ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 3, 2007
... the science that transforms lives, and these news alerts are from the leading edge of that science at ACS headquarters. Contact: Michael Woods 202-872-4400 m_woods@acs.org In This Edition: The first molecular keypad lock Toward a new oral delivery system for insulin using nanoshell shields In...Bioterrorism alerts induce anxiety and may pose health risk, Einstein study finds
.... He adds, "Public health programs, which these alerts fall under, and other health interventions are typically evaluated by weighing efficacy and safety. If a public health program can induce stress and anxiety in the population, these should be considered potentially adverse effects that need evaluatio...London asthma sufferers get space-based help
...rvice, funded by ESA, which delivers air pollution alerts and health advice via SMS text messages to those w... Subscribers can choose whether they want airTEXT alerts delivered through SMS text messages, voicemail or e-mail and whether they want to receive the alerts...Pharmacists' workload contributes to errors
...The study also found that computerized interaction alerts and telephone, Internet, and fax systemswhich are intended to decrease pharmacist workload and increase the efficiency of prescription receipt and fillingalso were associated with an increase in the number of prescriptions dispensed for medications t...Researchers urge caution in using ESAs for cancer-related anemia
...emotherapy. However, the FDA has recently issued alerts regarding possible hazards of ESA treatment for an...in cancer patients not receiving chemotherapy. The alerts were based on problems reported in several studies of such "off-label" use of ESAs. One study showed...System to pinpoint airline passengers who contaminate cabins
...ime, with a goal of one day creating a system that alerts pilots in real time and pinpoints a contaminant's source. "We need to find a way to enhance the computing speed, and we have a strategy to do that," Chen said. The method is most accurate when three sensors are used to track a material. Using thr...Study tests oral insulin to prevent type 1 diabetes
... their blood. The presence of these autoantibodies alerts physicians to the destruction of insulin-producing cells up to 10 years before symptoms set in and indicates an individual is at greater risk of developing the disease. For a person with high-risk genes and all three autoantibodies, the risk of dev......are detect, such as any arrhythmia, the cell phone alerts the patient and transmits a sample of the ECG signal to the nearest medical care centre, via the SMS text service, together with patient details. The device could give patients who have already had one heart attack a much greater chance of receivin......y minor effects supports heat health systems where alerts are based on duration of hot humid days." ...