Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research
... Deaconess Hospital, where he and his team further explored the PI3K pathway. They postulated that the novel ...ceutical intervention in the PI3K pathway is being explored in a variety of diseases, including cancer, diabetes and immune diseases. "I am honored to h...Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive
... beams in construction. Techniques have also been explored to create the new adhesives from tree bark or wood decayed by brown rot fungus. Regardless of the material used to produce the adhesives, they are renewable and may reduce the need for the currently used urea-formaldehyde wood adhesives that have hea...Heart failure drug associated with higher risk of death
...ough the outpatient use of nesiritide is now being explored in a Scios-funded trial, we're concerned the study will not be large enough to allow for risks to be seen if they are present," says Aaronson. In addition, nesiritide is currently being used in patients who have had open-heart surgery, but this too i...Statin use associated with reduced risk of pancreatic and esophageal cancers
...tin use in protection against cancer have not been explored extensively. "We've known for some time that statins provide significant benefit to patients at risk for heart related conditions," said Dr. John Johanson, of the University of Illinois. "The research presented today suggests that these compounds m...Small, open-label study shows potential use of novel antibiotic rifaximin for Crohn's disease
... as well as the optimal dosing schedule, should be explored in well-controlled, double-blinded clinical studies. Crohn's Disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines and is frequently referred to as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It primarily causes ulcerations (breaks in the lining) of the...Mayo Clinic Proceedings studies risk factors for blood clots
... blood clots prior to surgery and after surgery is explored in several articles in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, providing patients and clinicians with valuable advice to consider. Dr. Sprung says that the study was prompted after a 37-year-old man, who had traveled about 4,800 miles in a tra...Doctors argue for new ways to resolve health treatment choices
... 2005) the experts argue that this issue should be explored because of its impact on national decisions about which new treatments are funded. Lead author of the BMJ article, Dr Ross Camidge, Clinical Lecturer in Cancer Therapeutics at The University of Edinburgh, explains: "If someone had a disease that the...Anti-tobacco ads associated with reduced smoking and increased anti-smoking attitudes among youth
...mpaigns may reduce adult smoking, few studies have explored their effect on youth. Sherry Emery, Ph.D., from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and colleagues examined the association between exposure to state anti-tobacco advertising and youth smoking-related beliefs and behaviors. The researchers used t...Neural cell transplants fight immune attack in mice with multiple sclerosis
...active area of research. Another possibility being explored is cell transplantation. Studies involving transpl...ber loss compared to untreated mice. The team then explored the mechanism by which the neural stem cells entered the brain from the bloodstream. They reported t...Mental-state reasoning is universal milestone in child development
...f reality itself. Developmental psychologists have explored the refinement of mental-state reasoning in children, typically by measuring their ability to pass false-belief tasks, such as the example above. Yet previous research has only been conducted in Western cultures, where children pass such tests around...Detecting Alzheimer's in the eye, lifting fingerprints without touching the surface
...o not draw in a viewer very strongly. Naimark has explored the concept of "virtual-reality webcams" byassembling low-res video sent over the Internet into panoramic videoof a place (for an example filmed in Jerusalem, see http://www.naimark.net/images/vrwebcam/jer%20truckcomp.mov ). Such adisplay, according ...Breast-feeding still best despite environmental chemicals in human milk
...nonprofit organizations and the federal government explored issues related to the use of human milk biomonitoring for environmental chemicals (including a wide range of chemicals to which women may be exposed - industrial chemicals, chemicals in personal care and home/yard products, pharmaceuticals, and recre...Nursing Resource Teams can recruit and retain nurses
...riousness of their conditions. The McMaster study explored the nursing resource team (NRT) at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) from the first two years of its implementation, September 2002 until June 2004. Researchers and clinicians from McMaster's Nursing Health Services Research Unit (NHSRU) and HHS found ...UCI-led research team recommends new tobacco control policies for lawmakers
...rs, teachers and elected officials. The consortium explored programs and policy initiatives for youth smoking intervention through direct translation of UCI tobacco-research findings. Based on these and previous UCI youth tobacco-use findings, the UC Irvine Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC...Side-effects cause some breast cancer patients to skip hormone treatment
...concerns or preferences about treatment are rarely explored and the views of healthcare professionals varied widely. She found some findings unexpected. "I was surprised with the initial finding that a quarter would prefer injections to tablets if both had the same efficacy and side effects. The reasons for t...Calls to prevent chronic disease 'juggernaut'
...meeting, More strategic use of the health dollar?, explored approaches to improve primary health care in Australia with a view to getting a better return for health spending, the Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APCHRI) at ANU, Professor Nicholas Glasgow, said. "Primary heal...Simple tests may help predict patients' pain after surgery
...s about pain," he said. "However, few studies have explored whether physical and psychological responses obtained before surgery can be used together to predict the severity of pain and pain medication required after surgery." For the study, the researchers looked at whether a variety of simple tests could pr...Special issue focuses on quality-of-life for those with dementia in long-term residential care
...The Gerontologist released this month, 16 articles explored quality of life and specific care needs for people with dementia in assisted living and nursing homes. The volume, titled "Dementia Care and Quality of Life in Assisted Living and Nursing Homes," was made possible through a grant from the Alzheimer's...Some outgrow allergy to tree nuts, Johns Hopkins Children's Center experts report
...iodically retest their patients. The current study explored whether the same held true for tree nuts. Wood and colleagues evaluated 278 children, ages 3 to 21 years old, with a known allergy to tree nuts. Nine percent passed oral food challenges, the standard test to prove a child has outgrown a food allergy...NHLBI research highlights at American Heart Association's scientific sessions
...mia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) study investigators explored the relative contributions of SES factors compared to traditional heart disease risk factors on heart attack and death in 819 women. Through exams, medical histories and records, questionnaires, and angiography, the scientists obtained extensive inf...