HHS awards $10.4 million to fight AIDS on three continents
... HIV transmission and will identify strategies for delivering HSV-2 treatment and promoting HIV prevention techniques. One project will evaluate the effect of daily doses of the antiviral drug acyclovir on levels of HIV shed in genital secretions of men and women who are HIV-positive and who also have active HS...Computer assisted standing orders improve adult immunization rates
...propriate candidate and wanted the vaccine, before delivering the vaccine. The immunization rate among patients...ad received a vaccine unbeknownst to the computer, delivering the computer's "suggestions" about influenza and pneumonia vaccine administration to nurses as stand...Stem cell therapy effectively treats heart attacks in animals
... and effective. Its use increases the options for delivering stem cell therapy in the future; most existing studies use intravenous injections. It remains unclear how or why the adult stem cells developed into new and healthy heart tissue, or exactly how long their healing effects last. Adult stem cells were...Engineered stem cells can home in on tumors and deliver drug payload in mice
...s are indeed homing into tumors and are capable of delivering an anticancer payload," he says. "Now we can work to test a number of different therapeutic payloads to see which works best." He speculates that this new tactic in the war on cancer might work particularly well after patients are treated...Therapy, medication combination superior for children with obsessive-compulsive disorder
...tal health professionals in becoming proficient in delivering CBT for pediatric OCD." Currently, there are few providers who are well-trained in providing CBT, said Foa. The researchers believe insurance companies play a role in the problem by continuing to pay only for treatment with medication and other fo...Several new techniques show promise for spinal cord repair
...lfate with the enzyme chondroitinase ABC (cABC) by delivering this enzyme in biodegradable nanospheres to the spinal injury, and thus enhance axonal regrowth and recovery of function," Stelzner says. Stelzner and his colleagues created and injected nanospheres (3 m l of 10 mg/ml of cABC) directly into eight di...Mouse study: Signal overload in Alzheimer brains
...at cause Alzheimer's, possibly opening the door to delivering some sort of plaque-buster. Because Alzheimer's is characterized by a relatively global loss of brain cells, rather than loss of a particular group of cells, stem cells themselves aren't as likely to be beneficial as in diseases where the loss is foc...Implantable heart defibrillators
...ician can do for a patient with an implant that is delivering shocks....Techniques for making Barbie dolls can improve health care
Bowing to crushing increases in the cost of delivering medical services to Americans, the troubled health...acturing have already begun finding their way into delivering medical care, maintaining health, arranging for care, and administrative processes, he said. He cite...New system translates improved diagnostic information to target radiation at tumors
...e spectroscopy (MRS) and the latest techniques for delivering precise doses of radiation to tumors. The system can also compensate for how tumors change and shift between diagnosis and treatment, during treatment, between treatments and even as patients breathe. Based on advanced computer modeling, the ima...Coast-mapping satellites will follow the tides
...g how well Earth Observation can meet our needs in delivering charting in this area," said John Pepper of UKHO. "Potentially space represents an extra source of information in areas where reliable and up-to-date information is at a premium. By capturing coastal information, we will better be able to deliver sol...Envisat Symposium report day 4: Assistance from space to combat hazards and natural disasters
...f Sudan, making accessibility difficult for groups delivering humanitarian aid. Radar imagery shows the road network well, and could also be used for water surface and wadi channel mapping. The final product was a detailed map that also highlighted the location of refugee camps." Canada has seen two Charter ac...Medical database agreement to enhance ACG risk adjustment system
... premise that the level of resources necessary for delivering appropriate health care to a population is correlated to the illness burden of that population. ACGs are used to assess provider performance, identify future high-cost cases and develop innovative plan payment and financial risk-sharing arrangements ...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...e to create cancer treatment plans based on 4D CT, delivering the best mix of possible methods. In one radiation treatment approach, separate doses may be created for different phases of a patient's breathing motion, synchronizing the delivery with the motion of the target tumor, so that the dose is only deliv...Parkinson's caregivers at risk for deteriorating health
...of health care. They provide tremendous support in delivering care and if something happens to that vital link, it makes the person with Parkinson's disease more vulnerable," Carter said. "So being concerned about the health of families ends up having incredible social and economic implications." The study, "Fa...Carbon monoxide from smoking helps keep arteries open following angioplasty
...5 percent, respectively. The results suggest that delivering carbon monoxide to the site of the blockage could be a promising concept. "It is important to find a way to improve the long-term effectiveness of lower limb endovascular interventions," Dr. Schillinger said. "Using carbon monoxide therapeutically to...Jefferson researchers find combining two types of radiation therapy is better for brain cancer
Adding stereotactic radiosurgery which entails delivering radiation to specific points in the brain while sparing normal tissue after whole brain radiation therapy helps certain patients with cancer that has spread to the brain live longer, says a new study by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hos...HHS launches diabetes prevention campaign
...diabetes epidemic, HHS' NDEP is taking the lead on delivering the type 2 diabetes prevention message to high risk audiences through its campaign targeted to multicultural and older adult audiences. The campaign focuses on empowering people at high risk to make modest lifestyle changes that can prevent or delay ...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
... amounts of ionizing radiation; the possibility of delivering drugs through the blood-brain-barrier; and the ability to detect brain injuries at the scene of an accident. Researchers will report progress in brain ultrasound in various papers, including 2aBB1 and 5aBB1. In the meantime, researchers are just beg......soon be a thing of the past. A new painless way of delivering drugs through the skin is described in the journal BMC Medicine this week and needles are not involved. The technique, called microscission, uses a stream of gas to bombard small areas of the skin with tiny crystals of inert aluminium oxide. The s...