Benchmark fetal surgery study finds timeliness to be critical factor in success of treatment
...ng out in the amnioreduction arm because they were failing therapy, whereas they were dying in the laser therapy," says Dr. Crombleholme. Statistically, these patients are considered to have had the same outcome: a treatment failure. So, ultimately, there was no significant difference in survival of one or...QUT scientists on the way to sifting out a cure for HIV
...t unwanted particles or viruses. He said another failing of current membranes was they often formed pin-holes and cracks during the fabrication process, resulting in wasted membranes. "With this in mind we have introduced radical changes to the membrane texture because it is the membrane texture which is...46-year-old man receives first temporary total artificial heart in Northeast US from Penn
...fesaving technology, implanted to do the work of a failing human heart until another one becomes available." Penn joins a short, prestigious list of institutions worldwide -- becoming the first hospital in the region, 8th in the country, and 15th in the world -- to complete TAH-t certification by performin...Residents in disaster areas face medication adherence dilemmas
...re nearly twice (1.97 times) more likely to report failing to completely follow their medicine regimen, researchers said. Krousel-Woods group was uniquely positioned to conduct the study because Ochsners 473-bed hospital in New Orleans and hospitals and health centers on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain...Transcendental meditation reduces congestive heart failure, new study shows
...ted with stress that is known to contribute to the failing heart, according to the authors. "The results indicate that TM can be effective in improving the functional capacity, and quality of life, of congestive heart failure patients. These results also suggest long-term improvements in survival in these i...US child health system needs total overhaul, UCLA researchers say
... According to the authors, the current system is failing to produce the kind of health outcomes that it could and should because it is powered by outdated logic, outmoded organization, and inadequate and misaligned finance strategies that were designed to be responsive to epidemiology and health goals more...85th General Session, International Association for Dental Research
...disorders, to frail older adults with dementia and failing dentition, to the impact of Hurricane Katrina on oral medicine and pathology in New Orleans. (For a complete listing, please see the green section of this Press Kit.) Featured during Meeting Week will be the IADR/Unilever Hatton Awards Competition (...Metacognition: Faced with a test, rats can check their knowledge first
...ng it, they would receive a large reward, but that failing the test would yield no reward. Declining the test would yield a small reward. Therefore, animals faced with the decision of taking or declining the test would, in principle, have the chance to weigh the likelihood that they would pass the test (and ...Congressional proposals would cover all uninsured, reduce US health spending by up to $61B
...llion. "If we don't move to make changes to our failing health care system, the number of uninsured in this country is projected to rise to 56 million by 2013," said Commonwealth Fund President Karen Davis. "Many of these proposals demonstrate that it is possible to move toward the high performance health...Key science Web sites buried in information avalanche
... facts now available online. Key science sites are failing to register in the top 30 Google search results. New research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) clearly shows that anyone using the Web to make their information available must now pay attention not only to the quality of t...Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work, Stanford ophthalmologist says
...xpertise and historical research. Degas suffered failing vision from 1860 to 1910. As his eye disease progressed, his paintings grew increasingly rough. From treating hundreds of patients with retinal disease similar to what Degas suffered, Marmor said, he knows that the shading and contrast of images beco...New class of HIV drug attacks previously untargeted enzyme
...regimens used to treat heavily pretreated patients failing current therapies with multidrug-resistant virus and limited treatment options." In an accompanying Comment, Dr Pedro Cahn and Dr Omar Sued, of the Fundacin Huesped, Buenos Aires, Argentina, said that a new era of antiretroviral therapy had arrived...India's DBT and IAVI forge partnership to develop 'next generation' vaccine candidates
...are based on cell-mediated immune responses alone, failing to target the second critical arm of the human immune system. "DBT brings enormous strengths in peptide and protein design to this collaboration with IAVI," said Dennis Burton, Scientific Director of the NAC. "We believe these strengths are crucia...Most young women don't recognize heart attack warning signs
...heart disease. The researchers said doctors may be failing to link many young women's symptoms to heart disease. Prior to their heart attacks, 38 percent saw their primary providers for some or all of their symptoms; yet, only 56 percent of those women said their doctors told them their symptoms were heart-...Mayo researchers discover overdiagnosis of long QT heart syndrome
...e stakes are extremely high, he says. On one hand, failing to recognize this disease could end in a tragic, premature death that could have been prevented easily with current treatments. On the other hand, the proverbial dark side of increased awareness of LQTS and its potential lethality may prompt physicia...May/June Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...the recognition of a problem by the physician, but failing to act. This study of 211 primary care encounters between adult patients with type 2 diabetes and their physicians finds the concept of clinical inertia does not adequately characterize the complexity of the primary care encounter; it is really comp...Bias in statin trials, failure to control malaria, and more
... Donors and international health agencies are failing Africa on malaria control Teaching global he...ON: Donors and international health agencies are failing Africa on malaria control Lack of coordination between donors and international health agencies i...CAM-oriented primary care providers result in cost savings, high patient satisfaction
...t strategies by conventional medical providers are failing to achieve evenmediocre results, said study coauthor James Winterstein, DC. This study confirms that integration ofallopathic, chiropractic and other complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers can positivelyimpact patient quality of care ...The future of biofuels is not in corn
...ion and soil erosion of America's farm belt, while failing to significantly offset fossil fuel use or combat global warming." The report, The Rush to Ethanol: Not all BioFuels are Equal, is a comprehensive review of the literature on the environmental and economic implications of pinning our hopes on corn ...Stanford researchers find culprit in aging muscles that heal poorly
...ls called fibroblasts. The stem cells weren't just failing to respond to the garbled instructions, they were actually giving rise to daughter cells that turned into the wrong thing. The consequence of muscle stem cells producing fewer muscle cells (myoblasts) and more fibroblasts is that the healing muscle h...