MRSA: Political point-scoring over hospital cleanliness ignores the real issue
...us on pleasing the public means these policies are missing the point, states the editorial. Critics of the UK government policy point out that increases in deaths from MRSA have occurred simultaneously with outsourcing of hospital cleaning staff--providing circumstantial evidence of a link. Importantly, howe...HIV testing should be routine part of primary health care for sexually active
...l Hospital and one of the study authors. "We are missing opportunities to diagnose HIV infection before individuals develop AIDS, when we can offer counseling about secondary prevention and risky behaviors, begin antiretroviral therapy and help prevent opportunistic infections." Current recommendations for...Indiana University researchers closer to helping hearing-impaired using stem cells
...ulate the growth of the nerve cells that are often missing from the inner ears of patients with profound hearing loss. "Sonic hedgehog and retinoic acid are molecules found in embryonic tissues, but not in adult tissues," said Dr. Hashino. "This suggests that treating marrow-derived stem cells with these mol...Protein that helps skin cancer spread identified by Stanford researchers
...- caused by a mutation that leads to an altered or missing collagen VII protein - develop a type of skin cancer called squamous cell carcinoma. This led Paul Khavari, MD, PhD, the Carl J. Herzog Professor in Dermatology, to suspect that the protein had something to do with cancer formation. What Khavari and ...Community care tops medical care at preventing heart disease in black Americans
... results help solve part of the problem, but still missing are explanations of the cultural and social factors underlying the inequities and what actions are necessary to achieve parity in health status. "The next step has to be a sincere dialogue with the black community as to what they need to resolve heal...New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
...investigators new clues for tracking criminals and missing persons. Their technique was described today at th...ue could be especially promising for tracking down missing or lost children, according to the researchers. Childrens fingerprints are often more difficult to d...Dartmouth researchers find where musical memories are stored in the brain
...mentally fill in the blanks if a familiar song was missing short snippets. "We played music in the scanner [fMRI], and then we hit a virtual 'mute' button," says first author David Kraemer, a graduate student in Dartmouth's Psychological and Brain Sciences Department. "We found that people couldn't help con...Molecule important in cell construction also critical in learning and memory
..., and the senior author of the study, studied mice missing one of these proteins---adducin--and found the cytoskeleton developed normally. However, the mice were impaired during fear conditioning and memory exercises. "We were hoping to find a mechanism that cells use to make short term changes in nerve cell...Clinicians report missing patient information is common
A survey of clinicians indicates that missing clinical information for patients is common and ma... clinicians about clinical information reported as missing during patient care visits. The survey was conducted at 32 primary care clinics within State Network...New method to fix cleft palate shows promise in Mayo Clinic lab study
...mouth are sewn together over the cleft. The actual missing bone is not repaired. Some of the potential downsides of this repair method, according to Dr. Moore, can include leaving exposed areas of hard palate bone, producing scars that sometimes interfere with the child's later midfacial growth. This growth ...BMJ turns missing murder case documents over to FDA
...over confidential drug company documents that went missing from a 10 year old murder case to the US Food and ...fect on prescribing. The documents reportedly went missing during the case of Joseph Wesbecker in 1994, who killed eight people at his workplace in 1989, while...Mice with depression-like behaviors reveal possible source of human depression
St. Louis, Dec. 27, 2004 -- Mice missing a specific protein from their brains react to stress differently. The genetically engineered mice develop an imbalance in a hormone involved in stress responses, and during stressful situations, they behave as if they are depressed. Genetic variation...Research in yeast yields missing link in DNA maintenance machinery
HOUSTON - In a finding akin to discovering pages missing from an antique car repair manual, researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have linked for the first time two biological processes crucial to cell survival. The finding, reported in the Dec. 17, 2004, issue of the journ...Success of experimental herpes vaccine builds momentum for human clinical trials
..., dl5-29 is a live, mutant strain of HSV-2 that is missing two of the genes necessary for it toreplicate and persist inside its host. "The proteins that are expressed are able to induce immune responses but the virus can't spread," said Knipe, who is a coauthor on the paper. Normally, HSV-2 infects the cells...Study suggests Akt3 protein is key to melanoma's resistance to chemotherapy
...ing Akt3 activity using siRNA or reintroducing the missing PTEN protein halted tumor progression. "Identifying Akt3 as a possible target to halt the growth of and kill melanoma cells provides new opportunities to develop therapies for patients with metastatic melanoma," Robertson said. "Ultimately, therapie...Another step towards understanding the causes of narcolepsy
...story. The investigators might have identified the missing link that connects an autoimmune process to selective loss of hypocretin neurons and the development of narcolepsy. A clinically useful assay could lead to earlier diagnosis and improve the likelihood for effective use of immunomodulators, hypocretin...MRI shows liver tumors freezing in real time
...That part the monitoring is critical here and is missing with other minimally invasive techniques where we can't see the exact area being treated because there's no direct visualization." Dr. Tuncali and colleagues treated 31 patients (ages 29 to 87) for liver tumors using MR-guided cryotherapy. Ninetee...New study shows patients experience asthma variability, despite strict adherence to guidelines
...r month. Low variability patients reported missing activities 1.25 days per patient per month.(1) "Asthma is a highly variable disease, and patients may continue to sufferfrom symptoms as a result, despite adherence to practice guidelines," saidIleen Gilbert, MD, Professor of Medicine, Medical Co...Malnutrition in early years leads to low IQ and later antisocial behavior, USC study finds
...an nutrition, but we argue that it is an important missing link," Raine said. "Biology is not destiny. We can change the biological disposition to antisocial and aggressive behavior." The other authors were Sarnoff A. Mednick, a professor of psychology in USC College and director of the USC Social Science Re...... If we keep paying attention to blood sugar, we're missing a big piece of the picture," warned Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, a professor and researcher of Public Health Sciences at the University of Alberta, and one of the authors on the paper. More disturbing was the discovery that fewer than 10 per cent who had un...