Rural America vulnerable to bioterrorism and natural disaster threats
...thor of the report. "The conference did not focus exclusively upon bioterrorism," said Campbell. "Participants from across the country emphasized that we need to be prepared for the full range of public health emergencies, including weather events such as ice storms and hurricanes, and emerging diseases like SA...Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
...h newer radiation techniques allowing treatment to exclusively target tumors, while sparing healthy tissue." Giordano believes that this study will encourage patients in need of radiation therapy for breast cancer to proceed with treatment without fear. "A substantial number of women, especially those who are ol...Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
...s to recipients. In the past, kidneys were matched exclusively by blood and tissue type. Newer approaches to matching have come about as a result of a system implemented by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) in October 2002 for allocating higher-risk kidneys that were once considered unsuitable for tran...NYU'S Duster cautions against FDA approval of 'race-based' pharmaceutical
...pulation. However, the company began testing BiDil exclusively on blacks with FDA approvalafter theorizing that the drug's effect on nitric-oxide deficiency, which is more common in black heart-failure patients than in non-blacks, would be beneficial to a targeted racial population. NitroMed reported effectivene...Newly identified gene cluster on mouse X chromosome provides insights into fertility
...his gene cluster encodes a set of proteins devoted exclusively to regulating reproduction." "What is perhaps even more intriguing," he says, "is their colinear expression pattern - in other words, the position of the Rhox genes on the X chromosome precisely correlates with their expression pattern. The first gen...New survey finds red dress symbol prompts women to take action to care for their hearts
...ion 2005 Fashion Show features red dresses created exclusively for The Heart Truth to warn women of their number one health threat. Modeling these one-of-a-kind designs are some of the world's most recognized stars including Sheryl Crow, Venus Williams, Christie Brinkley, Paula Abdul, Debi Mazar, Rachel Hunter,...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...r ongoing intervention for patients who complained exclusively of physical symptoms failed to improve clinical outcomes beyond usual care, while increasing outpatient costs by $1,378 per patient over two years. The findings suggest a need for developing new intervention approaches for depressed patients who comp...Get ready for next generation surround sound
...virtual sound fields' through headphones is almost exclusively the domain of high-budget military technologies and involves lengthy and awkward acoustic measurements. The new approach eliminates the acoustic measurement step altogether and promises to produce the required results in mere minutes. The breakthroug...Technology that could double the effectiveness of cancer drugs studied at Yale
...es 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 results available about one year later. The Yale clinical trial is led by Thomas Rutherford, M.D., associate professor of gynecology at Yale Sc...Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
...ations of racial health disparities that are based exclusively on either genetic or environmental explanations. They emphasize the co-action and interaction of genes and environments in health and offer example of twin-studies and quantitative genetic approaches as alternatives. Race and Genetics: Controversies ...USC/Norris oncologists test new front-line therapy for pancreatic cancer
...us ones), targeted drugs such as BAY 43-9006 focus exclusively on a few targets specific to cancer cells. In this case, the compound aims to work in two ways: by directly inhibiting critical growth pathways of the cancer cells (even potentially killing the cells), while also attacking the blood vessels needed to...New guidelines conclude all aerosol therapy devices equally effective
...are providers should avoid basing device selection exclusively on device efficacy. Instead, the choice should be...at health-care providers not base device selection exclusively on device efficacy but rather on several criteria, including device availability; cost; convenience;...Potentially fatal toxicities occur with off-label use of cancer drugs
...this drug the only one in the country whose use is exclusively off label. The FDA strictly restricts discussion or dissemination of information to physicians and patients to "on label" indications, which prevents the pharmaceutical manufacturer from advising cancer patients about the side effects of thalidomid...Researchers report early success using saliva to detect oral cancer
...y mRNA patterns in saliva. They had been searching exclusively in the mouth's soft tissues, or mucosa, for proteins that might be associated with oral cancer, when Maie St. John, M.D., Ph.D., a head-and-neck surgery/otolaryngology resident at UCLA, who was then on a training rotation in Wong's lab, posed a simpl...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for December 2004 (second issue)
...e from the hospital. The participants were almost exclusively African-American with 65 percent (34 patients) being female, and almost half having a history of near-fatal asthma. For the most part, they were unemployed and unmarried. Asthma affects 15 to 20 million people in the U.S. Although effective medical...ZYVOX(R) demonstrates high success rate for patients who develop MRSA surgical site infections
...n the ZYVOX arm, most patients (n=42) were treated exclusively with oral ZYVOX, while 24 received the IV formulation. Although the total length of treatment among groups was comparable, the mean duration of IV treatment was significantly shorter for patients who received ZYVOX than for patients who received van...Landmark survey reveals asthma in children remains significantly out of control in the United States
...h asthma in the household or the child with asthma exclusively if he or she was 16 to 18 years of age. In addition, the survey included interviews with nearly 300 pairs of parents and their children (10 to 15 years old) to provide comparison responses. All interviews were conducted from February to May 2004, an...Prevalence of overweight increasing in young children from low-income families
...at overweight is a national problem, not a problem exclusively associated with publicly funded programs or low income," write the researchers. "Overweight is increasing and underweight is decreasing in our study population. We need to expand prevention and intervention efforts to reverse the rising trend of ove...Herpes virus offers new hope in curing cancer
...kinds of therapies," Dr. Cripe said. The study was exclusively conducted in isolated solid tumors rather than in neuroblastoma tumors that have metastasized, but Dr. Cripe is currently testing the concept in tumor models that have metastasized. "There are a couple of reports that indicate the herpes simplex viru...Rutgers-developed biomaterial drives a technology transfer story toward success
...ew biomaterial is a bioresorbable polymer. It was exclusively licensed early in 2004 by Rutgers' Office of Corporate Liaison & Technology Transfer to a private medical device company, REVA Medical, Inc. (San Diego, Calif.), for incorporation into REVA's stent devices. Stents are tiny tubular-shaped scaffolds t...