Blood test can accurately diagnose heart failure in emergency patients
...At the time of its launch, the PRIDE study was the first prospective American trial of NT-proBNP and the largest such study to study the test in patients with shortness of breath. About 600 patients who came to the MGH Emergency Department with shortness of breath were enrolled in the study. In addition ...Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive
...rea-formaldehyde resins could never do that." The first commercial application of the adhesive will be to ...Technology Transfer, which has already reached the first licensing agreement with a company on a product that will be in commercial application soon. "We are...Aboriginal Canadians at high risk for severe trauma
...e Caron outlines a process that must be undertaken first begin to understand such statistics and then to address them. From the outset, however, she warns that "each step in this vital process cannot be done for Canada's Aboriginal population; it can only be done with us."...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...study (or SHAPE, for short), is believed to be the first detailed examination of the guidelines' effectiveness and gender differences in the effects of exercise, with nearly an equal number of men and women enrolled. Moreover, its participants were not taking any drugs to reduce high blood pressure. Fo...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...ses such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. The study is the first ranking of nanotechnology applications relative to their impact on development; it was published today by the prestigious, open-access, US-based Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine. The study also relates the impact of nanotechnologies to...Little answers to world's biggest problems
...nvironment in the next 10 years. The study is the first ever ranking of nanotechnology applications relative to their impact on development. The nanotechnology applications that were rated the highest were, in rank order: 1. Energy storage, production, and conversion 2. Agricultural productivity enhanceme...Grandmothers' smoking linked to grandchildren's asthma decades later
...he child's mother appears unaffected. "This is the first study to show that if a woman smokes while she is pregnant, both her children and grandchildren may be more likely to have asthma as a result," said the study's senior author, Frank D. Gilliland, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., professor of preventive medicine ...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...er, MD, used the new technology in surgery for the first time in the United States on March 16. The tech... one conduit short," said Fitzgerald. "Now for the first time the surgeons can take a picture with a direct way to assess how efficient their procedure has b...University of Kentucky physician publishes fibromyalgia study in Arthritis & Rheumatism journal
...es its core symptoms," said Crofford. "This is the first prospective study suggesting that Lyrica may be ef...nefit with Lyrica was demonstrated as early as the first week of treatment. In addition, a significantly greater proportion of patients receiving Lyrica vers...Breakthrough findings by Ume researchers link obesity to diabetes
...nt that the next and coming generations may be the first in modern history to be sicker and a shorter lifespan than their parents, which is considered a medical disaster. Today we do not understand at the molecular level how obesity causes diabetes, fatty liver, and blood-fat disturbances, and we therefore...Columbia research suggests need to rethink causes of heart failure
...hearts of healthy elderly women, we showed for the first time that not only were the heart failure hearts not smaller, but in many cases they were larger, meaning we need to look elsewhere to discover the roots of this problem," said Dr. Maurer. The Columbia researchers measured left ventricular end-syst...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...sociation. The DCRI's Rajendra Mehta, M.D. was the first author of the paper. "We have found that there does not appear to be a cause-and-effect relationship between small dosing errors and worse outcomes for patients," Granger continued. "These findings should be somewhat reassuring to busy physicians in ...Being too clean could be hazardous to your health and the environment
...hlorine reacts with organic material. "This is the first work that we know of that suggests that consumer products, such as antimicrobial soap, can produce significant quantities of chloroform," said Vikesland. The implications of these reactions to consumers are not known. "There are numerous potential ex...University of Chicago receives grant to study connections between religious beliefs and health
...rsity of Chicago researchers who are launching the first comprehensive study to examine the relationship between religious attitudes and health. Among the researchers' initial discoveries is that African Americans who say they have a strong relationship with God were significantly less likely to report de...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
... for Thoracic Surgery. A prospective study of the first 25 patients who had surgery to install the ring sh...ning leaky mitral valves. But the new data are the first indication that it also re-shapes the left ventricle, which often becomes distended and misshapen af...Will cancer vaccine get to all women?
...producing good results in clinical trials, and the first could be licensed as early as next year. GlaxoSmithKline announced in November 2004 that its vaccine, which contains two strains of HPV thought to cause 70 per cent of cervical cancers, had prevented 90 per cent of new infections and all persistent i...Bugs in the gut could help doctors develop individualised healthcare
...uch an important role means we could have made the first step towards providing patients with personalised, tailored healthcare and medical solutions. "For example, in the future it may be possible for your doctor to provide you with a personalised treatment for virtually any illness through the analysis ...Prenatal sonography has no effect on the intellectual capacity of the developing child
...ultrasonic examinations of foetal development were first introduced in Sweden. Almost 20 years later, the young men were given intelligence tests on signing up for their military service. When researchers compared the boys who had been scanned with those that had not, it transpired that intellectual capaci...Suicide in one partner substantially increases suicide risk in the other
...and socioeconomic factors. Women whose partner had first been admitted to a psychiatric unit within the preceding two years were almost seven times as likely to commit suicide as women with partners whose mental health was good. This was almost double the risk of men in the same circumstances, who ran near......IT engineer and German colleagues have created the first plastics that can be deformed and temporarily fixe...e well known. In 2001 Langer and Lendlein were the first to report biodegradable versions of these materials in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sc...