New medical school model sets out to create more competent, caring doctors
...hat the Rochester approach could become a national model for medical schools across the country, but also for other professional schools such as law or architecture. At its heart, the work of Epstein and Hundert is an attempt to remind the healthcare industry that medicine is more than knowing the facts a...Scientists succeed in blocking transmission of cell-associated AIDS virus
...l partner to another. They have developed a mouse model that allows them to identify and test agents that ...mission have been stymied by the lack of an animal model that could mimic this type of transmission. In the present study, the researchers tell how they deve...Hospitalist care destined to become dominant model of inpatient care in the US, say UCSF researchers
The rapidly growing hospitalist model of inpatient care has now achieved many of the att...cialties and seems destined to become the dominant model of hospital care in the United States, according to a study published in the January 23, 2002 issue ...UNC expands national clinical trials of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's drugs
..., the CATIE trials embrace a broader public health model of intervention," said NIMH Acting Director Richard K. Nakamura, Ph.D. "We hope to gain important information on cost effectiveness and patient adherence to the treatment."Unlike first generation anti-psychotic agents, which act primarily on the brai...Re-designed care could reduce postnatal depression
...his weeks issue of THE LANCET highlights how a new model of postnatal care led by midwives and tailored to ...m the University of Birmingham, UK, assessed a new model of community postnatal care that was based on results of research and maternity care recommendations...Researchers identify for the first time proteins vital to maintaining nervous system architecture
...ns in C. elegans, a microscopic worm employed as a model invertebrate to study neurobiology, humans have proteins with similar structures. "Clinicians should now look at neurological diseases whose causes are unknown or even those that are known and see if analogous human ZIG proteins may be playing a rol...Spiral waves break hearts: Importance of communication between cardiac cells is demonstrated
...damaged heart tissue. Developing a simple computer model to explain their experimental findings, the researchers showed that electrical activity in cardiac tissue can spread like a fire in a forest. Like trees, cells "light up," or become electrically active, if enough neighboring cells display a sufficie...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February (first issue)
... cities.) The investigators developed a molecular model of the cockroach allergen, Bla g 2, but found no association between enzymatic activity and allergenicity. The enzyme hypothesis for allergic reaction wasoriginally developed to explain why dust mite allergens are so strongly associated with the dev...Direct contracting health plan cuts costs, not quality
... the plan may be a successful health care delivery model for the future. For the study, the researchers exa...needed. Our study shows that the direct purchasing model works well and can control costs. It represents an innovative health care model for the 21st century...Persistent mild depression in older adults may lower immunity and ability to fight off disease
... the poorer the immune response was to mitogens a model for how the body responds to outside agents, like viruses and bacteria. Reported on in this months Journal of Abnormal Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA) is an 18-month prospective study of 78 older adults (average...New medical system for colon cancer screening
...in an automatically segmented and reconstructed 3D model of the colon, searching for polyps. Research has l...r removing residual stool from the colon in the 3D model to avoid the need for harsh bowel cleansing and significantly reducing false positives. The visualiz...Wake Forest establishes Maya Angelou Research Center on minority health
... local community to create a nationally recognized model for addressing racial and ethnic health disparitie...search Center on Minority Health, we will create a model that can be replicated to serve the health needs of other communities across the nation," said Dean....Energy balance, not exercise, key to athletic menstrual disturbance
...eam. The researchers decided to look at an animal model to understand the causes of exercise-induced amenorrhea because it is difficult to closely control factors, such as eating habits and exercise, when studying humans. They chose cynomolgus monkeys because, like humans, they have a menstrual cycle of ...Rat makes a partial recovery following a spinal cord lesion
... type of damage was ventral root avulsion. In this model the outgoing nerve fibre is torn lose from the spinal cord, for example during a serious motorbike accident. This damage often results in the dying of the affected motor neurones. These are large nerve cells which control movement. After the administ...Scleroderma research receives a boost from multiple NIH grants
...e University, Cleveland. This project uses a mouse model to study the early inflammatory events of...so that treatment can be more effective. The mouse model allows investigators to test inhibitors to inflammation in animals before testing them in h...Maryland's 1990 'Saturday night special' ban reduced gun homicides in the state, new study shows
...an. However, the researchers found that-based on a model that incorporated historical patterns and homicide trends in Maryland and neighboring states-the rate of gun homicides was 9 percent lower during the post-law period than would have been expected had the law not come into effect. The law was not asso...Folic acid possibly a key factor in Alzheimers disease prevention
...e cells involved in learning and memory in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, said Mark Mattson, Ph.D., chief of the NIAs Laboratory of Neurosciences and the studys principal investigator. People who have Alzheimers disease often have low levels of folic acid in their blood, but it is not clear whether...NIAAA steps up search for brain mechanisms of alcohol abuse, alcoholism
...estion and that are specific to a given behavioral model of excessive alcohol consumption; and to attract new and innovative investigators to alcohol research. "INIA is expected to create new resources for understanding alcoholism mechanisms, and to provide opportunities for collaboration between scientist...Regionalization of hospital caseloads may decrease mortality rates in pediatric surgeries
...rtality. Investigators used a refined simulation model to learn that of 6,592 children from 20 California-based hospitals who underwent cardiac surgeries between 1995 and 1997, 83 deaths could have been avoided when all patients from low-and medium-volume hospitals were referred to high-volume hospitals....