Scientists grow heart tissue in Bioreactor
...issues now reside in a cell bank as perfectly matched cell types - preserved in liquid nitrogen - that will allow experimental results of today to be compared with experimental results obtained for many years to come. In the bioreactor, these cells will grow in normal fashio...Follow-up phone calls by nurses benefit cancer patients
...called once aweek over eight weeks. The nurses are matched to participants by race andgender. The same nurse delivers the calls to a patient throughout theintervention. Calls average about 15-20 minutes.Mishel points out that the program is individualized to the patient. "It'stailored to the person's concern...Are the signs of dyslexia in a newborn baby?
...chose 24 children from thenormal reading group who matched the dyslexics in IQ and other skills. At birth,five of these had brain wave patterns similar to those of the dyslexic children. Rod Nicolson, an expert on dyslexic children at the University of Sheffield, isconcerned that such mistakes would cause un...Scientists can now see sense of smell
...n olfactory bulbs on one side of an animal's brain matched those on the other.Also, the patterns of activation were highly similar from animal to animal. "Thus, this technique can serve as our guide, our Rosetta stone, fordeciphering the olfactory response and even helping us to understand higherolfa...Hospital study shows more patients could qualify for free care coverage
...ng with state income tax records. Income data were matched using patients' Social Security numbers and reportedback to DHCFP in a way that maintained the anonymity of individual patients. Data were provided by seven hospitals - two disproportionate-share hospitals(DSH -- those designated by the federal gover...New, less invasive repair of major artery defect
...30 cases with successfulresults, an accomplishment matched by only a few centers nationally." The procedure is performed in an operating suite especially modifiedto ensure that a standard operation can be performed if necessary, which hasoccurred in fewer that 5% of cases, notes Marston . ...Showing pictures of admired blacks or elderly can lower levels of unconscious prejudice
...us and unconsciousprejudice. The result basically matched the first experiment, showing that theeffect of being exposed to admired blacks lasted for at least 24 hours. The researchers demonstrated that the same general effect can beextended to unconscious ageism in the third experiment. In this tri...Less Toxic Bone Marrow Transplant Technique May Have More Powerful Anti-Cancer Effect
...When patients receivetransplants from less closely matched donors, they risk graft-versus-hostdisease, a life...resistant non-Hodgkins lymphoma who had no closely matched donoravailable. All patients were considered terminally ill at the time of thetransplant and had no......dto identify which lines in the original fan array matched the angles of theshorter lines. One verbal intelligence task involved extrapolations of wordrelationships. Some examples: "sailor is to navy as soldier is to: a) gun, b)cap, c) hill, d) army" and "thoughts are to brains as steam is to: a) water, b)va...Migraine Pain: Not Mainly In The Brain
...ammation --at areas in the meninges that precisely matched places where patients said they felt theirheadaches, thus linking abnormalities in the meninges with the pain. But the inflammation itself isn't the immediate cause of migraine pain,Pappagallo adds. That, the researchers believe, comes fro...To Drive Or Not To Drive? New Criteria For Those With Epilepsy
...f 50 epilepsy patients from theirMaryland clinics, matched for age and sex. Both groups drove, but one had ahistory of seizure-related car crashes. The scientists found fourillness-related characteristics of the patients that could help predictaccidents. The single feature most linked with crashes, the re...Duke Doctors Can Now Cure Most Babies Born With Fatal Immune Disease
... said. "What wenow know is that, while a perfectly matched sibling is preferable, it isn't arequirement. As l... for treating children with SCID who do not have a matched sibling,said Buckley. Seventy-seven of the 89 children in Buckley's study received theirparent's bon......n -- about $23 million from the federal government matched bythe same from industry. In recent months, data have been reviewed in three public sciencesymposiums on various types of studies. Laboratory findings and theoreticalmechanisms of action were reviewed in March 1997, epidemiology findings ...Airport Noise Can Seriously Affect The Health And Psychological Well-Being OfChildren
...the newinternational airport; the others, who were matched for age, parental jobs,family size and socioeconomic status, live in quiet areas. The children weretested for blood pressure, stress hormone levels and quality of life six monthsbefore the airport was completed as well as six and 18 months after it ...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
...lanes passing overhead. The other school, closely matched for ethnicity and percentage of children receiving subsidized school lunches and speaking English as a second language, was in the same urban area but in a quiet neighborhood. Only children for whom English was their first language were included in ...Program Provides Treatment For Prison-Released HIV-Positive Women
...gative women who had release dates andcharges that matched those of participants in the prison release program hadrecidivism rates of 22 percent within six months and 37 percent within 12months. Prisons are key sites to provide initial HIV-related care and links tocommunity follow-up. Between 1989 and 1993, ......ore likely to have taken d-fenfluramine than their matched controls and that the longer they had been taking the medication, the greater their risk of developing this serious condition. In an article published in the same issue of the journal, it is reported that Redux also is associated with sleep problem...