NIAID launches program to improve medical tools against emerging infectious diseases
...n conducting epitope discovery for many years, but generally on a small scale," says Daniel Rotrosen, M.D., director of NIAID's Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation. "This initiative, however, will yield new knowledge about antigenic epitopes from a wide variety of microbes, including agents tha...CT with multiplanar reconstruction gives new perspective on complex ankle fractures
...logy at Harvard Medical School in Boston. They are generally sports-related injuries, he added. All 51 cases showed bone separation along the front part of the growth plate of the tibia. There were 33 "classic" two-fragment fractures as seen in medical textbooks, but the "classic" three fragment fracture (whic...Dana-Farber receives CDC grants to develop health promotion/prevention programs in the work place
... nature of this work, worksite health programs are generally inaccessible for these workers; in addition, transportation workers have among the highest smoking rates of any workers," says Glorian Sorensen, PhD, M.P.H., Director of Dana-Farber's Center for Community Based Research and the study's principal inve...Study shows weight-based REBETOL dosing in combination with PEG-INTRON significantly improves ...
...ficant because African-Americans are known to have generally lower rates of response to hepatitis C therapy, and efforts are underway to improve outcomes for these patients. "These results show that individualized therapy with weight-based ribavirin offers a significant advantage over a flat dose of ribaviri...FOSRENOL (R) maintains bone health status of end-stage renal disease patients
...t. "Patients who take FOSRENOL over the long-term generally are able to maintain their bone health status." T...t over the last 20 years. Diet restrictions alone generally cannot control phosphorus levels and patients traditionally manage hyperphosphatemia by taking phosp...Improving child survival in Kenya: Strengthening of district hospitals essential
...improvement were expressed. Caretakers' views were generally positive, although dissatisfaction with the physical environment in which care took place was common. Dr English comments: "This project arose in part as a result of a meeting organised and hosted by the Kenyan Ministry of Health in November 2001 to...Will email consultations improve patient care?
...at UK patients want. The policy goal of the NHS is generally accepted as equal access, based on need, he writes. Poor and elderly people are the most needy and the least likely to use the internet. Using email for communication may offer choice but probably at the expense of access. He believes that full resea...U.Va. Health System adds new cancer treatment center
... Unlike traditional radiation therapy, which generally delivers treatment to a tumor from a few different directions, the TomoTherapy System precisely pinpoints the tumor and delivers radiation from 360 degrees. "This reduces high-dose exposure of healthy tissue to radiation and could reduce the si...Therapy, medication combination superior for children with obsessive-compulsive disorder
... The team points out that all treatments were generally well-tolerated among the study participants and there was no evidence of harm-related events due to SSRI treatment. OCD occurs in approximately one in 200 children, with onset typically occurring either between the ages of 6 and 9 years old o...Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announces macugen data on treating macular degeneration
...rather than the study drug. Serious adverse events generally related to the injection procedure included endophthalmitis, retinal detachment, and iatrogenic traumatic cataract. ...Long-term study demonstrated ADDERALL XR is an effective option to treat adolescents with ADHA
... mixed salts amphetamine product) is effective and generally well-tolerated for adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The short- and long-term study results of the multicenter Phase 3 study were presented today in Washington, DC. "To date, well-designed, controlled studies of ADH...Honey could be healthy alternative to high-fructose corn syrup in Halloween candy
...y. Dark-colored honey, such as buckwheat honey, is generally thought to contain higher levels of antioxidants than the light-colored varieties, according to the scientists. Previous studies by the researchers suggest that honey may have the same level of disease-fighting antioxidants as that of some common fru...Whooping cough makes a national comeback
...th a mild fever, runny nose and a cough. Symptoms generally progress to more severe coughing episodes, often w... is important for parents to know that adolescents generally exhibit different symptoms of the disease, often without the classic "whoop," making it difficult to...High fiber intake reduces estrogen levels in Latina women, say Keck School of Medicine researchers
...earlier research and whose dietary fiber intake is generally not that high." To rectify that situation, Monroe decided to use data collected by the National Institutes of Health-funded Multiethnic Cohort Study of Diet and Cancer to begin looking at the relationship between dietary fiber and estrogen levels ...Study in male smokers continues to provide clues into the causes and prevention of multiple cancers
...ut not early cancer." A person's adult height is generally associated with their exposure to growth hormones, nutritional intake during childhood and adolescence, and heredity. The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be approximately 231,000 new cases of prostate cancer in ...Northwestern researchers pinpoint how false memories are formed
...ere told to imagine the cat and decide if a cat is generally bigger or smaller than a video monitor. The memory test was administered outside the scanner and began approximately 20 minutes after the scanning. Subjects heard a randomly ordered sequence of spoken words. One-third corresponded to ph...Gastric bypass and stomach-stapling patients should recognize risk of nerve injury post-surgery
...rograms before and after their weight loss surgery generally didn't develop these neuropathies, so we believe the nerve damage is largely preventable." Dr. Dyck and colleagues identified risk factors in weight-reduction surgery patients who later developed nerve problems: 1) they lost weight at a much faster p...Global air pollution map produced by Envisat's SCIAMACHY
...trial countries, but ground-based data sources are generally thin on the ground. Space-based sensors are the only way to carry out effective global monitoring: the first satellite sensitivity to tropospheric nitrogen dioxide was demonstrated with the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) on ESA's ERS-2. ...Air rather than oxygen for babies requiring ventilation after delivery
...sus 100% oxygen. Babies from the five studies were generally born close to full term (average 38 weeks), were predominantly from developing countries, and were moderately asphyxiated. Although no individual study reported a significant difference in death rate, when the trials were combined in a meta-analysis......s part of ESA's Living Planet Programme. It is now generally agreed that the Earth's atmosphere is warming, however, it is very difficult to predict what effect this is having on polar ice cover. Since ice plays such an important role in the regulation of the Earth's climate and sea-level height, it is crucial...