'Revolutionary' treatment for birth defect improves survival of newborns
...orns who don't survive usually die during thefirst days or weeks of life. "Across the country, there are a whole bunch of kids with diaphragmatic herniawho are dying," said Kays, an associate professor of pediatric surgery at UF'sCollege of Medicine. "The main point of our research paper is that standardt...Brain chemical mellows male mice, but makes mouse moms tough
...ied pregnant mice and 13 normalpregnant mice. Four days after the mouse pups were born, they began to exposethe new mothers to strange male mice for ten minutes daily. To protect them fromharm, the pups were removed from the cage before each exposure, a steppreviously shown to have no effect on maternal a...UB scientists discover role of melatonin in bone formation
...onin, but the cellsneeded to undergo five to seven days of differentiation before they were capableof responding to melatonin at that level. The fully-differentiated rat osteoblasts responded rapidly to normalbody melatonin levels, showing increased expression of the bone marker proteinsBSP and os...UCSF to attack HIV at molecular level with new center and $7 million in state funds
...e been with the UCSF AIDSprogram from its earliest days when the first patients were diagnosed, and theyboth emphasized that they "plan to be here not only to help the epidemic end,but also to see it end."...Early discharge appears safe for Medicaid newborns
... decreased 27 percent during that period, from 2.2 days in 1991 to1.6 days in 1995. In 1991, 20 percent of newborns were discharged one day afterbirth, and 76 percent two day...Jefferson scientist sees drug profiles and tailor-made therapies as ways to beat HIV resistance
...current AIDS drug resistance situation to theearly days of bacteriology at the turn of the century. Doctors watched how newdrugs affected different patients, and devised new definitions of clinicallyrelevant conditions. "HIV evolves differently in different areas in thecountry," he says. "Defining resista...Fire ants can attack humans in homes or health care facilities
...leading from the floor to their beds. Onedied five days after the attack, the other 13 months later. Both ...es; two older nursing home patients died withinsix days of attack. Therefore, in the Southeast and other areas where fire ants are known to live,"any sighti......primaryendpoint) was reduced by 25 per cent to 4.5 days for those taking Relenza, downfrom 6.0 days for those on placebo. The results of this analysis confirm the efficacy of Relenza in the treatment...Who should have heart bypass surgery? New guidelines will help doctors, patients decide together
...istorically kept patients in thehospital for fewer days because it is not as invasive as bypass, new "fasttrack" bypass recuperation approaches have proven effective. But bypass isn't for everybody, the new guidelines warn. There are many patientswith stable coronary artery disease who are best managed wi...New nasal obstruction procedure offers cheaper, pain-free alternative to surgery
...r Tylenolimmediately but narcotics for seven to 10 days are unnecessary. It's also moreconvenient and less expensive because it can be done in a physician's office andthe patient can be back at work the next day." In dealing with a nasal obstruction, the procedure works like this: thedoctor intro...It is easy for adolescents to purchase cigarettes illegally in North Carolina
...ddle school students havesmoked within the past 30 days and 39 percent of these smokers had purchasedtheir cigarettes from a store. "Only 14 percent of smokers who had purchased cigarettes had been askedfor proof of their age," said Robert H. DuRant, Ph.D., vice chair in theDepartment of Pediatric...Cedars-Sinai pediatrician to receive award for his contributions to international child health
...fetal stool that isgenerally passed in the several days after birth, can be inhaled into thebronchial tubes of a baby who is gasping in distress at or near the time ofbirth, blocking airflow and oxygenation of the blood. Because of his efforts to improve infant mortality, as well as his scientificand lead...Doppler ultrasound can reduce hospital stays
... left the hospital in five days, compared to seven days forconventionally treated patients. These patients also started eating solid food-- a key indicator of recovery -- in three days, compared to five days. Once patients were under the influence of general anesthesia,researchers threaded a penc...Fully endoscopic micro-surgery puts a former Jr. Olympic athlete back on the marathon trail
...esultsof the surgery, verged on spectacular. Three days after the operation, he wenthome, and a little ove...clehis ordeal with the tumor, is now training four days per week on the scenichills and bayside flats of Marin County, California. While his biggest reasonf...Results of NUVANCE phase I/II asthma trial presented
...the year 2000, asthma causes more than 100 million days of restricted activity among people with asthma, and there are more than 500,000 hospitalizations related to asthma each year. About IL-4 Interleukin-4 (IL-4) is a naturally occurring cytokine, or immune system protein, that has been commonly...Institute publishes "Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment"
...blems, participation in treatment for less than 90 days is of limited or noeffectiveness. "Three decades of research and clinical practice have revolutionized ourunderstanding of drug abuse. It is hoped that these treatment principles willserve as a foundation for replacing ideologies about drug addictio......en said they felt sleepy frequently at least three days a week, both at workand off work. Clearly the consequences can sometimes be dramatic. A survey of some hundred drivers involved in traffic accidents, published in thehighly respectable New England Journal of Medecine, confirms just how dangerousOSA-i...How alcohol may harm your baby's brain
...ion lasts approximately nine months, comparedto 22 days for a rat, West noted that all mammals pass through the same stagesof brain development despite the different timing of those stages. In otherwords, what happens in the fetal brain during the third trimester in humanshappens in a baby rat brain duri......ignificant increase in toxic side effects or extra days in thehospital. "We recommend that these therapies should be incorporated into futuretreatment regimens," Matthay said. The Children's Cancer Group is a national cooperative research organizationwhich coordinates research at 35 academic medical cente...Use it or lose it applies to nervous system, scientists find
...neck. Theylocated the same synapses hours and then days later to see how much fluorescence- and therefore how much receptor protein - remained. They expected to see a steady, slow loss of receptors after they applied thebungarotoxin. "We thought the receptors would sit there for an average of nineor 10 da...