Home blood pressure measurements are usually acceptable
...lood pressure at home avoids the problem of "white coat hypertension" where blood pressure rises in the presence of a doctor, and in most patients is sufficiently accurate, says a paper by Battegay et al in this week's BMJ. In a sample of 54 patients asked to take twice daily blood pressure readings for 3......t impossible for the material to stand alone or to coat thickly any but the strongest substrates. However, a process developed previously by Friedmann and Sullivan eliminates that problem. Also, diamond produces less stiction than silicon. (Stiction is a tendency for an object resting on another to stick,...Scientists develop polymers with nitric-oxide releasing particles
...yerhoff also hopes to use NO-releasing polymers to coat implantable blood sensors, currently under development at U-M, which could continuously monitor vital electrolytes and blood gases in critically ill patients. "Ten-nanometer fumed silica particles are chemically derivatized to contain surface diaze...UF study: Grandparents celebrated instead of reviled in children's lit
...isfies both his granddaughters desire for a purple coat and her mothers insistence it be navy by making a reversible coat of both colors, he said. Some of the characters defied a different set of elderly stereotypes, Bela...Magnetic fluids offer hope for damaged retinas
.... Riffle and her associates are also attempting to coat the experimental nanoparticles with silica material shells so that they will not lose their magnetism over time, giving them the potential to be permanently implanted, she says. Magnetic fluids have been used in industry for the past 40 years, most n...Researchers discover 'doorways' into brain cells
...goes into the cell. Specifically, clathrin forms a coat on the membrane surface, pinching off the cargo-carrying bubble, or vesicle. Infusing the tagged clathrin molecules into cultures of neurons, the researchers then used high-resolution imaging to see where the tagged clathrin molecules migrated in ca...JCI table of contents, November 4, 2002
...6172.pdf Online First The mouse mahoganoid coat color mutation disrupts a novel C3HC4 RING domainprotein CONTACT: Rudy L. Leibel Columbia University Russ Berrie Pavilion Room 620 1150 St. Nicholas Ave. New York, NY 10032 USA Phone 1: 212-851-5257 Phone 2: 212-751-6794 Fax 1: 212-851-5306 E-mail:...New HIV vaccine holds promise of global effectiveness
...v. The env gene codes for a protein on the outer coat of the virus that allows it to recognize and attach to human cells. VRC scientists are the first to combine modified env from clades A and C, which are the most common in Africa, as well as from clade B. A single vaccine combining multiple env comp...Berkeley chemist wins national award for research on contact lenses, other products
...to clean organic pollutants from wastewater and to coat surfaces. But his recent efforts to improve soft contact lenses illustrate both the challenge and the thoroughness of his approach. "Contact lenses have to be designed to be safe and comfortable to wear and to mold to the eye, transport water, sweep ...The trojan clot-buster: Drug-coated red blood cells destroy blood clots from within
...e to cause damage outside of the bloodstream. To coat red blood cells with tPA, Muzykantov and his colleagues capitalized on the 'stickiness' of streptavidin-biotin, a protein complex used in laboratories to study molecular interactions. Streptavidin forms an incredibly tight bond to a tiny molecule ca...Pfizer's VFEND(R) receives FDA approval for treatment of esophageal candidiasis
...nocompromised patients, esophageal candidiasis may coat much of the surface of the mouth resulting in pain and difficulty swallowing and may ultimately progress to more serious, invasive disease. The basis for the approval of VFEND to treat esophageal candidiasis infections was a clinical trial with imm......hey can flow all the way down into the alveoli and coat that spongy moist lung tissue, which is then rapidly absorbed in the bloodstream." The findings have raised serious concerns about the adequacy of current national air quality standards for particulate matter. In spring 2003, the EPA was prompted ...'White coat hypertension' common among sleep apnea patients
...n-diagnosed with hypertension actually had "white coat hypertension" (WCH), a condition characterized by an increase in blood pressure during a doctor's office visit and normal blood press during all other situations. The study also found that patients with sleep apnea and WCH had a more difficult time ...NIAID vaccine protects against SARS virus infection in mice
...is made from a small piece of DNA that codes for a coat protein normally found on the outer surface of the SARS virus. This protein helps the SARS virus gain access to living cells, where it can cause infection. Because the DNA in the vaccine codes only for the protein, by itself it is unable to cause inf...New initiative to focus on growing problem of cardiovascular disease in diabetics
...octors not only routinely insert stents, they also coat these stents with drugs to reduce the build up of damaging plaque in the vessel. With the recent FDA approval of drug-eluting stents, it is more pressing than ever that clear guidelines be developed as to what procedures are best for which patients....News tips for Wednesday, November 10, 2004
...age. "Masked" hypertension the opposite of white coat hypertension is blood pressure that's actually lo...d hypertension (low office, low 24-hour BP); white coat hypertension (high office, low 24-hour BP); masked hypertension (low office, high 24-hour BP), and s...Carbon nanotubes yield a new class of biological sensors
... make a sensor, Strano and his collaborators first coat the nanotubes with a "molecular sheath": a one-molecule-thick layer of compounds that react strongly with a particular chemical-in this case, glucose. The mix of compounds is chosen so that the reaction also changes the nanotubes' fluorescent respons......WLAN device can be used and/or carried safely in a coat pocket when turned on near the patient's implanted device." Dr. Hayes suggests that a template for further study could be from the cellular telephone study he led which was published in 1997 in the New England Journal of Medicine. That study tested n...