September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...s want contact, most would never initiate it they consider that the responsibility of the physician. Patients anticipated needing contact with their personal physician if admitted to the hospital for a serious condition such as a malignancy (98 percent) or heart attack (97 percent). However, in the case of a...The CF Foundation urges all states to include newborn screening for cystic fibrosis in test panels
...eports and Recommendations that all states should consider routine screening for CF in all newborns. CF Foun...urce of knowledge and expertise for states as they consider this important recommendation and begin implementing newborn screening for CF." Although new therap...Dr. Harris receives NIH Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award
...bed, Dr. Harris remembers thinking reviewers might consider it too much ground to cover in the five years she originally requested. Instead, the application was given a high score by reviewers and subsequently nominated for the seven-year Javits Award. "I was really happy that they thought Javits instead of ...ASPB opposes proposed ban of GMOs in Humboldt county ballot measure M
... in violation. The Agricultural Commissioner would consider the evidence presented and any other relevant evidence, and make a determination as soon as possible, but at least before any genetic pollution may occur." "Upon a determination that a violation exists, the Agricultural Commissioner shall confis...Human embryonic stem cells promising for replacement of blood supply
...anding of blood cell replacement--they allow us to consider potential future therapies," said Dan Kaufman, M.D., assistant professor of medicine in the division of hematology, oncology and lead researcher. "We can envision blood therapies completely compatible with the patient, such as use of embryonic stem c...UNC Lineberger researchers identify molecular markers of aging
...School of Medicine. "We all know people that we consider to be a young 65, and we believe they won't demonstrate as much p16INK4a or ARF expression as others of the same age." In addition to identifying molecular targets that may slow aging in the future, the study may also sug...... strategies and management plans should explicitly consider the matrix when evaluating strategies to increase landscape connectivity. ...Genetic variant linked to weakened heart pumping
... each of the chamber's contractions. Cardiologists consider normal any reading above 55, which means 55 percent of the blood in the chamber was pumped out, Donahue said. Patients without diabetes in the study had an average ejection fraction of 53, compared to 50 for those with one allele and 42 for those wit...Avian cholera could spread from Great Salt Lake
...maintaining and spreading this disease, we need to consider the possibility that grebes and other birds will spread avian cholera beyond the Great Salt Lake during their migration to wintering areas." Each fall about 1.5 million eared grebes congregate at the Great Salt Lake as they migrate south. Avian chole...Science to restore the nation's ecosystems
...lihood of abrupt climate changes in the future, we consider their potential impacts on ecosystems and the implications for ecosystem restoration and management. We will present evidence for abrupt climate changes in coastal ecosystems of Chesapeake, Florida and Biscayne Bays to provide insight into baseline l...US researchers warn of possible fertility risk to men using laptop computers on their laps
...y 9 December) warned teenage boys and young men to consider limiting the time that they use laptop computers p...xposure", he said, "teenage boys and young men may consider limiting their use of LC on their laps, as long-term use may have a detrimental effect on their repr...Global bird populations face dramatic decline in coming decades, study predicts
...irector of the CCB Tropical Research Program. "Yet consider the case of the passenger pigeon. Besides mail becoming a lot less fun to receive, its loss is thought to have made Lyme disease the huge problem it is today. When passenger pigeons were abundant-and they used to occur in unimaginably large flocks ...False positive screening for cancer found to be frequent and costly
...r screening tests are developed it is important to consider not only their potential clinical benefits, but also their potential for adverse effects," said Lafata, director of the Center for Health Services Research at the Henry Ford Health System. "One such adverse effect is the medical care costs associate...Cigarette smoking exacerbates alcohol-induced brain damage
...cognitive investigation of these conditions should consider the potential impact of smoking on outcome measures," he said. "Given the growing evidence that cigarette smoking has adverse effects on brain structure, brain metabolites and function, consideration of the potential effects of smoking may be partic...JCI table of contents, December 15 2004
...into effective anticancer therapies is the need to consider the important role that platelets play in arresting bleeding, for example in the event of a nosebleed or following injury or surgery. In an accompanying commentary, Gaorav Gupta and Joan Massagu from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York...Balancing 'hysteria and suspicion': Doctors face new responsibilities in 'bioterrorism era'
...picion that he or she may take the extra moment to consider something unusual or atypical." Clements and Evans urged medical schools to incorporate more information about bioterrorism into their curriculums to prepare doctors to meet the diagnostic challenge. In addition, continuing medical educat...VA patients get better chronic, preventive care than similar US adults
...Los Angeles and RAND. "It challenges all of us to consider how the methods that the VA is using to improve care could be used to raise the bar in other healthcare settings." The study found that the differences between VA and the national sample were greatest where the VA has established performance meas...Weizmann Insitute scientists show how proteins beat the evolutionary stakes
...at all. "This is particularly surprising when you consider that all of these activities take place at the exact same site on the enzyme," says Tawfik. This phenomenon makes sense when viewed in evolutionary terms. "Two contradictory things are necessary for the survival of organisms," he says. "First of...Ants' 'genetic engineering' leads to species interdependency
... were practicing many of the social innovations we consider to be our own: division of labor, agriculture, and even slavery. Indeed, these traits have been taken to their extreme in many ant species, such as the case of slavemaker ants, which have become so specialized for raiding food from the colonies of ot...Federal/private partners launch resource for diabetic kidney disease gene studies
... for JDRF. Both NIH and JDRF will separately consider requests to fund research on GoKinD data and samples. NIH grant applications are at http://grants.nih.gov , and resources for type 1 diabetes research are listed at www.niddk.nih.gov/fund/diabetesspecialfunds/funding.htm . JDRF grant applications a...