Child health improvement through computer automation
...h information learned from the patient's family to enable the pediatrician to provide individually targeted ...stimates that in its first year of use, CHICA will enable the parents and physicians of 55,000 pediatric patients in the Wishard Health System, site of the pi...Smart lights, nonstick implants and 100th birthday of electronics at science & technology meeting
.../symposium/anaheim/pressroom.html ) is designed to enable you to cover meeting highlights from your desk. For assistance in contacting researchers and setting up interviews, please do not hesitate to contact the AIP and AVS staff listed at the top of the news release. AVS--NOT JUST ABOUT VACUUM SCIENCE A...Envisat Symposium day one: Steady symphony of Europe's largest satellite
...d ocean colour, measuring chlorophyll content that enable scientists to deduce phytoplankton numbers, a vital variable in modelling the extent of climate change. At the same time Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) has proved its worth in varied ways, including oil spill detection, ship dete...Tobacco sponsorship of Formula One must stop, say health experts
...ies (TTCs), and the closing of the loopholes which enable the continuing use of Formula One as a means of peddling the tobacco pandemic. Writing in today's British Medical Journal 1 , Jeff Collin of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and colleagues from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA are pu...Jefferson-based technology promises to help find hard-to-diagnose appendicitis cases
...needed surgeries. "The radiolabeled antibody will enable physicians to pinpoint infections in a number of tissue types," he says. "It could also be used for patients who have fevers of unknown origin, bone infections (osteomyelitis) and diabetic foot infections."...Patient safety gets boost with $10 million grant
... the learning experiences it will provide and will enable students and licensed practitioners in the health ...traditional training with actual patients and will enable students and health professionals to learn in ways that eliminate risks to patients. Education tool...Novel 'delivery' method for nutrients wins Kaye Innovation Award for Hebrew university students
...he vehicles' retentive qualities and nanostructure enable them to be successfully absorbed through digestive membranes. The method has significant health implications for both better nutrition and medical treatment. Spernath, 35, who lives in Kfar Saba, and Yuli-Amar, 28, of Jerusalem stress tha...Childproof packaging new designs could save lives
...y Packaging Partnership says: "Our objective is to enable these more practical, safer CRC designs to make life easier for a significant proportion of the population". ...Highlights of June Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...es, health services and advocacy efforts that will enable women to adopt desirable nutrition practices for optimal health." "In general, good nutrition is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. That applies to gender as much as any other cultural, ethnic or genetic variables," said registered dietitian and AD...Hormone therapy may still offer important health benefits to postmenopausal women
... the right formulation and circumstances that will enable us to retain health benefits, while eliminating the risks." There are many different estrogens and progestins, and each may have different effects. For example, the human ovary produces several types of estrogen, including estrone and estradiol. The...Duke scientists identify new way to block blood vessels that feed cancer growth
...ainst deadly onslaughts of radiation. The messages enable blood vessels to survive and ultimately nourish any remaining cancer cells that escape toxic radiation therapy. Radiation biologists from the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center identified the master switch as a protein called "Hypoxia Inducible Factor"...Full recovery after cell transplantation for treating leukemia or lymphoma can take 3-5 years
...ning by patients, families, and medical teams, and enable the design of interventions to improve functional recovery. Karen L. Syrjala, Ph.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, and colleagues conducted a study to examine recovery of physical and mental health and return to work after H...Full recovery after cell transplantation for treating leukemia or lymphoma can take 3-5 years
...ning by patients, families, and medical teams, and enable the design of interventions to improve functional recovery. Dr. Karen L. Syrjala, head of biobehavorial sciences at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and colleagues conducted a study to examine recovery of physical and mental health ...Advances emerging in hepatitis management
...atitis B patients, demographic and laboratory data enable us to predict liver injury thus avoiding the need for a liver biopsy," said Anna Lok, M.D., lead author of the study. "Ability to determine the severity of liver injury using readily available clinical data will allow us to make more informed treatm...Dartmouth researchers advance fight against pancreatic cancer
...r research has focused on determining what factors enable the cells to grow at such a fast rate and then how to slow that rate down and actually suppress pancreatic tumor growth." Korc likens the disease to speeding in a car with an accelerator that is stuck to the floor. "Naturally, you apply the brakes b...Three Harvard Medical School endowed chairs named simultaneously in sleep medicine
...reatment," said Martin, MD, PhD. "These gifts will enable HMS to take a leading role in this interdisciplinary field, ensuring the advancement of scientific research and the development of new treatments for sleep disorders." The three chairs are named after the founders and Chairmen of three publicly liste...Deaf-blind woman deafer than deaf-blind man
...rate information about the condition. It will also enable physicians to establish a more accurate diagnosis and on the basis of this to offer patients the possibility of DNA diagnostics....Long-term study proves ADDERALL XR is a safe and effective option to treat adults with ADHD
...ay attention for longer periods of time, which may enable them to achieve more in professional, academic and social settings," said lead investigator Joseph Biederman, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Up to 65 percent of children with ADHD may still exhibit symptoms into adulthood ...Cord blood stem cells save children with Hurler's syndrome
...in large part because the properties of cord blood enable us to achieve engraftment more readily and with less manipulation of cells than is possible with adult bone marrow." The findings are yet another example of the promising capabilities of stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood, she said. Kurtzbe...Rising young psychiatry researchers receive prestigious international award
...g, tamoxifen, on them. "Receiving this award will enable me to continue my collaborations with research ins... help further his career, "Winning this award will enable me to complete my clinical psychiatry training in Australia and my post-doctoral research in the UK ...