New bedside tool gauges mortality risk in heart failure patients
...bination of three simple measures obtained through laboratory blood tests and by measuring vital signs. Heart failure is a condition that affects five million Americans and is the leading cause of hospitalization for those over age 65. "The new tool is a first for the treatment of acute heart failure, and of...Clinicians report missing patient information is common
...early 1 in 7 visits); missing information included laboratory results (6.1 percent of all visits), letters/dicta...nts. Patients should also be given copies of their laboratory and radiology reports; their problem lists containing their diagnoses; and a synopsis of past operat...LA BioMed medical/research briefs January 2005
...ts, associations between demographic, clinical and laboratory values and mortality, including cardiovascular death, are significantly different and, in some cases, in the opposite direction of those derived from the general population. This phenomenon, termed 'reverse epidemiology', is not limited to MHD patien...Monkey 'pay-per-view' study could aid understanding of autism
...hey say their research technique offers a rigorous laboratory approach to studying the "social machinery" of the... study, said Platt, was to bring into a controlled laboratory setting the kinds of social judgments that monkeys were observed to make in the wild. "Decades of st...Penn study shows how next-generation diabetic drugs could work more selectively
...iabetics are given the TZDs. A new study from the laboratory of Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at Penn, has found that PPAR can turn genes both on and off. "What regulates it, in this case, is the drug, which is acting as a switch to turn genes on," say...Rice scientist recognized as pioneer in tissue engineering
...years," said Mikos. Over the past 13 years, Mikos' laboratory has developed extensive expertise in fabricating s...ific tissues in desired areas. Recently, the Mikos laboratory has been working on composite materials that support and guide developing tissues through the contro...Transparent orthodontic brackets by microinjection
...laced all the capabilities of its micromanufacture laboratory Tekniker MicroMachining (T.M.M.). at the service of the project. The product is currently in the trials stage with patients, after which it will be launched on to the market by EuroOrtodoncia, possibly in the second half of 2005....Annual mammogram, doctor visits are enough for breast cancer follow-up
... a group who underwent a more extensive battery of laboratory tests that included liver scans, molecular tumor markers, chest x-rays and blood and liver function tests. Another study included in the review found that follow-up care by hospital-based specialists was not significantly different from that offered ...New method to fix cleft palate shows promise in Mayo Clinic lab study
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Results from a Mayo Clinic laboratory study in animals suggest that using distraction osteogenesis, a procedure that uses the mechanical force of an appliance to lengthen soft tissue and bone, may be a feasible and effective method to repair cleft palate in the future. Cleft palate is a ...Severity of liver disease not a reliable indicator of quality of life
... Liver Disease (MELD), which uses results of three laboratory tests to predict short-term prognoses of liver disease. Because the MELD score is based on clinical findings, it is believed to be an accurate measure of liver disease severity. However, complications such as hepatic encephalopathy (which involves br...Study shows strengths, gaps in quality of care for kids in California's public mental health clinics
... adequate safety monitoring through vital signs or laboratory studies. "Findings from this study raise serious q...ocumented monitoring of at least one vital sign or laboratory study, as clinically recommended for the medication regimen prescribed. Only one-half of the childr...Brown and NIH create joint neuroscience graduate program
... can build on that foundation with a vast range of laboratory experience at the cutting edge of neuroscience. These students will get training that is second to none." Students are eligible to apply now for fall 2005 admission to the Brown neuroscience graduate program. Brown can accept up to four incoming stud...Spinal repair pioneer to speak in NY on 20th Jan
...s from this region into the injured spinal cord of laboratory rats, and found that the cells had a remarkable ca...he injured spinal cord. What we found was that in laboratory animals the cells have a remarkable capacity to integrate into the damaged roadway, open up the scar...A much-needed shot in the arm for HIV vaccine development
...l trials, and the availability of new quantitative laboratory tools that make comparisons among vaccine studies feasible." What is needed, they argue, is a way of tying all of these opportunities together, and their plan provides a model for doing just that. "A preventive vaccine is the world's best long-term...Some US soldiers returning from Afghanistan should be screened for malaria
...n from the malaria endemic region, with additional laboratory findings noting anemia and thrombocytopenia (a blood disease). From an anonymous postdeployment survey of 72 percent (521/725) of the task force, the self-reported compliance rate was 52 percent for weekly chemoprophylaxis, 41 percent for terminal (...Baby talk: Infants have much to say if adults will only listen
...our methods and are in the process of developing a laboratory setting that has equipment capable of following the eye movements of the children. This will enhance our data collection tremendously." By recording how the babies respond to different stimuli, researchers are able to evaluate how they differentiate ...Sleeping less may be related to weight gain
...expected 'obesity villain' has emerged, first from laboratory studies and now, as reported by Vorona et al in this issue of the Archives, in population-based studies: insufficient sleep. However, while there is a growing awareness among some sleep, metabolic, cardiovascular, and diabetes researchers that insuff...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives SPORE grant for brain cancer research from NCI
...the transition of basic research findings from the laboratory to applied settings involving patients and populations. The goal of the program is to bring into clinical care novel ideas that have the potential to reduce cancer incidence and mortality, improve survival, and enhance patients' quality of life. Labo...Antibiotics protect nerves in mice by turning on genes
...ibiotics, penicillin protected nerve cells best in laboratory dishes, but ceftriaxone had the best results in mice, probably because it more easily crosses into the brain from the blood, the researchers report. Rothstein and his colleagues determined that the antibiotics' benefit stems from their newly recogni......ein was deciphered by x-ray crystallography in the laboratory of Dr. Orna Almog of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The research on this was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry issue of December 2004, authored by Or Dgany of the Hebrew University, Ana Gonzales of Stanford University, Oshrat Sofe...