Rice cartilage experts win $1.5M NIH grant to bioengineer TMJ discs
...nue to characterize and compare tissues grown from adult animal cells. In growing their samples, Athanasiou's team will sort out the complex regime of biomechanical cues and growth factors that are needed to coax cells into producing TMJ cartilage. They expect that a combination of mechanical stimuli...Scientists align billion-year-old protein with embryonic heart defects
...ther subtle defects in SRF might also be linked to adult cardiovascular disease. However, the research provides a foundation for understanding how gene mutations may disrupt heart function, perhaps making some adults more susceptible to heart failure or irregular reactions to drugs. "One reason for stud...U of MN researchers set new standard of care for adult cord blood transplant patients
...esearchers will present the promising results from adult umbilical cord blood studies for patients with can...tem Cell Institute. A major limitation of adult cord blood transplantation highlighted in the NEJM articles is the high likelihood of patients dying...Immigration & psychiatric disorders
...ion aged 18 years and older. With more than 43,000 adult Americans participating, the NESARC is the largest study ever conducted of the co-occurrence of alcohol and drug use disorders and other psychiatric disorders as defined by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of M...TV ads during sports depict unsafe behavior and violence
...levision programs and movies to warn parents about adult content and violence, no such rating or preview systems are in place to warn parents about commercials. Moreover, it is plausible that parents might consider sporting events aired before 9 p.m. to be safe and free of such content. "Our findings su...Month of birth linked to risk of MS
...d therefore determine the risk for this disease in adult life, they conclude....November/December 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...uling system. In semistructured interviews with 34 adult patients, 22 participants (65 percent) mentioned emotional barriers to keeping appointments, including fear and anxiety about both procedures and bad news. Fifteen participants (44 percent) commented on issues of respect by the health care system, co...Establishing pediatric stroke trials
... speak on: translation research experience in adult stroke trials sickle cell disease prior experience in trials with children trial design and pitfalls Faculty: Hosted by Steven Pavlakis, MD, Director of Pediatric Neurology, Maimonides Medical Center. Members of the International Child Strok...American Thoracic Socety journal news tips for December 2004 (first issue)
.... The syndrome affects from 2 to 4 percent of the adult population.) As the most effective treatment for patients with this disease, the CPAP device is worn like an oxygen mask while sleeping, delivering a mixture of air and oxygen to the patient through the nose. It is designed to keep the airway open ...Stem cells of limited use for cardiac muscle repair
...reatment for patients with damaged hearts -- using adult stem cells to regenerate heart tissue -- may not w...searchers remained skeptical about the capacity of adult stem cells, even BM-SP cells, to complete the transition. McNally, a cardiologist who studies the g...Simple intervention nearly eliminates catheter-related bloodstream infections
...rough 2002 at two Johns Hopkins ICUs that care for adult patients undergoing general, cardiac, transplant, trauma, vascular and orthopedic surgery. Rates were calculated based on the number of infections per 1,000 catheter days, defined as the number of patients with a catheter for one day. One ICU serve...Herpes virus offers new hope in curing cancer
...e the herpes simplex virus has been tested against adult cancers, this is the first study that shows promis...es could hold implications for other childhood and adult cancers. "We have data that suggest certain sarcomas in children are sensitive to this therapy. In a...Leukemia patients survive with stem cell transplant
...d comparison of treatment results in more than 500 adult leukemia patients undergoing transplant. Resear...ident. "Dr. Laughlin's study gives renewed hope to adult patients without a sibling stem cell donor. Continued research is needed, however, to improve the ou...New protein 'stop sign' alters blood vessel growth
...ascular birth defects, coronary heart disease, and adult nerve regeneration problems, say the researchers. This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, the Packard Center for ALS Resea...Grant to study why teens smoke
...s and physiological reactions to smoking. "Most adult smokers start smoking before age 18," said Mermelstein, principal investigator of the study. "Adolescence is a critical time to try to understand health behaviors." Recent studies have shown that in the 12th grade, nearly a quarter of all stude...Patients who are intubated prior to hospital arrival fare worse find Pitt researchers
...ma Outcome Study between 2000 and 2002 and studied adult patients with severe head injuries. The primary outcome for most of these patients was death, with secondary outcomes being various types of neurologic and functional impairment. Among the 4,098 patients who were intubated, odds of death were about f...Computer assisted standing orders improve adult immunization rates
...ove influenza and pneumonia immunization rates for adult hospital patients. According to the authors of a ...ing orders for nurses achieve even higher rates of adult inpatient immunization than computerized physician reminders. In a previous study published in the...Gastric bypass works for GERD and obesity in patients with prior surgery, says Pitt study
...problem affecting up to 40 percent of the American adult population. "Although a direct cause-effect relationship between obesity and GERD has not been clearly established, obesity is often associated with GERD. Up to 55 percent of morbidly obese patients presenting for laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypa...Study clarifies impact of age on safety of warfarin treatment for atrial fibrillation
...nt. The research team compiled information on 170 adult atrial fibrillation patients who had developed intracranial hemorrhage while being treated with warfarin and compared that data to information from 744 randomly selected patients from the MGH anticoagulation clinic who had not developed hemorrhage du...Panel offers recommendations for monitoring adverse events from dietary supplements
...ing to assure consumer safety for the one in three adult Americans who routinely use dietary supplements, accounting for a cumulative $18 billion per year in sales....