Minimally invasive procedure OK for wide range of aorta problems, study shows
...loon outward, eventually leading to a rupture that brings almost certain death. For decades, patients have had a choice between open-chest surgery and waiting for the "time bomb" to explode. Some haven't had a choice, because their age or health makes them too high-risk for surgery. More than 15,000 Americ...Mathematics and statistics combat epidemics & bioterror
...Public Health, biostatistics professor Louise Ryan brings complementary modeling skills. At the Argentine National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Mauricio Galas will coordinate the team's work with 55 hospitals across Argentina in looking for outbreaks of resistant pathogens that may be regional or n...Yale findings hold promise for stopping progression of bipolar disorder
...r of Yale's Mood Disorders Research Program. "This brings hope that it may someday be possible to halt the progression of the disorder." Blumberg added, "Research to understand bipolar disorder in youths is especially important because of their high risk for suicide." Bipolar disorder is characterized by ep...University of Utah surgeon returns from Iraq to help start-up company fight cancer
...y, is also a founding partner in Vestan. Mr. Ririe brings decades of leadership in profitable entrepreneurial ventures to the team and shares in Grissom and McGreevy's desire to contribute to the high technology community of Utah. In addition to McGreevy's regular duties as a trauma and cancer surgeon at th...Viral, gold nanoparticles can assemble themselves to potentially find and treat disease
...his was truly a multidisciplinary approach, and it brings together something chemists, physicists and biologists have been trying to do, separately and unsuccessfully, for a long time," Souza says. "The beauty of this approach is that the phage can already be screened and selected to either target a certain...Infections could contribute to adult brain tumours
...e cause of brain tumours and we think our research brings us closer to understanding more about this disease. "We only found clustering of cases in the East of the province we investigated, and we think it could be something to do with the way infections spread in less densely populated areas." However, t...Penn State selected for DHS National Visualization Team
...f geography at Penn State. "Our university's RVAC brings together an exceptional, interdisciplinary research group to address this challenge through innovative, knowledge-enabled visualization methods and tools in support of the DHS mission." "Where" and "when" are explicit or implicit components of news r...Emergency angioplasty patients do best at hospitals where it's the 'default' treatment
... having a heart surgeon available as backup which brings with it regular monitoring of patient outcomes. The authors stress that their findings bolster prior findings by teams at U-M, Yale and other institutions showing that angioplasty patients do better if treated at hospitals, and by doctors, that perf...Study demonstrates safety of oral contraceptives in women with lupus
...rector Stephen I. Katz, M.D., Ph.D. "This research brings us another step forward in improving quality of life for people with rheumatic disease."...State board-disciplined physicians more likely to have shown unprofessional behavior in med school
...rative nature of the research, saying, "This study brings together the licensing and disciplinary branch of the medical system, represented by the Federation of State Medical Boards, with the medical schools, so that we can all help patients in the long run."...Global skin cancer research consortium wins 7m
...ewton-Bishop, the international Genomel consortium brings together teams from around the world who are worki..., much larger amounts of data) and because GenoMEL brings together expertise together from three continents."...ESC to publish first cardiovascular textbook
... among cardiologists for a practical textbook that brings together ESC Guidelines and best practice coupled ...rick Serruys, this authoritative learning resource brings together expertise from all over Europe. The textbook will be the benchmark general reference for ca...A pocketful of help for Alzheimer's sufferers and caregivers
...ly member at home," said Webbe. Becker brings the technology skills to the interface appearance and system usability. She will also supervise the creation of the software that will control the device. Becker will lead a team of computer science student researchers, staff and community volunteers...Groundbreaking guidelines promote early detection
...icians treat peripheral arterial disease, and each brings a different set of tools and knowledge to the task, depending on background and training. "All physicians who treat these conditions need to be aware of the latest information on diagnosis and management," said Dr. Norman R. Hertzer, emeritus chairm...Disruption of gene interaction linked to schizophrenia
.... "COMT upregulation appears to be a response that brings the level of dopamine signaling back to normal," Zakharenko said. "So patients with the 22q11 microdeletion are unable to compensate for their PRODH deficiency by upregulating COMT." The team further showed that PRODH deficiency increased the release...Families can alleviate 'time crunch' by working with, not for, professionals
... armed with solutions. In this model, every person brings something different to learn and contribute and ci...kle problems of mutual interest where every person brings a different kind of expertise."...APIA announces the distinguished Dr. Barry Uretsky as opening speaker
...icipated APIA Conference," says Dr. Uretsky. "APIA brings together experts in interventional cardiovascular disease from Australia and elsewhere to share their knowledge and experience with others to improve care around the world. It is a great honour for me to be invited to open this exciting meeting." SCA...Global health histories: A symposium at NIH
...ternational symposium on "Global Health Histories" brings together some of the leading historians, social scientists, policy makers, and practitioners of the emerging field of global health. "As the world becomes increasingly interdependent," says Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D., the Director of the National Lib...Pediatricians ignore screenings that flag hearing problems in children, new SLU research finds
...n would fail that screening. However, the research brings a new question to light: How do doctors decide what to do when young patients have an abnormal screening result? "The findings from this study are worrisome because physicians took no further action in more than 50 percent of the children who failed ...Growth patterns into childhood reveal risk of coronary heart disease later in life
...st pain or both. The OHSU Heart Research Center brings together more than 100 OHSU researchers from 30 different fields of medicine in an effort to further advances in heart health. Sharing research results and techniques has helped speed the progress of OHSU's research into the development of the heart ...