Six organizations vie for INFORMS 'science of better' innovation prize
...vel of service. Its assistance managing operations design contributed an additional savings. Eli Lilly: Antifolates are among the most promising potential anticancer agents but they carry varied risks of toxicity; although rarely occurring, the combination of toxicities can result in death. Eli Lily was f...Studies examine menopausal hormone therapy and risk of breast cancer recurrence
...ects of exogenous estrogen, emphasizes the need to design subsequent studies to address questions for specific agents."...Institute of Medicine news: Review of HIVNET 012 study
...the National Academies. The IOM's analysis of the design and methodology of the 1997 drug study in Uganda, ...veral factors, including evidence that the study's design was both scientifically sound and ethically implemented, that participants adhered well to the treat...Certain weight control behaviors may precipitate obesity among adolescent girls
...he rise in obesity and to hopefully facilitate the design of effective preventative programs to stop this public health epidemic, said Stice....Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
A researcher studying drug design for nerve damage therapies has gotten her answer t...l studies, they hope to refine their drug delivery design to get the optimal rate of drug release. "We started with a model I'd previously developed,...Tops in technology: UH math professor honored for aneurysm work
... uses complex mathematical models to perfect stent design and has initiated interdisciplinary alliances among experts in cardiology, mathematics, biology, engineering and scientific computing to address the issues related to this type of medical treatment. (See related release at http://www.uh.edu/media/n...To boost efficiency, hospitals borrow principles from factory floor
...Erie County Medical Center justify and efficiently design a new ambulatory-surgery recovery center. Currently, Lin is working with home health-care provider McAuley-Seton Home Care, a division of the Catholic Health System in Buffalo, to streamline the scheduling of nurses' visits to patients' homes....'Nanoshells' simultaneously detect and destroy cancerous cells
...ble optical properties. This allows researchers to design particles that scatter and absorb light at particular wavelengths. The scattering of light provides the optical signal used to detect the cancer cells, which then "light up" when they come into contact with the nanoshells. In this study, the resear...Ovary removal elevates risk for Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism
...ic substance alone." Dr. Rocca indicates that the design of the current study does not provide the data needed to address the question of whether a woman's risk of parkinsonism after having both ovaries removed is altered by taking estrogen therapy. The Mayo Clinic investigators studied 1,202 women who ha...Scientists discover how Ebola virus infects cells
...ed. The wealth of existing knowledge regarding the design and in vivo pharmacology of these inhibitors may facilitate development of an anti-Ebola-virus therapy." The work was done in collaboration with Nancy J. Sullivan, Ph.D., of NIAID's Vaccine Research Center. The paper's lead author, Kartik Chandran, ...Execution by lethal injection is not humane or painless suggests study
...uted. Because participation of doctors in protocol design or execution is ethically prohibited, adequate anaesthesia cannot be certain. Therefore to prevent unnecessary cruelty and suffering, cessation and public review of lethal injection is warranted." In an accompanying editorial The Lancet comments: "Wh...Easing the anxiety of pregnancy after miscarriage
...ese findings were limited by the study's snapshot" design -- measuring anxiety at one point in the pregnancy -- Ct-Arsenault is following 82 women with a prior loss throughout their current pregnancies. The women are keeping pregnancy calendars to record their emotional ups and downs during their pregnancie...Researchers find that chocolate compound stops cancer cell cycle in lab experiments
...operties -- findings that might be used one day to design novel cancer treatments. The study, published in the April issue of the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, explains how pentameric procyanidin (pentamer), a natural compound found in cocoa, deactivates a number of proteins that likely work in co...Gene expression pattern predicts multiple drug resistance, treatment failure in pediatric leukemia
...ormation into treatment failure that could help us design more effective treatments for the children our current treatment strategies fail to cure." Evans is senior author of the Cancer Cell report. The ALL cells used in the study were isolated from the bone marrow or the blood of patients with newly diagn...Increasing benefit seen in novel drug that treats Gleevec resistance
...t this study employs a new model of clinical trial design in which patients are continuously being given higher doses of the drug. "So the results change daily as patients fare increasingly better on higher doses," he says. "We are seeing benefit at lower doses that will only be fully quantifiable when all ...Trusts perform better on chemical incidents but protective suits and tents still imperfect
...ical incidents following national training but the design and distribution of chemical protective suits and shelters are still a problem, says research published this week in Emergency Medicine Journal . Birmingham researchers sent a questionnaire to all UK acute hospital and ambulance trusts and organise...K-State professor takes chemistry to another world
...an do the analysis in space and NASA won't have to design a reentry vehicle to bring the experiments back to earth . This will not only save a significant amount of money, but it will also make more room on the rocket to take experiments up in space."...American Academy of Neurology sums up scientific highlights from 57th annual meeting
...neuron. Understanding this important step may help design therapies to block it. [S12.004] Meanwhile, researchers from the United Kingdom discovered that in neurons from a mouse model, the number of mitochondria is increased, and the mitochondria are more active. Mitochondria are the cell's power-generating...Rush University Medical Center studies advanced 3D imaging system for radiation therapy
...display system initially developed with automobile design in mind may be beneficial in the treatment of cancer patients. Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is the only test site in the world exploring the use of the Perspecta Spatial 3D system to improve evaluation and planning of radiation treatmen...Tools for diagnosing heart attack could be inaccurate in some populations
...ke Forest University Baptist Medical Center. "This design does not detect subtle differences that may exist among the groups." It has been demonstrated that race and ethnicity influence both the perception of chest pain and the time it takes people to seek treatment. Miller said these differences may make t...