ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...red at an early stage. 9. Randomised trials that transfer the patients for primary PCI to a 'heart attack centre' have observed a better clinical outcome than thrombolysis. This has been observed despite the delay, due to transportation, between randomisation and the start of the treatment. 10. The superio...Yale authors raise concerns regarding regionalized heart attack care
...nical accuracy, we estimate that you would need to transfer more than 500,000 Americans from the hospitals at which they are currently treated so that they could have access to interventional treatments like cardiac catheterization and bypass surgery," Epstein said. "That's a huge number and its feasibility i...Nursing mothers having surgery -- How long a wait to breastfeed safely?
...am said. Studies of narcotic and benzodiazepine transfer into breast milk are under way at Feinberg and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. Avram and co-researchers presented results of their study at the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., on M...Tumor-targeted immune cells cure prostate cancer in mice without causing systemic immune suppression
...e, and his laboratory group described the adoptive transfer gene therapy technique in the March issue of Cance...reated CD8+ T cells. Mice that received adoptive transfer of tumor-reactive TGF-beta-insensitive CD8+ T cells following injection of tumor cells showed no or ...Houston meeting kicks off collaboration to advance cancer research
...r." Both institutions have invested in technology transfer and collaborative applied research initiatives in order to bring research discoveries to the market for the benefit of cancer patients everywhere, Dr. Mendelsohn said. This agreement, signed on December 15, 2004, is the first of its kind for M. D. ...2005 Pulp Biology Research Award
...tch of the cell membrane, could be involved in the transfer of information between odontoblasts (through the dentin fluid) and the surrounding pulp tissue. Recently, he showed the expression of sodium ion channels of the neural form (Nav1.2) in odontoblasts and particularly the putative role of the beta 2 cha...Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
...l research process, the new center will facilitate transfer of screening techniques, active chemical molecules and knowledge of disease causing pathways. Darryl De Vivo, M.D., the Sidney Carter Professor of Neurology at CUMC and the director of the SMA Clinic, will direct the next step toward bringing new t...Referrals to palliative care come too late to improve quality of life for cancer patients
...ative care specialists, rather than simply a swift transfer from one provider to the other as the patient's condition declines."...Use of cell phone images appears feasible for visualizing leg wounds
...nsultation, and treatment as well as education and transfer of medical data, according to background informati...his new generation of mobile telephones and direct transfer via e-mail," the authors conclude. "We had the impression that a high percentage of the problems rel...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
...s free of a fatal disease-causing gene mutation to transfer to a woman's uterus. High levels of support for this application are shared across most demographic groups - men, women and different racial and ethnic groups; lowest levels of support (49 percent) are found among fundamentalist and evangelical Chris...New mosquito control strategy proves successful against dengue fever
...into their national programme, the challenge is to transfer this framework to the rest of Southeast Asia and beyond. Whereas the hierarchical structure of society in Vietnam undoubtedly affected successful adoption of our model, we judge the key factor in motivating communities to be perception of the serious...Government approach to cutting hospital stays may be misleading
... She believes that the wider impact of the plan to transfer 3000 experienced district nurses or other health professionals from their current roles to undertake this new role should also be considered because this might leave gaps in the delivery of other community based services....Clinicians report missing patient information is common
...s, inadequate interprofessional communication, the transfer of patients' care within and across care settings, and the rapid turnover of patients' insurance plans. Accordingly, physicians may not have clinical information available when it is important for a patient's care. Missing clinical information has be...A global treatment for iron deficiency
...s. Any profit from royalty fees on the technology transfer of Sprinkles is currently donated to The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. "By developing Sprinkles as a cost-effective and simple strategy to fortify foods in the home," said Professor Zlotkin, "we hope to improve the nutritional health an...Invasive procedures do not necessarily improve survival for heart patients
...use of procedures, and argue against early routine transfer of patients to hospitals with specialist facilitie...n laboratory, and argues against the early routine transfer of these patients to a specialised hospital with interventional facilities....Spinal repair pioneer to speak in NY on 20th Jan
...jury. The team has now moved to UCL to attempt to transfer that technology from rats to humans, working with patients at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, and it is anticipated that the preparatory work to begin trials will be complete within two to three years. "For many years ...Do cigarette additives pose additional risk to smokers?
...olysis product of the additive, did not detectably transfer into cigarette smoke in such a way that smokers might be subject to a change in risk; (2) the additive did not significantly change the chemistry, physics or biological properties of smoke; and (3) the additive did not change exposure to cigarette ...How platelets help cancer invade other tissues
Malignant tumors have the ability to transfer disease from organ to another. The depletion of blood platelets by many mechanisms has been shown to result in a reduction of metastases to lung and bone in experimental tumor transplant models. This effect has long been attributed to platelet-mediat...Researchers describe how human blood stem cells transform themselves to repair injured animal hearts
...ve debate within the field as to whether stem cell transfer actually creates new types of cells that last within a heart, says the study's lead author Edward T. H. Yeh, M.D., professor and chair of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson's Department of Cardiology. "We have shown that these stem cells create ...Scientists turn on the 'gender lens' on cardiovascular disease research
...t in a simple,usable way." In a bid to enhance the transfer of knowledge from the scientific communityto the general public, Dr. Anand has formed an advisory board, chaired byMaureen McTeer, which will assist with generating novel approaches tocommunicating research findings. McTeer is a prominent Canadian la...