Anemia and tropical diseases; Is pharmacogenomics ready for the clinic?
...most remote areas, and it changes in a predictable fashion with alterations in the burden of NTDs. Citation: Bates I, McKew S, Sarkinfada F (2007) Anaemia: A useful indicator ofneglected disease burden and control. PLoS Med 4(8): e231. IN YOUR ARTICLE, PLEASE LINK TO THIS URL, WHICH WILL PROVIDE ACCESS T...Michigan-CDC study supports value of social restrictions during influenza pandemics
...mplementing these measures in a layered, sustained fashion would also provide a cushion of time for the development and distribution of effective vaccines and antivirals, while reducing the crush on essential infrastructure. By better understanding what worked in the past, we can better prepare for the fut...Advocates ask fashion industry to support braille clothing tags; talking Web site
...Abushagur will pitch their ideas to leaders of the fashion world during fashion week in Rome, July 9-13. The women will present their concept for White Cane Label at the Fashion fo...Nanomedicine opens the way for nerve cell regeneration
...d 4 millimeters from the nerve tissue in a bipolar fashion on the bioactive aligned nanofiber scaffolds. Thus, this technology can induce, enhance and direct nerve fiber regeneration in a straight and organized manner. In order to make the technology clinically viable, they have also developed a novel graf...Clinical studies evaluate potential treatments for mouth ulcers
...h treating highly symptomatic patients in the best fashion possible to alleviate their discomfort; this is, after all, one of the primary roles of any caring physician," Drs. Bruce and Rogers conclude. "These studies in this issue of the Archives enhance our armamentarium." (Arch Dermatol. 2007;143:519-523....Jefferson scientists find that plavix appears to be safe during and after heart bypass
...al benefit to our off-pump bypass grafts in a safe fashion by utilizing clopidogrel postoperatively without adverse bleeding events." "The next step will be to evaluate the addition of clopidogrel in a prospective study," Dr. Whellan says....Disposable sensor uses DNA to detect hazardous uranium ions
... a protein. In that single strand, the researchers fashion a specific binding site a kind of pocket that can only accommodate the metal ion of choice. In this case, the researchers chose to detect uranyl, the most soluble species of uranium ion and the one that poses the greatest threat to human life. To se...Study finds gender differences related to eating and body image
...gular user of ideal-body media such as fitness and fashion magazines, not to mention television programming featuring advertisements for diet foods and products, she may be moved to abstain from eating several times a day even when she is hungry resulting in significant weight loss over time." Harrison n...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center -- individualizing treatment for multiple myeloma patients
...ave been identified, drug designers may be able to fashion new therapies that are more specific to these genetic alterations and, therefore, less toxic, Dr. Bergsagel says. "These mutations represent good targets for drug development," he says....Shorter post-operative recovery stay following outpatient tonsillectomy is safe, cost-efficient
...utpatient surgeries in a more efficient, yet safe, fashion this study lends support to potential safety of shorter and more cost-effective stays," said the study's author, Dr. Nina Shapiro, associate professor of pediatric otolaryngology at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA. In the first study of its kin...How much influence do medical publications have on your doctor? A great deal, says new SLU research
...ing it to the effect articles in Vogue have on the fashion industry, co-author Mark Schnitzler, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at Saint Louis University, says articles in major medical journals have tremendous influence over physicians. "Most doctors, academic or not, read JAMA and the New England J...Estate of fashion designer Geoffrey Beene donates funds to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
...ber 27, 2006 -- A gift from the estate of renowned fashion designer Geoffrey Beene will enable Memorial Sloan...hieved international distinction as one of the top fashion designers of the past 50 years. Mr. Beene, the founder of Geoffrey Beene Inc. died in 2004 at age 80...tNOX serves as a serum marker for detection and monitoring of disease progression in prostate cancer
...hat PSA levels indicate major tumor burden in some fashion that tNOX levels also reflect tumor burden during and after therapy for prostate cancer," said Morre. "That is, the more prostate cancer present as evidenced by PSA levels, the more tNOX protein that is present." He said that tNOX would probably fi...Terrorism and mental health focus of NIMH-funded study
...(whether they act in an increasingly more negative fashion as threat and loss mount) To identify and study the role of defensive coping responses, such that those exposed to terrorism may become prejudicial toward ethnic or religious minorities that they associate with terrorism and even advocate extreme p...Automated external defibrillators are frequently recalled
... and repair potentially defective AEDs in a timely fashion and to better notify AED owners when their devices are recalled." ...Researchers find 'secret weapon' used by SARS virus
...sts a possible new route by which scientists might fashion a vaccine against SARS, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) have uncovered one of those tricks: a "secret weapon" that the SARS coronavirus uses to sabotage the immune defenses of infected cells. Experiments cond...Transporter is possible target for safer pain medicine
...m." Many popular antidepressants work in a similar fashion to keep the body's natural chemical messengers, called neurotransmitters, working longer by keeping them from being taken back up into the neuron by transport systems. Chemical messengers are supposed to have limited action, he says. But depressed pa...Women leaders call for global action on osteoporosis
...he fields of public service, journalism, medicine, fashion and the arts, politics, philanthropy, and sports, were speaking at the 2nd IOF Women Leaders Roundtable, held in conjunction with the IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis in Toronto. The participants included: Moderator: Dr Marla Shapiro, Canada, ass...Flick of whiskers helps tease out brain's 'shadow' signaling system
...nown that neurons fire electrically in spectacular fashion to send signals, it's only recently that the slower chemical signaling network of the more numerous astrocytes has become widely appreciated by scientists. Wang's work is the latest in a series of papers by Nedergaard and colleagues scuttling the not...A new math model finds that the cochlea's spiral shape enhances low frequencies
...ba. This basic frequency sorting works in the same fashion whether the cochlear tube is laid out straight or coiled in a spiral. That observation, in fact, was the major reason that the researchers studying cochlear mechanics concluded its shape didn't matter. Manoussaki's model comes to the same conclusion,...