Conference on smart prosthetics set for November 2006
...k FUTURES INITIATIVE announced today it will begin accepting applications from researchers for "Smart Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and Mind," a conference to be held Nov. 9-11, 2006, in Irvine, Calif. Applications must be submitted by June 7, and those selected to attend the conferenc...Doctors able to predict recurrence of high-risk breast cancers
...mph nodes near the armpit, how well the patient is accepting estrogen boosts, how many lymph nodes were affected, age at diagnosis and primary tumor size. The doctors found that the prognostic score and predictive index are useful in estimating recurrence in breast cancer patients after mastectomy and for ap...NYU Child Study Center expert co-authors 'Who Invented Lemonade?'
...e acts upon his observations rather than passively accepting them. The book follows Billy through his journey to find out who invented lemonade, and at the same time teaches readers how to invent it themselves. Shaw believes that "this book will open people's consciousness to the notion that success - both pe...Cedars-Sinai researchers demonstrate a new way to switch therapeutic genes 'on' and 'off'
...infection, the viruses work by tricking cells into accepting them as part of their own genetic machinery. To make them safe, scientists remove the viral genes that cause infection and engineer them so that they stop reproducing after they have delivered the therapeutic gene. In this study, researchers created...FSU study finds body image stereotypes may begin in the high chair
...). Other common problems are throwing tantrums and accepting a certain food one day but rejecting it on another. Both studies were based on assessments that 93 families (93 mothers, plus 54 fathers) in Oregon completed of their child at 36 months old. The researchers say more study of the eating and feeding be...Epidural leads to less pain, more assisted deliveries
... intense then it is worth getting an epidural and accepting the potential risk." A potential weakness of the review is that only one trial studied childbirth without any painkillers at all....Masternak set to receive the Geron Corporation - Samuel Goldstein Distinguished Publication Award
...l Goldstein Distinguished Publication Award. He is accepting the honor for the selected paper, "Divergent Effects of Caloric Restriction on Gene Expression in Normal & Long-Lived Mice." The co-authors of this study are Khalid Al-Regaiey, Michael S. Bonkowski, Jacob Panici, Liou Sun, Jian Wang, and Andrzej Bart...PLoS announces open access journal for all clinical trials, positive or negative
...positive or negative. PLoS Clinical Trials is now accepting manuscripts in advance of its spring 2006 launch. Around half of all completed trial reports are thought to go unpublished. These unpublished trial reports differ systematically from those that are published in the direction and strength of the find...Immune therapy could treat leukemias, autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection
...y have preformed antibodies that prevent them from accepting some donor grafts." In contrast to the potentially benign nature of the CD19 mAb treatment for such patients, current therapy involves removing the spleen and giving such patients chemotherapeutic treatment and plasmapheresis to remove antibodies fro...Better referral training for emergency doctors helps improve patient care
...be problems of personality clashes with the doctor accepting patients, particular specialities that were diffic...to the role of EM, the role of the specialities in accepting patients, and education of the specialties on acceptance of referrals. These recommendations were im......y-dreaming about the child, preparing the nursery, accepting congratulations from friends. For some pregnant women, however, feeling joy is a psychological luxury they can't afford. These are women who after one, sometimes many, miscarriages, stillbirths or newborn deaths, are pregnant again. To protect the...