the technology available in the clinic soon. "With traditional slow-freeze techniques, ju...blished as the technique begins to be offered in a clinic setting, Smith says. "This is a very new technology and it requires education both of patients and p...Genetic variation alters response to common anti-clotting drug
...farin dose. However, it can take several months of clinic visits and needle pricks to determine an individual's ideal dose. Scientists know that variations in a gene encoding the CYP2C9 enzyme that metabolizes warfarin account for about 10 percent of the difference in people's responses to the drug, but tes...