Minimally invasive surgery for heart rhythm abnormality proven effective
... surgeons can perform the procedure and it will be applicable to virtually all patients with this irregular rhythm." Atrial fibrillation affects more than two million Americans. Normally, electric signals trigger the synchronized contraction of muscles in the heart's two upper chambers, the atria. During atrial...Mayo Clinic finds effective treatment with minimal side effects for non-renal lupus
...se for these patients -- an alternative and widely applicable to many patients," says Kevin Moder, M.D., Mayo Clinic rheumatologist, who will present the findings at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in San Antonio, Texas ( http://www.rheumatology.org/annual/index.asp ). Patient...Testosterone may help in recovery from strokes, suggests preliminary findings in study
...urning from combat without a limb. They may not be applicable for stroke patients." He acknowledges that testosterone replacement therapy usually is given to men who have low testosterone, whose symptoms include low libido, poor muscle strength, depression and cognitive problems. "We're studying gi...New way to tally death risk for heart patients could ease worry
...ndpoint, mortality, will make this prediction tool applicable in most cases. This model, in particular, helps us move forward in applying the knowledge we gain by studying large populations to benefit the individual patient. It is just part of our effort to improve cardiac care in Michigan, the United States an...Preimplant test offers option of having child to serve as stem cell donor to sibling in need
...ic disorders. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis is applicable to indications beyond those of prenatal diagnosis, such as Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) matching to affected siblings to provide stem cell transplantation. HLA testing, also known as tissue typing, determines the compatibility between donors and rec...Promising diagnostic test for sleeping sickness
...highly specialised laboratories, and hence are not applicable in the field. But, as the current study suggests, such diagnostic methods should be a starting point to develop new diagnostic methods for the field". ...HeartScore(R): New tool for cardiovascular disease risk prediction and management
...nes-based tools in CVD prevention can be made more applicable and user-friendly whilst both relevant and adaptab...y with data from 5,000 people in the US. Although applicable to European populations with a higher risk, equivalent to that of the US, Framingham charts tend to ...Older people lose out all round in breast cancer treatment and care
... inclusion of a few healthy elderly women, are not applicable to the majority of the older patient population." Combination chemotherapy in advanced breast cancer can be particularly toxic to elderly patients, he said, and there was a need for special trials of single agents in older people to spare them this t...Mechanism leading to life-threatening infection identified by UCSD School of Medicine researchers
...rch Professor. "In addition, these findings may be applicable to serious cases of the flu, where individuals also get bacterial super-infections," Karin noted. "Every year, you have tens of thousands of deaths among people infected with the flu. We believe this super-lethal type of flu is not due to the virus ...New computer-aided approach tailors drug dose to patient needs
...tried our approach first with abciximab, it may be applicable to other medicines that have a narrow therapeutical range between under dosing and overdosing." The approach is described in the January issue of the journal, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The authors are Urquidi-Macdonald, who worked on ...New insights into devastating basketball foot injury
...dy looked at elite athletes, the findings are also applicable to all types of athletes who participate in sports requiring similar maneuvers. The study was supported by the K Lab and the Piedmont Society, a group founded by orthopedic surgeons who trained at Duke. Other members of the Duke were Gregory Riskan, ...Scientists find HIV-blocking protein in monkeys
... vaccine trials conducted on them are not directly applicable to humans. Now with a better understanding of why HIV cannot successfully infect monkey cells, scientists have a defined target to manipulate and could use that information to develop animal models that more closely mimic HIV disease. Matthew Streml...System can predict disease spread
...rms of disease spread. The system could also be applicable to other emerging community diseases of major concern in recent years, such as West Nile Virus, SARS, monkey pox, or the newest threat that has medical researchers around the world alarmed Avian flu. "This new system should be useful with almost ...Jefferson researchers find immune response, dosing keys to vaccine's success against melanoma
...r. Berd. He believes that these findings should be applicable to other experimental cancer vaccines. "Generally, in the vaccine field, people don't worry about the dose, how often they give it and the injection site," he says. "We show that these things matter. These parameters are important and people will ne...Study in children challenges primary theory for 'stroke belt'
...hat we should look at stroke risk factors that are applicable to both children and adults when attempting to explain the stroke belt," Fullerton said. "We might look predominantly toward environmental or cultural factors, such as differences in water or soil, diet, socioeconomic status and genetics." Childhoo...Brain receptor switches addiction on, off
... also exist in humans so we hope that this will be applicable to human drug addiction as well," he says. Collaborators on the study, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, included Roger Gallegos and Steven Henriksen of the Scripps Research Institute in California....Successful, rapid protein crystallization possible with technique developed by UCSD researcher
...of Nebraska, Woods has developed DXMS as a broadly applicable proteomics technology, and in the PNAS work, used it to rapidly and precisely identify the unstructured regions within proteins. The process measures the rate at which hydrogen molecules located within each amino acid of the protein, called peptide ...Tiny nanotube antennas may yield better signals in cell phones, televisions
...signals. Kosko set out to show that the theory was applicable at the nano scale. Under controlled laboratory conditions, Kosko's graduate student, Ian Lee, generated a sequence of faint electrical signals ranging from weak to strong. In combination with noise, the faint signals were then exposed to devices with...Standardized blood pressure measurement could improve hypertension prevention, care in the Americas
...sults and program plans may not be transferable or applicable to other groups or nations. In addition, some research data cannot be compared or the results pooled, thus losing important opportunities for evidence-based information on national and hemispheric trends and impacts of national prevention, education,......ns mean that the extent to which these results are applicable to other settings is open to question, say the authors. However, increasing the proportion of silver cars could be an effective strategy to reduce the burden of injury from car crashes....