Top AIDS researchers to discuss latest advances on vaccine development for HIV-1 at academy meeting
...lobal delivery of vaccine against HIV / AIDS. For further information, visit the meetings/conferences section of the www.nyas.org web site....Second consecutive UH win puts national spotlight on pharmacy student
...hanges that are occurring in practice, encouraging further professional development of the student pharmacist. Students competing in the competition are given a prescription and a patient profile from which they are expected to counsel a patient. Typically, patients present the competitors with a communica...Revised Bethesda guidelines effective at identifying patients at risk of colorectal cancer
...tive for determining which patients should undergo further genetic testing, according to a study in the April...equivalent and highly cost-effective strategies to further select those patients who should be tested for MSH2/MLH1 germline mutations. Considering this equiva...Access to mammography may worsen
...easing demand for mammography services, leading to further delays in diagnosis and a potential increase in interpretive errors. The American Cancer Society estimates that 211,240 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, and 40,410 will die from the disease. Mammography is currently consid...'Fickle' enzyme helps protect, but also can promote heart failure, animal study shows
...ible therapy in the future." The researchers plan further experiments to evaluate the therapeutic effects of BH4 in hypertrophy and how it, together with NOS3, compensates for the damage that leads to heart failure. Funding for the two-year study came from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Americ...Guava and AHF Global Immunity bring low cost AIDS diagnosis to resource-limited countries
...ults in less bio-hazardous waste and significantly further reduces the running costs of using the system. Daily maintenance is minimal just a fast and easy 5 minute clean and shutdown procedure performed at the end of each day. Guava is currently marketing the EasyCD4 system and assay in nations where the n...Study finds moderate hypothermia a safe treatment for traumatic brain injury in kids
... six months of follow-up. Researchers will conduct further studies to determine the effect of moderate hypothermia on functional outcome and intracranial hypertension....UBC-U of S research offers hope for treatment of age-related blindness
...cular degeneration. The researchers emphasize that further study is required to confirm their findings, but if they are corroborated, anti-inflammatories would be the first approach for this intractable disease. Related questions such as optimum dosage and when to begin treatment need to be answered. Also, s...Community efforts can reduce alcohol fatalities
...n alcohol-related traffic fatalities. "As research further defines the types of community interventions that successfully reduce alcohol-related problems," says Dr. Hingson, "communities can focus on intervention strategies likely to produce desired results. Community organizing interventions may not be suff...Tumor detection, data encryption to benefit from UH research
...l award of $262,471 for three years is intended to further propel Sharma's research. "It's a proposal that will investigate new scaling laws for quantum dots due to mechanical strain," Sharma said. "Quantum dots are very small clusters of semiconductor material, and they exhibit some unusual and exciting...Perceived discrimination linked to coronary artery calcification
...ressure, high cholesterol, smoking and age. After further adjustment for body mass index (BMI) there still was a nearly 2.5 times higher risk for each unit increase up the four-point scale. "These findings suggest that chronic exposure to discrimination may be an important risk factor for cardiovascular dis...Social connections: Could heartwarming be heart-saving?
...emoattractant protein-1. "These observations need further study," Loucks said. Studies indicate that inflammation plays a role in causing atherosclerosis. "It seems to allow white blood cells to tether to and become engulfed in the side of the blood vessel wall," Loucks said. "This allows lipids to be dep...Mayo Clinic researchers discover genetic glitch in the heart's electrical system
...system appear to be a bad combination, but we need further study to understand why and how this occurs." In the Mayo Clinic Proceedings article, two cases were studied by Mayo Clinic researchers in which both individuals were proficient swimmers. A teenage girl died at swim team practice, after being found...3 questions may provide good clues to smoke exposure
...that they do not expose their children." Although further research is needed and the study can be expanded, Groner says data from the study can be a helpful tool for health care practitioners assessing ETS risk in children younger than 3 years of age, the period most pediatricians acknowledge that children ...Stents that release medication appear more effective than traditional stents
...e. These drug-eluting stents have the potential to further improve long-term clinical outcome after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), such as angioplasty. However, the lack of randomized trials to assess the safety and long-term efficacy of sirolimus-eluting stent implantation in patients wit...Scalpel-free surgery could reduce risk of HIV and hepatitis exposure for health care workers
...hniques whenever possible in high-risk settings to further protect health care workers from accidental transmission," added Makary. Sharpless surgical techniques include laparoscopy, electrocautery to replace scalpel incisions, and skin clips or glue instead of sewing to close or repair wounds. Prev...Drug safety in the doctor's office: Nearly half of patients have lapses in monitoring
...y monitoring in the outpatient setting are common, further research is needed to determine to what extent this failure to monitor results in actual medical problems. Drug safety monitoring is an important care issue that needs to be addressed by healthcare systems and physicians, and in physician practice gu...Doctor voices concerns over new NHS IT system
...sting system of US hospital administrators," while further meetings produced "lame presentations by various strategic health authority IT leaders." He goes on to describe problems with the "choose and book" system, in which doctors will select from a list of local hospitals and book an appointment while the ...Autism conference reports advances in early diagnosis, role of immune system and more
...sm is an intriguing area of research that warrants further investigation. Genetics Autism has a strong g...parents, scientists, clinicians and educators. For further information, go to http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mindinstitute...Treat depression and chronic pain separately, U-M researchers say
...ad about it,' " Clauw says. "Our research provides further evidence that these pathways are quite independent." While this study looked at fibromyalgia patients, it is possible that the results may apply to people who have other chronic pain conditions, such as low-back pain, irritable bowel syndrome and vul...