Heparin antibodies may pose risk in heart surgery patients
...y twofold greater risk of death or hospitalization extending longer than 10 days. The researchers used an extended hospital stay as a surrogate marker for other complications after surgery such as heart attacks, strokes, infection and kidney problems. To ensure that patients' baseline health status did not inf...Rapid restoration of immunity in immune-suppressed cancer patients using T-cell vaccines
..., with the long term goal of improving outcome and extending life," explains co-author Bruce Levine, PhD, who directs the Facility. T-cells are taken from a patient and expanded about a thousand fold. The engineered T-cells are then given back to the patient a few weeks later via an infusion. The newly grown T...Even very low levels of environmental toxins can damage health
...hips between IQ and blood lead levels over a range extending below 0.48 micromoles/liter. These studies found no evidence of a "safe" threshold. The Canadian government has concluded that the human lifetime cancer risk associated with drinking water containing trihalomethanes at 100 micrograms per liter (the...Radiation after prostate cancer surgery increases survival
...n who undergo surgery and are found to have cancer extending outside their prostate gland are at a very high risk for recurrence," said Gregory Swanson, M.D., a radiation oncologist for the Genitourinary Committee of the Southwest Oncology Group, which was the main sponsor of the study. "To see a 25 percent re...New insights into cost-effectiveness of implanted heart device
...roved by either lowering the cost of the device or extending the ICD generator's life time." Specifically, in the six trials where a definite mortality benefit was achieved, the use of an ICD added 1.01 to 2.99 QALYs at an additional $68,300 to $101,500 in cost over the patient's lifetime "For those who benefi...Database of cancer records now available for research
...n electronic database. CLEF's future work includes extending its database and refining its use of knowledge resources to help both patients and professionals to access the right information and interpret scientific data. The project's aim is to provide user-friendly and secure tools to improve clinical and re...Defective lymphatic vessels identified as a novel cause of adult-onset obesity
... as diseases of lymphatic vessels, and eventually, extending those findings to humans." Oliver is senior author of a report on this work that appears in the September 18 online issue of Nature Genetics. The laboratory model (Prox1+/- ) lacked one of two copies of the Prox1 gene, which is required for proper d...Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality
...he troposphere (the lowest part of the atmosphere, extending eight to 16 kilometres in height) is itself a harmful toxic pollutant, a major ingredient of photochemical smog. "While nitrogen dioxide vertical column concentrations above central and eastern Europe and parts of the East Coast of the United States...MRI cardiac catheterization poised for success in children with congenital heart disease
...rization has taken place in animals, but it is now extending its reach to humans. Dr. Moore and others have combined MRI and conventional angiography in diagnosing congenital heart disease in children. He expects to soon begin using MRI cardiac catheterization in treatment procedures, placing stents to prop op......omoting bacterial survival was further established extending the protective properties to a different bacteria. Pigment-producing genes of Staph were cloned into a normally colorless strain of Streptococcus ("Strep") bacteria that then turned yellow in color. The Strep expressing the golden carotenoid pigmen...Northwestern Memorial Hospital installs 64-Slice CT scanner, now available for clinical use
...inds of symptoms will be a continuing process, and extending the use of cardiac CT is a collaborative effort between the Section of Cardiovascular Radiology led by James Carr, MD, and the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine spearheaded by Dr. Davidson. The new scanner installed at Northweste...While on trail of dioxin, scientists pinpoint cancer target of green tea
... an aspirin the current research opens the door to extending the health benefits first discovered in green tea to people who never touch the beverage. Isolating the chemicals that protect against cancer would also sidestep questions such as how to take into account different types of teas and different brewing...An alternative to prevent UC-associated colon cancer
...e possibilities of other interventions in terms of extending and improving quality of life. It highlights the pitfalls of surveillance strategies and the potential strength of chemoprevention." For the cost-utility analysis of colon cancer prevention in patients with ulcerative colitis, Rubenstein and his coll...Untreated low-grade ductal carcinoma in situ poses long-term risk
... percent of women if left untreated, with the risk extending over more than forty years, according to a new study appearing in the June 15, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study, a four-decade long follow-up...Diabetes and pizza: Slow and steady insulin delivery wins the race
...glucose control after a pizza meal was improved by extending the time of delivery of insulin to eight hours without varying the total amount of insulin administered." Gabbay cautions that this method of insulin delivery may not be applicable to all high-carbohydrate, high-fat foods. "Pizza is a complex food an......th parameters in West Africa, should contribute to extending and continuing this research in a public health perspective....