Women missing out in heart treatment more needed in clinical trials
...ardiovascular trials. Most of the progress in this direction has occurred in the USA as a direct consequence of the commitment of funding agencies that have provided economic support only when a balanced gender presence was assured in the design of a trial," said Dr Priori. She urged scientific societies to p...Biosensor reveals new information about suspected cause of Alzheimer's disease
...e was a graduate student at Northwestern under the direction of Richard Van Duyne. The findings were presented today at the 230th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society. Haes, in cooperation with Van Duyne, Northwestern professor William Klein and research asso...Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality
...dir-sounding' as well as 'limb-sounding' along the direction of flight and with a larger spectral range than its predecessor. The increase in nitrogen dioxide levels seen is an unfortunate side effect of economic success. China's industrial boom has seen it become the world's largest consumer of copper, al...Proteome Systems raises $10m through a private placement to institutional and professional investors
...nds lead us to be extremely positive about the new direction of the Company" The new shares will be issued following an EGM scheduled for October 2005, if shareholder approval is obtained and will rank equally with the Company's ordinary shares. The Company will apply to the ASX for quotation of the shares f...NIH establishes National Commission on Digestive Diseases
...move the field of digestive diseases research in a direction that could lead to significant advances over the next 10 years," said Stephen P. James, M.D., Director of the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The Commissio...Detecting Alzheimer's in the eye, lifting fingerprints without touching the surface
.../banff_v1.html ), allowsusers to control speed and direction through specific paths as wellas the ability to look across a wide-angle panorama. Webcams and the Internet enable the possibility for "live" virtualreality, according to Naimark. While conventional virtual reality ispre-recorded or computer-animate...Univ. of Cincinnati receives $17.4 million grant to lead stroke study
...hope that this trial can be the first step in that direction for acute stroke," Dr. Broderick said. "We're hoping this will lead to a paradigm shift in stroke treatment, from the standard tPA dose given intravenously to less tPA and a more interventional approach, which will be whatever is needed to open the ...Hebrew University receives its largest NIH research grant ever -- $5.6 million biodefense award
... carried out by UK and US subcontractors under the direction of Atox Bio which holds the license to the intellectual property. Zeev Weiss, head of life sciences strategic consulting, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Israel, was instrumental in building and supporting the team that led to the successful application. "T...Sharper picture of major depression and alcohol disorders
...ression to substance use disorders. This research direction is supported by earlier genetic studies that identified factors common to MDD and alcohol dependence and at least one epidemiologic study that demonstrated excess MDD among long-abstinent former alcoholics, state the authors. Coexisting substance de...Biomedical engineer shows how people learn motor skills
... rate, twice as fast, or four times as fast as the direction of movement, therefore exposing subjects to environments of increasing complexity across movement space. Subjects learned all three environments and learned the low and medium complexity environments equally well. They learned the high complexity e...UCSD leads team to build Geographic Information System to assess toxic hazards from Katrina
...tal stressors on human health," said Tukey, Under direction from Dr. David Schwartz, Director of the NIEHS and... Outreach Core over the past five years. Under the direction of Keith Pezzoli, Ph.D. of UCSD's Urban Studies and Planning Program, the Outreach Core has develope...New ASU center will assess societal implications of nanotechnology
...s come from, what they mean and how they shape the direction that nanotechnology takes," Guston added. "As a result, informed discussions and deliberations can enhance both the responsiveness of nanotechnology research to societal needs, and improve the quality of nanotechnology outcomes." The center is a c...Physician pay-for-performance programs may produce little gain in quality
... programs, should be viewed as a first step in the direction of aligning payment incentives with health system quality goals. Realization of the full potential of pay-for-performance to reduce the persistent gap between evidence-based and actual practice will require that payers adapt their incentive strategie...Heredity plays big role in heart disease risk factors
...t's a paradox," Dr. Davis says. "It's the opposite direction you would expect given the disparities in health outcomes." "We would have expected environmental influences to be more important in blacks," adds Dr. Snieder. "We did not find that." What they did find they hope will provide new insight and possib...New HIV guidelines support use of FUZEON + active boosted PI for treatment-experienced patients
...se guidelines provide real clarity and much needed direction on how to best care for pre-treated patients." The DHHS recommendation reflects the growing body of evidence for the powerful "FUZEON effect" which has been seen across the RESIST 1 & 2, POWER 1 & 2 and TORO 1 & 2 studies. These studies showed that ...PLoS announces open access journal for all clinical trials, positive or negative
...ystematically from those that are published in the direction and strength of the findings, thus distorting the evidence base for decision-making in healthcare. "Unpublished results undermine the trust between patients and investigators and slow the vast potential of medical progress," says Dr Christian Glu...Changes in brain, not age, determine one's ability to focus on task
...ing one of four buttons that corresponded with the direction the center arrow was pointing. Sometimes the participants would be distracted by changes in direction by arrows not in the center. The experiment allowed researchers to study the ability to focus on imp...Mirrors can trick the brain into recovering from persistent pain, research suggests
...rs were then asked to move their limbs in the same direction at the same time, and then in opposite directions whilst viewing the mirror reflection of one hand. Within 20 seconds of starting, more than two thirds of people involved in the trial reported some kind of sensation in their hidden limb when the move...New strides being made in chemoprevention
...f2 pathways with triterpenoids, and provides a new direction for drug development," said Dr. Yates. "The triterpenoid CDDO-Im appears to be at least 100-fold more potent in this model than other drugs targeting Nrf2 that are currently in clinical development." NSAIDs and COXIBs: The Burden of Proof (Abstr...New Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers announced
...C.'s Children's National Medical Center, under the direction of Eric P. Hoffman, Ph.D., and Diana M. Escolar, M.D., will study biochemical pathways that contribute to DMD. A clinical project aims to identify genetic modifiers of the disease, and two laboratory studies focus on muscle cell damage and muscle gr...