Confronting ageism and economics
... opinions, respond to your colleagues and start to define a path of action! What should we do, as gerontologists and geriatricians, as researchers, educators and practitioners, to promote elder health? Speakers include: Terrie Wetle, Ph.D., GSA President and Associate Dean of Medicine for Public Heal...Study finds computer vignette to be effective way to measure quality of physician practice
... unusual is that we rarely have the opportunity to define the case when we're evaluating the quality of care," notes Peabody. "By having the standardized patients, we could say with complete certainty that we were making identical comparisons between these three measurement methods." Peabody and h...A key to pregnancy-associated malaria
...ct women against PAM. The researchers now hope to define a minor piece of this protein that can be used to induce blocking antibodies in women....Blood transplants may be more harmful than bone marrow transplants in pediatric leukemia patients
...ent need for a properly designed clinical trial to define the role, if any, of donor peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in children." Background Leukemia is cancer of the bone marrow. Bone marrow transplants involve the collection from the donor of "hematopoietic" stem cells - immature cells foun...New technologies shed light on schizophrenia
...e regions. Each of these fiber tracts may help to define distinct neural networks. "We presume that the health of these fibers reflects the degree to which different parts of the brain are able to communicate," says Nestor. Patients with significantly smaller left-side UF bundles than those of age-matc......shness" as a requisite for healthfulness, and they define "fresh" foods as those that aren't frozen, dried, canned or preserved and are pesticide- and hormone-free. Dried or frozen foods, sodas, fried foods, fast food (include take-out Chinese) and excessive sweets are seen as unhealthy. Home-cooked meals a...UW to lead most comprehensive study of air pollution and cardiovascular disease
...rs," Kaufman said. "We hope this study will really define the contribution of particulate air pollution to cardiovascular disease." The $30 million grant will be funded over 10 years by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (please see companion news release at http://www.epa.gov/ ). "We have a...Physical symptoms of depression may be misdiagnosed
...fers author Dr. Robert D. Keeley, "we attempted to define the patient group that does not receive appropriate treatment, or does not respond to adequate treatment, by returning to the basic medical tenet of listening to the patient." The findings pointed out that physicians sometimes misattribute ill-defin...Obesity reversed in mice by destroying blood vessels that service fat cells
...ea is that if unique molecules can be located that define each different kind of blood vessel, then drugs can be targeted to those "addresses" to treat associated diseases. Blood vessels that service adipose tissue that contains white fat cells is an example of this distinctive type of vasculature, they say...Scientists uncover how brain retrieves and stores older memories
...ole of the anterior cingulate cortex. "Most people define memory as their collective lifetime experiences. These memories colour who we are, yet until now, we've been mystified by how the brain saves and retrieves them," said Dr. Alcino Sliva, the study's principal investigator and professor of neurobiology...Average blood pressure levels on rise among American children/teenagers
... healthy children. The new guidelines continue to define normal blood pressure as the systolic and diastolic blood pressures that are less than the 90th percentile for that sex, age, and height. To be consistent with the latest blood pressure guidelines for adults (see footnote), the guidelines for childr......doses of prednisolone or other glucocorticoids, to define the lowest dose that can maintain the population of CD4+ T-cells. In addition, researchers could investigate whether the antiretroviral therapy for AIDS, HAART, is more effective if given in conjunction with glucocorticoids....Gene mutations predict which lung cancers will respond to Iressa
...ors. "Understanding these mutations has helped us define the molecular basis of a type of lung cancer that relies on a particular signalling pathway which can be blocked," says Haber, a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). "In addition, these mutations are unprecedented in that they incre...Study: Height loss screen ultimately could reduce hip fractures
...aximum adult height. "We didn't necessarily try to define the best model for predicting hip osteoporosis. Instead, we wanted to illuminate the relationship between height loss and osteoporosis by ruling out other factors that might affect this relationship," Kantor said. "The clear relationship we found imp...... aging These and many more of the conditions that define us as individuals are addressed from a variety of perspectives, from neurobiology and psychophysiology to social and organizational science. It all adds up to fascinating insights into ourselves and the world around us. This research is being pres...High-tech 'phrenology' to identify children with fetal alcohol syndrome
...nduct the research and manage the data. To better define the visual characteristics of the syndrome, IU researchers will use sophisticated technology and facial recognition techniques to examine the faces of children from across the globe. "Some children exhibit classic features of FAS and other children ...Work on promising inorganic blood substitute to move forward with $1.5 million grant from NIH
... the National Institutes of Health to fund work to define further the compound's use for this purpose. Lundgren holds up a vial containing the milky emulsion that is half the size of a roll of breath mints. "These five milliliters would be adequate to save the life of a child weighing 10-15 kilograms [26-4...Lung tumor therapies improved by combining CT and PET scans
...ntly enhances radiologists' abilities to precisely define the locations of tumors for radiation treatments. Radiologists use PET to get detailed information on tissue function and activity, enabling them to highlight such differences as the increased metabolic activity of a tumor. For the study, researc...90 million Americans are burdened with inadequate health literacy
...lth literacy in the United States are difficult to define because of limited data. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other government and private funding agencies should support multidisciplinary research in this area, the committee said. Furthermore, public and private funders should d...Nanotech imaging, molecular fingerprints and signatures hold promise for cancer
...hnology produces magnetic resonance portraits that define the extent of early metastasis in breast cancer. ...rrounding lymph ducts and nodes, helping to better define or even eliminate surgery. The development is based on nanotech engineering of G6, a contrast...