Physicians may not be accurate in their confidence levels of their diagnoses, says Pitt study
...man said. "While this was a study performed in the laboratory and not in the clinic, the apparent prevalence of overconfidence represents a major challenge to designers of decision support systems--if the advice of these systems is to be sought and attended to when it is really needed." Also participating in th...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
... field trials; and the many medical professionals, laboratory staff, caregivers and volunteers who during those years devoted their lives to the effort. Together, their involvement paved the way for the largest U.S. clinical trial ever to be conducted, with 1.8 million children from 44 states taking part. Maki...Indiana University researchers closer to helping hearing-impaired using stem cells
...ells can be collected easily and kept alive in the laboratory until needed, she said. Other researchers had previously shown that the marrow stromal cells could be induced to transform into neuronal cells, but it wasn't clear whether, or how, the cells could be further transformed into useful specialized neuron...Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies
...rgies successfully prevented allergic reactions in laboratory mice, as well as in human cells in a test tube, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers report in the April issue of Nature Medicine, available online now. In the future, the investigators say, these promising results could lead to a...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...nerable plaques. The technology developed in their laboratory was used for this first study to examine the structure of plaques in patients with cardiac disease. The study enrolled patients scheduled to undergo cardiac catheterization for whom angiograms or other imaging techniques had identified the arterial ...RIT takes eye-tracking research to next level
...ching question is how much of what we learn in the laboratory can we extend to the real world?" asks Pelz, an as...ing subjects to wear the technology outside of the laboratory and even outdoors. "The system we've developed at RIT is unique in its ability to automatically mon...Infant vernier acuity is comparable to that of adults
...ts can see a stimulus, and is in common use in the laboratory and the clinic. Angela Brown, lead researcher of the study, says the data suggest that vernier acuity of human infants and adults is quite similar, contrary to past studies conducted in this area. The similarity of infant and adult vernier acuity sug...Protein that helps skin cancer spread identified by Stanford researchers
...skin samples from 12 children with RDEB. They used laboratory tools to activate molecular switches that normally turn skin cells cancerous. What they found was surprising. Four of the 12 samples never turned cancerous, no matter what cancer-promoting molecular switches the researchers had flicked. The remaining......overwhelming benefit from drinking red wine. His laboratory found polyphenols, minus the alcohol, are powerful anti-oxidants. Polyphenols also are found in fruit, particularly berries, as well as green tea and chocolate. Anti-oxidants slow cell deterioration. The polyphenols also help prevent the build up of ...Research suggests possible blood test for multiple sclerosis
... examination, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and laboratory testing, such as lumbar puncture. "MRI is an expensive tool that we might be able to avoid if a blood test can be developed for MS," said Avasarala. "There is probably not a single marker to detect MS. This test was designed to look for a pattern of ...Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges
... Scripps Research Institute have found evidence in laboratory studies that the immune system may be able to reco...ecific methamphetamine antibodies can be made in a laboratory and then used as a clinical treatment for addiction. In theory, antibodies to the drug could be mass...Drug therapy may be comparable to invasive cardiac procedures for elderly patients with heart attack
...t practice styles had more cardiac catheterization laboratory capacity; patients in these regions were more likely to receive interventional treatment, regardless of age, clinical indication, or risk profile. The absolute unadjusted difference in 7-year survival between regions providing the highest rates of b...Study shows acrylamide in baked and fried food does not increase risk of breast cancer in women
...st cancer among the women in the study. Animal and laboratory studies in the past have shown higher levels of certain types of tumors in rats, including mammary gland tumors, however they were exposed to levels 1,000 to 100,000 times greater than levels humans are exposed to through diet. The researchers assess...Epstein-Barr virus protein crucial to its role in blood cancers
...s Robertson. "However, this is the first time that laboratory research into how EBV drives the cancer process has directly identified a critical component of the cell cycle for control. Now we can develop targeted therapeutics to disrupt the function of this viral protein." The researchers surmise that the firs...New ways to design safer & more effective topical (transdermal) drug delivery announced in the PNAS
...gy and then testing the most promising ones in the laboratory environment. The molecules identified broaden the ...t the most promising candidates to further in-vivo laboratory analysis....Ethical discussion should come before research
...artificially created embryos are intended only for laboratory research, there is the potential that "a zealous researcher somewhere might implant them in a mother's womb." "There used to be a gap of 20 years or so before research in the lab could potentially be applied in humans," says Jones. "But now, there ar...AACC and The Endocrine Society partner to promote patient education
...Online, the Internet's premiere public resource on laboratory testing. Lab tests play a vital role in medical de...tient dialogue, AACC has led a collaboration of 14 laboratory associations in developing Lab Tests Online ( www.labtestsonline.org ), which provides patients and ...New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
...ng an elemental image for analysis. In preliminary laboratory studies using the technique, Worley and his associates demonstrated that they could even detect fingerprints when lotion, soil, saliva or sunscreen was applied to the hands. Such prints might be difficult to detect using conventional screening metho...Tumor-targeted immune cells cure prostate cancer in mice without causing systemic immune suppression
...rn University Feinberg School of Medicine, and his laboratory group described the adoptive transfer gene therapy technique in the March issue of Cancer Research. Lee is also a researcher at The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. The researchers first rendered immune cells ...Houston meeting kicks off collaboration to advance cancer research
..., which drives pioneering cancer research from the laboratory to patient therapies at the bedside. Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College London, said, "Cancer research has long been a major focus at Imperial, and collaborations with such prestigious international partners as M. D. Anderson will help to ...