Duke Physicians: Clinicians Have Ethical Obligation To Consider Alternative Medicine
...e of the ethics of their practice, to find a wayto bridge the gap between their reliance on conventional practice and theirpatients' needs, Sugarman said. In approaching the issue, the authors assumed that practitioners ofalternative medicine have the patient's best interest at heart and practiceacc...Setbacks To Health Progress In Central America
...hCentral America since long before health became a bridge for peace in theconflict-ridden 1980s. Central America, one of the most vulnerable areas of thecontinent with high levels of poverty, had made significant progress in health,although its needs will be much greater after the devastating effects of the...New Technique Induces Growth Across Spinal Cord Injury
...ry withoutthe use of implanted cells or tissues to bridge the severed fibers. In addition,the findings call into question current assumptions about barriers to spinalcord regeneration. "We have actually tricked nerve cells into growing beyond the area of a spinalcord injury by switching them into an active...Oxygen reduces effects of retinal detachment
...reat value of translational research by building a bridge between the basicscientist and the retinal surgeon." "The bottom line is that oxygen therapy reduces the amount of damage tothe photoreceptor cells of the retina," said Steven K. Fisher, Ph.D., directorof the Neuroscience Research Institute ...Cedars-Sinai Medical tip sheet for Sept. 21
...transplant. Ventricular assist device surgery as a bridge to hearttransplantation or a bridge to recovery is the forefront of what's happening inheart failure cardiology and heart failure surger...Immune system protein may be critical in kidney disorders and other diseases
... T cell surface, helping the cell form a molecular bridge with other immunecells. The molecular bridge forms as a T cell molecule binds to another molecule on theother cell. CD2AP helps position the mole......admit another model for human disease is needed to bridge the gap between mice and sick people. We believe identical monkeys are the next logical step in finding these life-saving answers." Schatten points to the Human Genome Project when explaining the benefits of this research. He and other scientists ...New plastic heals damaged nerves
...d vessels and in most tissues. The researchers bridge the gap in the damaged nerve with a tube made of the new biomaterial. As the sugar breaks down inside the body, its by-products stimulate blood vessel growth, an important process in wound healing. Over a period of two to six weeks, the biomaterial b...Artificial liver moves toward commercialization
...rt of a person's liver function can serve as a bridge to transplant or as a short-term treatment. Prototype devices, which filter blood toxins that build up as a result of liver damage, have been used in limited clinical trials to support patients. Advances in the development of this device, whi......cancer. We hope that our support for students who bridge the gap between science and medicine can speed up the search for new cancer cures and help educate more people who can put that life-saving knowledge into practice." The first two Frank Scholars will be M.D./Ph.D. students Andrew Hack and Scott Nagle...Blood medicine may ease cocaine withdrawal
...show that the medication propranolol may provide a bridge for cocaine-dependent patients struggling to get past the first critical weeks of recovery and stay in treatment. The results of the propranolol study is published in the April 2001 issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, a peer-reviewed journal. The...NIAID events highlight global health research
...rch facility in Rockville, was established to help bridge the gap between basic research and malaria vaccine production. By providing "product process development," a key step in vaccine production that enables experimental vaccine concepts to be modified and scaled up for clinical testing in people, the M...U-M, World Health Organization host telemedicine symposium
...Telehealth, which uses technology to bridge distances, is especially beneficial as a teaching and learning device. Welcoming the delegates is Allen Lichter M.D, dean of the UM Medical School , the Honorable John J. H. Schwarz, M.D., Senat...Patent rights stimulate R&D, but fall short in helping poor countries obtain lifesaving drugs
...m and the resulting report is really an attempt to bridge the gap between drug makers, who defend their right to patent protection, and activists, who argue that patents unfairly drive up prices of pharmaceutical products," said Carol Medlin, PhD, project director at the UCSF Institute for Global Health. "F...Science, engineering and technology news tips -- August 2001
...or authors on the study. The model was intended to bridge the gap between these time scales, Cox said. Predictions from the model were a good fit with data from the BSE epidemic in cattle in England, he said. Prions can jump from one species to another. Some cases of human disease in England were likely ca......allows the use of implanted pump devices only as a bridge to transplantation and after certain types of cardiac surgery. Approximately 4,000 people are on U.S. heart transplant lists, but only 2,733 donor hearts were available worldwide in 1999. The devices do not offer the same longevity and quality of li......e an interactive computer program that can bridge the language barrier. The touch-screen computer program will be able to translate basic health questions and answers from English to Spanish and vice versa. An audio track will be designed to help illiterate patients,...Institute will study how worker health affects productivity and profit
...Cornell. "A central mission of the institute is to bridge the gap among academia, the business community and health-care-policy world, bringing academic resources into policy debates and day-to-day business decisions, and bringing health and productivity management issues into academia," explains David C. S...Implantable device pumps up ailing heart
... a day. The FDA has approved the Jarvik 2000 as a bridge to transplant in the United States, but not for permanent use as in Britain. The two other living patients report that their quality of life has improved dramatically. All were in class IV heart failure, the highest stage for severity of the disea...Mayo Clinic researchers find useful test for identifying patients
...orter, M.D. "The present work represents a welcome bridge between the molecular genetics of cardiac ion channelopathies and the application of this knowledge in the diagnosis and management of these patients," writes James C. Perry, M.D., of Childrens Hospital in San Diego, Calif., in an accompanying editor...