American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for January (second issue)
...eserved. They noted that responses to respiratory challenges were normal in persons with FD when they were performed under either normal or conditions of excess oxygen availability in the blood. However, when only inadequate amounts of oxygen were available in the blood, central cardio-respiratory depression ...Primary care in the United States in crisis
...tors. The leaders discussed the current and future challenges to primary care and developed new and innovative ideas about how primary care might meet the needs of our current and future population. The researchers identified seven principles that can be used for the reconstruction of primary care and the heal...Bridge Medical joins NPSF and 34 organizations in convening historic Congress
...patient safety . . . then laugh at all the serious challenges healthcare faces. First, Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill will share his experiences as chairman of Alcoa, where his advocacy for a safe workplace led to phenomenal improvements in Alcoa's safety performance. Later that evening, the nationally ...Emory gathers global experts to address business and legal challenges of HIV/AIDS fight
... the legal, medical, public health and development challenges of fighting the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Called the NEXUS Symposium, the event is an interdisciplinary forum on the impact of international patent and trade agreements in the global fight against HIV & AIDS. Keynote speaker for the symposium will be...Improved molecular beacons show promise for cancer detection, rapid viral diagnosis
...tion grant from the Georgia Research Alliance.Many challenges lie ahead. In early and more curable stages of cancer, the amount of marker RNA is low in bodily fluids such as blood or pancreatic fluid. That means the researchers must develop a detection system sensitive enough to pick up very faint signals. A......rly useful in the classroom, where its accounts of challenges and triumphs may inspire students to consider careers that support pharmaceutical research and development. 2003. xii + 214 pp, bibl, index Paper, 8.5 11, ISBN 0-941901-30-0 $30.00 (Teachers: Ship to your school's address and pay only $15.00.) Phar...Nationwide improvement in nursing home care not likely, despite some changes
...ial issue of The Gerontologist that highlights the challenges in nursing home care. The articles in this special issue address central concerns in nursing home care and help provide answers to questions such as how nursing home care can best be financed and delivered. The guest editors for this special issue ar...Researchers making cell phones user-friendly for people with disabilities
... the research is to identify user requirements and challenges related to user interface designs of cell phones among persons with and without disabilities. The second research goal is to conduct usability tests with existing interfaces of selected Toshiba phones designed for the Japanese domestic market that wi...The coming crisis of long-term care
...ity, perhaps a decade or so, exists to address the challenges of long-term care before demand for it is soaring all over the world. Governments everywhere must take the initiative now to configure or restructure long-term care, first by examining their social and ethical values and public policies on care of th...UCLA researchers release profile of proposition 36-eligible drug offenders
...and problem solving," Longshore said. "Despite the challenges and ongoing concerns over funding, most county representatives offered favorable reports on local implementation." Among the findings: The court found 53,697 drug offenders eligible for SACPA during the law's first year, and 82 percent (44,043) ch...Cedars-Sinai Medical tipsheet for July 2003
...urely, resulting in a higher risk of severe health challenges and lengthy stays in neonatal intensive care units. RAPIDLY RISING NUMBERS OF OBESE, UNFIT CHILDREN RESULTING IN PRECIPITOUS JUMP IN TYPE 2 DIABETES IN THE YOUNG Baby fat may be cuddly to new parents but pediatricians are increasingly warning famil...ACPM issues recommendations to address severe shortage of preventive medicine physicians
...duces physicians trained to meet the public health challenges facing communities, can help address this serious workforce shortage, but policy makers must allocate more resources to make it happen."......reticians from the U.S. and Russia on progress and challenges in understanding the surprisingly complex behavior of hydrogen at extreme conditions. **Instantaneous Freezing of Water** Daniel Dolan, a graduate student at Washington State University (and now on the staff of Sandia National Laboratory) has obtai...Thymus transplant might save babies born without immune systems
...ete DiGeorge Syndrome often face a host of medical challenges that can include heart problems, developmental disorders and deafness, but without treatment, infection resulting from immune deficiency is by far the factor that most often causes these children to die," said Louise Markert, M.D., associate professo...Solving the mystery of musical harmony
...on," said Howe. "Hearing presents many of the same challenges as vision, in that the physical world cannot be known directly; we only know about objects in the environment because of the energy associated with them, such as light waves or sound waves. "Determining the actual state of the environment on the bas...False memories, failing recall are not an inevitable consequence of aging, research suggests
...with aging has serious implications for day-to-day challenges faced by older adults. Those on daily medications often admit difficulty recalling whether they took a scheduled dose. Telemarketing scams aimed at the elderly often are fashioned to prey on failing memory skills. And, while elderly are more likely t...Immunosuppressant everolimus significantly reduces life-threatening heart transplant complications
...ol to improve long-term survival--one of the major challenges in transplantation. Further, everolimus reduced the rate of acute rejection, a major problem for these patients in the first year after transplant." More than 600 cardiac transplantation patients enrolled in the study at 52 medical centers in the U...Program evaluation critical to Pakistani doctoral retainment
.... Non-financial disincentives are one of the major challenges in attracting and retaining trained health care workers in countries like Pakistan." The study's authors surveyed 54 Pakistani researchers who received doctoral training outside of the country on funded programs. They found that the study participant...Organ-transplant patients at particluar risk from low MMR vaccine uptake
...crease in the uptake of MMR vaccination, difficult challenges lie ahead. Measles is a notoriously infectious disease and will spread easily among those who are non-immune. Immunocompromised individuals may manifest only a non-specific illness without rash, which makes rapid diagnosis difficult and may delay me...Emory School of Medicine receives $16 million NIH grant to lead biodefense consortium
...gning effective vaccines to address the increasing challenges of emerging infections and human-caused biothreats," said Dr. Ahmed. The other four national Cooperative Centers for Translational Research on Human Immunology and Biodefense are led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Institute for Immunology Resea...