Medication effective in treating children with autism
...and speech therapy, special education and possibly applied behavioral analysis to help the children develop skills. Even then, the children may still present behavioral problems. That's a lot on your plate. "Risperidone is popular in clinical circles, and this is one of those times when a drug's popularity ...The Lancet Oncology (TLO) and the Lancet Infectious Diseases (TLID)
...s less than one then eradication is possible. When applied to data from the San Francisco gay community, the model shows that epidemic eradication is possible, although it could take 100 years or more to achieve. Also in the August issue, Michael M Thomson and colleagues, from the Centro Nacional de Microbio...Study adds to knowledge of what it takes to stand up, walk
...hen the lower body is under pressure. The pressure applied to the lower body mimics the action of someone moving from a seated to standing position. In addition to microdialysis to measure the chemical reactions to CNS signals, Sinoway also used microneurography to record the intensity of the "messages" se...The majority of hand cuts don't need stitches
...ad the same antibiotic ointment and gauze dressing applied for 48 hours. Patients were asked to return in 8-10 days for their sutures to be removed or their wound to be assessed. Patients also rated the pain of their treatment using a standard pain rating scale. The average time to resume normal activities ...DARPA to support development of human brain-machine interfaces
...dical uses, brain-machine interfaces also could be applied to enhance the abilities of normal humans, said the researchers. As examples, they said, neurally controlled robots could enable remote search-and-rescue operations or exploration of hazardous or inaccessible environments. The Duke center will consi...Rutgers research shows caffeine may prevent skin cancer
...er. After stopping the exposures, the researchers applied caffeine and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), two components of green tea, topically to the skin. Both caffeine and EGCG significantly inhibited cancer formation in the mice. Although the study showed that most of the positive effects were true for...Real time health records reduce clinical errors, enhance time with patients
... Under the new computerized model which has been applied in the peri-operative surgical and pain management areas all the information needed by the medical team is amalgamated into the system, and is instantly accessible at the point of care. Findings from the QUAIL team led by Dr. Goldstein, technical ...Cigarette tax hike could save millions of lives
...th cost of preventing those deaths. To do so, they applied the results of previous tobacco-cessation research to a worldwide model of smokers in 1995. "In general, price increases are the most cost-effective anti-smoking intervention," the researchers report in Nicotine & Tobacco Research. The average cost ...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives SPORE grant for lymphoma cancer research from NCI
...eed basic research findings from the laboratory to applied settings involving patients and populations. The goal of the program is to bring into clinical care novel ideas that have the potential to reduce cancer incidence and mortality, improve survival and enhance patients' quality of life. Laboratory and c...Fred Hutchinson receives $12.7 million to lead prostate-cancer consortium
...created to promote collaboration between basic and applied scientists to speed the testing of new approaches to the prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of a variety of cancers. Other recipients of prostate SPORE funding this year are Harvard University and the University of California at Los...Researchers discover target for new anxiety-reducing drugs
...e researchers believe this information can also be applied to humans and used in the development of better medications for serious anxiety disorders. The research is printed in the October issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation. Jacob Raber, Ph.D., an assistant professor of behavioral neuroscience in...MIT breast cancer heat treatment begins final clinical trials
...enter in Coral Springs, Fla. Additional sites have applied for Institutional Review Board Approval. The final phase of randomized clinical testing is expected to be completed by February 2004. The technology itself was invented by Dr. Alan J. Fenn, a senior staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Fenn reali...New approach to insulin treatment improves patients' lives
... rather than their lives into diabetes, and can be applied successfully across different healthcare systems, say the authors. This approach has the potential to enable more people to adopt intensive insulin treatment and is worthy of further investigation, they conclude....Caregiving for spouse prompts women to retire earlier
...oint out that their findings cannot necessarily be applied to the baby boom generation. "The baby boom generation played a very significant role in transforming gender-role attitudes and female employment patterns. As it moves into caregiving roles, we may witness new struggles as couples and families negoti...Foot pressure device may stamp out muscle loss
...al years ago that incorporated an air bladder that applied static pressure to the bottom of the foot. The id...tracting. "We could control when the pressure was applied to our subjects' feet, and vary the application relative to when the subjects contracted their leg m...Other highlights in the October 16 issue of JNCI
...stigate any possible relationship between products applied to the underarm and subsequent breast cancer risk....ts and shaved their underarms with a razor, or who applied such products within 1 hour of shaving. "The absence of any observed associations [between antipersp...New compound holds promise for lupus and related diseases
...compound in humans. The University of Michigan has applied for several patents on the medical and pharmacological properties of the compound and its molecular target....Memory training may help some Alzheimer's patients in the early stages of the disease
...ugh ongoing new learning. "These methods could be applied very effectively by non-professionals such as friends, volunteers and family members," Clare points out. The authors speculate that the rehabilitation strategy might have worked by slowly re-establishing links between phonological (name) and semanti...$2 million federal grant to study cancer drug action
... and Steven Strogatz, professor of theoretical and applied mechanics, sit on the company's scientific advisory board. Bruce Ganem, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, is a company consultant. Hill said the grant would provide enough money to hire five to seven more researchers to perform micro-arra......ays Dr. Sharma. "We project that this strategy, if applied to those with the advanced 'dry' form of AMD over the coming decade could potentially save the North American health care system more than $1.5 billion. This would result from the anticipated reduction in demand for more expensive technologies used t...