Tracking trends in cochlear implant complications using a federal database
...ue opportunity to use worldwide data collected and organized by an impartial source, with a mandatory reporting requirement," the authors write. "Confirming other studies, we found device failure to be the most commonly reported complication," the authors report. "We also found a significant decrease in devic...ESMO Scientific & Educational Conference (ESEC)
...atient Seminar on cancer in Eastern Europe will be organized for local patients to meet international oncologists, as well as share and discuss experiences on available cancer treatments. The second Young Medical Oncologists Masterclass will provide young doctors with an expert insight and valuable suggestion...New scale predicts recovery of consciousness from coma after brain injury
...after a severe brain injury. The test stimuli were organized into eight subscales, including social knowledge; taste and swallowing; olfactory; proprioceptive (perception of one's body in space) and vestibular (balance); auditory; visual; tactile; and testing-readiness. The investigators found that DOCS accur...US cancer researchers launch first American-Israeli cancer conference
...earchers from Baltimore, Miami and New Jersey have organized the first Joint American-Israeli Conference on Cancer. The meeting, scheduled for March 16 through 18 in Jerusalem, seeks to foster collaboration among physicians and scientists in the two countries. Close to 200 cancer experts from institutions thro...Mayo Clinic researcher calls for improved newborn screening
...ewborn Screening: Science, Policy and Technology," organized by researchers from the National Institute of Childhood Diseases and the University of Miami School of Medicine....New math model of heart cell has novel calcium pathway
...rical signals, called action potentials, and their organized spread through cardiac tissue. The normal conducti.... In a normal heart, action potentials form very organized waves of activity and contraction. In arrhythmia, though, normal spread of action potentials can b...Mayo Clinic discovers a key to 'low metabolism' and major factor in obesity
...ife to achieve a healthy body weight, than to seek organized exercise. To prepare, design and carry out this NEAT study over the past decade, Mayo Clinic brought together: 20 study participants who were willing to forgo Christmas peanut brittle, Halloween Milky Ways and all restaurant and home meals. Every m...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ates and tree shrews, the primary visual cortex is organized into columns in which the orientation preference of neurons reremains constant. The preference changes smoothly along the topographical surface of the cortex, creating an orientation map. However, rodents and lagomorphs (i.e., rabbits) seemed to have...Web-based tool to help clinicians make schizophrenia treatment decisions
...ders. In 2000, Meltzer joined in their efforts and organized a group to develop the algorithms for schizophrenia treatment. "The idea was that we would come up with evidence-based medicine for schizophrenia, providing clinicians with a resource as they make decisions in standard situations, as well as in cris...Research in yeast yields missing link in DNA maintenance machinery
...one proteins help compact the DNA and help keep it organized within the chromosome, said Shen, but DNA tightly wound around histones is inaccessible. If DNA becomes damaged by radiation, reactive chemicals or ultraviolet light, for example, it must be repaired. But the bulky repair proteins need to gain access...Survey suggests majority of women surgeons satisfied in their profession
...atisfied or very dissatisfied. When asked how well organized their department was, 25 percent (n=52) described their organization as being very good; 54 percent (n=111) as average; and 18 percent (n=37) as bad. Higher satisfaction was found in surgeons in subspecialties, certified surgeons, comparatively young...Initiative yields effective methods for anthrax detection; RAMP and MIDI, Inc., methods approved
... To judge the accuracy of the data generated, AOAC organized 12 laboratories nationwide to assess the RAMP's performance using identical samples. The RAMP test performed well in the collaborative study, and little variation was seen in the data produced by the 12 laboratories. The second method approved in No...GSA confers 2004 Nathan Shock New Investigator Award to UTHSC's Marciniak
...of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among gerontological health care clinical, administrative, and research professionals. Dr. Marciniak gained renown for his work at an early age. The results of his thesis have gained wide acclaim and set the d...Rikke set to present the Geron Corporation - Samuel Goldstein Distinguished Publication Lecture
...of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among gerontological health care clinical, administrative, and research professionals. Dr. Rikke is known for his work in mapping and cloning genes in mice that can modulate neurosensitivity to ethanol and gen...Duke University's Cohen wins The Gerontological Society of America's 2004 Donald P. Kent Award
...of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among gerontological health care clinical, administrative, and research professionals. Dr. Cohen was the originator of Duke University's Geriatrics Fellowship and directed it for over 20 years. Most of the gra...GSA bestows Robert W. Kleemeier Award to University of Texas Health Science Center's Smith
...of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among gerontological health care clinical, administrative, and research professionals. Dr. Smith is currently the editor of GSA's Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences and is recognized nationally and in...South Florida's Small wins The Gerontological Society of America's 2004 Margret M. Baltes Award
...of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among gerontological health care clinical, administrative, and research professionals. Dr. Small has been instrumental in the rapidly emerging research area of behavioral and cognitive aspects of the preclinic...Boston College's Mahoney to receive GSA's 2004 Maxwell A. Pollack Award
... 19th-23rd, 2004 in Washington, DC. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among gerontological health care clinical, administrative, and research professionals. The actual conferral will occur in the Wilson B-M room of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel on Sunday the 21st at 1:45 p.m. ...The Gerontological Society of America confers 2004 M. Powell Lawton Award to Penn State's Zarit
...of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among gerontological health care clinical, administrative, and research professionals. Focusing on mental health issues of older adults, Dr. Zarit's pioneering work in caregiving has revolutionized the field o...GSA confers 2004 Joseph T. Freeman Award to St. Louis University's Morley
...of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. The meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among gerontological health care clinical, administrative, and research professionals. Dr. Morley's work has been cited over 20,000 times and he is renowned for his contributions to three areas of geriatric me...