An Ergonomically Redesigned Analgesia Delivery Device Proves Safer And More Efficient
...eed for improving device safety. Motivated by this finding and the prevalence of human error in medical accidents in general, this study has demonstrated that adopting a human factors approach to the design of a PCA pump can lead to improved safety, efficiency, and ease of use. As far as we know, this is the...Improved Medications Can Nip Allergy Season In The Bud
...ad struggled with severe allergies foryears before finding effective treatment with Dr. Mosenifar's aid. "For several years, I'd suffered along with my allergies," said Jesse. "Wholedays would be wasted when I was inundated with a histamine response. I'd takeover-the-counter antihistamines, but the side-effe...Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors May Be Another Piece In Alzheimer's Jigsaw
...iversittsklinik, Germany and colleagues report the finding of the first large trial of another acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used by patients suffering from Alzheimer's, in a mainly European population. The authors' six month trial involved the drug rivastigmine and they found that it was effective in treat...Insulin Resistance And Obesity Avoided In Genetically Modified Mice, As Reported In Science
...reported in the 5 March issue of Science. The finding raises hopes that researchers might someday design a drug forhumans that mimics these effects by targeting the same enzyme. "It willcertainly take some time to find a compound useful for humans based on our mousemodel, but it has the possibility of b...Heart Valve Abnormalities Examined In Relation To Duration Of Diet Drug Use
...gitation, however, so therelationship between that finding and use of the drug isn't clear, he said. The "fen" in fen/phen refers to fenfluramine. It and a similar drug werewithdrawn in September 1997 due to reports of heart-valve problems among a smallpercentage of the 4 million people who to...T-Cell Memory Finding May Provide Key To Cancer, AIDS Vaccines
...uous exposureto high levels of the intruder. "This finding suggests that the typical approach to vaccines for...r three to four days, few memory cells emerged. By finding theanswer to this fairly basic scientific question, "we have stumbled into theworld of clinical rele...Novel Biological Interaction Found To Explain Blood Vessel Growth To Tumors
...iological sense, and it's terribly exciting." The finding offers both theoretical as well as practical implications, Pizzosaid. It offers a novel insight into the body's use of ATPsynthase as "powerpacks" in situations where energy is depleted. And it suggests a new route todeveloping drugs that block angio...Possible Mechanism For Estrogen Memory Enhancement Found
...t are similar or related to estrogen inthe hope of finding a drug precisely targeted for the treatment of dis... among the first toconduct epidemiological studies finding that estrogen delays the onset ofAlzheimer's disease in post- menopausal women, calls Thompson's stu...Low-Tech Treatment Proves A Life-Saver In Research Breakthrough
...dleads to respiratory failure, Matthay said. "This finding will save thousands of lives each year," said Claude Lenfant, M.D.,director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH, whichfunded the large-scale study. "It provides us with something that we canimplement quickly, at no additional c...MRI Images Using Laser-Polarized Xenon
...ording to Chupp, future U-M research will focus on finding ways to increasexenon polarization from current levels of about 5 percent to 35 percent, whichwill provide the resolution required for clinical applications. Funding for the research project is provided by the National Institutes ofHealth and the Nat...'Motion Blindness,' Not Just Poor Memory, Causes Alzheimer's Patients To Lose Their Way
...disorder ofperception as well as memory." The finding creates the possibility of pinpointing whichpatients will encounter serious difficulty driving or gettingaround their neighborhoods, or even their own homes. That wouldallow some patients to live independently longer than theyotherwise might while al...Improved Fitness Lowers Mortality Risk Of Male Heart-Attack Survivors
...hrough exercise." The explanation for this finding probably is due to contaminationbetween study groups, Dorn said. The men were assigned randomly to a structuredexercise group or to a control group whose members were told to maintain theirnormal routines and not to take part in a regular exercise p...Inhibiting Growth Of New Blood Vessels Reduces Heart Disease Plaque In Mice
... Harvard MedicalSchool in Boston. "If this finding is supported in future studies, blood vessels in plaquecould provide a potential target for the design of treatments that can delay theprogression of heart disease and possibly reduce the incidence of heart attacksand strokes," Moulton adds. ...NICHD-Funded Researchers Show Estrogen Effects On Brain After Menopause
...ane Alexander, M.D., Director of the NICHD. "This finding provides importantnew information for postmenopausal women and their physicians to consider whenmaking the complex, highly individual decision as to whether to take estrogensupplements." For the study, Dr. Shaywitz and her coworkers analyzed...Study Finds Combining Exercise With Male Hormone Therapy Benefits Men With HIV-Wasting Disease
...General HospitalMedical Center. The other key finding is that only a small amount of male hormones--orandrogens--was necessary to produce positive results. "Much larger doses ofandrogens are often used by body-builders to develop muscular tissues, but suchamounts have unproven long-term safety," said H...Brain Resolves Sensory Contradictions By Creating Its Own Reality
...important step towards understandingthe causes and finding treatments for some balance disorders. "The NationalInstitutes of Health recently reported that 50 percent of Americans will have abalance problem at some time in their lives. It's a hidden medical problemthat's often misdiagnosed," said Daniel Merfe...To Drive Or Not To Drive? New Criteria For Those With Epilepsy
...auss. One of the surprises of the study is finding that most epilepsy patientsfail to report their se...More troubling, theresearchers say, is the study's finding that more than half of the patients inthe crash group and a third of the non-crash group drove desp...Artery Temperatures Identify Hot Spots On Plaque That May Rupture And Trigger Heart Attack
...ould be detected in plaques,"Stefanadis says. "Our finding supports, but does not prove, the theory thatbacterial infection is a factor contributing to atherosclerotic plaquedevelopment." The study involved 90 patients who underwent catheter examinations of theirheart arteries. Forty-five were examined beca...Repeated Exposure To Cocaine Alters Brain Structure
...the University of Michigan. Robinson described his finding at the Fifth Annual Wisconsin Symposium onEmotion, held April 23-24. "Repeated exposure to cocaine results in persisting brain changes that webelieve contribute to addiction and the risk of relapse," he said. Robinson and his colleague, Dr. Bryan Kol......s. In the Nature Medicine article the team reports finding theinfected T cells in 32 of 34 patients. Since writing the article, they havefound silently infected cells in the other two patients. Diana Finzi, a graduate student in Siliciano's lab, is lead author onthe paper and did much of the work is...