PENN study emphasizes need for national guidelines for assisted reproductive technology programs
...ddition to Drs. Gurmankin and Caplan, the research team included Andrea Braverman, PhD, from the Woman's Institute for Fertility, Endocrinology and Menopause, in Philadelphia....Cancer vaccines: A two-pronged attack?
...ffectively deactivated by the tumor." The research team also found that metastases were enriched with inactive CTLs, and they are now assessing exactly how vaccination can 'spark' the reactivation of CTLs. "We believe that these CTLs in the metastatic lesions could potentially eliminate the bulk of the tu...MGH researchers find way of regenerating cells key to hearing
... into nerve impulses. The discovery by a research team based at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) runs counter to current beliefs about these cells and could eventually lead to ways of preventing or treating hearing loss. The report will appear in the journal Science and is receiving early online rel...A site for sore eyes: New target for allergies found under the eyelid
...4-hour period. The University College London (UCL) team hope their discovery will pave the way for new treatments for allergic diseases such as asthma, eczema and hay fever. In a study published today in the online edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation , Professor Santa Jeremy Ono and colleagu...More efficient ways of managing patient flow may benefit Los Angeles County/USC hospital
...or USC's Viterbi School of Engineering, Hall and a team of engineers in the Epstein Department of Industri... the line will experience a delay." Hall and his team -- co-principal investigator Maged Dessouky, an associate professor of industrial and systems engine...Researchers develop way to track quality of home health care
...--University of Michigan researchers are part of a team that has developed a new tool to assess the qualit...re. In the current issue of The Gerontologist, the team reports on home care quality indicators based on 22 measures. Home care agencies, governments and co...Likelihood of a large vCJD epidemic remains small claim researchers
...day in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, the team believe there will be around 70 future cases of vC...00 individuals in the UK could test positive. The team at Derriford found three positive samples among 12,764 tonsil and appendix samples and from this con...Physician response to conflicts between faith and medicine
...o accommodate patients' religious ideas. Curlin's team noted that doctors described three strategies they use to persuade patients to go along with their recommendations. First, physicians may encourage patients to think of prayer as an adjunct to medicine, not as a substitute. If that fails, they oft...Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego funds commercialization of lung, shock, other devices
...ases" $50,000 Professor Schmid-Schoenbein and his team have completed the examination of several filter d...ammatory mediators from plasma. Schmid-Schonbein's team will filter the plasma in the presence of a protease inhibitor to block complement and thrombotic ca...A biomarker to predict osteoarthritis
...ressed to both knees and both hips. The research team obtained a blood sample from every participant and analyzed each for its concentration of HA. Across the board, Caucasians had higher serum HA levels than African Americans and men had higher serum HA levels than women. The most compelling differen...The sustained benefits of very early treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with anti-TNF-alpha therapy
...ther chronic inflammatory conditions. Recently, a team of researchers in the United Kingdom set out to te... Based at Leeds General Infirmary, the research team recruited twenty patients with a diagnosis of RA meeting the American College of Rheumatology's crit...Mayo Clinic discovery on nature of rheumatoid arthritis lung disease may offer patients therapy
...ER, Minn. -- A discovery by a Mayo Clinic research team may pave the way for the creation of new drugs to ...nic research paper describes a staining method the team refined for identifying markers in RA patients' lung tissues. The results establish two key points n...More precise radiation therapy lets prostate cancer patients avoid erectile dysfunction
...ment area. Using that as a starting point, the U-M team began investigating radiation-related erectile dys...in says. By taking the additional imaging, the U-M team was able to plan treatment to include the entire prostate but avoid the critical blood vessels below...Most alcohol-related plane crashes occur at night and in worsening weather conditions
...tion by the pilot was also a factor. The Hopkins team found that most alcohol-related plane crashes, 52 ...lved in alcohol-related plane crashes, the Hopkins team studied medical records for 313 general aviation crashes fatal to the pilot from 1985 to 2000. Spec...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives SPORE grant for brain cancer research from NCI
...vestigator and Mayo Clinic geneticist, will lead a team of 12 basic, clinical and population science investigators at Mayo. This team will conduct four Mayo investigator-initiated research projects that focus on adult gliomas, the mos...Workers with carpal tunnel find relief with night-time splinting
...to carpal tunnel syndrome. The findings, made by a team of researchers with the University of Michigan Health System and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, show that night-time splinting can effectively improve hand and wrist discomfort for active workers with early symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. T...Study finds herpes virus in 98% of healthy participants
...the eye. In addition to Dr. Kaufman, the research team included Drs. James Hill, Hilary Thompson, Gregory Sloop, as well as Emily Varnell and Ann Azcuy. They concluded that control of virus excretion could well limit transmission, especially of more virulent strains of virus. More important, if such a hi...USC researchers find evidence that progesterone signaling influences ovarian cancer risk
...odes for the progesterone receptor, according to a team of researchers led by scientists from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. The study, which is being published in the January 5th issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , was initially supposed to be ...New findings on patient safety at children's hospitals
...Hospitals and Related Institutions, or NACHRI. The team was led by a University of Michigan Medical School...used to measure the safety of children's care. The team also strongly cautions that their analysis showed that the rates of patient safety issues in childre...Women need less morphine after hysterectomies with new treatment
...nal Association for the Study of Pain. Also on the team from Queen's are Elizabeth Orr and Jorge Zamora (Anesthesiology), Dongsheng Tu (Mathematics and Statistics), and Peter O'Neill (Obstetrics and Gynecology); and from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Allan Bell. One of the biggest issues ...