Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nursing Administrator Receives Nursing Excellence Award
... delivery at Cedars of Lebanon 28 yearsago, in the days before that hospital merged with Mt. Sinai to formCedars-Sinai. Touching most rungs of the career ladder through the years, shenow serves as vice president and chief nursing officer of Cedars-Sinai HealthSystem and Research Institute. She has held th...... of mammalian axons can be kept alive for at least days after they aredisconnected from their parent cells. An ability to keep severed axons alivewould give surgeons a longer time to rejoin those axons with PEG solutions. Selzer emphasizes that, until now, demonstrations that fused mammaliannerve...Trial Begins For First Artificial Liver Device Using Human Cells
...Patients in complete liver failure have only a few days towait before irreversible damage begins. With more than 12,000 people currentlywaiting for a liver transplant and fewer than 4,500 viable livers donated eachyear, there is no guarantee that a suitable organ will become available in time.In 1997, 1,1...Female Soccer Players Perform Best On A High-Fat Diet, UB Study Finds
...nergy bars. The women consumed eachdiet for seven days during the luteal phase (the second half) of the menstrualcycle, when a woman's ability to metabolize fat is greatest, Horvath said. Carbohydrate intake was highest -- 63 percent of total calories --during the energy-bar diet, and lowest -- ...New Way To Make Astronauts Sleep
...eithermelatonin or a placebo before sleep. On some days they wore a simple wristwatchmonitor, while on others they wore numerous electrodes and monitors to recordtheir sleep patterns. Melatonin had no effect on either the quality of sleep or on theastronauts' performance in psychomotor tests nex...Migraine Pain: Not Mainly In The Brain
...hehead at 10 minutes and 3 hours, and then several days later, after headachessubsided, as abaseline. During inflammation that occurs during a migraine, Pappagallo says,blood vessels in the meninges become unusually permeable to molecules such asalbumen. The SPECT scans then pick up the albumen leakage ......surgeryand two more infusions the first and second days after transplantation. Theresults were compared to 131 patients who received organ transplants withoutbone marrow. By giving donor bone marrow, the researchers' aim was to enhance the cellularenvironment called chimerism, defined as the coexistence ...Insurance Restrictions On Acne Drug Are Outmoded And Costly
...old. The restrictions are a relic from the days when the drug, sold under thebrand name Retin-A, was discovered to also have applications for cosmeticproblems, such as wrinkles, said Feldman, associate professor of dermatology andpathology. "The insurance companies were very worried that...Nighttime Asthma Squeezes School Attendance
... or more nights, and 30 percent missed one or more days of schoolbecause of their asthma. Thirty-six perce...orted missing workor other important activities on days following their children's nighttimetossing and turning. Diette and his colleagues at Hopkins in Ba...Circumcisions In Doctors' Offices As Safe As Those In Hospitals
...oups --287 infants aged 3 days to 9 months were circumcised inthe ...cisedwithin the first few days of life. There were several reasonsgiven for those in the office group for ......olding all of a person's blood plasma units for 21 days reduces the probabilitythat an infectious donation escapes detection by 50% at a cost of 29 cents. Incontrast, they found, using PCR has the same rate of effectiveness but costs $8,more than 25 times as much. Achieving the Safest Possible Blood Plas...Early Heart Repair For Marfan Syndrome Patients Critical To Survival
... patients who underwent urgent repair (withinseven days after surgical consultation) and 12 percent among the 103 patientswho underwent emergency repair (within 24 hours after surgical consultation). While all patients had a high risk of death for approximately 60 daysfollowing surgery, 93 percent......KINE increased themedian time to first event by 41 days in both cohorts. Further, the incidenceof these events was lower in the LEUKINE group (67 percent) as compared to theplacebo group (78 percent). The Phase III study also found that patients in both cohorts treatedwith LEUKINE nearly...Knife-Less Brain 'Surgery' Offers New Treatment Options
... Morris. Swestyn was able to return to work a few days after leaving the hospital. The recovery time for traditional brain surgery is several weeks and the patient may have memory problems that can last for several months. The new type of brain "surgery" is growing rapidly because of technology th...International Meeting To Reduce Neonatal Mortaltiy
... Neonatal mortality - or death with the first 28 days - represents 2/3 of allinfant mortality in the Uni...in the prenatal period, and in the critical, early days ofinfancy. The most common causes of neonatal mortality include low birth weightand maternal malnutr...Relaxation And Music Significantly Reduce Patients' Postoperative Pain
..., orchestral or slow jazz. On the first and second days after surgery, all patients received morphine orDe...pain changed. Dr. Good foundthat during these two days postsurgery the three treatment groups hadsignificantly less pain than the control group during both...Breakthrough New Therapy Uses Antibody-Targeted Chemotherapy To Fight Leukemia
...A-676 is administered in two IV infusions fourteen days apart, and manypatients have received the drug on an outpatient basis. Unlike standardchemotherapy regimens, which involve multiple drugs, CMA-676 is given alone. Itis thus less likely to produce serious drug-drug interactions. Similar studies of...Kidney Transplant Recipients Require Less Long-Term Care If They Receive Well-Matched Donor Organs
...97. They determined the cost of their care from 30 days after transplantuntil three years after transplantation. The average cost to Medicare -- and thus to taxpayers -- of care withinthree years was roughly $60,436 when the kidney had identical HLA markers to thepatient's own organs. The cost ros...Progress In Cancer-Vaccine Studies: Simpler, Safer Approach Producing Encouraging Results
...atients differentdoses of IL-12 over the next five days to boost the immune response. Thetreatment cycle was repeated three times. "Using total white blood cells instead of cultured dendritic cells was somewhatheretical," explains Thomas Gajewski, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor ofpathology and medicine ...Abgenix Reports Positive Survival Data From A Phase II Trial Of ABX-CBL In Graft Versus Host Disease
...dose cohorts, 56% (10 of 18) survived at least 100 days from the start oftreatment with ABX-CBL. This compared favorably to a 22% (2 of 9) survival ratein the low dose cohort. Robert Rivkin, M.D. of the Rocky Mountain CancerCenters in Denver, Colorado, presented the details of the clinical trial todayat...