Aspirin & similar drugs may cut risk of esophageal cancer in people with Barrett's esophagus
...ications for this condition should do so under the direction of a physician. "If I had Barrett's I'd be looking for anything that would help, and this is something that might help," said Vaughan, also a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. ...Cincinnati Children's scientist wins achievement award for advances in heart disease research
... biology that have profoundly changed the pace and direction of cardiac research. His discoveries placed a new set of genetic tools in the hands of investigators around the world, thus stimulating a dramatically accelerated worldwide effort to identify and subsequently modify inborn molecular flaws at work in ...Heart mapping technique safely guides catheter repair of arrhythmia
...tion during ablation because one move in the wrong direction could damage healthy heart tissue or puncture the organ," says study lead investigator Jun Dong, M.D., a postdoctoral research fellow at Hopkins. Dong's research will be presented at the meeting as a finalist for the Melvin Judkins Young Clinical In...Pretreating vein graft does not help prevent graft failure in coronary artery bypass surgery
... organ may limit systemic toxicity and be a future direction of surgical intervention. Second, PREVENT IV includes and was powered to both a surrogate end point (angiographic vein graft failure) and a long-term clinical confirmatory end point (major adverse cardiac events). For important interventions believed...Brain activity related to processing faces is similar in people with, without autism
... faces (social items) and were asked to report the direction of the central arrow or central face by pushing a ...attention to the pertinent feature of a face, gaze direction in this instance," Dichter said, adding that most such studies did not account for where the partici...Air in Fallon, Nev. has elevated levels of tungsten and cobalt
...pectrometry. The team also analyzed wind speed and direction data from a weather station in Fallon, because wind speed and direction can affect the amount of dust in the air. The team found that compared with the other towns, Fallon'...One drug tackles two diseases, Case researcher finds
...r a bone scan. Palomo conducted the work under the direction of her thesis adviser, Bissada, and Liu from University Hospitals of Cleveland. "This is more evidence to support the view of the mouth being a mirror of what's happening in the body," said Bissada. Case researchers have also found a link between p...Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member to receive a Diva Award
...d Human Services providing policy coordination and direction for nursing activities. She also served as an international consultant on nursing and healthcare in numerous countries including Romania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zaire and Croatia and represented the United States on the Global Advisory Group on Nu...Researchers use brain scans to predict behavior
...e volunteers played the game -- discriminating the direction of a field of moving dots -- scientists showed them a hint: an arrow pointing to where the moving dots were likely to appear. The dots were visible only for one-fifth of a second and therefore were easy to miss if a subject was not paying attention t...Childbirth not linked to urinary incontinence, study finds
...tic link, it would have great implications for the direction of basic research, treatment approaches, risk management and potential prophylactic interventions."...Telephone-based care improves quality of life for those with anxiety disorders
...cording to evidence-based guidelines and under the direction of the patients' primary care physicians with specialist involvement when necessary. By providing support and monitoring progress, the use of care managers can result in much better outcomes for patients. More than 30 million Americans have suffered ...Research suggests making exercise more fun might boost fitness levels of US adolescents
...rly said. The study, which she conducted under the direction of Dr. Kirsten Krahnstoever Davison of SUNY-Albany's health policy, management and behavior department, included students at low and high risk of being physically inactive during middle school. Among them were overweight teens, girls and those who le...Patients who trust their doctors more have better outcomes
...er levels of trust," Muennig said. "If this is the direction of causality, then delayed care might be seen as an institutional factor and unmet needs as a personal factor between the provider and the patient."...Progress slow in improving hospitals' patient safety systems
...osed a national initiative to "provide a strategic direction for redesigning the health care system of the 21st century." These documents indicate that successful implementation of change in the nation's overall health care system requires change in specific patient safety systems at the hospital level. Daniel...Visually impaired people prefer to watch television enhanced with special processing
...e image was most visible. Moving the mouse in one direction changed the size of the detail to be enhanced. Movements in the other direction changed the amount of contrast enhancement applied to those details..Peli and his colleagues found t...ESC to publish first cardiovascular textbook
...e education project. Under the excellent editorial direction of John Camm, Tom Lscher and Patrick Serruys, this authoritative learning resource brings together expertise from all over Europe. The textbook will be the benchmark general reference for cardiologists and trainees." The textbook follows the structur...Agreement signed on milk bioactive products
...tritionals was formed in 2002 to provide strategic direction and accelerate developments in the rapidly expanding business of specialised proteins and nutritional supplements. Professor John Mattick, the Director of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, said this collaboration was another example of the str...Art therapy can reduce pain and anxiety in cancer patients
...he art therapist would do the art making under the direction of the subject or they could look at and discuss photographic images that were assembled into a book. Sessions ranged from light entertaining distraction to investigating deep psychological issues, says Nancy Nainis, MA, ATR, an art therapist at Nor...UCSD laser technique sheds light on strokes
...hat blood flow in some downstream vessels reverses direction to compensate for the blockage." In the paper, the...ough alternate loops and be pushed in the opposite direction below the clot, as observed in this study. The reversal prevents downstream regions of the brain fr...Researchers develop portable 'vein finder' for faster, more accurate injections
...in at a slight angle. The device can determine the direction of blood flow to distinguish arteries (which carry blood away from the heart) from veins (which carry blood to the heart). Once the device detects a vein, an alarm is triggered, and medics insert the needle. The vein finder has proved highly effecti...