Northwestern Memorial Hospital honored with one of the nation's top awards for quality
...ity, embraces innovation and forward thinking, and establishes ways to measure and evaluate those processes to benefit the community. The award is the oldest and one of the most prestigious health quality awards in the United States. "We are honored to receive this award. It provides validation that we are m...NASA awards $9.8 million NSCOR grant to UT Southwestern to study effects of space radiation exposure
...nsive Cancer Center. The five-year research grant establishes a NASA Specialized Center of Research for the Estimation of Solid Tumor Cancer Risks from Space Radiation. NSCORs are responsible for expanding knowledge in the biological and biomedical sciences and technology arenas to enable human space flight an...Certain gun storage practices can reduce risk of youth firearm injuries, suicide
...n storage practices. "The study by Grossman et al establishes that safe firearm storage is associated with a reduced risk for firearm injury. The next step is to help families make informed decisions about safe storage of firearms, recognizing that keeping children safe is as important to parents who own guns a...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...," he said. "And this is just the beginning. This establishes a framework for stroke systems of care, but more work is needed to outline the performance measures by which we should judge the success of interventions for each area identified in this blueprint." Creating stroke systems of care will be easier if...Do cigarette additives pose additional risk to smokers?
...f Cigarette Ingredients: Scientific Criteria, LSRO establishes scientific criteria for assessing the impact. The criteria are based on the work of an expert panel, composed of Alwynelle S. Ahl, Ph.D., D.V.M., Highland Rim Consultancy, Lyles, TN; Carroll Cross, M.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, University...Acupuncture relieves pain and improves function in knee osteoarthritis
...ch builds upon our previous NCCAM-funded research, establishes that acupuncture is an effective complement to conventional arthritis treatment and can be successfully employed as part of a multidisciplinary approach to treating the symptoms of osteoarthritis," said Dr. Berman. Acupuncture--the practice of...National Academies news: Gulf War and Health
...in this report met these criteria. Evidence that establishes a link between exposures and a health outcome with reasonable certainty, but fails to meet the higher standard of proof needed for causality, is characterized as SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE OF AN ASSOCIATION. The evidence for an association between lung can...'Signal' identified that enables malarial parasites to target blood cells
...el and complex ways in which the malarial parasite establishes infection in human red blood cells. These proteins represent a vastly expanded pool of major candidate targets to block blood stage infection as well as complex disease pathologies associated with acute and severe malaria. ...Novel imaging technique shows abnormal brain anatomy in children with ADHD
...n to be part of a bigger circuit in the brain that establishes communication between the frontal lobe and cerebellum." According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), ADHD affects 3 to 5 percent of children in the United States. Children with ADHD have difficulty controlling their behavior or focus...Study finds HER2-positive breast cancer invades organs due to fatal chemical attraction
... key organs - lungs, liver and bone -where it then establishes new tumors. They say this finding may lead to strategies to block that deadly spread. The study, published in the November issue of Cancer Cell , describes a lethal attraction between signals found on HER2-positive breast cancer cells and those on t...$2.8 million public-private partnership to examine how surroundings can encourage active lifestyles
...tices that advance physical activity. The program establishes innovative approaches to increase physical activity through community design and communications strategies. The NIEHS will examine the program's impact on physical activity, obesity, and other health indicators. Results from these 25 communities will...Virco establishes comprehensive set of clinical cutoffs for the vircoTYPE HIV-1 resistance test
...Investigators from Virco today presented data that establishes a comprehensive set of clinical cutoffs -- a newly established threshold for optimal selection and evaluation of antiretroviral regimens -- for the virco®TYPE HIV-1 resistance test. These reference values are derived from the largest clinical out...Mayo Clinic research shows stroke rehabilitation best served by physical training
...ho led the international research team, because it establishes a solid scientific foundation for emphasizing physical training over amphetamine use in stroke rehabilitation programs. In so doing, it helps clarify a treatment question that has been muddy ever since the first animal studies in the 1980s suggested ...More than one-third of US adults use complementary and alternative medicine
...sults provide a baseline for future surveys, as it establishes a consistent definition of CAM that can be used to track trends and prevalence of CAM use....UCSF scientists show prion shape affects nature of infection
...o research findings concludes that the work firmly establishes the link between different prion forms and different prion strains. A prion is thought to cause disease by inducing other proteins to adopt its contorted shape and form sheets called amyloids. UCSF's Stanley Prusiner, MD, received the 1997 Nobel Priz...Pitt receives $14.5 million from NIH to improve pediatric heart transplantation outcomes
...c heart transplant recipients. The five-year grant establishes the University of Pittsburgh as a Specialized Center of Clinically Oriented Research (SCCOR) in Pediatric Heart Development and Disease. Such a center encourages basic science research findings to be applied more rapidly to address specific clinical ...UVA researchers make cellular model of Parkinson's disease
... "This work by Pat Trimmer and her colleagues establishes that the cybrid model of Parkinson's is the most valid model of sporadic Parkinson's available today," said Dr. James Bennett, professor of neurology at U.Va. and Director of the Center for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases. "The Lewy bodies ar...Evidence that memories are consolidated during sleep
...consolidation of newly acquired memories, and also establishes roles for both slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in memory consolidation. Slow-wave sleep is a deep dreamless sleep, and REM sleep is associated with dreaming. The researchers published their findings on Jan. 19, 2004, in the online ...Scientists discover connection between obesity and diabetes
... a revolutionary discovery that for the first time establishes a biochemical connection between obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. This study was published in this month's Journal of Endocrinology. Type 2 Diabetes occurs when the body either doesn't make enough insulin or becomes resistant to insulin, preventing it f...... tumor cannot grow bigger than a pinhead unless it establishes an independent blood supply through a process called angiogenesis. Researchers theorize that by stopping or cutting off this new blood supply, they can starve and hopefully kill the cancer. PTK/ZK, an angiogenesis inhibitor, is designed to block the ...