'Expert guide to infectious diseases' published
... physicians the information needed to diagnose and successfully treat most commonly encountered infections. "Expert Guide to Infectious Diseases" is edited by James S. Tan, MD, MACP, head of the infectious disease section at Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio. In his preface, Dr. Tan writes, "Expert Guide to Inf...Implantable device pumps up ailing heart
... electrical pedestal. Although the hemorrhage was successfully treated, he remained on a ventilator, suffered right heart failure and died about three months after receiving the pump. Subsequently, skull thickness was measured by computerized tomography and the surgical technique was modified to prevent such pe...Pitt researchers find gender differences in the mental health care of children
...y shyness, withdrawal, inhibition and inability to successfully form friendships. After adjusting for parent-reported symptoms, medications were more likely to be prescribed for boys. Gender differences were not a significant factor in referral of children and families for mental health professionals. According t...New breast cancer therapy trials show dramatic results
...t goal was to shrink tumors enough for surgeons to successfully remove them without mutilating the surrounding tissue or leaving behind errant cancer cells. The new treatment reverses the traditional order of cancer therapy, which starts with surgery and ends with chemotherapy and radiation, said Jones. The new ...Eisenhower Mem. 1st CA hospital to use Bridge barcode system to prevent medication errors
...s. Barcodinga proven technology that has been used successfully in supermarkets for yearswas clearly the single most effective one we found since it can intercept a significant percentage of potential medication errors in one easy swipe of the scanner. Barcoding has other major advantages, added Kaminsky. We can ......ew autonomous vehicles and performing an operation successfully is already possible. Moshfegh's intent differs in that it involves whole battalions of these vehicles working and communicating and operating together. But, this can only happen if these vehicles can, after a fashion, think for themselves, and if t...'Cheerleader' brain signal may act as a task master, Science study suggests
...l in reward experiments with monkeys, which had to successfully complete a set of tasks to receive drops of juice. The tasks involved pressing and releasing a bar in response seeing certain colored shapes on a computer screen. A colored bar across the top of the screen brightened each time the monkey moved to the...Hebrew University student developing drug to treat epilepsy, migraines, chronic pain
...the next few years. So far the medication has been successfully tested on laboratory animals. Ms. Isoherranen, Prof. Bialer, and Prof. Yagen, whose areas of expertise include developing antiepileptic and CNS drugs, spent the past four years working on developing an antiepileptic drug that would be more effective ...New Indiana University School of Medicine pediatrics program focuses on patient advocacy
...h. "The medical home model helps residents to more successfully function in a multitude and variety of roles and to better assess the needs of their patients and their environments," Dr. Downs says. Pediatric residents also will work with youngsters at the Julian Center, an Indianapolis facility serving women and...... does YEAK (copolymer 1), allowing them to compete successfully against an endogenous autoantigenic peptide. These formulations were more effective than Copolymer 1 at suppressing the activation of T cells bearing DR2-restricted, MS patient?derived T cell receptors. Crucially, the novel copolymers were also drama...Novel use of radiotracer reveals extent of mycoardial infarction damage
...e injury on imaging. Even in patients who had been successfully revascularized (blood flowing normally to the heart), the 201Tl/99mTc Annexin SPECT revealed areas of persistent cellular damage. In a second study, Raymond Taillefer, MD, and colleagues from the Centre Hospitalier de l'Universit de Montral (Canada),...Novel diagnostic tool detects life-threatening infections faster than standard nuclear imaging tests
...ed the source of infection in all patients who had successfully undergone other types of nuclear imaging tests to determine the cause of infection," said Alan Waxman, M.D., the lead author of the study and the Director of Nuclear Medicine and Co-Chairman of Imaging at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. "In short, Depr...Gene expression profiles predict survival of lymphoma patients after chemotherpy
... standard chemotherapy. Gene expression profiling successfully identified each of these. For those that don't respond to chemotherapy, alternatives are available. "For half of the patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, conventional chemotherapy appears to be a reasonable option, but for patients in the p...Aventis Pasteur ready to meet nation's needs for tetanus and diphtheria vaccine
...ntis Pasteur has been working for the past year to successfully end the national shortage of Td vaccine," said Michael Decker, MD, MPH, vice president, scientific and medical affairs at Aventis Pasteur. "Aventis Pasteur's efforts to relieve the shortage is an indication of the company's ability to meet the natio...Survey reveals needs of glaucoma patients across Europe
...ety. "Communication and education are the keys to successfully managing glaucoma and, together with effective treatment options, can help improve compliance and vision outcomes." According to the survey, physicians' number one choice of unfixed combinations is latanoprost plus timolol (35% of physicians), follow...Study sheds light on 'dark side' of the knee
...have a straightforward and predictable approach to successfully restore knee stability to its normal state." The k...proaches in the laboratory, we found that both can successfully restore stability to the knee, but the fibular-based has the advantages of being an easier procedure...Successful implementation of pilot study for HIV antiretroviral therapy in Uganda
...DS patients in a developing country can be managed successfully with antiretroviral therapy. Promoting access to therapy earlier in the course of the patient's disease, increasing the use of HAART, and finding solutions to reasons for discontinuing therapy would further improve patients' outcome in this setting. ...Northwestern researcher calls for simplified, less toxic HIV therapies
... will jeopardize the opportunities for patients to successfully respond to subsequent protease inhibitor therapy due to the emergence of cross-resistant virus," Murphy said. "Each of these factors contributes to the likelihood that a patient will not be able to tolerate or adhere to therapy," Murphy said. Murph...Treatment guidelines for HIV infection announced by international panel of AIDS experts
...living in resource limited settings, if we want to successfully fight this pandemic," Dr. Yeni says....Although gender response to HIV therapy is similar, women experience more side effects
...60;50 cells/L). Patients were determined to have successfully responded to HAART therapy if their HIV viral load was undetectable at 24 months. After two years of HAART, 34/74 (45.9%) of women and 72/148 (48.6%) men had an undetectable viral load. However, women in the study had significantly higher rates of n...