New book guides boomers through retirement maze
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...s that the sector is keen to take advantage of the tailored solutions that we offer and keep their R&D dollars in Australia to contribute to the growth of the drug development industry on-shore. "TetraQ now provides its services internationally and the global market will be a target for future growth. We a...E/Tablet technology may provide benefits to patients, researchers
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... study suggests therapies in the future need to be tailored to each individual based on analysis of his or her genetic makeup, not simply ethnicity. The relatively small number of patients makes the results of the study far from conclusive: Gandara calls the study hypothesis-generating. Next, he and other S...Targeted initiatives can encourage people to walk more
...hes to promoting walking. The most successful were tailored to peoples needs and targeted at sedentary people or at those most motivated to change. These increased walking in the target groups by up to 30-60 minutes a week on average, at least in the short term. Given how little exercise most people take, thi......d to one of three physical activity interventions: tailored Internet, standard Internet and tailored print. Those in the tailored Internet group were asked to log on to a website designed by the res...Rx for heart failure: patient-centered care from a pharmacist
...em consistently was important. The pharmacist also tailored the drug regime to each individual's lifestyle. "Having pharmacists attuned to how patients take their medications and reinforcing their doctor's instructions is a win-win situation that reduced the use of expensive medical services. It is only thr...Web-based asthma program dramatically improves disease management for low-income black students
...roit. Of the group, 162 students took part in four tailored web-based asthma intervention educational sessions. By contrast, a control group of 152 students had access to generic asthma websites. The web-based program, which the researchers call Puff City, tried to teach the teenagers positive behaviors to ...Largest ever grant for University of Copenhagenhagen
...can be treated more effectively, for instance with tailored proteins as drugs," explains professor Ulla Wewer,...This will strengthen Danish efforts in the area of tailored proteins as tomorrow's drugs," says Ulf J. Johansson, dr.techn. and chair of the Novo Nordisk Founda...Decision making by the growing elderly population is uncharted territory
...r across the lifespan so that better advice can be tailored to older adults, Peters said. "We know quite a bit about how the brain processes information, but we dont know a whole lot about how that is going to interact in decisions with experiences and emotional prompts," she said. Peters is co-author of a...SNM's 54th Annual Meeting speakers address state of molecular imaging/nuclear medicine technologies
...d scientific program at the 54th Annual Meeting is tailored to provide attendees with the most current and important information available in the field. SNM and SNMTS present about 100 continuing education courses focusing on PET/CT, cardiovascular nuclear medicine, brain imaging, pediatrics, oncology and the...NIST's stretching exercises shed new light on nanotubes
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...state cancer and will allow treatment to be better tailored to the patients needs," he said...Colon cancer survival linked to number of lymph nodes examined
... that knowing how far a cancer has spread leads to tailored and more beneficial treatment, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Investigators say the findings, reported in the March 21 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, encourage a dialogue a...Custom-made cancer cell attacks
...ilable in French . Imagine a cancer treatment tailored to the cells in a patients body, each person receiving a unique treatment program. This is what Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council grantee Thomas Ruth and his colleagues hope to accomplish within the next decade. Using the TRIUMF par...Cancer Patients Nationwide Can More Easily Navigate Health Care System
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...work with them to develop effective and personally tailored discipline practices. The research, published by SAGE Publications in the January issue of Clinical Pediatrics, and written by lead author Dr. Shari Barken of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, indicates that, while nation...Solving a medical riddle to achieve scarless burns and wound healing
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