HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research
...e immune responses to the vaccine. The vaccine was able to generate antibody responses in virtually all participants, and, in general, those with a higher response had a lower rate of infection than the placebo group. In an editorial accompanying the two papers, Barney Graham and John Mascola of the Vacci...Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
...s problem. "It's the first program that has been able to show this much improvement in stroke care so rapidly across this scope and scale of patients and hospitals," he said. "Guidelines by themselves are not successful in changing practice. However, guidelines tied to individual patients at the point...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...fter their symptoms begin. Hospital staff must be able to rapidly evaluate the patient and perform the brain imaging and interpretation that will rule out other conditions such as seizure disorders, brain infections, brain swelling, tumors or hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding in the brain), Schwamm said. Many...Third of European cancer patients use complementary and alternative therapies
...hat health professionals were aware of CAM use and able to educate patients, and that the EU was involved in regulating it more efficiently. "Irrespective of what health professionals believe about CAM and how dismissive they might be, our findings show that patients are using, and will continue to use C...More homeless mentally ill than expected according to UCSD study: Interventions urged
...tients, whereas the larger Latino community may be able to provide more resources to protect against homelessness," the study said. "However, African Americans have been found to be at higher risk of homelessness in other cities with larger African American populations, such as New York and Philadelphia**...New bedside tool gauges mortality risk in heart failure patients
... that the risk tool using only three variables was able to dramatically distinguish between low, intermediate, and high risk heart failure patients." The overall mortality risk for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure was 4.1 percent. The model determined mortality risk levels starting from low...Cardiac imaging is underused in women to diagnose disease
...is not as accurate in all women. In women who are able to exercise, it is still useful, but its utility is dependent upon the woman's exercise capacity." Mieres is director of nuclear cardiology at Northshore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., and is an assistant professor at New York University S...Promise of 'bladder pacemaker' for people with spinal cord injury
...r objective is to complete clinical testing and be able to put bladder control implants in humans by the year 2010," said Grill, who plans to carry out human experiments at Duke to follow up the research with cats. Today, people with SCI typically manage their bladders with catheters or an implanted dev...Diffusion-weighted MRI can diagnose 'mad cow'-related disease in humans before symptoms show
... the disease. At the early stage, researchers were able to detect the disease using diffusion-weighted MRI in all cases. Diffusion-weighted MRI follows the random motion of water molecules throughout the brain. According to Ryutarou Ukisu, MD, lead author of the study, diffusion-weighted MRI is useful for...Nanoscale diagnostic sets sights on Alzheimer's
...that Mirkin's team developed, the researchers were able to detect within each fluid sample a miniscule amo...he markers before symptoms develop, doctors may be able to combat the illness in its nascent form when treatments may be most effective. In the first steps ...Drug treatment promising for halting Huntington's-related nerve death
...tin protein with these drugs, Dr. Bezprozvanny was able to block the nerve cells from dying. The next step, according to Dr. Bezprozvanny, will be to work with other researchers to test these drugs in whole animal models of Huntington's disease, and see if cell death and loss of motor function observed ...15 minutes training enough to save lives with an automated external defibrillator
...The authors conclude that untrained laypersons are able to use automated external defibrillators quickly and safely. Their performance significantly improves after basic theoretical explanation of the device. The reaction of untrained individuals to real emergency situations requiring the use of a defibr...Association of herpesvirus with lung disorder questioned
...nline. The researchers reported that they were not able to detect human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), also known as the Kaposi's sarcoma virus, in the lungs of 22 patients with primary or other forms of pulmonary hypertension. These observations, by Harutaka Katano and colleagues from Toho University School of M...Monkey 'pay-per-view' study could aid understanding of autism
...And in part that's because scientists haven't been able to bring to bear the methods of experimental psychophysics to understand these phenomena. "So, our approach, in which we ask the monkeys to, in a sense, put a number on how much juice they'd be willing to 'spend' to see a particular individual gives ...Cooling lessens brain damage in sick newborn babies
...ions working together to be international leaders, able to collaborate effectively and fruitfully with researchers around the world" comments Professor David Edwards from Imperial College. However, Bristol researcher Professor Andrew Whitelaw points out that: 'We need to get further information on the ti...Animal study shows link between nicotine and atrial flutter
...rapid (about 400 beats/min) that the atria are not able to fully empty their contents into the ventricles,...erturbed" added Karagueuzian. The scientists were able to replicate the findings in computer simulations. According to the American Heart Association, peop...Telemedicine is healthcare's new frontier
...s initiative is to set up a programmatic framework able to host research, development and pilot utilisation activities in the field of telemedicine via satellite. To this end, a Telemedicine Working Group has been set up, composed mainly of users (health professionals and patients' representatives). ...First US kidney cancer vaccine trial underway at Columbia
... the protein, and the body's immune system is then able to recognize this protein and kill the cells that have it (i.e. the cancer cells). About the Trial The Trovax vaccine with IL-2 trial is being conducted by a team of physicians, scientists, nurses, pharmacists, and social workers with expertise in...Activity not out of the question for people with chronic pain
... pain worse. But new research suggests they may be able to be more active than they think without suffering from increased pain. The study by researchers at the University of Michigan Health System and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., found that fibromyalgia pati......ve similar damage to this region of the brain, was able to demonstrate complete knowledge of spatial prepositions. Kemmerer's next step will be looking at how the brain processes these prepositions in other languages. "If this is true in English, then what about the 6,000 other kno...