ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...developments in drug-eluting stents may eventually alter this situation). 4. Patients presenting with NSTE-ACS (unstable angina or myocardial infarction without ST-segment elevation) have to be stratified first for their risk of acute thrombotic complications. A clear benefit from early angiography (<...Study finds majority of women willing to accept cervical cancer vaccine for self and children
...or a history of an abnormal Pap test were found to alter the patterns of potential acceptance of the vaccine. More information about the study can be found in the manuscript "Are Women Ready for the Cervical Cancer Vaccine?" The authors of the study are: Diane C. Bodurka, MD, M. D. Anderson Cancer Cent...Binge drinking can impair both mood and cognitive performance
..."Changes in mood states and executive function can alter behavior in ways that would promote progression to dependence," he said. "This study can not distinguish between mood and cognitive dysfunction promoting binge drinking or binge drinking inducing dysfunction, however, both might be true." Crews sugg...New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
..., March 13 Dusting for fingerprints can sometimes alter the prints, erasing valuable forensic clues. Now, chemists say they have developed a new fingerprint visualization technique using X-rays that leaves prints intact and, in addition, reveals chemical markers that could give investigators new clues for...News briefs from the journal CHEST, March 2005
...ol appeared to be the safest option, as it did not alter lung function or AHR, nor did it affect bronchoconstriction negatively. The study appears in the March issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians....Most advanced CT scanner improves imaging of heart, avoids need for surgical inspection
...o, Fla. "This added technology will dramatically alter the way we currently treat patients with suspected coronary disease and chest pain," says cardiologist Joo Lima, M.D., associate professor of medicine and radiology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute. "By imm...Scientific evidence for diets: don't believe everything you read
...all of these characteristics affect weight and can alter the effect of diet and exercise on weight loss. The researchers also examined whether the sample size at the beginning and at the end of the study was indicated, by gender. "Without knowledge of the number of subjects who were lost to follow-up, read...Air pollution thickens the blood
...suggest that particulate matter has the ability to alter cell function so that it promotes thickening or coagulation of the blood. And they point to a potential synergy between the factors that boost inflammation and blood thickening. Ultrafine particles of inhaled particulate matter can enter the bloodstr...Brain-scanning technologies need standards, according to Stanford researcher
...find out how they think this type of analysis will alter clinical care. These unpublished results could hel...he MRI screening adds valuable information and may alter a woman's medical care for the rest of her pregnancy. "If that's true, it's a major change," Illes s...Mothers' exposure to air pollutants linked to chromosome damage in babies
...hers to combustion-related urban air pollution may alter the structure of babies' chromosomes while in the ...nformation. "This evidence that air pollutants can alter chromosomes in utero is troubling since other studies have validated this type of genetic alteration...Adults who had higher exposure to infant siblings have decreased risk for MS
...he inference that infant contact in early life may alter childhood infection patterns and related immune responses and reduce the risk of MS," the authors conclude....Get ready for next generation surround sound
...l filters encapsulate how an individual's features alter sounds before they reach the eardrum. The changes ...ftware processes or built into microchips that can alter an electronic signal so as to mimic the effects of the head and outer ear before the signal is fed i...Antioxidants have no effect on Lou Gehrig's disease
...ve shown that "they do not, in fact, significantly alter the course of the disease." The review by Orrell and colleagues included eight studies of antioxidant treatment of 670 patients with varying degrees of ALS. The researchers combined and analyzed data from three of the studies with information on surv...Two minutes of magnetic stimulation can change your brain for an hour
...uce tiny electrical currents inside the skull that alter the activity of neural pathways, stimulating or inhibiting activity in parts of the brain. The technique has been used predominantly as a research tool to study how the healthy brain reacts to injury or damage but scientists have recently started to ...Controversial drug shown to act on brain protein to cut alcohol use
... Ibogaine's desirable actions and GDNF. "If we can alter the GDNF pathway, we may well have a new treatment against alcohol and drug addiction without the unwanted side effects of Ibogaine," Ron said. Colleagues in the research and coauthors on the paper are postdoctoral fellows Dao-Yao He, PhD, Nancy N.H....First new treatment for alcoholism in ten years, now available Campral(R) (acamprosate calcium)
...stood. Chronic alcohol exposure is hypothesized to alter the normal balance between neuronal excitation and inhibition. (1) Campral interacts with neurotransmitter systems and is hypothesized to restore the normal balance. (1) This mechanism of action is different from that ascribed to currently availab...Conference to examine effects of dietary supplements in patients taking blood thinning medications
...ning effect; St. John's Wort and American Ginseng alter drug metabolism; and Other supplements, such as high dose vitamin E, Alfalfa, and Coenzyme Q10 may affect blood clotting. "We plan to obtain a variety of perspectives on this issue so that we have a better understanding of managing patients' drug r...Birth simulator helps physicians I.D. least forceful way to manage problem deliveries
...appening to the baby during birth, and that we can alter our techniques to create a safer environment for delivery - a goal shared by every obstetrician." For the study, Gurewitsch performed 30 mock deliveries using a complex birthing device designed by Hopkins faculty, staff and students to simulate shoul...Ethics of neuroimaging research to be focus of NIH/Stanford meeting
... added to the volunteer's medical record, it could alter health insurance rates - a fact research subjects may not realize. In other types of studies - including some on the horizon - the subjects may find out things they didn't want to learn about how their brain responds to certain images. Who, if anyone...Researchers report early success using saliva to detect oral cancer
...ery raised two intriguing possibilities that would alter the course of research in Wong's lab: Does saliva contain a wide range of different mRNAs that have value in diagnosing disease? If correct, are there different collective patterns of mRNA in the saliva of a healthy person compared with someone who h...