Northwestern Memorial researchers release study on smart-pump technology
...s Marla Husch, RPh, lead author of the study. "We found that by itself the smart pump technology has little potential of improving care and reducing harm but by integrating the smart pump software with other information technology components, hospitals will have checks and balances in place to reduce the ...NY Academy of Sciences reveals how scientists plan to combat bioterrorism & deadly pathogens
...that many thought had been eliminated, or at least found only in certain parts of the world -- have the potential to re-emerge and spread. Some may even become weapons in the hands of terrorists. To combat the growing threat of bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases, eight Regional Centers of Exc...Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...ract. In the three healthy subjects he studied, he found 395 unique bacterial species. "The intestinal flor...tinal communities." In contrast, the investigators found very limited diversity within the archaea, microbes that look a lot like bacteria but are geneticall...Independent voice rises to help consumers navigate health care
...f care or problems changing providers. Researchers found that 62 percent of participants reported their problems were resolved after calling one of the health consumer centers, and almost 90 percent of those surveyed reported they got the facts they needed through the center. "Although the centers were no...Cleveland physician to receive Benjamin Spock Award
...rican Journal of Cardiology in 1999, Dr. Esselstyn found that over a 12-year period, his patients had become virtually heart-attack proof. Although all the patients had significant heart disease at the study's outset, 100 percent had stopped disease progression. "Rather than simply hand out prescriptions...Exercise variety - not intensity - appears to reduce some Alzheimer's disease risk
...alled APOE-4 genetic predisposition to the disease found in about one-quarter to one-third of Alzheimer's p...were also considered in the study. The researchers found 480 new cases of dementia over an average of 5.4 years of follow-up. Among these, dementia occurred...Steady rise in allergic diseases over quarter of a century
... hepatitis A and to H. Pylori infections. The team found highly significant increases over time in the proportion of men testing positive to Phadiatop and with specific IgE to the three inhaled allergens. The average rate of increase was equivalent to an additional 4.5% of men becoming Phadiatop positive e...Cancer research could lead to improved detection methods
...s a very early warning signal of cancer." The team found that these mistakes (genomic instability at fragile sites) in the early stage of lung tumours and continuous exposure to carcinogens increase the chance that a precancerous lesion will progress to a cancerous one. Dr Liloglou continued: "We have show...Obesity common among Chinese adults
...cholesterol, and blood glucose concentrations were found among people from northern China than from the south of the country, and among urban residents compared with people living in rural areas. Professor He comments: "Our results show a high prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and overweight in China. E...Execution by lethal injection is not humane or painless suggests study
...nia, where around 45% of executions are done. They found that executioners--typically one to three emergenc... Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. They found that concentrations of thiopental in the blood were lower than that required for surgery in 43 of th...Prostate cancer therapy - study suggests new molecular screening theory
...e prestigious Journal of Biological Chemistry. "We found that 2-ME works through a protein called Smad7, and that artificially lowering the amount of Smad7 in prostate cancer cells reduced 2-ME's ability to cause cell death. This finding suggests that the levels of Smad7, and other proteins in this molecul...Ibuprofen may lower risk of Parkinson's disease
...lain the results. No significant associations were found between the use of aspirin, other NSAIDs, or acetaminophen and the risk of Parkinson's disease....College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
...nce it originally posted. Previous research has found that college students underestimate their alcohol ...rveyed about their recent alcohol consumption. "We found that there is a relationship between how big someone thinks a drink should be and how much alcohol t...Bright arctic light can lead to migraine
... begins. The study, which was conducted in Norway, found that people with migraine with aura are more likel...ht season than during the polar winter season. "We found that this difference is due to the variation in light exposure--not due to changes in biological rhy...Alcohol magnifies the rewarding effects of smoking, even for light smokers
... Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research has found that alcohol can cause a dose-dependent increase i...ours after drinking alcohol." The researchers also found that smoking urges were greater for positive mood and stimulation (for example, "a cigarette would t...Study shows surprising decreased surgical infection risk after age 65
... hospitals undergoing various surgical procedures, found that the infection risk increased by about 1 percent per year between the ages of 17 to 65 years but then decreased by about 1 percent per year after age 65; indeed, there were no surgical site infections in patients who were older than age 95. The e...Easing the anxiety of pregnancy after miscarriage
...topic became her passion. To her astonishment, she found only five studies on the subject. That was in 1994. Since then she has contributed more than twice that number to the field. Her investigations have involved both data from questionnaires and deeply emotional reflections of women who are pregnant...Shape-altering genes linked to ovarian cancer
...ls derived from the ovarian surface epithelium and found that activating different HOX genes caused the cel...ous ovarian cancer. What's more, the research team found that activation of HOXA7 in combination with any of the other HOX genes resulted in formation of low...Researchers find that chocolate compound stops cancer cell cycle in lab experiments
...Georgetown University have shown how an ingredient found in chocolate seems to exert its anti-cancer proper...tameric procyanidin (pentamer), a natural compound found in cocoa, deactivates a number of proteins that likely work in concert to push a cancer cell to cont...Northwestern's cancer genetics program finds gene variants that greatly increase breast cancer risk
...e copy of this gene. The BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are found only in one of every 400 to 800 people. The impact of TGFBR1*6A is shown by the fact that in 2005 more than 14,000 new cases of breast cancers in the US alone may be attributable to TGFBR1*6A. "Most cases of breast, ovarian and colon cancers are ca...