Telemedicine is healthcare's new frontier
...antly activating communication channels adapted to specific needs, could prove an important factor driving the development of telemedicine. Since the mid '90s, a number of activities have been initiated in Europe by national and international organisations with the purpose of demonstrating and prom...First US kidney cancer vaccine trial underway at Columbia
...ting or treating cancer. Tumor vaccines contain a specific protein of the tumor cell that stimulates an immune response. In the study, patients with stage IV renal cell carcinoma are given regular doses of an investigational kidney cancer vaccine, called Trovax, in conjunction with Interleukin-2 (IL-2). H...Disaster management: Better management of hospital resources and staff is the answer
...r alarge-scale disaster patients are segregated to specific facilitiesaccording tocondition or patient-based r...ng, and moredetailedplanning that acknowledges the specific disaster medical needs of hospitalsandICU's worldwide....Mayo Clinic researchers identify new form of muscular dystrophy in adults
... cause human disease. "In this approach, we select specific genes to examine based on a detailed knowledge of how a disease affects a particular part of the body," says Andrew Engel, M.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist who worked on the project. Dr. Engel explains that the results with zaspopathy show the usefuln...Reviparin effective in reducing risk of death after heart attack
...luded 15,570 patients with ST-segment elevation (a specific finding on the electrocardiogram ) or new left bun...ocardial infarction (STEMI), a heart attack with a specific finding on the electrocardiogram. Shamir R. Mehta, M.D., M.Sc., of McMaster University and Hamilton ...Rice scientist recognized as pioneer in tissue engineering
... synthetic materials with tailored chemistries for specific tissue-engineered repair of orthopaedic injuries. ... and differentiation to aid in the regeneration of specific tissues in desired areas. Recently, the Mikos laboratory has been working on composite materials tha...Thinking of prepositions turns brain 'on' in different ways
...about how brain injuries in stroke patients affect specific speech components to develop therapies to help their patients." The four patients in Kemmerer's study were used because of similar brain injuries, such as lesions from stroke, in the perisylvian region, which is responsible for language process...Study finds no evidence of a 'cancer personality'
There is no association between two specific personality traits neuroticism and extroversion and cancer, according to a new study, one of the largest prospective twin studies to examine this issue. The study, published in the March 1, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/c...Obesity may affect accuracy of prostate screening
...hers say obesity is associated with lower prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels in men, making the screening test likely to produce unreliable results in this population. The full study is published in the March 1, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ), a peer-reviewed jo...Routine use of nose-to-stomach tube slows recovery from abdominal surgery
...right to ask 'Why?'" says Nelson. Unless there's a specific need to use a tube, such as a history of previous abdominal surgeries or a bowel obstruction, the surgeon shouldn't, he says....Changing the timing of cancer vaccines
...igrate to the lymph nodes where they interact with specific immune system operatives called T-cells, activating them to attack the cancer. However, the process can take as long as a day, reducing the period during which the dendritic cells are active and can accomplish their work. However, using a drug that r...Counseling encourages exercise; environment changes may help
...o evidence that counseling can help people reach a specific exercise goal. "More research is needed to establish which methods of exercise promotion work best in the long term to encourage different types of people to be more physically active," Hillsdon says, noting that most of the studies included in the r...Study shows strengths, gaps in quality of care for kids in California's public mental health clinics
...l expert panel. The study assessed whether or not specific clinical care recommendations, from assessment to ...s, and effective treatments are available. Among specific findings: Children receiving care in mental health clinics have serious disadvantages: About on...Technology that could double the effectiveness of cancer drugs studied at Yale
...icians predict whether a patient will respond to a specific drug, much like they test bacteria for sensitivity to antibiotics," Mor added. The technology will be studied with various cancers, beginning with ovarian cancer. The clinical trial is a multi-center study for validation of the assays. Each assay wil...CPR performance does not follow guidelines
...ther some of these deficiencies can be improved by specific focus during training needs attention. Through better understanding of the mistakes made in a real-life cardiac arrest situation, training courses might be designed to focus on these aspects. Another approach would be to develop online tools that pro...Cogtest and NetMet join forces
...ug effects and providing assessments optimized for specific compounds and patient groups. The full spectrum of cognitive drug development services provided by the two companies includes trial design and planning clinical development programs; site selection, study implementation and supervision; and data man...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...enon known as an out-of-body experience (OBE) with specific brain activity. During an OBE, one senses that the "self" departs the body so that the body and the world can be viewed from "outside." Healthy volunteers imagined an OBE, mentally shifting their visual perspective and body position. Evoked potential...Newly discovered virus linked to childhood lung disorders and Kawasaki disease
...ndings the New Haven coronavirus, then used probes specific for the virus to screen respiratory specimens from... Kawasaki disease, suggesting the involvement of a specific microbe, which may enter the body through the respiratory tract; finally, as the emergence of SARS i...Florida Department of Citrus responds to URMC's release on grapefruit-drug interactions
...c studies showed grapefruit interactions with some specific drugs, but I cannot find any evidence that death or pregnancy resulted from grapefruit juice." Dr. Derendorf adds another important point: For birth control pills, grapefruit may increase the levels of some birth control components, but not decrea......tion, the authors found significantly more T cells specific for non-vaccine tumor proteins than were detected before vaccination. Vaccine-specific T cells, on the other hand, became detectable but did not expand to large numbers. Thus, reinvigoration of existing tumor-specific T cells after vaccination did ...