Endoscopic sinus surgery is safe, effective in older patients
...er douches to moisturize and clean the sinuses, is always the first approach to treatment, Dr. Kountakis says. But after about a month, if the condition is no better, a surgical approach through the nose can be used to remove obstructions and/or widen sinus passages. Typically patients will continue to need...Discovery of key protein's shape could lead to improved bacterial pneumonia vaccine
...eumonia bacteria," Tuomanen said. "So children are always under-protected, since there are so many different strains of these bacteria." Knowing the shape of CbpA will guide researchers in their efforts to use part or all of this protein as the basis of a vaccine against S. pneumoniae. "CbpA is a very larg...Youki spray curbs spread of superbug MRSA
...close contact with infected people. MRSA is almost always spread by direct physical contact, and not through the air. Spread may also occur through indirect contact by touching objects (i.e., towels, sheets, wound dressings, clothes, workout areas and sports equipment) contaminated by the infected skin of a...Drinking and spousal abuse by male US Army soldiers
...more likely to be victims of IPV, though it is not always clear whether their heavy drinking preceded the ab...most chronic-disease therapies, treatment does not always work 100 percent of the time."...Brain imaging reveals new language circuits
... of nerve fibers connected the two. But there have always been naysayers who pointed to evidence that failed to fit this tidy picture. Now a study employing a powerful variant of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirms these suspicions. The study will be published December 13, 2004 in the online edition ...Stanford study questions accuracy of ads for body scans
...etect and pinpoint their illnesses. Doctors almost always refer such people for imaging. But it is much less clear how useful such screens are for people who are asymptomatic-the apparent target for much of the imaging industry's advertising, Illes said. Not only may such people be needlessly exposing t...M. D. Anderson researchers discover key protein in psoriasis
...ouse model in which the gene that encodes STAT3 is always turned on in the keratinocyte skin cells. When the genetically altered mice were born they looked relatively normal, but by the time they were two weeks old, they began to develop scaly patches on their tails that sometimes spread to their lower back...Supporters of NIH policy see publishers' gambit as possible diversion
...savvy. Although well prepared lay explanations are always welcome, the proposal fails to respect all patients' direct right to know or their power to comprehend." "We worry about any attempts to confuse an overdue outreach effort by journal publishers with enlightened public policy," Johnson added. "This ca...Jefferson and Molecular Targeting Technologies, Inc. scientists create vaccine for wildlife rabies
...h more immunogenic," he says. Live virus vaccines always carry the potential to actually cause the disease they are designed to prevent. "We have developed a very specific rabies vaccine which displays high titers and the lack of pathogenicity for immunocompetent mice even after many passages," says Dr. Di...Tumor size alone not always best for gauging treatment response
... tumor response will help ensure that patients are always undergoing the right treatment," said Dr. Choi....Prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease varies by ethnicity
...lops hepatic steatosis, and the condition does not always progress to severe stages. Recent retrospective studies have shown that the prevalence of cirrhosis due to NAFLD may vary by ethnic group. Researchers led by Jeffrey D. Browning of the University of Texas, examined a large, ethnically diverse pop...Pitt research shows NASA sleep-wake scheduling guide may need to be changed
...gn sleep-wake schedules that ensure astronauts are always able to handle their demanding tasks at peak perfo...se NASA on how to change its guidelines. "There is always some cost to performing tasks when we expect to be asleep, but by the end of the series of experimen...SIDS risk linked to lack of experience with tummy-sleeping
...en so, the researchers caution that infants should always be placed on their backs to sleep. "The first few times babies who usually sleep on their backs or sides shift to the prone (lying face down) position, they have a 19-fold increased risk of sudden death," says senior author Bradley T. Thach, M.D., a...Encryption, data hiding and watermarking: Subject of new book by NJIT expert
...at Mississippi State University. Akansu has always blended his theoretical research work with industrial applications. He was the vice president of research and development at the IDT Corporation, Newark, from 2000-2001. He was also the president and CEO of PixWave, Newark, a subsidiary of the IDT Co...Guidance on chaperones hard to implement in general practice
...7 (68%) male GPs and 24 (5%) female GPs usually or always offered a chaperone, while 410 (54%) males and 9 (2%) females usually or always used a chaperone. Only 60 males (8%) never used one compared to 344 (70%) females. Use of chaperones...Is the internet encouraging suicide pacts?
...ccount for less than 1% of all suicides and almost always involve people well known to each other, mostly spouses, most of them childless. About half have psychiatric disorders and a third have physical illnesses. An increasing number of websites graphically describe suicide methods, including details of do...Employees bring bad moods home, but they disappear by morning
...work-personal life link is "unmistakable." "We've always known that when a person brings home the stress of his or her work day, there's an impact," Seitel said. "Things don't go smoothly when mom or dad aren't relaxed; relationships suffer, kids react, people are hurt and angry. The result is more stress....Molecular tailoring of chemotherapy with novel imaging techniques
...ivity," says El-Deiry. "Since the reporter gene is always on and only in the tumor cell, it's essentially measuring tumor volume. Using the reporter gene along with the KILLER/DR5 silencer, we show for the first time that when we turn off KILLER/DR5, we get bigger tumors." While the beacon or beacon cockta...Smokers' lung cancer risk identified in CT screening study
...tting, then drops to half by 20 years, although it always remains higher than in those who never smoked," Dr. Henschke said. Lung cancer remains the major cause of cancer death in both men and women, killing more people than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined, according to the American Cancer Socie...... Carroll, "The publishers acknowledge that NIH has always had license to reproduce, publish and archive the research results that it has paid for. It is explicit; there is no question about that." "Their analysis is built on the false premise that NIH is making a change to copyright law. The fact is, in a...