New marker for early diagnosis of kidney failure identified
...te renal failure after cardiothoracic surgery in a single centre."...UCSF study offers insight into human circadian rhythms
...s gone from the human to the fly to the mouse in a single study. It demonstrates of the combined power of human molecular genetics research and studies in animals." The study began with the scientists isolating, or cloning, the mutant gene responsible for causing FASPS in five members of an extended family....Patients newly diagnosed with HIV are more likely to enter outpatient care with case management
... standard of care, which includes counseling and a single "passive referral" to a medical care provider with no follow-up. The other group of patients was introduced to a case manager who met with them individually between three and five times after the initial diagnosis. The meetings were intended to bui......s from the Icelandic Heart Association, report the single largest prospective study addressing the role of uric acid in heart disease. The debate over the role of uric acid in heart disease has been going on for more than 50 years, starting with a paper published in 1951 which found higher serum uric acid...Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...linical departments and 21 (17.2 percent) promoted single therapeutic interventions or diagnostic tests, the...5 percent)," the authors state. "Of the 21 ads for single intervention, most were for unproved (38.1 percent) or cosmetic (28.6 percent) procedures. While mor...New estimates for the causes of child deaths worldwide
...d's children count. It is important to look at the single most important determinant of childhood death which has to be poverty. Childhood mortality is strongly inversely correlated with per-capita health expenditure. In today's world, an Ethiopian child is over 30 times more likely than a western European...Can you read my mind? W.M. Keck Foundation funds innovative brain research at Carnegie Mellon
... The process generates a massive amount of data--a single scan measures the activity level in about 20,000 voxels (3-D pixels) once every second. Each voxel is about the size of a peppercorn. So Just and Mitchell use data mining and statistical machine software to detect subtle patterns. They already have d...Three-year cervical cancer screening recommendations may be applicable for certain women with HIV
...e study. The researchers sought to determine if a single initial HPV test result could be used to determine the appropriate cervical cancer screening interval in an HIV-seropositive woman with normal cervical cytology. The researchers found that after two years, "there were no large or significant absolut...Extreme exertion, emotion can spark repeat heart attacks
...ors, the absolute risk of cardiac events after any single bout of activity remains less than one in a million, including sexual activity, where there is also a slightly elevated risk for heart patients. Because strong social support and marital relationships promote physical well-being, "My view is that it ...Kandel pays tribute to Hubel's and Wiesel's 25-year partnership and work in neurobiology & vision
...at lasts for two decades and remains obsessed on a single line of research: the brain's ability to see? The answer: A 1981 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for groundbreaking research that transformed an entire branch of neurobiology and made lasting contributions to the field of neuroscience. Than...Diagnostic test for range of blood disorders on the horizon
Scientists have discovered a single mutation that is responsible for a number of blood...m a population of patients with type 1 diabetes. A single point mutation was identified in the JAK2 gene in 71 (97%) of 73 patients with polycythaemia vera, 2...Single mothers at higher risk for depression
...h 17, 2005 - A recent study showed that low-income single mothers have a very high prevalence of depressive ...rt previous research in this area that low- income single mothers reported a high level of depressive symptoms including negative thinking and chronic stresso...Mechanism of RNA recoding: New twists in brain protein production
... to expand the number of proteins assembled from a single DNA code. According to his work, the shape a parti...ng lets cells generate an array of proteins from a single DNA sequence, each with a slightly different function. Producing different proteins in a cell at on...Research suggests possible blood test for multiple sclerosis
... for MS," said Avasarala. "There is probably not a single marker to detect MS. This test was designed to look for a pattern of individual proteins that can differential people with MS from healthy people." The analysis combined mass spectrometry, a tool for analyzing proteins, with special software to recog...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
...ctly on reducing disparities. "In the long run, no single intervention is likely to reduce or eliminate disparities," researchers conclude. "Nevertheless, the combination of increasing awareness, improving quality and increasing patients demand for and participation in high-quality care will likely contrib...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March 2005 (second issue)
...o measure lung hyperinflation that offers a better single independent gauge for mortality risk in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Investigators in Spain and the United States measured inspiratory capacity-to-total lung capacity in 689 COPD patients from 2 U.S. clinics and 2 Span...Ethical discussion should come before research
...arthenogenesis, which uses genetic material from a single parent. Some scientists argue that these artificially created embryos provide a new source for human embryonic research and should be exempt from ethical restraints placed on human embryos. The methods being studied cannot currently create embryos th...Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...l, psychosocial, cost, and long-term outcomes in a single package, providing a valuable tool for stroke outcomes research. This database provides a means to conduct large-scale national-level studies at relatively low cost. ISOD strengths include the centralization of information on inpatient and outpatient...Routine dental panoramic X-rays not necessary, study shows
...esults show it isn't necessary routinely for every single patient." As the name implies, panoramic X-rays provide a wide view of the teeth, jaws and surrounding structures and tissues. Patients have a panoramic X-ray taken for an initial evaluation, followed by a series of close-up views of all sections of...Rasagiline reduces disability for patients with advanced Parkinson's disease
...and colleagues point out, rasagiline is taken as a single oral daily dose with no need for titration, and is thus easier to use for both patient and the clinician than most other additional therapies."...