War on bacteria could leave drug-resistant strains unchecked
...everal years behind the need, so there is no magic bullet around the corner. If we are to avert a crisis, people need to stop and think twice before using fortified cleansers and pressuring their doctors to give them antibiotics for every infection." A truce with harmless bacteria is a good first step towa...ORNL helping make tomorrows soldiers all they can be
...a soldier and provide hemorrhage control in case a bullet penetrates. The helmet of the future warrior might...s my football jersey but gets hard as steel when a bullet or knife is pushed into it. The material has some kind of chemical in it that lets fresh air pass th...New approach required for obtaining informed consent in less-developed countries
...l and public-health researchers would like a magic bullet that would make research undeniably ethical. But there is no magic bullet. There is only the complex and difficult process of linking research in resource-poor settings to the services demanded by poor people. The alternative prospect-a world in whic...Study points to methods for safe drug dispensing via computer
...uccessful. There are no magic bullet solutions to human error in any setting, and even the best systems will require constant maintenance and flexible redesign after implementation," said Emily ...Researchers link the plaques and tangles of Alzheimer's disease
...occurs before neuronal apoptosis. "Tau may be the bullet fired by the amyloid gun," said Binder. "Amyloid activates the caspases that truncate tau, causing it to form tangles and likely promoting the death of the neuron. Finding the full pathway in the chain of events that now includes amyloid, caspases, t...Rutgers scientists pinpoint brain cells involved in drug addiction relapse
.... With cocaine, we haven't yet discovered a magic bullet that can go in and just cure the problem."...White blood cell plays key role in body's excessive repair response to asthma
...Professor Kay adds: "Anti-IL-5 will not be a magic bullet for asthma sufferers, but it could be an important first step in developing really effective drugs which interfere with re-modelling." Anti-IL5, which removes Interleukin-5, a key molecule in eosinophil development, was given to mild asthmatics as pa...Graphic images of violence alter children's attitudes toward aggression
...ed those of a man whose abdomen was torn open by a bullet wound, and a pregnant woman who was shot in the abdomen, killing her 8-month-old fetus. A follow-up survey completed by 48 youths showed a significant reduction in quantified beliefs supporting aggression. There also was some evidence that the you...Triple-contrast CT depicts internal injury from gunshot and stab wounds
...rgeons. "A straight line cannot be drawn between a bullet entry site and resting site," Dr. Shanmuganathan said. "It is also hard to gauge how far a bullet can travel inside a body." The researchers studied 200 patients, including 169 men and 31 women wi...Northwestern Memorial Hospital honored with one of the nation's top awards for quality
...curacy and reducing costs. "There is no one silver bullet for quality improvement in healthcare," says Julie Creamer, vice president, Operations and Quality, Northwestern Memorial. "However, if there is one strategy that is critical to success, it is clinical information technology. The EHR, which makes i...