Recipients of well-matched kidneys received locally require less long-term care
...sue of cold time, we found local allocation is the best economically." ......help doctors decide which type ofstroke therapy is best for the patient," said Clark. "This research accompanied by the emergence ofpromising new treatments, should help increase the chances that stroke patients undergo a completerecovery." The Oregon Stroke Center is recognized as a national leader in r...Business and political leaders honored for their commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS
...or Mark Leno. "These six individuals are among the best of the best in their dedication tomaking a difference in our efforts to bring an end to the HIV epidemic," saidT...UCSF Psychiatry Department receives grant to study innovative drug and substance abuse treatments
...entally ill anddrug addicted. Where and how is the best way to take care of them."...Chemist Percy Julian captures spirit of black history celebration scientist
...a and joined the Glidden Company in Chicago (today best known for its paints) as head of its soy products division. Julian used his knowledge of chemistry to make a wide variety of products from soybeans, including sex hormones, other steroids, and foams to extinguish oil and gas fires. In 1948, he develo...New web site provides access to information on sleep and sleep disorders
...ver wonder why you sleep, or why you don't do your best when you don't get enough sleep? Biomedical researchers have only recently begun to understand how important sleep is to human health and functioning. Now, the latest, most accurate information on sleep and sleep disorders is available online. ...Cranfield pushes for greater child flight safety
...eceive the same level of protection as adults. The best way of achieving this is to place them in a child safety seat. It is well documented that children held on the mother's lap are more vulnerable than those secured in a seat of their own. In the event of a crash the child on the lap is pushed towards ...U-M health leaders offer an innovative framework for keeping academic medicine viable
...iological Sciences Scholars program to recruit the best young faculty, and a Program in Biomedical Sciences to integrate the education of Ph.D. students across departments and other health-related schools in the University. Founding of a Center for Clinical Investigation and Therapeutics to make clinical ...NHLBI funds asthma coalitions to improve care among high risk populations
...m asthma. Why? Because the information about how best to treat and control it is not being widely used. By forging partnerships with coalitions in high-risk communities, we can bring this information directly to the people who need it most." "This is the first step in a broader plan to build a network......'s Day, and they're a bit too small to be a girl's best friend, but Sandia National Laboratories has created what are believed to be the world's first diamond micromachines. The machines at the Department of Energy's national security facility are etched from a surface of amorphous diamond, the hardest ma...Chronic disease: the overlooked & understudied epidemic
...ed by a doctor or other practitioner to devise the best therapeutic regimen. British and U.S. authors in this issue compare the emergence and current role of for-profit companies that sell programs to manage chronic disease. Although promised cost savings are typically the selling point for these services...Hospital stays of three days for uncomplicated heart attack
...ts should stay in the hospital, either in terms of best practices or cost," Newby said. "We know that complications after three days in the hospital are rare for low-risk heart attacks, so we wanted to find out what it meant, in terms of both costs and outcomes, to keep the patients hospitalized for a lon...New tools for early cancer detection
...LY CANCER DETECTION/MOLECULAR CHANGES IN CELLS The best way to treat cancer is to detect it early. With state-of-the-art techniques and equipment, physicists have developed innovative, potentially powerful ways to spot cancer at its earliest stages. Rajan Gurjar (617-258-7831, rajn@mit.edu ) and Michae...'Smart scalpel' detects cancer cells in seconds
...s can be filtered out.DOE has selected the work as best project of the year among its 28 US labs in a competition in its Basic Energy Sciences division. A news conference sponsored by the American Physical Society will be held on Thursday, March 23 at the Minneapolis Convention Center to present latest fi...Map makers can avoid confusing the color blind
...rtunately, rainbow schemes are not necessarily the best way to present information to most color-blind individuals." Color blindness is not a single problem but a variety of problems that affect color vision. Only a very small portion of people do not see color at all, but view the world in shades of gra...Hypnosis reduces surgical pain and time, improves safety
...ded for pain and anxiety. The hypnosis group fared best by most measures, but the patients receiving extra attention also benefited. About half of the patients in the attention and self-hypnotic groups need no drugs for pain or anxiety; the other patients in the two groups used about half the amount of dr...ACP-ASIM issues guidelines for precribing antidepressant drugs
...k to your doctor to determine the treatment that's best for you," says Herbert H. Waxman, MD, ACP-ASIM senior vice president for education. To expedite doctor-patient discussions about depression, ACP-ASIM has developed a patient education brochure that is available by calling 1-877-828-2525. The inform...Drug-psychotherapy combo found highly effective in depression study
... specifically for chronic depression provides the best treatment for patients with chronic forms of major depression. For the 681 patients in the study, this two-fisted approach produced an 85-percent response rate, the highest such rate for a three-month period for a......the study's findings could result in access to the best cancer care available for patients who previously ...ore completion of a new therapy that may offer the best hope of improved outcome or survival." To confirm the results of the study, investigators currently ...New 'combination therapy' improves survival for malignant melanoma patients
...pulation Patients treated at clinical centers that best followed the study protocol by treating all of their patients on average with two or more cycles of therapy were considered the "efficacy evaluable" population. For all patients in the efficacy evaluable population (n=219), treatment with histamine ...