ORNL project seeks to pinpoint time since death
...ad," Vass said. "Short of that, we're developing a model that would allow forensic scientists to insert data into a chart or computer program to determine how long a person has been dead." If law enforcement agents find a body within 12 to 24 hours, forensics experts have techniques to determine time since......role of the consumer as he forecasted a new retail model for healthcare benefits--a shift away from the wholesale paradigm of today's pharmacy benefit toward defined-contribution plans that use e-commerce for sales, distribution and servicing. Participants also learned when and why this shift is likely to ...NIAID public-private partnerships seek to develop HIV/AIDS vaccine
.... "The HVDDT program is a unique addition to this model that encourages the private sector to increase their AIDS vaccine efforts while allowing NIAID to work closely with its partners throughout the development process." Designing and testing vaccines for diseases like AIDS is an expensive and scientific...HMO physicians generally experience less job satisfaction
...global satisfaction, suggests that group and staff model HMO physicians may be a relatively unstable group," said Linzer. "Periodic surveying of HMO physicians concerning sources of satisfaction and dissatisfaction could allow timely interventions that would maintain quality and preserve the quality of ca...Kidney transplant proposal reduces wait from 24 to 14 months, improves equity for blacks & women
...onths to 33.9 months. "We developed a mathematical model that describes the dynamics of the patient group w...s Prof. Lawrence M. Wein of MIT, a co-author. "The model also minimizes inequity in waiting time and inequity in the likelihood of transplantation. "Our mod......Dr. During explains that Canavan is a good disease model for gene therapy. It is caused by a single gene de...mbalance can be measured non-invasively. An animal model has only recently been developed. Dr. During recalls that in 1996, "No one realized that gene thera......peroxide dismutase (SOD) mimetic (M40403) to a rat model of septic shock to remove excess superoxide free r...tion of the SOD mimetic had that effect in the rat model of septic shock. The MetaPhore SOD mimetic was given in a therapeutic mode several hours after the...Rising ammonia emissions attributed to cars, not livestock
...ense plates, enabled them to pinpoint the make and model of vehicles responsible for the elevated ammonia levels, Baum said. Aside from cars and dairy farms, major sources of ammonia emissions include fertilizers and sewage treatment plants. Although Baum's findings are based on cars in south...Chemist uses DNA to trigger an alternative chemotherapy method
...ase system that they've shown works in an in vitro model system. Instead of using the disease-specific nucleic acid as a target, it is used as a trigger to cause the release of a cytotoxic agent. The basic idea is to use a disease-specific nucleic acid sequence to bring together a prodrug component and a...... muscle. In the process he helped develop a mouse model for muscular dystrophy that was a crucial stepping stone in the development of human gene-therapy trials. "Learning the techniques of human genetics is a great taking-off point for where science is going now and for how medicine will be practiced i...Government asks UNC to develop school program about alcohol and birth defects
...cited about the curriculum. "We hope it will be a model for future collaboration in science education between NIAAA and major academic alcohol research centers in the United States," she said. "We expect the educational program to excite young teens and pre-teens about doing science as they explore for th......onmental toxicology at UCSC. "We can use this as a model for other contaminants, and it shows that many contaminants simply don't go away once you stop polluting the environment," Flegal said. "We're seeing lead contamination from the 1960s still coming into the bay, and our calculations indicate it will b...Increase in effective contraceptive use can reduce abortion rate
...leading demographers. By developing a mathematical model that links the abortion rate to its direct determi...of contraception--and the total abortion rate. The model allows them to estimate how reductions in abortion rates can be achieved by increases in contracepti...Hutchinson Center receives $1.2 million from National Science Foundation to study plant genetics
...l flowering member of the mustard family used as a model system for plant genetic studies. Using the TILLIN... including mice and the roundworm C. elegans, both model systems used at the Hutchinson Center to study the basic mechanisms of cancer. The basic strategy fo...Silver-coated catheters cut infections & may save money, analysis finds
...e hospital. Feeding all the data into a computer model and making conservative assumptions, they found th...and treating bacteremia at more than $2,000. Their model showed that silver-coated catheters could save money not only in individual cases, by preventing any...NIH funds unique diabetes program that combines research with technology development
...other than islet b-cells, using the heart as a new model system. He will also determine whether his observa...n be extrapolated to include an alternative animal model of obesity and diabetes (the diet-induced obesity rat) that bears closer resemblance to human obesit...Unique collaborative service established for childhood allergy-related anaphylaxis
... Dr Gold said, "We believe the program provides a model for best practice in this area and is a practical demonstration of how the health needs of children can best be met by collaboration between the health and educational sectors."...Transgenic mice aid research into deadly cancer
...Journal of Experimental Medicine. "This new animal model may allow researchers to find ways to treat Burkit...he argues. Clinicians might also use such a mouse model to test new treatments, he adds. Achieving a Burkitt's mouse would not have been possible without p...Duke eye researchers describe cascade of events that may lead to retinal degeneration
... created. The team also used a well-studied mouse model of retinal degeneration and found the same results. The pig is an excellent model for studying degenerative retinal diseases, Wong said, because it has many rods and cones. Just as ......d to community living. Patients in the group/staff model HMO had fewer physician visits and more visits with physical therapists and nurses. The study took place in five group/staff HMOs and six fee-for-service facilities with good reputations for geriatric rehabilitation (A Comparison of Functional Outcom...