Childproof packaging new designs could save lives
...esigners has led to the development of radical but practical new child-resistant closure (CRC) designs. Because they are easier for adults to open, the containers will discourage the decanting of medicines into unsafe packaging a practice which currently causes an estimated 10,000 cases/year of accidental...College students mandated to take alcohol interventions: what works
... referred or at-risk students." "From a practical standpoint," added Wood, "peer interventions are a.... Students can receive course credit and valuable practical experience learning about interventions and research in ways that nicely augment classroom-learning ...Hospital standards for high-risk surgeries save lives
...nd angioplasties to the top hospitals would not be practical because the surgeries are so common. But since pancreatic resection and esophagectomies are rare, it would be possible for patients to be referred to hospitals that meet the standards. Also, any hospital could ensure appropriate patients receive beta...Could skin cells become brain cells?
...disorders such as Parkinson's disease. Ethical and practical considerations limit the availability of neural stem cells derived from human embryonic tissue. A readily available source of human neural stem cells is therefore needed. Siddharthan Chandran (University of Cambridge, UK) and colleagues used skin cel...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...o reach the goal of clinical in vivo imaging, some practical issues need to be studied, such as the effect of breast compression and making sure pre- and post-injection images are properly aligned with one another so that the latter can be correctly subtracted from the former. (Paper TU-E-317-4, Tuesday, July ...4 out of 5 eligible patients missing opportunity to benefit from latest HIV breakthrough
...patients are also providing invaluable support and practical advice for new patients beginning FUZEON therapy." Roche's continued commitment to patients Roche has activities under way in all countries where FUZEON is available to help educate and support patients with their therapy. These include nurse-to-...Register early for the AIUM regional course, Sonography: A Broad Sweep, and Save
...ourse will provide a broad and complex overview of practical approaches to multiple areas of diagnostic sonography. It will include information on obstetric, gynecologic, breast, and vascular ultrasound studies, and the ever-present problem of repetitive motion musculoskeletal injuries in sonographers, sonolo...Use of cameras to monitor nursing-home care is subject of controversy
...use of cameras in nursing homes, there are various practical barriers to their widespread use, including the strong opposition of the nursing-home industry. About a dozen state legislatures have granny-cam legislation under consideration. Earlier this year, New Mexico joined Texas in allowing nursin...ASU researchers demonstrate new nanotech effect - moving water molecules by light
...remely rough surfaces, we point out there are many practical ways to nanostructure the surface once the basic principles of surface amplification of switching are understood." The ASU team now is working to design a device that can move drugs dissolved in water, or droplets of water and samples that need to b...American Journal of Nursing partners with GSA to improve care of older adults
...cent thinking in the field will be translated into practical approaches for use at the bedside and in the community."...Major radiology journal offers unrestricted access to recently archived articles
..., MD, editor of the AJR. "The AJR is known for its practical value and making it more accessible means offering clinical information that will improve patient care," he continued. Institutions and their libraries can now take advantage of a free and perpetually available online archive of the AJR, freeing up ...Smart lights, nonstick implants and 100th birthday of electronics at science & technology meeting
...John Ambrose Fleming's 1904 invention of the first practical electronic device. Known as the thermionic diode, this first simple vacuum tube, containing only two electrodes, could be used to convert an alternating current (ac) to a direct current (dc). A special AVS session, taking place exactly 100 years aft...Doctors and patients call on politicians to save lives of cancer patients
... to make financial investment to translate it into practical treatment", explained Prof. Smyth. "In Europe there are exceptional opportunities to progress scientific discovery into better cancer management but we must address the different roles of academia and industry. We also need to address the current thr...Respiratory therapists twice as likely to have asthma than other therapists
...hough long-term use of protective masks may not be practical in undertaking certain procedures, their use and the use of other personal protection items are essential when caring for patients who are infectious." Researchers from the University of British Columbia examined the link between asthma diagnosis an...New system translates improved diagnostic information to target radiation at tumors
... us to use the diagnostic imaging information in a practical sense. It allows us to put everything together." The new system translates the spatial information about tumor concentrations measured in "voxels" from the MRS system to the treatment planning system, morphing that information onto the ultra...New internet resource facilitates international HIV/AIDS healthcare provider training
... and individuals in greatest need of high-quality, practical information on HIV/AIDS. The Center is a component of UCSF's AIDS Research Institute (ARI). UCSF ARI houses hundreds of scientists and dozens of programs throughout UCSF and affiliated labs and institutions, making ARI one of the largest HIV/AIDS res...Northwestern University receives $7.5 million for regenerative medicine
...f a human hair.) Equally important is developing a practical technology to deliver chemically these scaffolds to the appropriate location in a patient. In earlier work, Stupp has already demonstrated the promise of using molecular self-assembly as a delivery method. The idea is to inject into a patient a mix o...Cedars-Sinai October 2004 medical tipsheet
...o provide information on alternative therapies and practical matters related to treatment and recovery. Keith Black, M.D., Director of the Institute, is available for interviews. RESEARCHERS AT CEDARS-SINAI REPORT THAT TWO SPECIFIC PROTEINS DELIVERED VIA A GENETICALLY ENGINEERED VIRUS PREVENTED THE PROGRESSIV...Biopharmaceutical manufacturing efficiencies signal reduced healthcare costs
...hile recognizing that change may be constrained by practical and regulatory concerns. The study addresses new frontiers in bioprocessing and novel technologies, technical issues in protein expression and other areas, and offers an analysis of scale-up production factors, product purification, process design, g...Six new Roybal Centers for Applied Gerontology established by National Institute on Aging
...has the potential to develop highly innovative and practical solutions for a number of very real and pressing problems. These include how to help make better medical and health-related decisions and to develop a more accurate measure of quality of life that could be used to measure the impact of clinical inter...