Study first to show potential of light-activated gene therapy for knee injuries
...rapy for cartilage repair that will be safe, fast, easy on patients and compatible with techniques used by most surgeons (e.g. arthroscopy). Beyond knee injuries, researchers believe the technology could one day guide precision gene therapy for cancer or heart disease, restore vision by repairing eye tiss...Easy to use emergency mobile device for people at risk
...rge and clearly discernible buttons, the device is easy to handle and above all straightforward to use. "The design is very simple, it doesn't have all the functions of a mobile phone, but that is what trial users most liked about it," explains Stefan Lilischkis, the MobilAlarm project manager at coordina...Lack of basic research putting patients at risk
...suffered as a result, yet much of this research is easy and relatively cheap to do, so why has it not been done, he asks? He calls into question whether medical academia, in its current form, is properly fit for purpose. He believes that medical academia must improve its performance or, less preferably, b...International sex trafficking conference at the University of Minnesota
... growing industries in the world. A consequence of easy and cheap global travel is an increase in the reported sexual exploitation of children in tourist destinations. Conference sessions will attempt to answer questions such as: What are the forces that shape the current patterns of commercial sexual exp...Accentia Biopharmaceuticals to begin shipping MD Turbo
...scribe their drug of choice in combination with an easy to use, handheld, breath-activated device to overcome the delivery challenges often facing their patients." According to three independent studies spanning more than 10 years, greater than 50% of patients using traditional press-and-breathe MDIs to c...UI research aims to help patients with spinal cord injury
...ults. Shields noted that it should be feasible and easy to translate this finding directly into useful treatments. "This research emphasizes that early intervention is a critical consideration in efforts to preserve the musculoskeletal system after SCI and that future studies must address efficient method...Watch not, want not? Packard/Stanford study links kids' TV time and consumerism
...ealthy decisions, they said. "Kids are an easy target for advertisers," concluded Robinson. "Younger children aren't even able to understand that ads, which are now cropping up in video games and movies, online and even in cell phones, are intended to sell them things. Marketers need to be part o...Life or death can depend on teenage cancer patients taking their treatments properly
...es and the patient accepts. This is not always an easy concept for a teenager to deal with," he said. The researchers found a number of factors implicated in situations where adolescents had failed to take their treatment properly. These included: length of time the treatment lasted (with compliance dec...NJIT environmental psychologist offers tips on how elderly can stay home
...nt, side and rear yards all need to be accessible, easy to walk on and free of tripping hazards." Olsen ... most direct path to the door so they are within easy reach Whenever possible, create an on-grade entry. Door and Doorway Design Doors and sta...Neuroscientists discover new cell type that may help brain maintain memories of smells
...as it coursed through the brain, it was relatively easy to see where it ended and where I should look for potential target cells. Because I knew where to look, this part of the project was shortened from potentially years to just a matter of weeks", said Pressler. The multiphoton microscope used in this...Study finds pathological gambling runs in families
...ome widespread in the last 20 years, mainly due to easy access to gambling outlets. When those people who are predisposed to problem gambling are regularly exposed to gambling opportunities, they are much more likely to develop a problem. Iowa sanctions casinos, racetracks, lottery, bingo and the new phe...Gold nanorods may make safer cancer treatment
..., the cancer cells scattered light, making it very easy to identify the noncancerous cells from the malign...ared to the benign cells. This makes it relatively easy to ensure that only the malignant cells are being destroyed. Now, they've discovered that by changin...How can we protect patients with weakened immune systems from influenza?
...rror weapon, the influenza virus may be relatively easy to manipulate for such purposes in a laboratory which is why the federal government is funding medical research to improve defenses against flu. Dr. Sullivan looks to broader and longer-term benefits of her funded program. "Even if the worst-case sc...Seattle Heart Failure Model is able to accurately predict survival for patients with heart failure
...per year. Patients and clinicians have not had an easy way to estimate survival. The Seattle Heart Failure Model was developed using very simple clinical and laboratory variables that are available to any health care provider. Some of these include age, gender, blood pressure, weight, heart failure med...New test to detect rare proteins in blood
...ases, and possibly psychiatric diseases relatively easy and more accurate compared with the current methodology, including the widely used ELISA (enzyme-linked immunoadsorbent assay). ELISA is a common immune-system-based assay that uses enzymes linked to an antibody or antigen as a marker for picking ou...Saliva component may predict future oral bone loss
...This biomarker test also could provide a quick and easy way to monitor patients over the long-term and to determine if a particular treatment is working," he said. Periodontal bone loss is a serious oral-health condition that can cause teeth to loosen and fall out. The availability of a simple test woul...New strategy developed to study disease: Reveals insights into cancer and treatment leads
...ancer as well as other diseases and may provide an easy model to screen for new cancer drugs. "Our study reveals a new way to study proteins in live cells, in this case, a tyrosine kinase implicated in causing cancer," says the study's lead author, Philip A. Cole, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Department o...Reducing teens' intake of sugary drinks
...ple, potentially high-impact behavior, and made it easy for adolescents to replace sugary drinks with noncaloric beverages." Although the intervention targeted only the home environment, previous research suggests that home is where adolescents get the majority of their food and beverages. "It should b...Chocolate milk could be key to longer, healthier life
...itochondria. We hope to highlight an effective and easy way to maintain the protein content in muscles or at least replace old and damaged proteins with new ones." With funding assistance from the New Zealand Health Research Council, Dr Miller and PhD student Cheryl Murphy, asked a group of elderly kiwis ......nies covet finding good, short drug names that are easy to remember, Kondrak noted, adding, "the FDA and other drug agencies need to balance this against confusing the names with existing ones--it's a serious problem." Kondrak co-authored a paper on this topic that was recently published in the journal Ar...