Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Sept. 19, 2006
... An editorial writer says that as better therapies enable people with HIV to live longer, they develop diseases related to age, particularly cardiovascular disease and cancers (Editorial, p. 463). Both primary care physicians and HIV care specialists must remember to provide their HIV patients with preven...UCSD researchers create roadmap to integrin activation
...nges in the cells' surface receptors changes that enable platelets to bind to the wall of blood vessels and to one another. "The road map of the activation pathway could lead to the development of new antithrombotic drugs or treatments for inflammatory diseases. In addition, the ability to engineer thes...Survey: Caregivers of people with mental illness say treatment disruption has serious consequences
...ts the complex web of interdependent supports that enable individuals living with serious psychiatric illnesses to achieve complete care and long-term wellness," says Spiro. "Complete care is made up of effective medication, compassionate providers, robust community-based programs and empowered family membe...Patients can report statins' adverse effects on new web site
... School of Medicine www.statineffects.com will enable people from around the world to self-report adverse effects of statin drug use, or use of other cholesterol drugs. "This line of research is important because many physicians and other experts in heart disease and cholesterol are familiar with the...Newly discovered behavior in cancer cells signals dangerous metastasis
..."Understanding this toggle switch might ultimately enable scientists to find ways to stop cells from metastasizing, which is the most deadly trait of cancer," said the study's lead investigator, Mariano Garcia-Blanco, M.D., Ph.D., professor of molecular genetics and microbiology. The researchers will publi...Lancet's coverage of the World Health Organization Director-General election
... for WHO and what changes they think are needed to enable the organisation to function effectively and successfully. We hope you will join the debate."...New tool helps blood specialists improve patient care
...ion/pims.cfm . ABIM's Practice Improvement Modules enable physicians to conduct a confidential self-evaluation of the medical care that they provide. Through programs jointly sponsored by the ABIM and specialty societies, the diplomate is eligible for Category 1 CME credit for completing each self-evaluati...ESA experiments with spaceflight participant Ansari to ISS
...e space environment. The results of the study will enable a better assessment of the genetic risk for humans in space and, in the long-term, will contribute to optimise radiation shielding for future space exploration missions. Ansari will act as a test subject providing blood samples before and after her...Unique laboratory could make pavements more user-friendly
...gn of pavements, footways and concourses, and will enable new ideas and products to be tried out. Nic...er. PAMELA consists of three key elements, which enable different, realistic combinations of conditions and their impact on people to be studied in a closel...Combined therapies may boost immune response and long-term protection against brain tumors
...inst gliomas and its impact on memory cells, which enable the immune system to "remember" antigens and respond in subsequent encounters. In that animal study, the researchers injected bone marrow-derived neural stem cells that were genetically engineered to produce IL-23. The stem cells tracked tumor cells ...New findings could lead to vaccine for severe malaria
...ished in the American scientific journal PNAS, can enable the development of vaccines and therapies to combat severe malarial infections. During one particular phase of its lifecycle, the parasite enters human red blood cells, where it produces proteins that attach themselves to receptors in the wall of th...Determining the state of the human arterial system
...t using the traditional armband. But this does not enable one to identify the biological age of the system, only the systolic and diastolic pressures. The next challenge for this researcher is to evaluate the whole cardiovascular system, i.e. both the heart and the blood vessels. The mathematical tool to ...EMCare now available via Dialog and Datastar
...and the audience to which EMCare is accessible and enable users to search EMCare simultaneously with other i...to existing allied health terms. Additional fields enable searching for Molecular Sequence Numbers, and for both Trade Names and Manufacturer Names of drugs a...Quick diagnosis of flu strains possible with new microchip test
...s on the FluChip. Among them were probes chosen to enable detection of two of the most common flu strains currently circulating in humans, the H1N1 and H3N2 strains, as well as the avian flu strain H5N1. The CDC provided flu isolates to the University of Colorado researchers to identify using the FluChip....Wound infections cheaper than we thought
...from prevention programs. "This information will enable good quality infection-control decisions to be made," he said. "Biased estimates of cost savings will lead to poor decision making about infection control." ...Scientists stop autoimmune disease without shutting off immune system
..."Targeting these specific events in the cell could enable us to more effectively and safely treat patients." Rubenstein has previously shown an enzyme called p38 is part of the mechanism by which pemphigus vulgaris autoantibodies cause damage. Autoantibodies are immune-system cells that attack the body'...Grasso, Stevens alumni deploy next generation information systems platform
...ously as we do." "The MedAppz iSuite platform will enable Dr. Patel and his team to advance his practice man...so's expertise as a surgeon and software architect enable the team to gain subtle insights into the overall design and deployment of the system, while maintai...Montreal researchers make a major strategic breakthrough in controling the AIDS virus
...ng our efforts, we found the missing link that may enable us to defeat the virus," noted Dr. Skaly. Discussions with partners are also underway to translate these research findings into clinical trials, which could start during the coming year. Thanks to the joint efforts of the Universit de Montral, the...Researchers develop risk predictor for dementia
...rdiovascular events, diabetes, and mortality. They enable preventive measures to be targeted to those most at risk of the disease and can be used to distribute easily understandable information about risk factors to the general population. Miia Kivipelto and colleagues aimed to develop a simple technique to...Columbia U receives $16.9M award to study origin and health effects of arsenic in ground water
...n award, the highly competitive grant renewal will enable this multi-disciplinary team of scientists to conduct research concerning anthropogenic and naturally occurring sources of human exposure to arsenic and manganese in New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Maine. The award also allows for a continua...