Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nursing Administrator Receives Nursing Excellence Award
...hercontributions to women in the community. A role model and mentor, she passesalong words of wisdom that helped shaped her life. "I tell young women -- andmen -- what I was told when I was 5 years old and learning to swim at the YWCApool: 'Find something you really like to do, and keep at it.' I made my c...IOM Report Offers New Look At U.S. Vaccine Priorities
...ctious Diseases (NIAID), employs a newquantitative model to compare the cost and health benefits of develop...academia andindustry will find this report and the model it proposes to be extremelyvaluable tools for guiding vaccine research priority-setting," comments A...New Use of An Old Test Can Help Brain-Injured Patients
...xpand the program. "We think this can be a model used in many places that could helpthousands of people. Often these patients are young victims who were in caraccidents. If we can help get them back to work quicker and improve theirpersonal lives, there will also be a great cost savings for society......e eithercapable or incapable of producing IL-6. A model of cirrhosis was created bytying off the common bile duct. The researchers assumed the mice that couldmake IL-6 would fare worse, but in fact the opposite was true. The mice thatcould not produce IL-6 had more pathological and clinical evidence of ...AVANT Atherosclerosis Vaccine Raises HDL, Reduces Atherosclerosis In Vaccinated Animals
...bits,an accepted and well established experimental model that has been used in thedevelopment of current cholesterol-lowering therapies, including the statins.The results showed that CETP-vaccinated rabbits exhibited significantly reducedCETP activity and changes in plasma lipoproteins. Moreover, CETP-vacc...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...des formerchants, examination aids, medical works, model letters and other how-to booksfor daily living." Wang expanded his house's offerings with a line of healthbooks aimed expressly at a new market of literate women. Also noteworthy was the woman physician Tan Yunxian (1461- 1554), granddaughterof a wel...Teen Line Panel Of Six High School Students To Address The Issue Of Teens And Tolerance
...he Police Academy in Los Angeles, and has become a model training program ofteen suicide prevention/intervention with the Los Angeles Police Department. According to Elaine Leader, Ph.D., Teen Line's Executive Director and atherapist specializing in adolescent psychology, tragedies like the one atColumbine...New Model Shows How To Eradicate World's Leading Infectious Cause Of Blindness
...gs in the May, 1999 issue of Nature Medicine. "Our model shows that in areas where the incidence of trachoma is high - wheremore than half of the kids are infected - the disease will just bounce backafter the annual treatment due to reinfection," said Tom Lietman, MD, leadauthor of the report and assistant...Study Finds Lymph Node Surgery Unnecessary For Many Breast Cancer Patients
...r Institute, the research teamdeveloped a decision model to systematically evaluate axillary lymph nodediss...east-conservation surgery and havingradiation, our model shows that axillary lymph node dissection shouldn't be aroutine procedure," he said. "It is importan...UCSF-Harvard Team Reports Encouraging Results In Drug Study Of Mice With Cancer
...nesis inhibitors, can act against tumors in amouse model that more closely resembles the conditions of huma... of tumor development, includingpremalignancy. The model could therefore provide a platform for exploring thepotential of perhaps even more effective angioge...Chronically Ill Teens Turn To Internet For Peer Support, Researchers Report
...amsurferNetwork, bringing the Hopkins Teen Central model to hospitals across thecountry. Access the Dreamsurfer Network at www.dreamsurfer.org .......ate caregiving ina modern hospital has served as a model for hospice development and forever-increasing patient involvement in decisions about their own care. Butperhaps most important, Risse suggests, Ward 5B is a modern testament to thecapacity for health workers to provide loving and knowing care, and t...New cancer treatment facility opens
..."We believe this facility will serve as a national model for the delivery ofoutpatient cancer care in the new millennium," says Paul A. Marks, M.D.,President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The outpatient pavilion includes state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging,chemother...Advance reported in search for skin cancer treatment
...niversityof Notre Dame have constructed a computer model of the chemical structure of anenzyme that many or...ily over the past 20 years. The computer model provides atomic details of the binding interactionsof damaged DNA and DNA photolyase, the repair enz...False recall in older adults and Alzheimer's linked to attention, not memory, breakdown
...ese studies provideevidence for an attention-based model of Alzheimer's disease." The study, which is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging,is in press for publication in a forthcoming issue of the journal CognitiveNeuropsychology. Other authors on the study are Michael J. Cortese, Jane...... UC San Francisco, working with a new experimental model thatturns yeast cells into little versions of huma...This emphasizes a point: rats are not always agood model for human biology," Miller said. Lee and Auchus next tested MPA on 3bHSDII (3-beta-HSD-2), the next ...PSA testing alone cannot fully explain drop in deaths from prostate cancer
...e NationalCancer Institute to construct a computer model that would estimate the number ofdeaths prevented by PSA testing between 1988 and 1994, and project what themortality would have been in the absence of such testing. The model, a sort ofintelligent number-crunching device, used data from Medicare rec...Birthmarks best treated with red laser light
...ing normal skin. The Dutch physicists developed a model enabling them to mimic the effect of various differenttypes of laser light. They found that laser light at the wavelength of 585 nanometres currently usedcould hardly reach the centre of the large blood vessels. By choosing a slightly different colou...Using spatial illusion to learn how the brain processes sound
...the firing pattern we see in cat neurons could bea model for brain processes that underlie spatial perception reported by humansexposed to the same sounds." If future research confirms that neurons in human brains respond in the same wayas those in the brains of cats, Xu added, it will have immediate appli......, Brooten developed a pioneering transitional care model that has demonstrated significant reductions in he...h carecosts for high-risk, high-cost patients. The model was the basis for the recent NIH study. Advanced practice nurses withmaster's degrees provide compre...