The courage to change the rules: A Proposal for an essential health R&D treaty
...nment agency responsible for global health, should work toward establishing this essential R&D agenda. Individual member states of the WHO "would need to periodically evaluate targets for priority research and make adequate recommendations towards needs-driven R&D."...Slow growth in infancy signals poor economic prospects in adulthood
...he age of 1 was twice as likely to be doing manual work in adulthood as a boy who had been over 80 cm in height at that age. Those who grew slowly as infants tended to achieve lower levels of education than those who grew more quickly, prompting the authors to wonder if slow physical growth might also be ...Hard choices: Pitt researcher presents findings on when to accept organ transplants
... of life of organ recipients. In addition to their work on organ transplantation, Schaefer, Roberts, and s...from intensive care. Schaefer and his team plan to work with the clinical team at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's world-renowned Thomas E. Sta...Brain-scanning technologies need standards, according to Stanford researcher
...red the scans. Illes will also discuss her ongoing work examining how research studies handle those healthy subjects whose brains show sign of abnormalities, called incidental findings. These features could be harmless such as a benign cyst but could also be life-threatening malignant tumors or abnormalit...Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
...nd that such a divide still exists illustrates the work that still needs to be done," he said. Berger recommends that consumers get more involved in their health care. Women who have cardiovascular disease and are not taking aspirin therapy should talk with their physicians about the pros and cons of ta......nual Meeting, in Washington, DC. Building on the work of a 16th century Chinese scholar, the famous 19th...icks to evolve naturally. The implications of this work go far beyond our understanding of vowels, consonants, buzzes and clicks. By showing how universal t...Biochemical marker aids prognosis in liver transplant patients
...ficacy of MELD to predict waitlist mortality." The work outlined in this news alert was supported by the Foundation for Research and Education in Liver Diseases in Buenos Aires, Argentina....Female sex hormones play a vital role in defense against sexually transmitted diseases
...visor of the studies, says the implication of this work is quite significant. "The research clearly shows, and reaffirms previous research, that in female mice, sex hormones have a profound effect on susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections as well as on the body's defense mechanisms against the...'Marital strain' increases women's risk of death, heart disease
...o found that men whose wives' come home upset with work outside the home have an increased risk of develop...well as men. Men who reported that their wives' work was disruptive to their home life because their wives came home upset with work were more than two t...Miniaturized lab permits saliva screening on the go
...ans of analyzing oral samples. They believe their work will lead to a kit, not much bigger than a credit ...ce today in Washington, Malamud will present their work on creating a prototype oral swab kit that detects HIV and Bacillus cereus, a bacterium closely rela...Drugs aid weight loss among type 2 diabetes patients
...diabetes patients, but also note that "these drugs work best in conjunction with lifestyle strategies" suc...ch is needed to find out whether weight loss drugs work better when combined with diet and exercise changes. "In general populations, drugs have been combin...Immediate access to antibiotics stems spread of sexually transmitted diseases
...k medical evaluation and treatment - simply do not work well enough, as many patients fail to properly inform their partners, and many partners fail to seek treatment, which leads to re-infection," says lead editorial author and infectious disease specialist Emily Erbelding, M.D., M.P.H., an associate pro...Young blood revives aging muscles, Stanford researchers find
...d University School of Medicine, built on previous work showing that old muscles have the capacity to repair themselves but fail to do so. Rando and his group studied specialized cells called satellite cells, the muscle stem cells, that dot muscle tissue. These normally lie dormant but come to the rescue ...Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
...llion in the first quarter of 2004. Drug companies work to identify and promote drugs that offer the most promise to patients, but also must consider benefits to their stockholders. Naughton said the HT controversy, as well as recent controversy surrounding Vioxx and other pain medications, raise issues a...Florida Tech scientist wins patent for device to deliver X-ray irradiation
... surgery. "I became interested in this work while reading about research going on to implant radiation sources within the body. With radiation from an external source, the dosage can be more easily adjusted and controlled and the procedure is much safer," said Mitra. The patented ...Prestigious 2004 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Maxine Singer
...nd evolution of defective viruses, to enzymes that work on DNA and its complementary molecule, RNA. In the early 1960s, she investigated the genetic code with her NIH colleague, Marshall Nirenberg. More recently, she has studied a large family of repeated DNA sequences called LINES, which are interspersed...Next generation body scanner launched by the University of Manchester
...scanner will also benefit researchers carrying out work into mental illness and will play a major role in the University's research into schizophrenia. The scanner will help to unravel the mysteries of how the brain works and will reveal how different parts of the brain communicate with each other. Resea...An implanted nerve stimulator helps drop foot sufferers walk faster and better
... UK project partner, FineTech Medical, through its work on bladder stimulation. The device is implanted during surgery and produces the dual, balanced signals required to produce the correct walking action. A clinical trial is currently testing the device and patients' reactions to it. Feedback is excell...