American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (first issue)
...art-lung transplantation, investigators revealed a close relationship between graft ischemic time and long-term survival after single or double lung transplantation. (Graft ischemic time was defined as the interval between the application of the aortic cross clamp during donor organ removal and the reperfu...More exhaust inhaled by kids inside school buses than by others in the area, says new UC study
...n area," said Marshall. "That the values were even close was shocking." The researchers analyzed results from tracer-gas experiments conducted by scientists at UCLA and UC Riverside. They measured the air in six empty school buses traveling through established routes in south-central and suburban Los Ange...Study shows that a kidney transplant can reverse heart failure
...he patients, pumping ability returned to normal or close to normal following the transplant. Even more dramatic, the majority of the patients with the worst heart failure (about 20 percent of those studied) regained significant cardiac function following the transplant, according to Dr. Wali. The investig...Lack of vigorous activity linked to functional decline in older adults with arthritis
...ntly among minorities (18 percent of Hispanics and close to 19 percent of African Americans) than Caucasians (about 13 percent). The high rates of functional decline among older women and ethnic minorities with arthritis were attributed to the burden of added ailments, particularly diabetes, stroke, visio...Institute of Medicine news: Review of HIVNET 012 study
...fic validity of the study's conclusions based on a close examination of how researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Uganda's Makerere University conducted the trial. This independent review was requested and funded by the National Institutes of Health, which also funded the original trial in Uganda....Tissue engineering experts discuss orthopaedics applications
... been successfully tested in large animals and are close to being ready to test in humans. Atala's team is working to use patients' own cells to grow more than 20 different tissue types. They harvest cells from humans and apply growth factors, to cause the cells to multiply outside the body. It can take y...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...arnessing of nanotechnology represents a chance to close these gaps. The targeted application of nanotechnology has enormous potential to bring about major improvements in the living standards of people in the developing world," says CPGGH co-director and JCB Director Dr. Peter Singer. "Science and technol...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...rgeons could see what they are doing so they don't close the chest being one conduit short," said Fitzgerald. "Now for the first time the surgeons can take a picture with a direct way to assess how efficient their procedure has been." As a cardiac surgeon, Pelletier said he appreciated having the ......eir sexuality. Much of the verbal abuse came from close family members. Half of the people interviewed had been physically or verbally abused by strangers on the street or on public transport. Experiences of depression and loneliness featured heavily in people's accounts. Two men spoke about trying to...Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...ified were novel, meaning that they had no genetic close neighbors in the existing databases that store sequence information about all known species. "We thought we would find new ones, but it was a bit surprising to see such a large percentage that had remained unidentified," said Eckburg. "Despite this l...American Society of Travel Agents urges healthy travel for consumers
...y ingesting contaminated food or water, or through close person-to-person contact. Hepatitis A can result in jaundice, weakness and can even cause liver failure. Hepatitis B is spread through infected blood or body fluids for example, through sexual contact, intravenous drug use, contaminated medical de...Increasing benefit seen in novel drug that treats Gleevec resistance
...les estimates response in those patients may reach close to 100 percent because their cancer has not yet had the chance to form new mutations that the drug cannot treat. For that same reason, some patients with more advanced cancer will not respond to the drug, Giles points out. Despite what he calls very ...Adolescents not receiving health counseling, Stanford study shows
... counseling to adolescents. "What it would take to close the gaps is substantial," Ma said. "But it's not insurmountable, and proven interventions exist to facilitate the process."...Child sex abuse policy recommendations published in Science magazine
...ned somewhat in the U.S. during the last 10 years, close to 90 percent of sexual abuse cases are never repo...use is committed by family members and individuals close to the child, which increases the likelihood of delayed disclosure and possible memory failure while...Nanoparticles offer new hope for detection and treatment
...or of medicine. "We believe the technology is very close to being useful in a hospital setting." Lanza and his colleague Samuel Wickline, M.D., professor of medicine, are co-inventors of this nanoparticle technology. The effectiveness of the nanoparticles in diagnosis and therapy in humans will be tested i...High levels of immunosuppressant may lead to tumor recurrence
...d. In a previous study, the authors demonstrated a close relationship between the amount of cyclosporine and tumor recurrence in liver transplant patients. The current study further examines this association and identifies possible strategies to avoid it. Led by Marco Vivarelli of the department of surger...Monoclonal antibody cures West Nile virus-infected mice
...uction and selection of the new antibody include a close fix on where the antibody binds to West Nile virus. Antibodies typically work by attaching to a piece of a foreign cell or substance, which causes immune system cells known as macrophages to pick up the substance and clear it from the body. Binding t...Access to mammography may worsen
...ausing the staffing shortage, more facilities will close and screening will become more centralized, perhaps making screening and diagnostic mammography impossible for some women," said the study's lead author, Carl D'Orsi, M.D., professor of radiology and director of the Breast Imaging Center at Emory Uni...The World Congress on Cornelia de Lange Syndrome in Italy
...lex aspect of the clinical picture requires a very close multi-disciplinary interaction to address the many and varied problems which the condition presents. Therefore, the Conference foresees two participation levels: in fact, the Conference will be divided in Professional Days organised from 16th to 17t......d with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a very close relative of HIV, and treated with minocycline had less damage to brain cells, less brain inflammation, and less virus in the central nervous system than six infected monkeys that received no treatment, the researchers report in the April 27 issue of ...