New study explores pulmonary rehabilitation in women with emphysema and chronic bronchitis
...men with COPD are abnormally low, modest doses may yield appreciable improvements in muscle strength and functionality, according to Dr. Casaburi. (more) Over 15 million Americans are affected every year by chronic bronchitis and emphysema, severely impacting their lives, Dr. Casaburi said. Although pat...NIMH awards new grants in response to terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
...that promise, in a relatively short time frame, to yield information helpful to the design of large-scale studies on prevention and treatment of mental illnesses resulting from exposure to mass violence. RAPID grants were awarded to: David Vlahov, Ph.D., and Gerry Fairbrother, Ph.D., at the New York Acad...University of Pittsburgh transplant researchers present findings at international meeting
...ients are selected for possible weaning when tests yield specific values indicating the heart is showing signs of recovery. "Quantitative echocardiography is noninvasive and can be done on an outpatient basis or even at bedside. More importantly, we believe it yields data that is an accurate indicator of r...Neonatal autopsies yield valuable information
...24, pp 749-50 Over a quarter of neonatal autopsies yield important new information, finds a study in this w...de at a centre in Scotland. They also examined the yield of new information in terms of discordance between diagnoses before and after death. They found a ge...Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
... 32 to 73 years; a more homogenous age group might yield different results. She hopes to expand her research so that the support programme could include women in lesbian relationships whose needs would be very different from their male counterparts. Another area of research could involve exploring the eff...Use of invasive heart procedures decreases after the age of 75
...ONY and Second SYMPHONY (Sibrafabin vs. aspirin to yield maximum protection from ischemic heart events post-acute coronary syndromes). These trials compared the effectiveness of aspirin to a new class of drugs that dissolves blood clots. Using this database, which included more than 15,000 patients...Tricking diseases into synthesizing their own worst enemies
...iability and form easily isolated products in high yield without additional reagents. Sharpless calls the reactions that join these blocks together "spring-loaded" because the blocks are designed to have a higher energy content than the product, which enables them to react together and form larger structur...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February (second issue)
...duce suffering are desirable, they are unlikely to yield significant costsavings. Since daily ICU costs range from $2,000 to $3,000 per day in many U.S. hospitals, clinicians and administrators alike generally assume that health care, hospital, and ICU costs can be reduced by thousands of dollars by decre...New chemistry being developed for delivery of neuroprotective drugs
...ng that the prodrug will be bioactivated by MAO to yield products that will activate neuroprotective mechanisms. We are also testing other derivatives to get a better understanding of the active site in the MAO enzyme."...Study discovers a way to keep infants safe from second-hand smoke
...July 5 issue of journal Pediatrics is the first to yield objective evidence that an effort to reduce healthy childrens second-hand smoke could lead to a significant reduction exposure in children. We think a 30-percent reduction in exposure is quite meaningful, says Emmons, adding that the scientists are ...Smoking prevention programs may miss minority teens
...y of whites, has demonstrated that teenagers often yield to peer pressure and their perceptions of social norms in deciding whether to smoke. This study showed that African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics and Pacific Islanders are less likely than white teenagers to be influenced by these factors in ...Specifying alcohol-related brain damage in young women
...e detection of water molecules, which means it can yield remarkably high-resolution images of the brain. Scientists can then manipulate image data to differentiate among the three principal tissue types in the brain: gray matter (cell bodies), white matter (fiber tracts connecting cell bodies), and cerebr...Liver disease may be being missed in primary care
...unction tests dealt with in primary care? Audit of yield and impact Treatable chronic liver disease may be being missed in primary care because abnormal test results for liver function are often not adequately investigated, according to a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers from the Queen's Medical Cen...SU scientist receives patent that could revolutionize medical magnetic resonance imaging
...for polarizing Xenon 129 is expensive and does not yield large enough quantities to be useful on a wide scale. The possibility of finding a better way to polarize the gas presented an intriguing physics challenge for Honig, who created the first spin-polarized hydrogen-deuteride (HD) targets that are...Product design and drug development breakthroughs help the environment
...l production process, while increasing the product yield by more than 25 percent. U Using water, not hazardous solvents to spray on plastic coating (Pittsburgh, Pa.) - Scientists with Bayer Corporation, in Pittsburgh, Pa., devised polyurethane coatings that can be sprayed on products by using water as a "c...New approach to antibiotic resistance
...search Institute in California. The approach could yield an antibiotic approximately 1,000 times more effective than the original antibiotic, so a much smaller dose would suffice, Wong said. "By studying the bacterial genome, we were able to find a way to attack antibiotic resistance," Wong said. "We used ...University of Rochester awarded patent for class of drugs known as cox-2 inhibitors
...17-year life of the patent, royalty payments could yield the University royalties in the billions of dollars, making it the most lucrative pharmaceutical patent in history. The new class of drugs was developed after researchers at the University of Rochester discovered the gene in humans that is respo...Missouri scientist takes 'rocky' road to NASA
...ith this data, farmers can improve crop health and yield by applying precise amounts of seed, fertilizer and pesticides as needed. Rickman's remote sensing work also has led to improvements of a more personal nature the gift of sight for the legally blind. Rickman was a lead researcher on LVES, a low-vi...New understanding of a key control mechanism in the brain
...ed to identify the nature of these molecules could yield a potent tool for mapping the functional structure of the brain....UCSF Psychiatry Department receives grant to study innovative drug and substance abuse treatments
...a in that it is a well designed trial. Itwill also yield a lot of information that could influence how services are being organized and lead topolicy decisions," she said. "It's part of the larger issue of we have people who are mentally ill anddrug addicted. Where and how is the best way to take care of t...