Patient complaints may be harmful to GPs' health and practice
...depression and marital breakdowns and that support structures should be put in place to help GPs when they experience such problems. Also see linked editorial by Dr Richard Baker....AAPS Symposium to present latest developments in Cheminformatics
...es the storage, display, and searching of chemical structures andtheir physical and biological properties. "The power of new computing technologies puts cheminformatics at the forefrontof the search for new drugs," said Peter M. Smith, Ph.D., chair of thesymposium's planning committee. "All discovery scientist...... -- Imagine how much easier learning the intricate structures of thebrain would be if only you could carry one a...nd what if you could even pick from alist of brain structures -- ranging from the abducens nerve to white matter --and instruct your portable brain to highlight ...NIH study to evaluate role of MRI in emergency diagnosis of heart attack & stroke
...reate clear, detailed images of internalorgans and structures and can rapidly evaluate blood flow/supply. Of all the patients coming into a hospital emergency room with chest pain, onlyabout 40 percent can be immediately diagnosed with heart attack using standardtesting. The majority of patients must undergo ......storm. Isolated trees, telephone booths, and open structures like gazebos or porchesmake poor lightning shelters. If there is a tall object nearby, move as far awayas possible - at least 2 meters (7 ft). Standing next to tall isolated objectslike poles or towers makes you vulnerable to secondary discharges com...Self-assembly of new microstructured material defies textbook physics
...rchers hadlong-studied the components of their new structures separately, but nothing intheir experience prepared them for the highly organized structures Ramos sawwhen the two were mixed. "The controlled manufacture of these microarrays couldmimic and ex...UI study finds types of decision-making deficiencies depend on area of brain damage
...n making. "In essence, damage in either of the two structures (the amygdala and VMFcortex) lead to impairments i...rence in the contribution of each of the two brain structures tothe global process of decision making....Pain, itself, elicits pain relief, and does so through 'reward' pathway
...a high dose of morphine. While various individual structures in the brain have been known to produceanalgesia, or pain relief, when electrically stimulated or exposed to narcoticpainkillers, the finding provides the first physiological evidence that painitself elicits analgesia. It also provides a surprising......use MRI toexamine how different fabrics and fabric structures wick moistureaway from the skin. For food processors, the researchers have also looked atmoisture and oil concentrations in peanut shells. Like textiles,peanuts must be dried during processing, and that consumesenergy. To determine where the moist...Getting your teeth into superplastic forming
... allowing the team at King'sCollege to make dental structures that are tailor made to fit a patient's mouthwhile providing better performance and improved comfort. The die used toproduce a dental prosthesis in the superplastic forming process is based on amould of the patient's mouth taken by the dentist. A s...Diabetes therapy may impair memory function in children
...learning. Hershey also says there can be damage in structures thatsurround the hippocampus in an area of the brain known as the medial-temporalregion. "Neurons there are affected by severe hypoglycemia, and they can die," she said."If you have repeated insults, more and more neurons may die. Over time, therema...Use it or lose it applies to nervous system, scientists find
...ngly rapideffect on the structure of synapses" the structures where nerve cellscommunicate with their targets," says Jeff W. Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D., head of theresearch team. Lichtman is a professor of neurobiology at Washington University School ofMedicine in St. Louis. He and his colleagues report their findi...Researchers uncover gene related to acute leukemia
...osomal translocation happens when chromosomes--the structures containinggenes--break and rejoin in a different way, creating new genes at thebreakpoints. Think about breaking up a red stick and a blue stick, mixing upthe pieces, and gluing them back together to make two new sticks. If the stickswere chromosom...A growth factor reverses nerve damage in diabetic animals
...e outermost tips of axons swell into doorknob-like structures as a result. These nerve endings allow nerve cells to communicate with each other, and the swelling impedes this process.Schmidt studied the effect of an insulin-like growth factor called IGF-I on diabetic rats. His group examined the animals' sympat...UI study shows classification system for evaluating childhood hip disease may be unreliable
...bjective, standardized language for evaluating the structures we're looking at on x-ray. This leads to problems in the clinic and in evaluating the literature." Based on Weinstein's observation and the discovery that there was little published work concerning the reliability of the Stulberg system, a UI inves...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
...enter for Human Genetics. "Any change in the brain structures that recognize GABA could have implications during brain development and function. It makes a nice story if GABA turns out to be involved in autism, but we can't be sure yet." To that end, Gilbert, Pericak-Vance, Dr. Jeffery Vance and their colleagu...The silent time bomb: divorce, health care and the baby boom generation
...lic sector, already strapped to meet demand.Family structures have changed, according to Liliana Pezzin, a Ph.D., economist and assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Center for Demography of Aging. In short, something profound is broken with divorce, and it has effects even in the last years of life,...How psychology helps improve medical decision making
... strategy is a function of sophisticated knowledge structures and is implicitly acquired during training. Physicians use hypothesis-driven strategies when confronted with complex and uncertain cases. Both these strategies are error-prone, but the nature of errors is different. In the former case errors are very...Earlier detection for breast cancer in sight
...of breast cancer. X-ray diffraction of the atomic structures of solids forms the backbone of analytical techniques in solid state physics and materials science. This is now being used by our team as a possible new technique for the early in-vivo diagnosis of breast cancer. "X-ray diffraction can character......he device worked. Achievement of these crystalline structures made it possible to routinely create tiny, very efficient lasers out of semiconductors in which nanometer-thick layers of gallium aluminum arsenide are sandwiched between nanometer-thick layers of gallium arsenide. Energizing the middle layer makes ...