Shining light on pancreatic cancer
... encourage more people to get screened before they develop symptoms of disease. The portable system was not...rs have partnered with American BioOptics to fully develop the technology. In July, American BioOptics received an NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant...AASM to school-bound: Sleep is the right ingredient for academic success
...has been established, it may take days or weeks to develop a new schedule. It cant be done overnight. Not unexpectedly, for the first weeks of school, many children and teens do not obtain a proper amount of sleep. William Kohler, MD, of the Florida Sleep Institute in Spring Hill, and a pediatric sleep e...Medical residents score poorly in diagnosing and managing tuberculosis
...score of 95 percent). Most people with active TB develop symptoms over weeks, so what is needed is more training in the outpatient setting and in the community in addition to the hospital wards, to recognize and treat this infection early and before it spreads, Karakousis says. ...HealthGrades study: Bariatric surgery patients have fewer complications at high-volume hospitals
...of every ten patients undergoing bariatric surgery develop complications within six months. Methodology For this study, HealthGrades analyzed 166,410 bariatric procedures performed in the years 2003, 2004 and 2005. To make accurate and valid comparisons of clinical outcomes at different hospitals with ...W.M. Keck Foundation announces 2007 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in medical research
...r organisms cell structures, with the potential to develop approaches to analyze cell behavior and structure in living embryos. The Foundations Board of Directors has unanimously approved the recommendations made by the Scientific Advisory Committee. ...Africa: International volunteer impact small, but significant
...source allocation. Health managers organise and develop health services for the general population, whereas volunteer organisations do not always fit into such a comprehensive and long-term approach. "Country health service managers in sub-Saharan Africa consider international volunteers as a last resor...Nottingham center to help UK to meet its carbon targets
...Storage (CICCS) due to open in October 2007 will develop novel technologies to trap and store greenhouse ga... bring groundbreaking ideas from basic science and develop them into new products, processes and services, as well as consider public acceptability issues. W...Trials underway for 'essential' new TB vaccine
... from Technology Transfer at the Wellcome Trust to develop and test the vaccine, which currently leads the fi... becoming increasingly ineffective as the bacteria develop resistance to the drugs available. "In children, the current vaccine provides some protection agai...Support for Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act given to House leaders by ACP
...t payment cuts in 2010 and subsequent years and to develop an effective method for future updates. Creating the building blocks for Medicare reforms to improve quality. The College is particularly pleased that the bill will create incentives for care coordination by a patients personal physician through a...Medical students respond positively to simulated patient experience
...rses taught to first- and second-year students, to develop a simulation to help teach basic science principles. Many medical schools use such computerized simulated patients to teach clinical skills, but Wake Forest is one of the first schools to use this technology in live, large group lecture settings. Fit...U of M researchers discover new method to combat HIV
...roblems, a Portmanteau Inhibitor is less likely to develop resistance from the virus because of its multifaceted approach. Most importantly, research found that the separate components of the drug did not interfere with each other while attacking HIV. One drug is not durable. It develops resistance very qu......lls have the capability to be transplanted to, and develop in, healthy recipients. And there is some data to show that transfused patients are at increased risk of cancers, particularly non-Hodgkin lymphoma. To test some of these ideas, Gustaf Edgren and colleagues set out to investigate whether there is a...UGA study explains why anti-smoking ads backfire or succeed
...ed in anti-smoking campaigns, she said. We need to develop more sophisticated appeals....Study finds HIV protease inhibitor drugs may adversely affect the scaffolding of the cell nucleus
...e why some HIV protease inhibitor-treated patients develop side effects while others do not, said Dr. Stephen Young, study author and a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The UCLA team was assisted by the laboratory of Christine Hrycyna, an associate professor of chemistr...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...effective as possible. Medical physicists help to develop new imaging techniques, improve existing ones, and assure the safety of radiation used in medical procedures. They contribute to the development of therapeutic techniques, such as the radiation treatment and prostate implants for cancer. They colla...Cancer on the agenda of the Portuguese EU Council Presidency
...ority and will request the national governments to develop policies, including a comprehensive overall strategy, for the prevention and control of cancer. The common objective of the meeting will be to create capacity building for developing and implementing effective policies and programs. Only by sharing...Case study: cross-cultural bioethics training program helps fight African 'brain drain'
...work collaboratively with African professionals to develop their own ethics-based research methods. After studying in Baltimore for six months under the supervision of a mentor with similar research interests, trainees return to Africa to begin a six-month practicum on the topic of their choice related to th...Needle-stick injuries are common but unreported by surgeons in training
...adth of this problem and the need for hospitals to develop systems to address it, says contributing author Mark S. Sulkowski, M.D., of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins. Lead author Martin Makary, M.D., M.P.H., a surgeon at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, says that while residents must take m...Emergency department guidelines enhance quality patient care
..., the UC researchers believe they are the first to develop a comprehensive, evidence-based online system that covers numerous conditions from triage and diagnosis to treatment and discharge. Weve been developing a system for the last three years to establish evidence-based guidelines and forms for nurses a...Intensive-care patients with alcohol problems are more likely to require mechanical ventilation
...edical patients who have an AUD are more likely to develop a critical illness resulting in the need for lifes...f AUDs. Being mindful that patients with AUDs may develop complications such as alcohol withdrawal, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and possibly acute respi...