Late developers may run higher risk of infection than sexually mature younger teens
Late developers may be more susceptible to high risk sexually transmitted infections than sexually precocious younger teens, suggests research in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections . Sexual maturity, rather than age at first sex, seems to be a critical fac...Computational tool predicts how drugs work in cells, advancing efforts to design better medicines
...ents or chemical processes. Using this tool, drug developers can design compounds that will act on only desired gene and protein targets, eliciting therapeutic responses free of unwanted side effects. The research, which appears in the March 4 issue of Nature Biotechnology, reports on collaborative work by a...Technology that could double the effectiveness of cancer drugs studied at Yale
...partnered with Precision Therapeutics, Inc., (PTI) developers of the ChemoFX assay and is seeking patients from Yale and surrounding communities and from 10 other sites around the country. PTI exclusively licensed the Yale apoptosis assay from Yale. Recruitment for the study will be complete in June 2005, with ...How are we doing? Researchers aim to measure national well being
...ial interventions, including clinical trials. Its developers are working on a way to use the method in calculating a "National Well-Being Account," to provide a broad measure of the well-being of people of all ages, akin to the economic measure Gross Domestic Product. The tool, called the Day Reconstruction Me...New way to tally death risk for heart patients could ease worry
...ients treated at 94 hospitals in 14 countries. Its developers hope that doctors everywhere will adopt it as a way of guiding treatment decisions and counseling recommendations for patients. The paper's first author, University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center Clinical Director Kim A. Eagle, M.D., explains tha...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
... ground containing buried landmines. Many leading developers of these systems will report their latest progress in sessions 1aPAa, 1aPAb, and 1pPAa. Some highlights: the use of ultrasound to detect landmines (1pPAa10, James Sabatier, University of Mississippi, sabatier@olemiss.edu , and paper 1pPAa9, Jim Mar...Online IV nutrition calculator reduces medical errors, saves time
...y review each online order." Lehmann, one of the developers of the TPN Calculator, says the system's design was based on existing paper forms to provide users with a familiar format and maximum comfort level. "We addressed only what was thought to be the 'broken link' in the TPN order process, namely calcula...Protein helps immune system mount 'instant strike' against deadly flu viruses
...t people against an outbreak of avian flu, vaccine developers should switch to a vaccine made with a live but weakened flu virus. Such vaccines are thought to more closely mimic a natural encounter with the flu virus and are more likely to induce peripheral immunity, which might deliver an instant strike again...The future of drug development
...roducts should be separated. Researchers and drug developers would be compensated, but not through a marketing monopoly. Large cash prizes to successful firms or non-profit drug developers, direct public sector involvement in drug development, new open collaborative development models, or government imposed r...Study findings offer new hope for the estimated 300,000 Americans infected with HIV and Hepatitis C
... APRICOT trial. The study was funded by Roche, the developers of Pegasys. HCV and HIV are the two most prevalent blood-borne infections in the United States. Of the nearly one million people estimated to have HIV in the U.S., approximately 300,000 are believed to be co-infected with HCV. It can take 10 to 20 ...Tumor vaccine to begin clinical trials
...try Gabrilovich, M.D., Ph.D., one of the vaccine's developers at Moffitt and the USF College of Medicine. Gabrilovich, an associate professor in Departments of Interdisciplinary Oncology and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, further explained, "With the high incidence and mortality rates of breas...NIEHS and American Public Health Association sponsor program
...s and challenges faced by architects, planners and developers in designing and building healthy and sustainable ...nity design decisions, and discuss issues faced by developers who are trying to build healthy communities. Also scheduled for November 17 will be a special ses...Vital sign device improves resuscitation monitoring
...science at Harvard University, one of Vital Dust's developers and lead author of the study. "This advance may lead to a more rapid triaging system," said Steve Moulton, M.D., one of the researchers who tested the device. Vital Dust consists of a small, low-power computer connected to a sensor that fits over ...Dating, delinquent friends key reasons why early puberty linked to delinquency in girls
... in delinquency, compared to 72 percent of average developers and 69 percent of less developed girls. Haynie said relationships with friends seem to have the greatest effect on delinquency among early-developing girls. "What I found is that parent-child relationships were playing a role, but it seemed to be a s...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet, September 16, 2003
...e on Guideline Standardization asks that guideline developers describe how the evidence was collected or evaluated, mention funding sources or sponsors, state who reviewed the draft guidelines and state the recommended action precisely, among other actions to improve the quality of guidelines. The group hopes t...Capturing airborne pathogens, breath tests for lung cancer
...LS meeting will be the first occasion at which its developers demonstrate its feasibility as a sensor for fast, non-invasive identification of biological agents at the single-cell level. The researchers hope the LTRS sensors will find broad applications for rapidly sensing toxic bioagents (such as bacteria, sp...Early sexual development, childhood obesity link is opposite for boys and girls, UIC study says
... than other girls to be obese, while in boys early developers are less likely to be obese than other males. The ...iological development. In boys, for example, early developers were found to be significantly taller, but not heavier, than their average- or late-maturing counter...U-M School of Nursing team develops software to track work of nurses and results
...m prototype into operational status. The program's developers hope to get word this fall about funding. University of Michigan Hospital and Health Centers has contributed to the project and plans to use the application in one Health System unit later this year. The Veterans Health Administration also is a poten...D.C. surveillance system considered a model for early disease detection
...cks with outbreak-causing diseases, say the army's developers of ESSENCE. "We believe that ESSENCE is the larges...is says. The system works well in part because the developers decided to use only information that clinicians were already recording as part of their routine pati......trengthen arguments that city planners and housing developers should strategically incorporate views and access to nature to enhance the quality of life for residents. For the new study, the researchers recruited and trained volunteer residents of the mostly African-American Robert Taylor Homes to interview and...