New mosquito control strategy proves successful against dengue fever
...lia) and Vu Sinh Nam (Ministry of Health, Vietnam) developed a mosquito control strategy and evaluated it in12 provinces in Vietnam from 1998 to 2003. Their strategy involves inoculating large water storages with crustaceans called Mesocyclops, which feed on mosquito larvae and targeting containers that produc...Engineers develop biowarfare sensing elements for future highly sensitive nerve-gas detectors
... sensitive and stable nerve-gas detectors has been developed by a research group led by a mechanical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin. The new sensor technology, which was more sensitive and much more stable than its predecessors, was featured on this week's cover of Applied Physics Letters . The...Teaching a less obvious medical skill -- Ethical decision-making
...Medicine , Kaldjian outlines the training approach developed by himself and two co-authors, Robert Weir, Ph.D., the Richard M. Caplan Endowed Chair in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities at the UI, and Thomas P. Duffy, M.D., professor of internal medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. Titled ...Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective
...alue of expanded screening." Paltiel and his team developed a mathematical model of HIV screening and treatmen..., which strongly supports Paltiel's findings. They developed a computer model to estimate the health benefits and expenditures of performing voluntary HIV screen...Leukemia drug breakthrough study in New England Journal of Medicine
...logy at the University of South Florida, initially developed the phase I clinical trial of Revlimid for treatment of MDS following his laboratory observations that the agent improved the growth of red blood cell precursors from MDS bone marrow. Celgene will submit the seminal findings of List's phase I trial -...Early HIV screening prolongs life and is affordable, Stanford study shows
...A, Stanford and St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, developed a decision model to estimate the health benefits a...of Medicine study, researchers at Yale and Harvard developed a computer model of HIV screening and treatment to compare routine voluntary screening with current ...Physicians call for increased funding for federal infectious disease programs
...icrobes resistant to existing antibiotics could be developed by terrorists or by mother nature, and the value offered by strong public health prevention and control and infectious diseases research programs is crystal clear." The influenza pandemic of 1918 resulted in more than 500,000 fatalities in the Unite...Study shows protective equipment not very effective for rugby players
... that new types of protective equipment need to be developed if we are reduce the toll of injury," Marshall said....Mount Sinai stroke prevention trial published in JAMA
...th or without drug discontinuation, a few patients developed more severe liver reactions. About Atrial Fibrillation Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a common irregular heartbeat that occurs when the two small upper chambers of the heart (known as the atria) beat rapidly and unpredictably, which sometimes allows ...New stroke-prevention drug unlikely to be cost-effective except in patients at high risk of bleeding
...ng massive strokes. AstraZeneca, the company that developed Exanta, had submitted a New Drug Application to the Food and Drug Administration for approval of the drug as an agent to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation as well as to prevent blood clots in other conditions. The drug was intended...Sex hormone metabolite reduces stress, anxiety in female rats
...ssant medications. "New drugs could potentially be developed that mimic the effect of allopregnanolone on the GABA receptor, providing a new approach for controlling mood disorders in women," said Toufexis. "The next step is to determine where exactly allopregnanolone is working in the brain to reduce the effe...New math model of heart cell has novel calcium pathway
...entists at Washington University in St. Louis have developed the first mathematical model of a canine cardiac c...of the cardiac system, and his laboratory also has developed detailed computer models of the workings of cardiac cells and their alteration by genetic mutations ...Mailman School of Public Health researchers develop infectious disease diagnostic tool
...h and the Columbia Genome Center have designed and developed a sensitive new diagnostic technology platform, called "Mass Tag PCR," that can simultaneously screen for multiple infectious agents. The new technology is addressed in a paper published in the February issue of the Centers for Disease Control and P...Auditory test to help identify learning impaired
...science Laboratory at Northwestern University have developed a new diagnostic tool that can quickly and objectively identify disordered auditory processing of sound, a problem associated with learning impairments in many children. With early detection, these children have a high likelihood of benefiting from r...New brochure helps explain treatment for gynecologic cancers
...orm patients of their treatment options, ASTRO has developed an up-to-date brochure that patients can use to talk with their healthcare providers when contemplating radiation therapy as part of their treatment. The brochure also helps patients find support groups and information on clinical trials....Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
...ing as a team, when professionals felt their newly developed professional knowledge both enhanced their career opportunities and improved users' experiences of services. Others spoke of feelings of loss as their roles changed. In particular, specialists such as a teacher, health visitor, nurse or special need...New surgical procedure could save millions
... a carbon-dioxide (CO2) laser delivered by a newly developed hollow-core optical fiber, and a pulsed-dye laser ...w-core optical fiber and CO2 laser combination was developed by OmniGuide Communications Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., and the pulsed-dye laser was developed by Cyno...Tiny superconductors withstand stronger magnetic fields
...observational results have confirmed that theories developed for bulk superconductors also apply to molecular-scale superconductors. "Our experimental results show an excellent agreement with the theory of pair-breaking perturbations, even at high magnetic fields," said Alexey Bezryadin, a professor of physics...Yale opens Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) in India
... an NIH Fogarty International Center Career Award, developed the third program. The research and training program, in collaboration with YRG Care in India, focuses on religious and cultural factors related to HIV secondary prevention and mental health in India. The training will be used to design, implement an...Rheumatoid arthritis patients have double the risk of heart failure
...third of the rheumatoid arthritis patients studied developed heart failure over 30 years of the disease. "We decided to undertake this study because we knew that patients with rheumatoid arthritis die earlier than the general population, and mostly from heart disease," says Paulo Nicola, M.D., Mayo Clinic res...