Dedicated hospital stroke centers improve quality of acute care
...success of this system depends greatly on people's ability to recognize signs and symptoms of a brain attack, or a stroke, and getting to the hospital, fast," Potter said. The authors also report reduced complications at certified stroke centers. "The concept behind designated stroke centers is to reduce...Rheumatoid arthritis patients have double the risk of heart failure
...sk of heart failure, or a weakening of the heart's ability to pump blood, as those without rheumatoid arthritis, according to a new study to be published in the February edition of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism, http://www.rheumatology.org . About one-third of the rheumatoid arthritis patients studied ...States find alternate routes to health coverage
... forward, how Medicaid evolves will impact states' ability to maintain or expand coverage. States pursued innovative strategies to maintain or expand coverage. In some cases, states found new revenue sources to increase health care coverage. Residents in several states approved ballot initiatives to inc...Older people get the big picture faster, and they are less inhibited
... McMaster. The results suggest that as we age, the ability of one brain cell to inhibit another is reduced. That sort of inhibition helps young people find an object hidden among clutter, but it can make it hard to tune into the clutter itself. When the young brain sees big, high-contrast bars, it effectivel...Substance protects resilient staph bacteria
...ining of the heart and its valves). Because of the ability of PGA to promote resistance to innate immune defenses, learning more about the protein could lead to new treatments for S. epidermidis and related Staphylococcal pathogens that also produce PGA, according to the RML scientists. In addition, they al...University of Washington joins new Autism Treatment Network to provide better medical services
...h have spurred dramatic gains in medical science's ability to treat those conditions. "All too often when pa...elopmental disorders that interfere with a child's ability to communicate or relate socially with other people. Those afflicted have a restricted range of acti...HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research
... have worked with the vaccine and caused a greater ability to resist the virus. For the non-white group, the authors suggest that biological differences in immune response or genetic markers of resistance to infection could have made the vaccine more effective. Also examined in the trial were the immune resp...Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
...dary prevention strategies." LaBresh added: "The ability of our hospitals to significantly improve the use of secondary prevention measures is particularly exciting because these measures apply to a broad range of patients. Their use will help prevent future strokes and cardiovascular events and are most ...Third of European cancer patients use complementary and alternative therapies
...d CAM because they wanted to increase their body's ability to fight the disease (50%), improve physical well-...e primary reason for choosing CAM was to boost the ability to fight cancer only 22% found it of benefit, while 42% found it helped their emotional well-being a...Inflammatory cells highly promising target in NF 1
...tumors. By using drugs that target the mast cells' ability to promote blood vessel growth, Clapp and his colleagues hope to prevent tumors from getting larger. Eventually, with continuing treatment, they hope the tumors will shrink or die from lack of blood vessel support. Neurofibromatosis gets its name fro...Mayo Clinic researchers create 'obedient virus'; First step to use measles virus against cancer
...how that we've efficiently ablated (destroyed) the ability of the measles virus to interact with its two natu...asles virus may be a little too promiscuous in its ability to infect both cancer cells and non-cancer cells, so we wanted to develop a method whereby we could ...New bedside tool gauges mortality risk in heart failure patients
...t failure therapies since researchers now have the ability to easily categorize patients by high and low mortality risk. The study was funded by Scios, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company and member of the Johnson and Johnson Family of Companies. The ADHERE Registry, also funded by Scios, Inc., collects obser...New way to block pox shows promise in lab study
...ailable to the virus and thus hindering the virus' ability to spread from cell to cell," says Dr. Reinherz. The kind of antiviral drug envisioned by Dr. Reinherz would not be used for lengthy periods because it would target normal and necessary cell functions. In acute infections, however, where short-term t...Viral DNA sequence a possible trigger for breast cancer
...ssue of The Journal of Experimental Medicine. The ability of this motif to transform cells single-handedly suggests that viral infection may be an important and previously unrecognized trigger for breast cancer. The DNA sequence in question is usually found in immune cells and helps trigger the activation a...Privacy rule cuts research recruitment by more than half
.... After HIPAA, due to restrictions on researchers' ability to identify potentially eligible subjects, recruitment fell to an average range of 2.5 to 5.7 women a week. Inconsistencies among academic institutions concerning interpretation of HIPAA regulations remain a potent threat to a wide range of clinical ...Minorities who experience pain don't receive the same care as Caucasians
.... The papers range from racial differences in the ability to access pain medications, and differences in the response to pain based upon race and age, to work that focuses on workers compensation claims among Caucasians and African Americans. Commentary by Louis W. Sullivan, MD, Secretary of the U.S. Depa...Screening for osteoporosis prevents hip fractures in older adults
...to estimate bone density by measuring the tissues' ability to absorb X-rays was associated with a 36 percent reduction in hip fractures over six years compared with usual medical care. The study, to be published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on Feb. 1, is a unique look at the effects of screening for...Wisconsin scientists grow critical nerve cells
...apeutic promise of embryonic stem cells with their ability to replicate indefinitely and develop into any of the 220 different types of cells and tissues in the body. But researchers have struggled to convert blank-slate embryonic stem cells into motor neurons, says Zhang. The goal proved elusive even in sim...The mysteries of the emotions: The Good, Bad, and the Learned
...ies say about the brain's reaction to fear and its ability to get rid of unwanted emotional memories? How can our minds control our emotions, and what role do the hippocampus and amygdala play in anxiety and depression? To present the latest findings in this field and to discuss their implications, the N...Hands-on or hands-free, using a cell phone while driving is not safe, researchers find
...n still disrupt driving, particularly the driver's ability to control the vehicle's speed. Drivers slow down when entering information manually or by voice (see the paper by Tsimhoni, Smith, and Green). Information (such as telephone numbers) presented by voice competes for drivers' attention to a far grea...