Special incubators allow high-quality imaging of critically ill newborns
...s and enable early intervention and treatment. He believes that the incubator's safe environment will enable more neonatal clinical research....Cranberry juice may reduce risk of female urinary tract infections
... cranberries' effect on UTI do take place, Dr. Raz believes they should be varied. "In general, we need more clinical studies with different population groups, different dosages, and comparison between juice and capsules," he said. ...Newborn testing for immune disorders could save lives
...ts are critically ill by then,'' she said. Buckley believes that all newborns should be screened for immune deficiency disorders at birth. "SCID is a pediatric emergency. There is no screening for any primary immunodeficiency disease at birth or during childhood and adulthood in any country. Thus, most patien...Study finds few new antibiotics are in the pipeline
...evelopment less attractive." Dr. Spellberg said he believes that the lack of new antibiotics in development is caused by a complicated "systems problem," and not by irresponsibility on the part of the pharmaceutical companies, the FDA, or physicians. "Patients are in the middle of this issue, because they nee...Fertility herbal supplement sprouts promising results in Stanford pilot study
...lts are promising," said Westphal, adding that she believes the chasteberry component of the supplement most likely played the biggest role in boosting fertility. Westphal said she considers the supplement a good option for younger women who choose to forego or postpone aggressive treatment. However, she enco...HIV prevention schemes neglect partner reduction
...HIV/AIDS Program, in an accompanying editorial. He believes that the key to HIV prevention lies in rapid, inexpensive, and locally led initiatives that rely on simple messages to promote changes in community norms, rather than mass media....Injuries to children show definite patterns
... we have a good deal of confidence in them." Spady believes this study is the largest and most comprehensive o...does not consider the cause of the injuries, Spady believes the results are valuable for a number of reasons. "It can help doctors and hospital officials in the...Self-assembling proteins could help repair human tissue
... tissue engineering projects," he said. Harden believes this technique may speed up progress in the tissue engineering field. For one thing, tissue engineers would not have to do complex chemistry work to prepare a hydrogel for each specific application; his hydrogels form spontaneously upon mixing with w...UK industry is the loser from parallel trade in pharmaceuticals
...y short-term benefits," he says. If the Government believes that the prices paid for pharmaceuticals in UK represents a fair return for the patent holder (because of the huge R&D costs required to bring these products to the market) then it should not seek to actively encourage parallel trade through the claw...New study reveals big disparity between countries in breast conservation rates
...ecialist who compiled and analysed the statistics, believes the results are representative of treatments generally in those countries. Professor Jassem, who is head of the Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy at the Medical University of Gdansk in Poland, and the conference chairman, said that despite bre...Leading cancer doctor calls for new guidelines to control early reporting from clinical trials
...nical trials should be stopped prematurely, as she believes that current practice could be damaging research efforts. Dr Martine Piccart, head of the chemotherapy unit at the Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium, is putting proposals for new guidelines to the Breast International Group (BIG) and, if BIG a...New findings on nerve cell proteins show promise for reducing disability
...g the nerve "circuitry" to grow back to normal. He believes the idea of protecting cells from secondary cell death deserves additional research attention. "That's a goal we could potentially reach more quickly than replacing cells that are lost," he said. A long-range goal is to determine if the proteins coul...Student builds micro biosensor chip to move DNA molecules
...can move and isolate DNA and protein molecules. He believes that by linking the chip with analysis equipment, a user could identify medical ailments, monitor a patient's health or detect viruses and other biohazards before they spread. Eric Simone, a senior biomedical engineering major from the Cincinnati, Oh...Childhood obesity leads to adult diabetes, researcher says
... "tastier" and more enticing to the palate. So she believes the food industry must bear some responsibility fo...programs, and local health departments. Misra believes parents, schools, health providers and the food industry must begin working together to decrease the...'Before and after' diet ads promote bias against overweight people
...in Penn's Department of Psychology. "When someone believes that weight is easily controlled, it reinforces the negative stereotypes that obese people are inherently lazy or lack discipline." In the study, 59 people were either exposed to a "before and after" diet ad of an obese woman who lost weight or expo...How couples manage parenting forecasts later marital quality, study finds
...les with young children, Schoppe-Sullivan said she believes the impact of coparenting on marriage quality may wax and wane throughout the course of a family's life. Coparenting may play a more critical role when parenting roles are particularly demanding such as when children are toddlers, and when they are ......n American, British and Australian court cases and believes the mistake is becoming more widespread. He says around a third of cases where the technique has been used to evaluate drug levels involve fatal workplace accidents. Companies may try to shift the blame onto the employee by claiming they were under t...Reprogrammable cells from fat are true adult stem cells
...ls, which is another interesting finding." Guilak believes that as a result of the successive culturing, the stem cells may have lost their ability to turn into fat cells. "Our experiments took the cells through many doublings," Lott said. "Since these cells would potentially be in people for longer, we sti...New animal model for Alzheimer vaccine
...could be modeled in aged nonhuman primates. Gandy believes he and his team were successful. "These monkeys respond to the vaccination by producing lots of antibodies to Alzheimer amyloid and by showing elevated plasma amyloid that is presumably on the way being cleared from the body. We also examined the br...... partially inappropriate. To avoid this misuse, he believes that doctors should be required to have a radiological "driving licence" with penalty points given for inappropriate prescriptions. Patients should be required to sign an explicit and transparent informed consent form for each radiological examinatio...