Dana-Farber Cancer Institute opens Zakim Center for Integrated Therapies
...ators and clinicians will also examine, from a big picture perspective, the most effective methods of integrating this approach to care into a major cancer center. Some major cancer centers have initiated these programs outside their clinic setting, he said. Were initiating our program directly in the clinic...Specifying alcohol-related brain damage in young women
...k. In other words, MRI provides a very clear picture of the brain so that the size and shape of brain parts can be examined. FMRI takes pictures of the brain every few seconds, so that researchers can paste together what Tapert calls a "movie" of activity in the brain while the subject is doing a ment...Science, engineering and technology newstips
...communications devices feasible, he said. Note: A picture of the micromirror and motor is available. Contact Andy Fell for details. Media contacts: Norman Tien, Electrical and Computer Engineering, (530) 754-9267, tien@ece.ucdavis.edu ; Andy Fell, News Service, (530) 752-4533, ahfell@ucdavis.edu . PHYSIC...... gives physicians and researchers a more accurate picture of how faithfully patients stay on their prescribed treatments than ever before. The study, reported in the May 15 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, may help physicians and researchers develop new ways to measure medication adherence as well ......tension. It is the first study to give a complete picture of the potential benefits in both early and late stage renal disease. In addition, the research programme shows important comparator data against amlodipine, one of the most widely used anti-hypertensive treatments."Prof Rudy Bilous, Professor of Cl...Meningitis in infancy linked to developmental problems
...this week's BMJ. These findings provide a complete picture of the range of problems experienced by children from England and Wales who have had meningitis in infancy. Over 1,700 children who survived an acute attack of meningitis between 1985 and 1987 were identified. Children of the same age and sex, but wh...Smaller hospitals OK for heart bypass surgery - if your risk is small
... you factor in the patients' own health risks, the picture changes. In fact, the U-M team finds, patients whose overall health is good - aside from their clogged arteries - do fine if they have a bypass at a hospital that does less than 200 of them a year. But moderate- and high-risk patients, such as those ...Rensselaer researchers seeing farther and faster with terahertz (Thz) imaging
...-resolution images for biomedical applications. A picture of a skin cancer tumor, for example, would be piec...s. This method creates a biologically accurate 3-D picture that gives a researcher or diagnostician a better understanding of the disease and how far it has sp...Strong relationship between peasant farmers and city-dwellers in Zimbabwe
...tical contrasts between urban and rural areas. The picture that the media generally give of Zimbabwe is that ... from their land. According to Jens Andersson this picture is not a true representation of the facts. The interests of rural and urban inhabitants are strongly...High turnover rate may undermine HIV/hemophilia care
...eld for longer than a year and provides a detailed picture of the relationships among occupational stress, professional support, burnout and employee retention. Grappling with the problem of high staff turnover is not only important for general staff morale, but it can wreak havoc with patients and families ...Most child care is provided by 'informal' providers, study finds
...rt offers an unprecedented, scientifically sampled picture of the characteristics, motivations and preparation of Family, Friend and Neighbor providers and the care they offer. The telephone interviews were conducted by the Social and Economic Research Center at Washington State University. Among other key f...From sci-fi to reality microendoscopy to diagnose breast cancer?
...ess than 1 mm across - ideal in size but with poor picture quality because they contain very few glass fibres. So the Guys team, working with endoscope designers and manufacturers Acueity Inc. from California, enlisted ideas from Hollywood film technicians (who use a single glass rod to transmit an image). T...New study says people take mental stress to heart
...s says. Radionuclide imaging provides us a motion picture of the heart beating. Normally there is a nice symmetrical motion of the heart. With ischemia, certain portions will contract less vigorously or bulge out. Mental stress increases oxygen demand because blood pressure and heart rate are elevated, he...College drinking problems and research solutions
...rnal of Studies on Alcohol. "These numbers paint a picture of a deeply entrenched threat to the health and well-being of our young people," adds Raynard S. Kington, M.D., Ph.D., Acting Director of NIAAA. "This study, and the NIH report released today by the Task Force on College Drinking, are an urgent call-...Children as young as 5 have gender bias when it comes to picking a musical instrument
...h as a drawing that could be found in a children's picture book could be used to change children's musical instrument preferences, said Repacholi. "These kinds of choices and stereotypes can affect what you learn and what you do later in life," she said. "We know these stereotypes affect all kinds of leis...Medieval black death not bubonic plague
...sed it erroneously to fill in the many gaps in our picture of the Black Death. We do not want to make the same mistake by identifying some other possible cause prematurely. The researchers do not rule out the possibility that the Black Death might have been caused by an ancestor of the modern plague bacillu...At 2 years, cocaine babies suffer cognitive development effects
...be married; had lower vocabulary, block design and picture completion scores; and higher psychological distress scores. The study also found that cocaine-exposed infants had lower gestational age, birthweight, head circumference and length than non-exposed infants. There were more preterm, low birthweight an...Helium imaging detects emphysema changes in smallest airways of lung
...1 to 0.5-mm scale, too small for us just to take a picture of them, added Mark S. Conradi, Ph.D., professor of physics and another co-author of the paper. The study reports the use of the technique in two healthy patients and four with severe emphysema. The findings demonstrate the methods ability to fol...Young adults dont heed warning message of heart attack or stroke in family
...-factor behavior and control, but also the overall picture of observed risk-factor change was slanted opposite to the hypothesized direction, Kip reports. His team found that those young adults whose family histories indicated an increased risk for themselves are most likely to experience undesirable decreas......vel severity of illness scale paints a much richer picture of gender differences in health than the usual life threatening vs. non-life threatening categories usually reported. With this more complex approach we found an important category of illnesses and conditions with no gender differences the somewhat ...