Child care may affect entire community's risks of infection
...sachusetts communities, they created a theoretical mathematical model that indicates that child care seems to affect pneumococcal carriage in individuals as well as in communities. Individually, the model predicts the risk of pneumococcal carriage is two to three times higher for a child who attends child care th...Computational tool predicts how drugs work in cells, advancing efforts to design better medicines
... targets has just gained a computational ally -- a mathematical algorithm that predicts the precise effects a given compound will have on a cell's molecular components or chemical processes. Using this tool, drug developers can design compounds that will act on only desired gene and protein targets, eliciting th...Researchers model brain's electrical storm during a seizure
...niversity of California researchers have created a mathematical model describing the electrical storm that rages d... six of the patient's seizures to compare with the mathematical model they had created. The researchers focused on two subdural electrodes spaced a centimeter apar...Hard choices: Pitt researcher presents findings on when to accept organ transplants
...sburgh researcher will present findings on how his mathematical models can help patients make the right decision. ...rn Reserve University--have been able to show that mathematical models can provide insight. "We're actually able to model decisions that real patients face all the ...How often should women get mammograms?
...a-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have devised a mathematical tool that predicts how the frequency of mammograms...cisions." Lee will describe the development of the mathematical model, which made use of data from several past clinical trials of mammography screening and from ca...Biochemical marker aids prognosis in liver transplant patients
...is therefore a good candidate for inclusion in the mathematical formula of the MELD score. While serum sodium can be decreased with the use of diuretics and can therefore be manipulated, this disadvantage also applies to serum creatinine. The authors conclude that the study "shows that hyponatremia is an excellen...Small increases or 'blips' in HIV levels do not signal mutations leading to drug-resistant HIV
...kins team has shown that these so-called blips are mathematical artifacts, or variations, that stem from the test used to gauge the amount of virus in the body, a measurement known as viral load. According to the Hopkins findings, to be published in the Journal of the American Medical Association online Feb. 16...Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective
...nded screening." Paltiel and his team developed a mathematical model of HIV screening and treatment to predict the costs and benefits of HIV counseling, testing and referral. They found that routine, voluntary HIV screening every three to five years is cost-effective by U.S. standards, in all but the lowest-risk...New math model of heart cell has novel calcium pathway
...n University in St. Louis have developed the first mathematical model of a canine cardiac cell that incorporates a...nd cardiac arrhythmias. In addition, being a first mathematical model of a regulatory pathway involved in cell electrophysiology, it can serve as a paradigm for mo...National Academies news: Academy honors 17 for major contributions to science
...ption." Feldman was chosen "forhis advancement of mathematical and computational approaches toperceptual organization in human vision and human concept learning."The research awards were established by a bequest from Leonard T.Troland and have been presented since 1984. SELMAN A. WAKSMAN AWARD IN MICROBIOLOGY ...Vaccinating school children and high risk groups is best strategy for slowing flu transmission
...versity. The alternative vaccine plan is based on mathematical models developed by Ira Longini, PhD, and Elizabet...ue of The American Journal of Epidemiology . The mathematical models show that vaccinating about 70 percent of school children, ages 6 to 18, with influenza vacci...UT Southwestern researchers find calcium intake contributing factor in formation of kidney stones
...udies because a different "stability constant," or mathematical formula, was used to calculate urinary saturation of calcium oxalate, with results showing that less attention should be focused on calcium. Researchers at UT Southwestern, however, used a newer, lower stability constant, today regarded as the "gold ...Fred Hutchinson receives $9.7 million to lead early detection consortium
...nd analysis and the development of algorithims, or mathematical tools, for data analysis. McIntosh is kno...the institute will lend its expertise in designing mathematical tools and software for data analysis. ISB founding member Ruedi Aebersold, Ph.D., and senior researc...Virtual colonoscopy shows significant promise as colorectal cancer screening option
...results of recent clinical trials and quantitative mathematical models pertaining to CT colonography. Limitations in the evaluation of CT colonography included variation in results of clinical trials and limited data on its use in routine clinical practice. One limitation of CT colonography is that the test can...New sampling method to track HIV-risk behavior
...f respondents then recruit their own peers) with a mathematical model that weights the sample to compensate for th...ticut cities. "When applied in a way that fits the mathematical model on which RDS is based, its results have proven to be unbiased for samples of meaningful size,"...Limitations of current evaluation techniques for the cost-effectiveness of treatments
...s. However, since most clinical trials are short, mathematical models must be used to link the short-term clinical outcomes from clinical trials with evidence for the long-term progression of the disease. PD is particularly complex because of the wide spectrum of PD symptoms and treatment complications, and the...Cancer researchers seek to predict tumor growth
...for the design and validation of computational and mathematical cancer models. The models will simulate complex cancer processes, and will be used to address all stages of cancer, from the basic cellular processes through tumor growth and metastasis. "The key aspect that sets the ICBP effort apart from others," s...NIAID launches program to improve medical tools against emerging infectious diseases
...agen, Denmark, Soren Buus, Ph.D. Focus: developing mathematical tools that more accurately predict the location of...sity of Denmark, Ole Lund, Ph.D. Focus: developing mathematical tools that more accurately predict the location of T-cell epitopes in genomes of potential agents of...Marijuana-like compounds may aid array of debiliating conditions ranging from Parkinson's to pain
...t ability and survival time, were analyzed using a mathematical model. "We found that treatment with THC delayed disease progression by seven days and extended survival by six days in the mouse model," says Abood. "This corresponds to three years in human terms." Results also indicate that the combination of TH...... theory has till now largely been viewed as purely mathematical and theoretical, with some room for behavioral experimentation. These findings lie at the beginning of a new era in which we will be able to pose and explore economic and decision-making questions with empirical data from brain measurements. These n...