Painless test using teardrops may speed diagnosis of Sjgren's syndrome
...ry eyes and dry mouth. The noninvasive test, which analyzes multiple protein biomarkers in the tears using highly sensitive mass spectrometry, shows promise in early clinical studies as the first simple test for identifying the disease, the scientists say. Sjgrens affects between 1 million and 4 million Ameri...Three UCSD scholars elected to prestigious National Academy of Sciences
...His most recent work, Elbridge Gerry's Salamander, analyzes the political consequences of the reapportionment revolution in the United States. Cox is a former Guggenheim Fellow and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. Professor Karin, 53, is a leading world authority on signal tra...Low-fat dairy foods may help reduce risk of type 2 diabetes
...lationship between dairy intake and diabetes risk analyzes data from the HSPH-based Health Professionals Follow-up Study. "Our study found that men consuming higher levels of dairy products, especially low-fat dairy foods, had a significantly lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes during a 12-year period,...Some primary care residents feel unprepared to provide preventive counseling
...t programs across the country. The current report analyzes the responses of more than 900 residents in the three specialties that focus on adult primary care internal medicine, family practice and obstetrics/gynecology to questions about how prepared they felt to counsel patients about smoking, diet and ex...Is the vaccine industry ailing?
...in the May/June issue of Health Affairs, Dr. Offit analyzes why pharmaceutical companies have abandoned vaccines, and urges legislators to protect vaccines as a vital instrument of public health. The number of companies making vaccines has declined from 26 in 1967, to 17 in 1980, to just five in 2004. Althoug...NIST method improves timing in oscilloscopes
... constructs an alternative time base. The software analyzes an oscilloscope's measurements of both a signal of interest and two reference waves that are offset from each other. The reference waves are generated by an external device and are synchronized in time with the signal being measured. Measurements of ...Children need better cancer drugs, says expert panel
...t, "Making Better Drugs for Children with Cancer," analyzes childhood cancer treatment in the light of historic advances. "Over the past 40 years, researchers and clinicians have achieved long-term survival for most children and adolescents with cancer," said pediatric oncologist Peter C. Adamson, M.D., chief...Tobacco linked to 63 percent of cancer death burden among African-American men
...ta to refine that analysis. He now also separately analyzes data for each U.S. Census region. Leistikow notes one explanation for regional differences could be intervention disparities. Western and Northeastern states have some of the strongest tobacco control programs in the nation, while Southern and Midwe...Hospital outcomes for women improve, but some hospitals fall far behind: Healthgrades study
...tality for CABG surgery. The third annual study analyzes women's outcomes from more than 1,500 hospitals in...e high-quality hospitals in their area." The study analyzes hospitals in the following 17 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maryland, M...Efforts to improve hospital care
... failure and pneumonia." In the editorial, Romano analyzes two studies that used standardized, evidence-based measure to evaluate and improve hospitals' quality of care. One study, from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), describes results from a program in which hospit...New study examines impact of nurse-patient ratios law
...ng Outcomes Coalition (CalNOC), which collects and analyzes data on nurse staffing and outcomes from participating hospitals. In 1999, California became the first state in the nation to enact legislation requiring hospitals to meet minimum staffing standards, limiting the numbers of patients that registered ...New method rapidly detects potential bioterror agent
...ique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which analyzes the genes of a bacterium and yields results in one to two hours. The new method, which analyzes the proteins of a bacterium, can yield results in five minutes. For now, it is also a laboratory tes...Emergency-room visits dip during key Red Sox games
... by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, analyzes patient data anonymously and compares it with data from previous medical visits, flagging abnormal disease clusters or symptom patterns. After a week of late nights crunching and plotting data for the hours in question, Brownstein and Reis, also affi...Pain drives Canadian youth to seek alternative medical treatment
...d research analyst Nancy Churchman. The new study analyzes data collected by Statistics Canada as part of the Canadian Community Health Survey in 2000-2001. A total of 17,545 adolescents across the country, between the ages of 12 and 19, are included in this health-care snapshot. "Disability" is defined by t...Healthgrades study: New hospital ratings show wide 'quality chasm'
...lthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study, which analyzes 37 million Medicare hospitalization records, from the years 2002 through 2004, to rate the quality of care at each of the nation's more than 5,000 nonfederal hospitals. The hospital ratings, for 28 procedures and diagnoses at each facility, are liste...Brain structure associated with fear inhibition also may influence personality
... lower neuroticism. Using a statistical tool that analyzes whether one specific factor influences the relationship between the two other factors, the researchers found that while the relation between mOFC thickness and increased extraversion is mediated by extinction retention, the association between mOFC t...MCG gets technology to help optimize medicine dosage
...CYP450 Test, developed by Roche Diagnostics, which analyzes variations of the two major genes involved in metabolizing about 25 percent of all drugs. The test initially will be used to optimize doses of commonly used psychiatric drugs, a category of drugs with a lot of clinical experience with the test. MCG's...Sequence-based early warning system for the detection of MRSA outbreaks in hospitals
...g with a novel software program that automatically analyzes the spa sequences, links them to a database integrated with epidemiological information, and triggers an alarm if an outbreak is suspected. This approach was more sensitive at identifying outbreaks than classical surveillance techniques. The combina...First baseline data by REACH supports and extends ESC's Euroaspire findings
...al of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (1), analyzes information collected by the Reduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) Registry, the world's largest international database of patients with established atherothrombrosis or with a constellation of risk factors. REACH includes more t...Study: Hospitals rated top 5 percent have mortality rates 27 percent lower
...ual Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence study analyzes nearly 39 million hospitalizations over the years 2002, 2003 and 2004 at all 5,122 of the nation's nonfederal hospitals. Those with the lowest mortality and complication rates are named Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence TM . "The data ...