Mayo Clinic study sets threshold for valve repair surgery
...art palpitations. Mitral regurgitation of moderate degree or more is frequent, particularly in the aging population. It is estimated that 2 to 2.7 million Americans are afflicted by this condition and that this number will rise to 3.8 to 4.8 million Americans by 2030. The Mayo Clinic researchers used Dopple...Chest radiographs can predict risk of death in SARS patients
...r should be), they could predict with a reasonable degree of accuracy whether the case of SARS in the patient was a potentially fatal one. "SARS usually presents as a chest infection. Similar to other types of chest infections, the lungs may show areas of opaqueness when a chest radiograph is performed," s...'Artery clearing' system does not provide benefit for patients undergoing PCI
...though most prior studies have suggested that this degree of delay at a median reperfusion time of 3.6 hours would be unlikely to affect myocardial salvage or survival." (JAMA. 2005;293:1063-1072. Available post-embargo at JAMA.com ) Editor's Note: This study was funded by Medtronic Corp, Santa Rosa, Calif...New imaging technologies can enhance orthopaedic outcomes
...hat imaging technology "should be held to the same degree of rigor as any clinical outcome instrument, and should be validated with regards to accuracy and reproducibility." "In osteoarthritis, new imaging techniques permit early disease detection, serve as an objective outcome measure for cartilage repair ...Pioneering nanosystems degree wins approval
...in Ruston, La.) to offer a nanosystems engineering degree program, the nation's first such undergraduate degree. Tech's new Bachelor of Science degree program will be implemented this fall. According to the National Nanotechnology Initiative -- a fed......hey conclude that in order to achieve the greatest degree of treatment equality, all 54 health-care facilities should be used, and they should, on average, each serve the population within a radius of 50 km. Wilson and Blower recognize that there are other considerations that influence ethical treatment a...Assessing obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in snorers
...oat, on a scale of zero to three and a test of the degree of obstruction in the throat. The patients were then also evaluated using standard polysomnography over the course of two nights. The differences in the anatomical measures between those patients with a diagnosis of OSAS confirmed by polysomnography ...Prestigious 2004 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Maxine Singer
...t of the United States -- earned her undergraduate degree with high honors from Swarthmore in 1952, then received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Yale University in 1957. Her professional career began in 1956 with a postdoctoral fellowship at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she received a...NIAID seeks applicants to lead clinical trials units for revamped HIV/AIDS networks
...mmitment of diverse institutions, an unprecedented degree of collaboration, and the involvement and support of communities affected by HIV/AIDS in the United States and around the world," notes Dr. Fauci. The updated clinical research structure envisioned in the two RFAs emerged through extensive consultati...Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member is funded to develop an interactive computer system
...r specialties and the only doctoral (Ph.D) nursing degree in New Jersey....Engineers develop biowarfare sensing elements for future highly sensitive nerve-gas detectors
...e lead author, Choongho Yu. Yu received a doctor's degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin last year, and is a post-doctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Shi's group is continuing to develop methods to integrate nanomaterials with MEMS devices more effici...Teaching a less obvious medical skill -- Ethical decision-making
...estion. And while many people consider a doctor's degree or specialty when choosing a physician, patients rarely wonder how their doctor makes ethical decisions. Yet a physician's ability to reason ethically can contribute substantially to both the patient-physician interaction and health care delivery, sa...NYU psychology researchers show how attention enhances visual perception
...ng [see graph]. Liu, who earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and currently is a postdoctoral researcher at NYU. Pestilli obtained his licentiate from the University of Rome and is an NYU doctoral student. Carra...African-Americans may need more medication to control asthma
...nd Caucasian patients with asthma, who had similar degree of airflow limitation and comparable controller medication requirements, the African-American patients required greater concentration of the glucocorticoid medication to suppress lymphocyte production. This difference in response between African-Ame...Aetiology of congenital heart disease explained
... p200 antibodies in the mother correlates with the degree of damage to the heart. The results have been further confirmed in studies on rats and in cell cultures. Cultivated heart cells, cardiomyocytes, were seriously affected in their calcium balance when exposed to specific p200 antibodies. The cells were...Rheumatoid arthritis patients have double the risk of heart failure
... risk factors. Their physicians should have a high degree of suspicion of heart failure -- for example, they should be suspicious when rheumatoid arthritis patients relate that they are more tired than normal."...Phobic anxiety increases heart disease death risk among women
...using the Crown-Crisp index (CCI), which ranks the degree of phobic anxiety on a scale of 1 to 16, with higher scores indicating higher anxiety. These questions were used: Do you have an unreasonable fear of being in enclosed spaces such as shops, lifts, etc.? Do you find yourself worrying about getting...Telemedicine is healthcare's new frontier
...nication Technology (ICT) has reached a sufficient degree of maturity that it is now possible to envisage setting up a virtual hospital in a patient's home, obtaining real-time teleconsulting and diagnosis from a remote location and transmitting clinical data and multimedia medical content from one location...Biochip for detection of inflammatory bowel disease
...embers of EII sufferers who wish to be tested, the degree of predisposition for developing the infirmity. Inflammatory bowel disease (EII) includes Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerous Colitis (UC), disorders of particular importance in gastroenterology both amongst children and adults. The evidence for a gen...National Academies News: William H. Foege to receive Public Welfare Medal, Academy's highest honor
...en Island before earning a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University in 1965. Foege is the author of more than 125 professional publications and has received numerous honorary degrees and awards -- among them the Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award, the World Health Organization's Health f...