September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...current guidelines, may facilitate progress toward individualized treatment and the elimination of socioeconomic disparities in health. Should Years of Schooling Be Used to Guide Treatment of Coronary Risk Factors? By Kevin Fiscella, M.D., M.P.H., et al Expensive New Medications Significantly Increase Drug Expe...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...versity of laughter while aiming to produce highly individualized expressions of mirth. People use laughter to express a happy or funny context or to render a positive response in conversation. Similarly, this technique aims to make the expression of laughter in computer-generated speech more effective and natural....NHGRI seeks next generation of sequencing technologies
...'s genome cost-effectively could give rise to more individualized strategies for diagnosing, treating and preventing disease. Such information could enable doctors to tailor therapies to each person's unique genetic profile. DNA sequencing costs have fallen more than 100-fold over the past decade, fueled in large p...ASU gets grant to develop high speed DNA sequence reader
...uence each person's genome could give rise to more individualized strategies for diagnosing, treating and preventing disease. Such information would enable doctors to tailor therapies to each person's genetic profile. "It would usher in the era of molecular medicine," Williams said....Gene expression profiling aids in ovarian cancer prognosis
...istance to chemotherapy, and may eventually permit individualized use of targeted therapies that are chosen on the basis of a given tumor's genetic profile," he notes. ...EB and IUPS - Where cures of tomorrow can be seen in the science of today
...ocus on diet and health outcomes. Symposia address individualized nutrition as a tool to prevent and treat chronic disease; nutrition and aging, including interventions for metabolic syndrome and osteoporosis; nutritional needs for the development, maintenance, and use of the immune system; nutritional modulation o...Individualized medicine emerging from gene-environment studies
...s. Advances in genetics can help return to a more individualized approach to medicine."...Map of human genetic variation across populations may promise improved disease treatments
...ations, and ultimately may promise more effective, individualized treatments. The research, scheduled to appear 18 February in Science, "will provide an invaluable resource for genetic research to improve human health," said Donald Kennedy, the journal's editor-in-chief. The work was unveiled today at the Annual M...California researchers help map human genetic variation across populations
...dard methodology in the search for more effective, individualized treatments." Researchers at Perlegen sequenced the single-letter variations (called single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs) in the DNA of 71 individuals of European American, African American, and Han Chinese American ancestry. Subsequently, scient...Panel discusses effect of individualized diets on chronic disease risk
...ing an overview of the past, present and future of individualized dietary recommendations. Specifically she noted ... play a vital role in the increasing demand toward individualized dietary recommendations," said German. "Consumers at an increasing rate are purchasing products tha...Readers of genome decipher signatures of cancer patient outcomes
... targets for development of novel, target-tailored individualized anti-cancer drugs. Monitoring the Effectiveness of Anti-Cancer Therapies: Abstract 9243 A specific set or polymorphism of 40 genes comprises a "signature" that may predict patient response to chemoradiotherapy among esophageal cancer patients, acc...ORNL nanoscience center 'jump starts' medical compound device
...e ideally suited to demanding applications such as individualized medicines and drugs tailored to each patients needs; short-order manufacturing of drugs/chemicals with a short shelf life; and a better way to make short-lived radioactive compounds for medical diagnostic imaging technology such as positron emission ...New advances may slow tumor growth in pancreatic cancer
...reatments that, when combined in a form of therapy individualized to each patient, will have an impact on this devastating disease....Positive effects of nuclear medicine, 'smart drugs' provide hope for non-hodgkin's lymphoma patients
... patient's body. The dose given to each patient is individualized to the patient's own handling of the drug, so the ...onsidered complete after the patient receives that individualized therapeutic dose, typically one week or so after the dosimetric dose. "We have achieved an impressiv...A step toward the $1,000 personal genome using readily available lab equipment
...educe the amount further--to about $1,000--to make individualized prevention and treatment realistic. The sharp drop is due to a new DNA sequencing technology developed by Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers Jay Shendure, Gregory Porreca, George Church, and their colleagues, reported on August 4 in the online...Sept/Oct 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...L PREVENTIVE SERVICES Physician practices develop individualized approaches for delivering clinical preventive services, such as smoking cessation counseling, cholesterol screening and immunizations, with no one approach being successful across practices. This mixed methods study of Midwestern family medicine pra...$16 million grant advances nanomedicine at Washington University
...e. "We've entered an era of precisely targeted and individualized cancer therapy," Wickline says. "Our nanotechnology will strongly affect the practice of medicine. And the grant from the NCI will allow us to build a highly effective collaborative network to bring the technology rapidly to clinical use in the treat...PET's imaging power may be best indicator for determining which patients develop Alzheimer's
...we increase our understanding of the human genome, individualized therapy and individualized diagnosis will become increasingly important," he added. "The current study underlines that a geneti...Electrical engineer works on personalizing medical treatment
...the same histological type. Given these variables, individualized patient assessment becomes a very challenging procedure. Virginia Tech's Yue (Joseph) Wang, who currently leads a $5.5 million research effort to improve the outcome for breast cancer patients, dreams of a more personalized medicine in which doctors ...Biovest International announces that it will report new follow-up data
..., Inc. is a pioneer in the development of advanced individualized immunotherapies for life-threatening cancers of the blood system. Biovest is a majority owned subsidiary of Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc (Nasdaq: ABPI). Biovest has a foundation in the manufacture of biologics for research and for clinical trials...