Extreme precipitation linked to waterborne disease outbreaks
...Further research incorporating other site-specific parameters such as land use patterns and treatment facility specifications, is needed to allow for the development of more localized predictive models," advises lead author on the study, Frank Curriero, an assistant scientist in biostatistics at the Johns Hopki...Undergraduate conducts high-tech tests on dental enamel
... but I get a say in what tests to run and what the parameters will be. The results are a product of what I'm doing, not just what someone told me to do." As one of 43 Johns Hopkins students who received a Provost's Undergraduate Research Award in the 2000-2001 academic year, Braly presented an overview on his ......as a blood profile is now. Today we have about 100 parameters in a blood profile. In five or 10 years, because o...n array technology, I believe we will have 100,000 parameters that will be used to diagnose tumors and all other diseases. The ability to assess individual patien...Novartis receives FDA approval for LESCOL XL 80 mg
...t provides effective management of all major lipid parameters for patients with a variety of lipid disorders that place them at risk for heart disease. Phase III clinical trials demonstrate that LESCOL XL 80 mg produced up to 38 percent median decrease in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in patients...Patients with social phobia benefit from long-term treatment with sertraline HCl
...o-switch group on seven of nine secondary efficacy parameters that the investigators used to measure patients' symptoms. Placebo-switch patients had greater deterioration on the Sheehan Disability Inventory (SDI) Work, Social/Leisure and Family/Home quality of life subscales, that achieved significance on the...AAPS presents workshop on macromolecules
...sadvantages for current approaches including assay parameters such as activity, sensitivity and stability specific to the macromolecule intended for measurement and characterization. Develop a workshop report regarding appropriate bioanalytical validation criteria and standardization of terminology for the abo...How long-term alcohol consumption can damage the immune system
...s a state of equilibrium that maintains our bodily parameters within certain limits," said Catherine Rivier, lea...sential for survival. "Anything that throws these parameters off is dangerous and needs to be dealt with," she explained. "An infection that gives you a fever, ...Scientists grow heart tissue in Bioreactor
...properties ofheart tissue, and they've defined key parameters for growing the tissues. Their results are reporte...he tissues and got them beating. They then studied parameters associatedwith impulse propagation through the tissue. For example, they found thatconstructs conduc......r thosepatients who are not responding using these parameters to other therapies thatmay provide them a greater benefit," added Dr. Kirkwood. Dr. Kirkwood and Hassane Zarour, M.D., a UPCI research associate who ispresenting this study at the ASCO meeting, are extending their research inrecipients of high-dose ......bean exercise regimen for SCI patients because the parameters have not beendefined, and inappropriate exercise may have no benefit and may even bedangerous, Gater said. Gater is enrolling both physically active and sedentary SCI patients inthe study. Gater measures the subjects' basal metabolic ...Program Developed At UF Enables Computer To "Emote" In Speech
... istogive the program the ability to vary multiple parameters in voices, so thatspeech-disabled people could create personalized voices. William Brown, professor and chairman of UF's department ofcommunication sciences and disorders, said Truluck's program has promise for thespeech-disabled. "It......se patients. Patients were asked to report similar parameters to those in the European trial,including health status, days incapacitated, and time taken to return to normalactivities. In patients with confirmed influenza infection, a two-day reductionwas observed in time taken to return to normal activities (p......s to pain, narcotic use or thecombination of these parameters both at week six and the end of the 12 weeks oftreatment," said Small, UCSF associate clinical professor of medicine andurology and co-director of the Urologic Oncology Program at UCSF/Mount ZionCancer Center. UCSF/Mount Zion is part of UCSF Stanfor......g that alcohol has a majoreffect on the excitation parameters that reflect the steadiness withwhich a person pro...erent time. "If I can come up with a small set of parameters that differentiatesober and intoxicated speech, which I think I can do, it's actually nota hard task...