Officials simulate bioterrorist attack to test APL-developed disease surveillance
...CR network responds independently to public health alerts and to ensure the health and safety of its residents. With an unprecedented collaborative network among public health programs, the NCR disease surveillance system offers a first line of defense in the national capital area. Wednesday's exercise was ...Research results from the 'Era of Hope' Department of Defense breast cancer research program meeting
...icks up potential early signs of breast cancer, it alerts the user with either a light or a vibration. "It's important to know that this would be part of a breast exam, not a full diagnostic device," explained Britton Chance, Ph.D., emeritus professor of physics and radiology at the University of Pennsylvan...Lifespan again named among 100 Most Wired and 25 Most Wireless hospitals
..., bedside electronicmedication matching, automated alerts and reminders, physician portals and electronic patient surveillance. Among the Most Wired hospitals, significantly larger percentages of physicians enter orders themselves, compared with other organizations. The Most Wired hospitals conduct a larg...Alternating rise and fall of SCF - NIPA levels act as switch regulating cell division
...iquination. When a protein is ubiquinated, the tag alerts the cell to send the protein to the proteasome for destruction. NIPA is a so-called F-box-containing protein. F-box-containing proteins recruit specific target molecules to E3 ubiquitin ligases so that they can be tagged for destruction. In the case...BMJ highlights lack of international cooperation to investigate scientific fraud
...week. This does not resolve the suspicions, but it alerts the scientific community, and it may in turn prompt a legitimate organisation to do the necessary investigations, they conclude....Reagent under study as cancer vaccine may also help protect tumors
...e reagent CpG oligodeoxynucleotides or CpG-ODNs alerts the body's natural warning system to an invader, says Dr. Andrew L. Mellor, immunologist and director of the Medical College of Georgia Immunotherapy Center. In an animal model, Dr. Mellor and his colleagues have found CpG-ODNs also can trigger a mec...Warning labels on high-risk drugs inconsistently heeded by doctors
...an less direct wording. Patient-specific automated alerts to BBW drugs or recommendations at the point of prescribing and dispensing may be more effective than BBWs in package inserts. Designing such a system requires complete, consistent, and current lists of BBW medicines and clinical circumstances associ...Technology for successful aging shown at White House conference
...rs and canes that detect balance changes and sound alerts or signals to encourage appropriate use, as well as an integrated system using the MedTracker device. OHSU researchers also will demonstrate technology developed in collaboration with several of their ORCATECH partners, including a bed equipped with ...New technology likely to facilitate independence for older Americans
... home activities. Helpful technologies can provide alerts to an emergency or hazardous situation (e.g., a stove left on), give support for daily activities such as medication monitoring, or support social communication with family and friends. However, Rogers and Fisk also caution that an older person's att...Mystery solved: Gold's power against autoimmune diseases defined
...n presentation cells. Presentation of these pieces alerts other specialized recognition cells of the immune system called lymphocytes, which starts the normal immune response. Usually this response is limited to harmful bacteria and viruses, but sometimes this process goes awry and the immune system turns t...Heart devices, procedures evaluated across patient populations
...atients and found that while ICD recalls or safety alerts impact more than 40 percent of patients, they are ...o FDA class I or II recalls or manufacturer safety alerts prior to market release. Patients whose ICDs were issued a class I recall--the most severe recall-...Getting patients to swallow their medicine
BOSTON--In a study designed to assess whether alerts faxed to physicians can help to improve patient ad...ategy. "Our findings confirm that patient-specific alerts using faxes to physicians are not effective at improving patient adherence to antidepressant therapy...M. D. Anderson: Setting the benchmark in brain tumor treatment
...Medical Center, Heimberger designed a vaccine that alerts the immune system in the brain to the presence of just one type of protein that studs the outside of a glioma. In fact, the protein, epidermal growth factor variant III (EGFRvIII), is found on brain tumors, as well as on breast and non-small-cell lun...New data finds recalls of automated external defibrillators to be common
...Enforcement reports to identify recalls and safety alerts (collectively referred to as "advisories") affecting AEDs. Enforcement reports are issued by the FDA to notify the public about potentially defective medical devices which may not function as intended. During the study period beginning in 1996 and...New hope in cancer vaccines emerges as novel therapies are developed and tested
...king this protein is foreign and infectious, which alerts killer immune cells. The same kind of strategy is producing very promising results in clinical trials at M. D. Anderson of vaccines for advanced myeloid leukemia as well as other forms of leukemia, aggressive lymphoma and melanoma. Because of the ...Automated external defibrillators are frequently recalled
...ision determined the number and rate of AED safety alerts and recalls (collectively referred to as "advisories") as well as the number of actual AED malfunctions by analyzing weekly FDA Enforcement Reports and reports of AED-related adverse events. (The FDA routinely issues such "advisories" to notify the ...FDA safety alerts for automated external defibrillators occur frequently
...States, and occasionally issues recalls and safety alerts (collectively referred to as "advisories"), a numb...6 and Dec. 2005 to identify all recalls and safety alerts involving AEDs and AED accessories. Confirmed AED device malfunctions were identified by reviewing A...Just breathe: Ozone forecaster unveiled at University of Houston, available via Web
...r state or national forecasting Web site for ozone alerts in this region. With the release of these forecasts on a daily basis, Byun and IMAQS are performing an important service for the Houston and southeastern Texas community."...Combined therapies may boost immune response and long-term protection against brain tumors
...t. 1, 2006) One therapy for treating brain tumors alerts the immune system to the presence of foreign material. A second therapy enhances the first and prolongs the immune system's response. Now, in an animal study conducted at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, researcher......o don't need or want VNS implants. Once the device alerts the patient that a seizure is imminent, that person could take steps to minimize injury, such as sitting down or moving away from potentially dangerous objects, such as a hot stove. "If you could just give someone a little bit of warning they're ab...