Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...nt of a single grain of sand in a football stadium filled with sand," Hem says. Hem and Purdue physicist David Elmore assembled an interdisciplinary team and designed an experiment to see how quickly aluminum hydroxide was eliminated from the body and to track the amounts of the substance that remained in v...Hospitals Discourage Consumer Questioning Of Bills, Study Suggests
...igation of their bills by usingintimidating images filled with threats. The threats are aimed at distractingconsumer attention and evoking fear, even intimidation. These can include thethreat of sending a bill to a collection agency if payment is not made promptlyor the threat to increase the charges. One h...Polish Dumpling-Like Particle Has Potential In Drug Delivery
...knedels (k-ned-l), after a popular Polish dumpling filled either with meat or sweets. While the Polish knedel is a sumptuous taste treat, the Washington University knedl is a synthetic nano-sized particle that its creators hope someday will be the carrier of drugs or genes for biomedical applications and t...Tiny Pellets Could Deliver Alzheimer's Drugs
...d, something like a sponge in which the holes are filled with solid particles. "When you put this pellet into tissue, the molecules are slowly released over a period of months," says Saltzman. "One of the nice things about the system is that we can manipulate it to release at the rate we want." This is do...MIT Microchip Releases Chemicals On Demand
...ts. They did this for several different reservoirs filled with one or theother chemical over a period of several hours. This shows "that multiplecompounds can be released independently from a single microchip device," thetrio write in Nature. Talking about the development of the chip, which took five years,...Nurse Practitioners Reducing Costs, Expanding Care
...nts at a time in the traditional classes, and they filled up immediately,"Wilkerson says. "Our office fielded at least 62 inquiries before the courseswere even advertised." Similarly, enrollment in a new distance education course in pharmacology isat capacity with 40 students. Plans call for a Web-based......r care. Theroom, enlivened by storybook murals, is filled with child-friendly furnishings.Young patients can join the characters of "Alice in Wonderland" for "tea" at ahand-painted table and chairs. A television fitted in a "castle tower" providesdistraction as visitors settle into heart-backed chairs and ......rns forcare, is enlivened by storybook murals, and filled with child-friendlyfurnishings....... After discarding surveys whichwere incomplete or filled out by people under 18 years of age, a final simple of9,177 respondents (all anonymous) was evaluated. According to the study, men are the largest consumers of sexually explicitmaterial on the Internet. Male respondents (86%) outnumbered female...Trial Begins For First Artificial Liver Device Using Human Cells
...evice uses a two-chambered, hollow-fiber cartridge filled with immortalized livercells. The cell-filled cartridges, which can be installed in a standardkidney-dialysis machine, are stored at the Vitagen laboratory in SanDiego. They will be flown to Chicago -- chilled to four degrees centigrade(about 40&de...Oregon's Terminally Ill Patients More Likely to Have End-Of-Life Choices Respected, Study Finds
...ly members of patients who had an advancedirective filled out were satisfied with their relatives' end-of-lifeexperience. That is a remarkably high percentage." The Barriers research also shows that decisions to decline aggressivelife-sustaining measures were much more common than decisions to stop suchmeas......t milk has been shown to be abioactive, live fluid filled with proteins and lipids so essential fordeveloping infants," she said. "Babies need as much help as they can get indeveloping their immune system and organs. Their mother's milk gives them thevery best protective immunological factors, which are dif...NPSF workshop builds community to improve pharmaceutical safety
...g tools and resources, and the gaps that needto be filled to responsibly address medication safety issues. It will serve asan action agenda for the work of the community as well as the NPSF. This project is made possible by a public/private partnership reflected in amajor grant from Pfizer Inc with addition...Surgery for severely obese improves more than just weight
...to-day basis. Each subject filled out a questionnaire one week priorto surgery and again three to 12 months after surgery andagain after their weight had reached a plateau (usually 18 ormore months after the operati...Wake Forest first to apply innovative brain cancer treatment
...rocedure conducted toremove the tumor and is later filled with a liquid radiation source. Both areremoved within several weeks, completing the treatment. According to Stephen B. Tatter, M.D., Ph.D., attending neurosurgeon atthe Medical Center, radiation is the most effective treatment for many mali...More than half of homeless children have symptoms of depression
... homeless. Each mother also filled out the Child Behavior Chec... The CBCL, a 138-item questionnaire filled out by the mothers, evaluates behaviors that suggest mental health ...Researchers learn how stress slows wound healing
... covered the wound with plastic and then filled the smallblister "well" with a sterile solution. The wounds were thensealed. After five hours, the fluid at four of the blister siteswas removed for testing. Fluid was taken from t...12-year-old Oregon girl is first child to receive new bone growth material in her skull
...t side of her skull.Now, 70 percent of that gap is filled with new bone. In this next surgery, BMPwill be applied to several of the gaps in her forehead. Emily is the first childto ever have BMP applied to existing bone and have it successfully grow. BMP hasbeen used to successfully grow bone in animals for...Unprotected anal sex increasing in San Francisco
... in 1992. The participants weretested for HIV and filled out a self-administered questionnaire on numeroustopics related to HIV and sexual behaviors during each study year between 1993and 1997. During the first study year, 37 percent of the participants reported havingunprotected anal intercourse. By the ......degradable material. Asthe cells multiplied, they filled in the open spaces, eventually building theirown framework as the scaffold degraded. As the tissues were developing, theresearchers clamped them to devices that repeatedly exerted a gentle pullsimilar to what natural blood vessel tissue experiences ...