MRSA: Political point-scoring over hospital cleanliness ignores the real issue
...e an overall effect on transmission of MRSA unless essential infection-control practices--the use of gloves and hand hygiene--are prioritised. But this is rarely the case."...British hospitals need clinical ethicists
...week's BMJ. A sound knowledge of medical ethics is essential to the good practice of medicine, yet conclusive evidence exists that doctors need help with ethical problems, writes Daniel Sokol of Imperial College London. About a fifth of NHS acute trusts currently have a clinical ethics committee. Although thes...Organizational traits associated with quality patient care are essential to home care nursing
...t care and enhance their job satisfaction are also essential to home care nursing, according to a study conducted by a Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member. This is the first step towards researching the impact of the nurse work environment on patient care outside of hospital setting. The study, "Organiz...Targeting mutant B-Raf protein reduces melanoma development
...af activity reduced vascular development, which is essential for tumor growth. Without vascular support the tumors remained the same size. This process occurs by reducing the secretion of VEGF, a factor downstream of B-Raf promoting vascular development, from melanoma cells. "Because the tumors remained the sa...Diagnostic test for range of blood disorders on the horizon
...ases, with three main members: polycythaemia vera, essential thrombocythaemia, and idiopathic myelofibrosis. Th...ients with polycythaemia vera, 29 (57%) of 51 with essential thrombocythaemia, and eight (50%) of 16 with idiopathic myelofibrosis. The mutation was not detected...Epstein-Barr virus protein crucial to its role in blood cancers
... of peptides to block the interaction between this essential EBV protein and the specific pathway in human B cells is currently underway. Initial studies show that the growth of EBV-associated cancer cells can be inhibited in tissue-culture assays. The investigators are actively pursuing this line of investiga...Ethical discussion should come before research
...hrased the questions that society must ask. "It is essential to examine which biologic attributes should define embryonic humanity, because these entities lay now before us in the Petri dish," write the authors. Jones and Cheshire, director of biotechnology ethics for The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignit...Sleeping Through the Night: Children's sleep expert advises parents
...bility to learn, and daytime behavior. Thus, it is essential that children get the sleep they need. Getting a child to sleep through the night may seem like an impossible task, but it can be achieved. Families can now rest easier. Help is here! Jodi Mindell's new book, Sleeping Through the Night (HarperRes...New guideline tackles leading cause of mother and child death
...y of Glasgow. "The pragmatic approach of PRECOG is essential because pre-eclampsia matters."...Drug that hinders blood vessel growth under study in ovarian cancer
...cer by inhibiting development of new blood vessels essential to cancer growth is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. MCG is among some 25 centers nationally enrolling patients in remission to see if the investigational drug A6 can help them stay that way, says Dr. Sharad Ghamande, MCG gynecologic o......ollagen with dentin-bonding agents. His work is an essential and fundamental counterpart to the electron microscopic analyses of the hybrid layer, which have received so much deserved attention. Dr. Eliades is an authority on the surface analysis of retrieved biomaterials from their in vivo host tissues. He ha...End AIDS drug waiting lists, HIV care providers tell policymakers
...viders are calling for an end to waiting lists for essential anti-AIDS drugs that patients need in order to liv...ederal government should guarantee access to these essential medicines for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS." The two leading HIV medical associations coll...How effective are herbal supplements in reducing illnesses in children?
...and arthritis because of its high concentration of essential fatty acids. Results of studies have suggested that evening primrose oil supplements may significantly improve the severity of dermatitis in children. Evening primrose oil supplements may also be associated with an improvement in performing certain...Pet scanning better for heart disease diagnosis, management
...sterol-lowering drugs and stress management -- are essential for successful medical management," Merhige added. "For some patients, surgery seems like a quicker option, when it actually only addresses symptoms, not the underlying disease process." ...NJIT chemistry professor edits text outlining best laboratory practices
The importance of meticulous measurements are essential to good science. But ensuring that correct methods are used is another story as well as the topic of a text edited by Somenath Mitra, PhD, professor of chemistry, at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Sample Preparation Techniques in Ana...Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
... development of a key mouse model of SMA, which is essential to genetic studies of the disease. His research addresses the question of why a decreased amount of Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein leads to SMA and provides an opportunity to test the drugs that Dr. Stockwell identifies. Brent Stockwell, Ph.D...Heart surgeons publish death rates
...l average for both operations. "We feel that it is essential to stratify surgeon outcomes by risk to be fair to surgeons and prevent them from taking on only the easiest and least severe cases," say the authors. "The public is now able to see the outcomes of individual surgeons and can be reassured that all ar...Acting techniques may help doctors empathize with their patients
... of the American Medical Association. "Empathy is essential to healing relationships, so it's something all health professionals should be expected to show even when it's hard to do so." Drawing from previous research that equates service workers' labor to the work of stage actors, Larson and co-author Xin ...Study documents initial differences in sexual transmission of HIV between males and females
...rchers who led the study, this initial research is essential to understanding why these differences occur and for future development of a vaccine or other preventive methods that could stop sexual transmission of HIV-1. The couples in the study come from the Rakai Cohort, a Uganda-based population in a long-...Protein that promotes survival of stem cells might be key to poor leukemia prognosis
...that a single such Bcl-2 family protein--Mcl-1--is essential for promoting the survival of these cells." Progenitor cells are precursors arising from HSCs; these cells produce daughter cells that become increasingly specialized and then produce specific types of blood cells, such as B lymphocytes--immune cell...