NIH-funded UCSD rheumatic diseases center to facilitate collaboration, speed discoveries
... Rheumatic Diseases Core Center (RDCC) designed to speed up the development of new diagnostic tools and the...es such as lupus. Two aspects of our program will speed the translation of scientific research into new treatment for patients, Silverman said. With retreat...Injuries uncommon in youth football, Mayo Clinic study reports
...ributing factors include increased size, strength, speed and aggressiveness. Analysis of body weight indicated that lighter players were not at increased risk for injury, and in fact heavier players had a slightly higher prevalence of injury. This trend was not statistically significant. Running backs are ...Chip design has potential as artificial retina
... 1 cm-square CNN chip that can increase processing speed while reducing the power requirements over standard digital chips by two to three orders of magnitude. The retina application of the CNN chip is the work of three scientists funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The scientists, who were deve...Computational innovation predicts how patients will respond to drug treatments
...etic profiles with drug-interactions databases may speed that process by months. For every month we save during clinical trials, it means people can be helped sooner, Korenberg says. It also means potential cost savings of millions of dollars....Delaying disability in elderly
...took ACE inhibitors had slower declines in walking speed and muscle strength than those taking other types ... taking no hypertension drugs. Declines in walking speed and muscle strength have been shown to predict the onset of disability, mortality, and nursing home ...Ace inhibitors could slow muscle decline
... substantially smaller reduction in 3-year walking speed (1.7 cm per second) compared with intermittent users of ACE inhibitors (13.6 cm per second). The 3-year walking-speed reduction was substantially greater in intermittent users of other antihypertensive drugs (15.7 cm per second) and for women who did...Blood lactate measurement could lead to earlier identification of patients for liver transplant
...ue of THE LANCET. Its use is likely to improve the speed and accuracy of selection of appropriate patients ...ation sample of 107 patients. Predictive value and speed of identification were compared with those of the KCH criteria. In the initial sample, average lacta...Stroke news tips for Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
...ured at two and 28 days after stroke. The animals speed at removing adhesive from their feet was tested as well as their adeptness at walking on a grated pathway. Viagra-treated rats showed significantly improved recovery of neurological function. Subsequent research has found that Viagra given one day ...Endurance athletes could benefit from surgical release of kinked leg arteries
... LANCET. Endurance athletesespecially cyclists and speed skatersoften have restrictions in blood flow in their iliac arteries (the arteries supplying blood to the lower limbs) during exercise; these restrictions have previously been ascribed to intravascular lesions, with implications for invasive interven...Rutgers develops virtual reality treatment for hand impairment in chronic stroke patients
...o significant improvements in such areas as finger speed and finger strength. "We found that virtual reality alone could be used to improve the condition of chronic stroke patients, without the use of traditional rehab exercises," said Burdea. "It provides a way for patients to completely immerse themselv...Tissue engineering could become new coronary bypass
... better treatments for coronary artery disease, to speed wound healing, or to help diabetic patients who are suffering from peripheral vascular disease. "This new approach allows us to deliver a controlled dose of growth factors to a specific tissue," said David J. Mooney, a professor of biologic and mate......xperience in developing these types of assays. The speed and broad distribution of the LightCycler made it ...e helped Roche make the test available locally, to speed the preliminary diagnosis and improve patient care. We are pleased that after a few weeks of round-t...Lack of trained staff and technical support exposes patients to increased risk of cancer progression
...xposure. Teleconferencing has been introduced to speed up the process of peer review of IMRT and SRT treatment plans. Creating a communication link between departments a few miles apart, it incorporates broadband technology that permits fast transmission with interactive means of modifying data. Professo...New recommendations proposed for safe use of herbal medications by patients having surgery
...ion as "mild" or "natural," herbal medications can speed up or slow down the heart rate, inhibit blood clotting, alter the immune system and change the effects and duration of anesthesia. The American Society of Anesthesiologists has recognized the potential for adverse reactions and suggests that patie......ancer. He established the BCIRG in 1997 to improve speed and efficiency in testing new breast cancer treatments. Nabholtz was recruited to UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center in July 2000 to help broaden the spectrum of clinical trials available to cancer patients at UCLA, and to help hasten the translation of sc...Rutgers researchers developing technology to help New Jersey farmers "grow" pharmaceuticals
... it continuously, over and over again." To speed up the process of bioprospecting for promising compounds in plants from all over the world, the Rutgers/Phytomedics team has developed patented technology that uses the numbers-crunching power of computers employing so-called bioinformatics and data-...Science, engineering and technology newstips
...----------------------------- * Web surfing at the speed of light * Building better optical networks * Taking manufacturing to the microscale * Physicists hot on trail of superconductors * Ticks carry 'cat scratch' bacteria * Math professor wins Guggenheim Fellowship ---------------------------------------...Cincinnati chemist wins national award for medical contributions
...mors and heart-attack damage, topical medicines to speed healing of burns and other advances. His liquid-ventilation techniques can help premature infants breathe until their lung tissue develops properly. Clark said he has liked chemistry ever since grade school. "Everything about chemistry seemed lik...Aspirin and other non-specific COX inhibitors may slow atherosclerosis
...per aspirins" such as Celebrex and Vioxx -- do not speed up the development of atherosclerosis, a concern b...in is also pro-inflammatory -- a property that may speed up atherosclerosis. Before the experiment, it was impossible to know how these conflicting effects w...New technique uses imaging technology to speed drug discovery
... than current methods and promises to simplify and speed the drug discovery process. "This method has sever...s of individual compounds," Fenniri says. "To help speed up the synthetic and screening processes, the compounds are generated on resin beads." Fenniri and h...