Brain activity prior to treatment flags vulnerability to antidepressant side effects
...tion to medication or placebo. Using "cordance," a quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) imaging technique developed at UCLA, the research team found changes in brain function in the prefrontal region during the one-week placebo lead-in were related to side effects in subjects who received an antidepressant....Computerized order entry systems can increase risk of medication errors
...rors. The researchers performed a qualitative and quantitative study of house staff interaction with a CPOE system at a teaching hospital. They surveyed house staff (N = 261; 88 percent of CPOE users); conducted 5 focus groups and 32 intensive one-on-one interviews with house staff, information technology leader...Mayo Clinic study sets threshold for valve repair surgery
...derwent valve repair surgery. Dr. Sarano says the quantitative data from this study, combined with advances in su...ents who were asymptomatic, we had no well-defined quantitative method to determine when the risk of continuing to rely on medication alone exceeded the risk of sur...Unsafe water and poor sanitation causes 4000 children to die each day
...ational community to address extreme poverty, with quantitative targets set for the year 2015. Jamie Bartram (World Health Organisation) and colleagues write that poor sanitation and a lack of safe drinking water is a 'silent humanitarian crisis' that kills some 3900 children everyday and thwarts progress to the...NASA awards $9.8 million NSCOR grant to UT Southwestern to study effects of space radiation exposure
...ormation researchers obtain will be converted into quantitative risk assessment for the effects of radiation from ...rapeutic Oncology Research. "NASA wants to develop quantitative risk estimates and ways to prevent adverse effects from this exposure, such as cancer," Dr. Minna sa...How often should women get mammograms?
...surers sometimes dramatically the model provides quantitative predictions of the mortality benefits, on average, in populations of women over the course of 40 years. "We're not advocating any particular interval for mammography screening," says Sandra Lee, ScD, a biostatistician at Dana-Farber who developed th...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
.... The report includes results from qualitative and quantitative studies of how Americans feel and think about reproductive genetic testing and how these technologies might best be regulated. Supported by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center's research included 21 focus groups, 62 in-depth interview...Biochemical marker aids prognosis in liver transplant patients
...e bilirubin, INR, and creatinine, is an objective, quantitative and reproducible laboratory test, and is therefore a good candidate for inclusion in the mathematical formula of the MELD score. While serum sodium can be decreased with the use of diuretics and can therefore be manipulated, this disadvantage also ap...Privacy rule cuts research recruitment by more than half
...urnal Annals of Epidemiology. In perhaps the first quantitative study of recruitment trends following the rule's implementation in April 2003, Roberta B. Ness, M.D., M.P.H., reports a significant "chilling effect." Dr. Ness, professor and chair of the department of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh's G...Drinking alcohol increases risk for cancer
...to alcohol drinking. The analysis was based on a quantitative review, or meta-analysis, of 156 different studies, and heavy alcohol drinking was strongly linked to the diseases noted. The risks are shown to increase with the amount of alcohol consumed yet the overall evidence does not determine "whether there ...Monkey 'pay-per-view' study could aid understanding of autism
...success," said Platt. "But there have been no real quantitative experimental demonstrations that monkeys actually process this information and use it in decision-making. "More broadly, it's important to understand how the brain processes social information and uses it to make decisions," said Platt. "Historically...A much-needed shot in the arm for HIV vaccine development
... from clinical trials, and the availability of new quantitative laboratory tools that make comparisons among vaccine studies feasible." What is needed, they argue, is a way of tying all of these opportunities together, and their plan provides a model for doing just that. "A preventive vaccine is the world's bes...2005: A critical year for action towards millennium development goals
...r equality, and environmental sustainability, with quantitative targets set for the year 2015. The UN committed to reviewing progress towards the goals in 2005, recognising that by this time only a decade would be left to fulfil the MDGs. The authors comment: 'We are now at the 5-year juncture with a stark reali...Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
...ts in health and offer example of twin-studies and quantitative genetic approaches as alternatives. Race and Genetics: Controversies in Biomedical, Behavioral, and Forensic Sciences. Authors Pilar Ossorio, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Troy Duster, PhD (New York University), suggest that much of the ...McMaster researchers develop test for rare bleeding disorder
...ding new insights into this condition. "The use of quantitative measures of bleeding symptoms will allow for greater understanding of the interactions of multiple common inherited traits on the risks for excessive bleeding," he said. Fifteen years ago, Dr. Hayward made scientific history when she discovered a pre...Little evidence that breast cancer diagnosis leads to employment discrimination, study concludes
...lems with supervisors and colleagues. However, few quantitative studies have addressed the work experiences of cancer survivors. To assess breast cancer survivors' work experience, Elizabeth Maunsell, of the Universit Laval in Quebec City, and colleagues conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study in ...Virtual colonoscopy shows significant promise as colorectal cancer screening option
...reviewed the results of recent clinical trials and quantitative mathematical models pertaining to CT colonography. Limitations in the evaluation of CT colonography included variation in results of clinical trials and limited data on its use in routine clinical practice. One limitation of CT colonography is that...Perfect pitch, portable bone-health monitor
...osciences Institute ( www.nsi.edu ) have performed quantitative analysis of rhythm and melody patterns (speech "prosody") in spoken French and English, and compared them to the melody and rhythm patterns in the instrumental classical music of each nation. They have found evidence that English and French classica...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...age of this process has now been imaged, providing quantitative information about the mass distribution of the plasma that is being used to constrain existing physical models and simulations of z-pinch implosions. The instabilities formed during the early stages of the implosion are believed to ultimately limit t......age of this process has now been imaged, providing quantitative information about the mass distribution of the plasma that is being used to constrain existing physical models and simulations of z-pinch implosions. The instabilities formed during the early stages of the implosion are believed to ultimately limit t...