Study examines lessons learned at Africa's first public antiretroviral treatment clinic
...ensure consistent care for clinic patients, a core team of HIV specialists was eventually created to staff the clinic and train junior staff as HIV care providers. All ARV clinic staff members involved in patient care received ongoing training to get the most up-to-date information on HIV treatment. The ...Dartmouth researchers find where musical memories are stored in the brain
...hed in the March 10 issue of Nature, the Dartmouth team found that if people are listening to music that is familiar, they mentally call upon auditory imagery, or memories, to fill in the gaps if the music cuts out. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity, the research...Common anesthetics appear safe for developing fetal brain
...g nerve cells. For their new experiments, the Duke team developed a model using pregnant sheep. When the sheep fetus was approximately 17 weeks old an age that approximates a third-trimester human pregnancy the researchers exposed the mother to a three-drug anesthetic combination commonly used to produc...Breakthrough in medical research: New chemotherapy gives hope to brain tumour patients
...e. The EORTC also assembled a laboratory research team that succeeded in identifying a molecular change in the tumour that predicts benefit from this new therapy. Future brain tumour trials by the EORTC will continue to integrate clinical and basic research to further refine the molecular basis of brain ...Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
...insured under Medicare. The researchers, led by a team from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center, found a significant difference between the treatment women received before and after the effort, and that received by men. The increased use of proven medications, for example, was much more pron...Decreased levels of 'good' cholesterol in children with Progeria may cause premature heart disease
...he study published in The Journal of Pediatrics, a team of researchers compared cholesterol levels in children with Progeria to children who do not have the disease. The scientists discovered that, compared with children who do not have Progeria, children with Progeria in their mid- and later years have ...News tips from the 2005, 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology
... currently have them in their bodies. The Hopkins team has also developed new guidelines for their use, m...surgery. During a four-month period, the Hopkins team tested 18 different pacemakers and 15 implantable defibrillators previously found safe in animal exp...... the CPOE system analyzed, Koppel and his research team grouped error types into two main categories: information errors; and human-machine interface flaws. Information errors, explains Koppel, result from fragmentation of data and information, or when there is a failure to fully integrate a hospital's...Emory Study finds HIV is not an independent risk factor for severe heart disease
...lains Emory Heart Center cardiologist and research team member Srikanth Sola, MD. "We found that 5 percent...tion to Dr. Sola and Dr. Patel, the Emory research team included Tarek Helmy, MD (principal investigator); Divya Gupta, MD; Muhammad Mir, MD; Megan Price, M...Researchers close in on breast cancer vaccine
...T-cells attacked those loaded cells. The research team also transferred vaccine-primed T cells into mice ...ifferent mammaglobin-A antigens. When the research team tested a DNA vaccine containing the DNA code for just one part of the mammaglobin-A molecule, they f...Cigarette smoke worsens respiratory infections in infants
...y time while others get so very sick. The research team has been following 206 children since they were hospitalized or treated in the Emergency Department at St. Louis Children's Hospital. The children are part of a project called the RSV Bronchiolitis in Early Life (RBEL) study. The infants all were und...Computational tool predicts how drugs work in cells, advancing efforts to design better medicines
... Biotechnology, reports on collaborative work by a team of biomedical engineers and chemists at Boston University. The team was led by Tim Gardner, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering's Department of Biomedi...Even mild depression increases long-term mortality in heart failure
...uildup of fluid in the lungs (diuretics). The Duke team followed 1,005 heart failure patients admitted to Duke University Hospital for various cardiac events. During their hospitalization, patients were given the Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI), a commonly used depression screening test. Patients were f...Study finds drug eluting stents as effective as vascular brachytherapy in preventing restenosis
...n to effectively reduce in-stent restenosis. But a team of Emory cardiology researchers presented a study ...trospective non-randomized study design, the Emory team analyzed the U.S. nationwide post marketing surveillance registry maintained by Cordis (maker of the...Study says rare allergic reactions to drug-eluting stents may raise risk for heart attack
...of the Cypher drug eluting stent made by Cordis, a team of Emory researchers examined data collected from ...ates. In addition to Dr. Alameddine, the research team included Aniket Kulkarn MD; Viola Vaccarino MD, PhD; and Peter C. Block, MD of Emory University Div...Non-invasive and invasive breast cancers share the same genetic mutations
... Health (EPH) at Yale School of Medicine, the Yale team examined genetic and environmental risk factors for the development of DCIS. They genetically tested 369 women with DCIS for alterations in BRCA1 and BRCA2. "We found that 0.8 percent of these women had diseaseassociated mutations in BRCA1, while 2.4...Studies underscore genetic involvement in nicotine addiction & aggressive hostility
...on in mice. Co-author Jerry Stitzel, PhD, and his team found that mice with the "threonine" polymorphism (an alteration to a gene's DNA sequence) in a gene called Chrna4 consumed significantly more nicotine than mice with an alanine polymorphism in the same gene. The authors think that this threonine va...Three anti-platelet drugs used in combination are safe
... In addition to Dr. Weintraub, the Emory research team included Jovonne K. Foster MS, Paul Kolm PhD, Grant T. Anderson, Karen M. Parker BS, John S. Douglas Jr. MD and Nancy VC Murrah RN,BSN. Drs. Douglas and Weintraub disclosed a commercial relationship with Otsuka American Pharmaceutical, Inc....Depression predicts heart rhythm abnormalities in heart attack patients
...ng dysrhythmias are connected." For the study, the team followed 72 patients admitted to Duke University Hospital with a heart attack. Patients were interviewed by a mental health provider and given standardized tests for depression and anxiety within three days of admission. All patients were then connec......n the instrumentation part of the project, led the team that designed and built the PEM unit. He says PEM ...-minute acquisition time." The Jefferson Lab/Duke team is now modifying the PEM system and imaging procedure to allow for better detection of lesions locat...