Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Oct. 5, 2004
...egimen for the medications, or not seeking medical attention promptly (within two days) when symptoms occurred. For 70 of the 105 deaths (66.7 percent), medical errors may have contributed to the deaths: clinicians did not prescribe the correct preventive medicines; did not diagnose malaria when the patient......s first fifty years, CERN has constantly paid much attention to environmental matters, in particular to keeping the impact of its activities on the surrounding environment to the minimum. In recent years the Organization has developed an environmental management system, set up official communication channels o...Society for Psychophysiology Research
...e relationship between age and physical fitness on attention and memory processes indexed by a measure of brain... time. Results showed that brain waves reflecting attention were greater for physically fit compared to sedentary children and in association with this physical...Gladstone researchers resolve key Huntington's disease mystery in Nature cover story
...g dissolved in liquid. Investigators may now focus attention on the possibility that the real culprit is a more soluble form of mutant huntingtin spread throughout the neuron, or nerve cell, among other theories. "We are very excited by these results," says lead investigator Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, an assi...The CF Foundation urges all states to include newborn screening for cystic fibrosis in test panels
...reening for CF are now clear. We now must turn our attention to ensuring that parents of newborns diagnosed with CF are given the educational resources they need to care for their children and that they receive appropriate treatment from CF experts," said Preston W. Campbell, III, M.D., executive vice presiden...Multi-species herbivore outbreak follows El Nio drought in Panama
...t's becoming increasingly clear that we should pay attention to these harbingers of climate change. A better understanding of the deep natural history of these systems may help us to predict outbreaks involving crop pests or human disease vectors."...Frontiers in cancer prevention research: Defeating cancer before it strikes
... spread, scientists are increasingly turning their attention to new discoveries in cancer prevention. Leading experts from around the globe are gathering to share the latest research in this expanding and promising new field, with the hope this work will significantly reduce cancer incidence and mortality. ...Small business at NJIT's business incubator takes two awards
...icer Harvey D. Homan, PhD. "We hope this kind of attention can increase our odds for future funding and support from the business community." Urovalve, Inc. is a fledgling enterprise that holds patents on a device which can be implanted through the urethra into the bladder via a simple procedure that does n...Manipulation of epigenome turns off as many genes as it turns on
...hylation agents, but they do indicate that careful attention should be paid to results of laboratory experiments and clinical trials that use the agents, since so many genes are affected, says Feinberg. "It was kind of assumed that removing methyl groups would turn some genes on and others off, but the d...Reductions in blood oxygen levels in newborns could contribute to ADHD development
...nt may be one factor leading to the development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This research will be reported at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego on October 24 by Glenda Keating, PhD, and Michael Decker, PhD, of the Department of Neurology at Emory University's Sch......mpaired in autistic children, such as language and attention span," Millonig says. Their next clue came from studies of mutant mice. Mice with a mutation in the ENGRAILED 2 (EN2) gene also have a smaller cerebellum. And while scientists had not yet pinpointed a gene that causes autism, they had identifi...Psychologist finds instance where 'two wrongs do make a right'
... Bala is continuing her research on the effects of attention on visual perception in the laboratory of UO psychology professor Richard Marrocco. PloS Biology, first published in 2003, is the flagship journal of the Public Library of Science, a nonprofit organization of physicians and scientists dedicated to wi...Predicting infection risk of mosquito-borne disease
...-born infections would clearly benefit from paying attention to mosquito demography and behavior....Stimulating nerve cells with laser precision
... works and that it is safe, they are turning their attention to studying the exact mechanisms behind the stimulation effects. The most likely candidates, Jansen and Wells say, include a photothermal or mechanical effect or perhaps a combination of the two. The scientists are beginning experiments ...Yerkes researchers to present array of new data at Society for Neuroscience Meeting
...cleus (PPT), a region of the brain associated with attention and awareness, interacts with other brain regions associated with neurodegenerative diseases in order to determine the role of the PPT in neurodegeneration. (3 pm 5 pm)o determined vesicular glutamate transporters, a recently discovered group of pro...Scientists closing in on nerve proteins' contributions to memory and hearing loss
...f November. Nrg-1 originally caught scientists' attention because of its links to processes that encode memo...cation. Until recently, researchers gave little attention to Nrg-ICD, the interior portion of Nrg-1. But Jianxin Bao, Ph.D., research assistant professor of o...Scientists find acid rain an unlikely ally in the battle against a greenhouse gas
...em is," he noted. Most attention has been given to the negative aspects of pollution but if scientists want to understand all of Earth's complexities and make better predictions of future climate we need to understand interactions among a suite of processes that are not always well ...UK scientist and children's author wins EMBO Award for Communications 2004
...tance of science education for the young and bring attention to the plight of children at risk of HIV in Africa today." As well as her full-time role as a researcher and Director of the Cancer Research UK Translational Oncology Centre at Queen Mary, Fran Balkwill is a dedicated science communicator. She h...In a tiny squid, bacterial toxin governs organ development
...ngs may encourage researchers to begin to pay more attention to the many microbes that live in association with humans. The advent of new genetic sequencing technology is permitting biologists to begin to identify the many varieties of bacteria that live in association with humans and other animals. ...Computer models to simulate hypothetical outbreak of avian flu
...s to combat infectious diseases have focused their attention on the H5N1 strain of the bird influenza virus. By simulating the outbreak of this potentially deadly avian flu in a hypothetical human community, the researchers hope to answer key questions about how best to contain the virus. The work is funded by...