Novel technology to monitor 'hidden depths' of silent killer
...ronary atherosclerosis will also be assessed using quantitative coronary angiography. 1 ORION has completed recruitment and 39 hypercholesterolaemic patients with established atherosclerosis have been randomised to receive CRESTOR 5mg or 40mg for 24 months. Baseline measurements from patients enrolled in the stu...Nutrition education program teaches children how to make healthy food choices
... skills. To determine the program's effectiveness, quantitative evaluation was conducted in spring 2003 with approximately 400 students and 25 teachers in California. Conclusions show that after using Nutrition Pathfinders, students improved their knowledge about the food guide pyramid and healthy eating. Almost ...Northwestern widens 'treatment window' for brain injury and stroke
...heir own earlier experiments. They had developed a quantitative assay for DAPK that subsequently helped them design methods for identifying candidate DAPK inhibitors, and later, with collaborators at Vanderbilt University, determined the three-dimensional structure of a region on the DAPK molecule that is essenti...New technique lowers CT radiation dose for children
...eters," he said. "Our study therefore relies upon quantitative data for determining dose reduction, which should provide a more objective set of instructions for dose reduction in pediatric CT." The researchers report that using the dose reduction factors outlined in the study would result in a population dose r...Innovations in hearing loss detection & treatment
...odel that simulates in vivo conditions and permits quantitative evaluation of surgical repair techniques that lead to improvements in treatment after shoulder dislocation. Gait patterns in young adults from Kuwait and Scandinavia, pg 283 Young Kuwaiti men and women were asked to walk at slow, medium, and fast s...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for June 2003 (second issue)
...p of aspiration pneumonia to oral hygiene by using quantitative bronchial sampling, which they combined with collection of multiple sets of other data. (Aspiration pneumonia consists of inflammation of the lung and bronchi caused by inhaling or choking on vomit. It is the second most frequent principal diagnosi...Fluorine chemists take their expertise to the sunshine state
...ers and shampoos. The researcher will explain this quantitative scale. (Karl Christe, Edwards Air Force Base and the University of Southern California, Air Force Research Laboratory, Edwards, Calif., 661-275-5194, karl.christe@edwards.af.mil ) Thursday, Jan. 16 8 12 noon Agricultural industry compounds (Pe......d part of the game. What they did not knowsince a quantitative assessment had never been made--was what a person's head undergoes physically when it strikes a soccer ball. Working with the medical school team, Genin and Bayly, the mechanical engineering professors, devised a series of experiments to determine th...The Lancet Oncology press release
... the strength of the EPA study presents persuasive quantitative evidence, the benefits of any resultant policies should be patently obvious and viewed as an integral part of healthcare provision, rather than isolated environmental issues.' HORMONAL RISK FACTORS FOR BREAST CANCER - IDENTIFICATION, CHEMOPREVENTION...Psychological distress may predict hypertension
...hypertension. The review study is the first major quantitative look at prospective research focusing on psychological predictors of high blood pressure....Other highlights in the September 4 issue of JNCI
...ntary, diets high in fructose and glycemic load (a quantitative measure of a diet's effect on blood glucose levels) were associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer. The authors conclude that a diet high in glycemic load may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer in women who already have an underlyin...Study disputes link between increased birthweight and reduced blood pressure later in life (p 659)
...l origins hypothesis. 55 studies that had reported quantitative estimates of the association between systolic blood pressure and birthweight, 48 further studies that were excluded from previous analyses, and seven studies on identical twins were included in the reanalysis. There was a clear trend towards much wea...Gene therapy may increase cancer cure rates, medical physicists show
...l physics meeting, the VCU researchers presented a quantitative model predicting the increase in cancer cure rates with genetic radiotherapy. "Our model incorporates human patient data from large radiotherapy clinical trials as well as experimental genetic therapy data from laboratory work," says Dr. Paul Keall,...Know your risk for hepatitis C virus
...tells whether the virus is present or not) and one quantitative (which tells how much of the virus is present). Mo...24 weeks. The testing being considered would check quantitative HCV RNA, also called viral load (i.e., how much of the virus is in the system) before treatment begi...UCLA researchers check brain waves to predict effectiveness of antidepressants
...eeks before a patient begins to feel better. Using quantitative EEG, a non-invasive computerized measurement of br...ce, such as a sugar pill.) Each subject received a quantitative EEG prior to treatment, 48 hours after treatment and one week after treatment. Thirteen of 25 subjec...Tumor vaccines via dendritic cells
...DC ?pulsing? protocols. Now, they show that this quantitative change in tumor antigen presentation correlates with a qualitative improvement in T cell tumoricidal activity. Working with a peptide that serves as a tumor antigen in both humans and mice, the authors find that transduced DC activate both CD4+ and ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for May (second issue)
...pients, these investigators were attempting to use quantitative methodologies tomore completely define the T cell responses of pulmonary transplant recipients. Theydiscovered that there are very distinct CD4+ T cell profiles between lung transplant recipientswith OB and those with no evidence of rejection. The ...University of Pittsburgh transplant researchers present findings at international meeting
...ard ultrasound imaging along with state-of-the-art quantitative information about the size of the left ventricle -...one of a handful of centers that is evaluating the quantitative echocardiography technology, and the only one to be using it to assess heart recovery. John Gorcsan,...Support for colorectal cancer screening
...ng or surveillance strategy reduces that risk; and quantitative definition of the goals of screeningie, what level...y even be harmful. A tailored approach, based on a quantitative definition of the goals of screening and surveillance, deserves increased consideration. Further rep...Patients may overestimate risk of side-effects from qualitative drug information
...g side-effects (common and rare), or corresponding quantitative descriptions (2% and 0.02%). Participants given th...1%, compared with 7% for patients who were given a quantitative risk of 0.02%. Dianne Berry comments: If people are unable to estimate the risk of occurrence of si...