WHO issues wake up call against microbial threats
...a future full of new opportunities for diseases to quickly spreadfrom one continent to another. Simultaneously, drug resistance is sending usback in history to a time when we lacked medicines to cure some diseases." {NOTE: Dr. Heyman is scheduled to release the report at a press conference atthe National Pr...Rosenbaum discovers "hidden clue" on cardiogram
... says, "physicians will be able to screen patients quickly for ventriculararrhythmia and prescribe therapy to prevent sudden cardiac arrest."...Follow-up care can reduce hospital readmission rate, cost
...ng whether patients were being rehospitalized, how quickly rehospitalization was occurring, and at what cost,she said. "Some vulnerable groups of patients like the elderly were falling through the cracks with managed care," Brooten said."The costs of rehospitalization were prohibitive, and the quality of pat...Risk from getting pregnant too soon after a stillbirth
... Hughes et al note that most women who went ahead quickly with another pregnancy did not experience high levels of anxiety and depression, so for some parents other considerations may outweigh the possible risk of psychological symptoms....... and why an outbreak of hepatitis A can occur very quickly in aday-care center. "Truthfully, little kids aren't very careful about washing their hands afterthey use the bathroom," says Dr. Lehman. "And, of course, kids put things intheir mouths all the time. This can be a big problem in a day-care center whe......because emergency intervention needs to be started quickly during aheart attack, nearly all jurisdictions require ambulances to take heart attackpatients to the nearest hospital. "The implications of this study are very interesting," according to Dr. Shah."What it says is that if you are experiencing a hear...University of Iowa reading test effective at identifying reading problems due to brain injury
...oss out the inappropriate word for each passage as quickly aspossible. The score is the number of items the p...ection. The chiefcomplaint is being unable to read quickly with comprehension. "Although there is not much we can do as far as rehabilitating the problem, weca...Keck Foundation funds research to repair the injured spinal cord
...en. Choi will study excitotoxicity, a process that quickly killsnerve cells by overstimulating them with chemicals they normally respond to."Our preliminary research suggests that nerve cell precursors are sensitive to achemical called glutamate," says Choi. "So drugs that block glutamate's actionmight prote...Study shows benefit of pioneering U-M program for newborns at risk of hearing impairment
...il overchildren's hearing as they grow, and to act quickly if we suspect a problem."...New Wake Forest study to pin down soy's active ingredient
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...d ofcommunication increases, groups of neurons can quickly start firing in unison -which often leads to a full blown seizure. One of the most important findings in this research, says neurosurgeon RobertWorth, is that "it explains why the seizures come and go." According to thestudy, normal brain tissue i......s."We wanted to publish the new recommendations as quickly as possible because ofthe importance of this new i...es." The version on the Internet allows readers to quickly find changes in theguidelines. Text that has been changed is identified by strikeout (strikeout)and ......he need for livers and kidneys is rising much more quickly than thenumber of organs becoming available, Dr. Shackleton and his colleagues willcontinue to employ the latest procedures to make the best use of cadaver organsand those provided by living donors. "If we look at the growth in the number of candidat...Brain chemical mellows male mice, but makes mouse moms tough
... and need protection. Females, then, need a way of quickly turning onaggression, but then quickly turning it off." To further explore the link, scientists plan to test whether they can replicatethe ...Revived drug prevents malaria, skirts drug resistance
...of the drugs in that group proved too toxic or too quickly brokendown in the body. "They lost out when more benign and easily synthesized drugssuch as chloroquine appeared," Shapiro says. But atovoquone, an offshootdeveloped later in the 1970s, had promise because it was the least toxic. It crawled......blems. "The signs can be subtle, and can clear up quickly or last hours or days," saysWojtys. "But even after symptoms are gone, neurological research has shown thatlasting 'bruises' on brain tissue may still be present. Rest, sleep, protectionfrom additional impact and abstinence from alcohol can allow the...HIV's deep pocket may reveal vulnerability
...suitable drug candidate because it breaks down too quickly in the blood stream,Harrison said. Instead, the researchers coupled that small fragment of gp41 to each of the61,000 small molecules, reasoning that the small fragment might "lead" the restof the molecule to the ultimate target -- the gp41 pocket. S...Extract from traditional Chinese herb enhances recovery in stressed cells
...lying cause of death incardiac arrest patients who quickly regain a pulse. "Restoring the regular heart beat in cardiac arrest patients does not mean thepatient is out of the woods," says Terry Vanden Hoek, MD, assistant professor ofemergency medicine, and one of the authors of the paper to appear in the Oc...Federal institutes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation create Tobacco Use Research Centers
...eatment and to put that knowledge into practice as quickly as possible inthe real world." The centers' locations, principal investigators, and research themesfollow: The Brown University Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at the MiriamHospital, Providence, RI Principal In...