OHSU surgeon implants donated tissue allografts
...ation (JRF), allowing Portland to become one of 16 areas across the country to receive priority allocation ...pleased to partner with CTS in Portland and others areas to benefit these communities," he said. JRF prepares and coordinates fresh osteochondral allograft...Drugs for Parkinson's disease may ease stroke-related disability
...the left hemisphere, where damage to various brain areas is linked to specific kinds of language deficits,"...of neglect stemming from damage to different brain areas is not yet clear. "Another possible kind of neglect has to do with putting a patient's good hand o...Combined imaging approach may provide better identification of difficult-to-diagnose brain clots
...ined pictures of difficult-to-detect abnormal flow areas within vessels of the brain. These areas may be important warning signs of blocked blood flow that require medical intervention. The enhanced...Latest IPCC report highlights need for integrated climate/human behavior models
...ing". The large-scale movement of people away from areas adversely affected by climate change and by other ...leased by the IPCC WG2 show that in many cases the areas facing the largest changes in climate are not only located in countries that have contributed the le...Study recommends universal newborn screening for cystic fibrosis
...hern Ireland, but this is not yet the case for all areas of England including London. Dr Erika Sims (University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK) and colleagues from the University of Dundee, UK, used data from the UK cystic fibrosis database for 2002 to compare the treatment costs of 184 children aged 19 ye...... by application of insecticides in plague outbreak areas is also important."...Pediatricians rarely provide translation services for patients with little English proficiency
...o relay health information. Pediatricians in rural areas or in states with higher proportions of non-English proficient populations were the least likely to use professional translation services. The study is published in the April 2007 issue of Pediatrics. Our results show that language services for pat...London asthma sufferers get space-based help
... forecasts have focused on very large geographical areas and the methods for communicating the information have been poor," CERC atmospheric scientist Dr Iarla Kilbane-Dawe said. "AirTEXT represents a revolution in air-pollution forecasting with localised information being sent directly to the individual."...New research shows why too much memory may be a bad thing
..., in which mice had to locate food within specific areas of a maze, showed that mice in which neurogenesis had been halted made more correct choices and found the food faster. "In our world, we are constantly bombarded by new information so we are constantly filtering and if we did not do this, we would...MRI detects most missed opposite breast cancers in women
...atsonis said. "But it isnt perfect. Scans did show areas of suspicious breast tissue that turned out to be benign. But this study showed fewer false positives than smaller MRI studies strongly supporting MRI as a complement to mammography."...Biopsy may underestimate prostate cancer in obese and overweight men
...lassified, doctors should conduct biopsies on more areas of the prostate gland, Freedland said. "Performing more biopsy samples will help determine the true aggressiveness of the prostate cancer and will allow treatment to be better tailored to the patients needs," he said...Few surgeons routinely refer breast cancer patients for reconstruction, U-M study finds
... women in the Detroit and Los Angeles metropolitan areas who had been treated for breast cancer. The study found 44 percent of the surgeons referred fewer than a quarter of their patients to a plastic surgeon prior to the mastectomy. Only 24 percent of surgeons referred three-quarters or more of their pa...Contrast agent puts new light on diagnosing breast cancer
...ge of tissues deep inside the breast, highlighting areas where malignant tumors appear. The agent also may be used during surgery to pinpoint the location of hydroxyapatite, and therefore the breast cancer cells themselves, Frangioni notes. His group began working to develop agents to target hydroxyap...Cornell researcher helping develop quick, cheap HIV/AIDS test
...ople live with HIV/AIDS worldwide, many of them in areas where electricity is unreliable or nonexistent, water quality is poor and there are few, if any, highly skilled health-care technicians. "This test, however, is being developed to endure harsh temperature conditions and be truly simple -- no batterie...Place more than race tied to heart disease risk
...s also easier and safer to exercise outside. Urban areas often lack good grocery stores, forcing residents to rely on corner stores that don't have many fresh food selections at reasonable prices. Homko and her fellow researchers presented their findings at the American Heart Association's Cardiovascula...Loperamide therapy for acute diarrhea in children
...nt recommendations that pregnant women who live in areas where malaria is common should sleep under insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs). The researchers reviewed evidence from five trials (four of them conducted in Africa) and found that women who sleep under ITNs are less likely to have miscarriages ...March of Dimes, Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute launch prematurity prevention partnership
...the rate of preventable preterm births in targeted areas of Kentucky, the March of Dimes and Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute today formally launched Healthy Babies Are Worth the WaitSM, a three-year partnership with the Kentucky Department for Public Health. The announcement was made at a news confer...Sustainability of energy, food and water theme of ACS national meeting
...c-free drinking water for villagers in many remote areas of India and Bangladesh. At least 150 simple, low-cost arsenic removal units have been installed in existing wells in these areas, which serve about 200,000 people. This presentation, by Arup SenGupta of Lehigh, highlights how the systems use chemi......es urine, and so on. Consequently, images of these areas of the body are often marked by artifacts or distortions." Additionally, the clarity of a specific image often depends upon the composition of objects that are nearby. Natural objects, such as organs and bones, and man made objects, such as art....... We wanted to find out what would happen when the areas relevant to maths learning in the right parietal lobes were effectively knocked out for several hundred milliseconds. We found that stimulation to this brain region during a maths test radically impacted on the subjects reaction time. This provides...