Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
... 12, 1955, announcement that the polio vaccine was ready for widespread use with John Troan, former reporter and editor for the Pittsburgh Press, and the dedication of an historical marker honoring the Salk team. Both events are free and open to the public. To best accommodate guests, the University is req...UW research shows risk factors for relapse among health care professionals who abuse drugs
...ange specialties, thereby removing themselves from ready access to major opioids and other drugs, in order to successfully overcome drug dependence. "Remaining in the same professional role and providing these drugs to legitimately help their patients may be difficult for physicians who have been addicted ...Ethical discussion should come before research
... techniques in the laboratory, society needs to be ready prior to when it hits the application stage. "I'm for science, but I don't think we go the distance to be stewards of our scientific research. We have an obligation not to be just reactive, but to be proactive and build societal consensus for the dir...Dealing with conflict in caring for the dying patient
...e family and their emotions. Once the physician is ready to negotiate with the family, the physician must begin the conversation in a non-judgmental manner. The authors suggest addressing and focusing on the problem instead of the person. Physicians need to listen carefully to the family members' concerns,...Study: Young adults can be motivated to eat fruits, veggies
...ddition, her team found it helpful to identify how ready each participant was to make dietary changes. "We were then able to use that information to tailor educational messages to their specific interests," she explains. For example, someone who had not given much thought to eating healthier might need bas...Medication helps alcoholics control drinking
... new treatment options for drinkers who aren't yet ready to face total abstinence. Naltrexone, which is not addictive, "should be accepted as a short-term treatment for alcoholism," say authors Dr. Manit Srisurapanont and Dr. Ngamwong Jarusuraisin of Thailand's Chiang Mai University. Almost all of the st...Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member is funded to develop an interactive computer system
...nship pattern." Jones said the prototype should be ready for testing by the end of this year. From its headquarters at Rutgers Newark, Rutgers College of Nursing offers a broad range of academic programs on all three Rutgers campuses. The college offers a master's program with unique practitioner specialti...High levels of airborne mouse allergen in inner-city homes could trigger asthma attacks
...cockroach or dust mites, and clinicians need to be ready to recommend aggressive extermination of mice or other ways parents can control the home environment." Asthma affects approximately 15 million people in the United States, about a third of whom are children. It is the third-ranking cause of hospitali...Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
...ve systems to help the crew make sure the plane is ready for take-off. Similarly, Get With The Guidelines provides a kind of check list to review while patients are being treated, and especially before they are discharged from the hospital," he said. GWTGStroke uses inter-hospital collaborative meetings,...IDSA applauds Senate leadership for introduction of S. 3
...ecognized how urgent this problem is, and we stand ready and willing to work with them to ensure that the scope of the bill and its incentives sufficiently cover infectious diseases, particularly antibiotics research and development and pandemic influenza preparedness," said Dr. Stamm. Co-sponsors of S. 3 ...New bedside tool gauges mortality risk in heart failure patients
...urther study. The new risk evaluation tool is now ready for clinical use, according to Fonarow, and can be applied at hospitals across the country. In addition, the new model may provide a more effective way to design clinical trials for evaluating heart failure therapies since researchers now have the a...New method to fix cleft palate shows promise in Mayo Clinic lab study
... in the laboratory," says Dr. Tibesar. "We are not ready to perform this yet on human patients, but we are hopeful that day will come soon." Uldis Bite, M.D., Mayo Clinic plastic surgeon, co-director of Mayo's Cleft Palate/Craniofacial Clinic and co-investigator in this research project, echoes this sent...More efficient ways of managing patient flow may benefit Los Angeles County/USC hospital
...e interdepartmental scheduling of patients who are ready to be discharged, Packwood said, "or, with all of the new technology that's available, we might be able to develop better software tools to make these administrative processes more efficient." In phase two of the study, Dessouky, who specializes i...Country's first 'simplified maze' using new ultrasound technology is done at Northwestern Memorial
...that predispose patients to develop AF and are now ready to launch piloting minimally invasive surgical technology for AF."...Rutgers-Newark researchers link early movement, brain development
... the mother may joke that the baby could be angry, ready to come out, or is destined to become the world's next great soccer player. But researchers at Rutgers University-Newark have determined that these kicks mean much more than those light-hearted explanations and may hold the key to how an infant's bra...UGA researchers receive NIH contract to create a stem cell-based drug assay for SMA
...e 2007. The UGA team hopes to have the first assay ready in one year. "All the talk surrounding stem cell research has focused on cell therapy," said Steven Stice, one of UGA's Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholars and the project's principal investigator. "We hope that this will be the first use of ...NIAID-sponsored clinical trial aims to boost flu vaccine supply
...ber of influenza vaccine sources is critical as we ready ourselves for next year's flu season," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "The NIAID-supported Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs) are structured to perform clinical trials efficiently, enabling us to get needed information rapidly...Pitt research shows NASA sleep-wake scheduling guide may need to be changed
...n our head, which is able to keep time, getting us ready for sleep at night and wakefulness during the day using rhythms with a period of about 24 hours referred to as circadian rhythms. In orbit, the sunrise-sunset cycle lasts for a mere 90 minutes, and after the absence of the natural 24-hour cycle for ...Canadian researchers to develop 'smart drug' to repair psychiatric disorders
... disorders such as autism and schizophrenia may be ready for early clinical trials within three years, with the launch of a $1.5 million project to take place at the Brain Research Centre (BRC), a partnership of the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI). The......te and promote their products and services. We are ready to support their activity from concept to implementation". Telemedicine The future of the medical sector, it is said, is in telemedicine. For many people, the nearest doctor is hundreds of kilometres away, and so diagnosis and treatment from a r...