First US SARS vaccine trial opens at NIH
Powerful research tools that speed up vaccine development have led to the start today...rials of a promising vaccine candidate. We owe the speed of this research to modern molecular genetics. The technology enables us rapidly to translate scient...Diabetes: A link between oral and overall health?
...th diabetes. Dentists may prescribe antibiotics to speed up healing time if needed," says Dr. Rada. Make morning appointments because blood glucose levels tend to be under better control at this time of day. Dental procedures should be as short and as stress free as possible. Patients that have a sche...Stressed mice quicker to get skin cancer
Does stress speed up the onset of skin cancer? The answer, in mice ...s Kimmel Cancer Center say that chronic stress may speed up the process in those at high-risk for the disease. Their new study, published in the December is...Innovative take-off system could lead to safer, cleaner air travel
...ng designed to take factors such as aircraft size, speed and route into account. Large aircraft create more turbulence, for example, and so the aim is to group aircraft together by weight category. The system would also cover aircraft taxi-ing to the airport holding point, as well as those already waiting ...Research explores why some internationally adopted children excel while others struggle
..." said Krakow. "I was surprised by her success and speed in learning English and that prompted me to see how typical or atypical she was." Another panel member, Stephen C. Aronoff, M.D. professor and chair of pediatrics at Temple University School of Medicine, specializes in infectious diseases and sees ...Chemoprevention backgrounder: Working for a future of cancer chemoprevention
...eing investigated at M. D. Anderson that will help speed up investigation of even newer classes of estrogen blockers and other chemopreventive agents such as COX-2 inhibitors, she says. For example, Banu Arun, M.D., is identifying biomarkers in breast cancer cells that will quickly tell researchers whethe...Study finds HER2-positive breast cancer invades organs due to fatal chemical attraction
... are a large family of proteins primarily known to speed inflammatory responses by drawing them to circulating white blood cells that have a corresponding chemokine receptor. Researchers have found that some diseases, including HIV and cancer, use this same chemical attraction to invade the body. Although...Research with red tide toxin yields potential therapies for cystic fibrosis
...ic fibrosis. "We found these compounds are able to speed up the clearance of mucus from the lungs," said Daniel Baden, Ph.D., director of University of North Carolina at Wilmingtons Center for Marine Science and director of the project. According to Baden, mucociliary clearance is one of the most important...Safer drug prescribing for seniors in nursing homes: Canada leads the way
...d its facility-wide servers to increase the system speed and installed a wireless network. This enables Baycrest doctors to access the CPOE/CDS system from anywhere in the building using mobile and stationary computers (laptops and PCs). They can also place orders through the system from their outside offi...Study of Big Ten football injuries shows NCAA rule change did not reduce injury rates
...bright also observed that playing football at full speed but attempting to avoid contact led to different patterns of injury such as broken fingers or dislocated elbows or shoulders rather than the usual lower extremity injuries. The study results indicate that the way to reduce spring injury rates is to e...Impaired neuromotor function following cancer treatment can improve
... functions, such as problem solving, memory, motor speed and dexterity, attention, and word association, were tested before, 3 months after, and 1 year after the transplant. At three months after transplant, patients experienced a significant decline in all the functions tested. By one year, however, the n...Mayo Clinic discovers one mechanism for why men and women differ in immune response
... prone than men to develop "autoimmune disease." * speed the development of drugs that bolster the immune system to treat such immune-deficiency diseases as AIDS. * improve vaccines. * decrease the time needed to reconstitute the immune system after bone marrow transplantation. * protect cancer patients wh...'Weekend' use matches daily drops for 'lazy eye'
...administration of atropine eye drops in either the speed of improvement or in the magnitude of improvement after four months of treatment," according to Michael Repka, M.D., the lead author of the study and a pediatric ophthalmologist at the Children's Center. These findings are published by the Pediatric...NIH awards OHSU $4 million biodefense contract to study tuberculosis
...n vaccine development. "This database will help us speed up vaccine development," said David Lewinsohn. The third step will be to take this information to Uganda, where millions of Africans are infected with TB, to see if patients' immune response, specifically CD8+ T cells, recognize the same antigens id...Gene-silencing technique offers new way to fight drug-resistant leukemia
...field of cancer therapeutics has been rushing full speed into the era of so-called "targeted" medicines. The challenge of developing these medicines, which spare normal cells because they are designed to kill only cancer cells, has been complicated by the recognition that resistance to even targeted therap...Exercise for special populations, sensory research, factors impacting rehabilitation top issues
...e faster than 15 wpm may be less likely to enjoy a speed enhancement through the use of ASR. ...Scientists detail latest advances in development of prosthetic devices for paralyzed
...elliste. Although the new technology controls the speed and direction of the "hand," computers calculated the details of the arm's movements--such as the joint angles and the forces needed to move the arm. Future work from the group will examine more complex tasks, requiring precise movements of the arm, ...Promising results for malaria vaccine trial
...d international agencies sharing the goals, should speed this process as much as possible and boost innovations. The RTS,S/ASO2A manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKlineBio, might succeed in licensing this vaccine by 2010. In any case, the road toward a safe and efficient malaria vaccine being available and useable o...Department of Energy announces new agreement with USC, national labs and private company
Los Angeles, Oct. 14- In an effort to speed the design and development of an artificial retina...ights and royalties from their research. This will speed progress by freeing the researchers to share details of their work with collaborators. In addition, ...DOE labs, universities and second sight partner to speed development of 'artificial retina'
CHICAGO, IL In an effort to speed the design and development of an artificial retina...hts and royalties from their research. This will speed progress by freeing the researchers to share details of their work with their collaborators. The a...