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...ggravating condition in their asthma patients. "We hope that eventually, by addressing this earlier, we'll...best predict daytime sleepiness. The investigators hope that attention to the overlap of sleep apnea and asthma might one day lead to better nighttime sleep...Personalized immunosuppression with leading organ transplant therapy may optimize patient care
...tor at Roche and a former transplant surgeon. "We hope to provide the transplant community with robust information on monitoring CellCept levels so that physicians can assess when to implement TDM strategies in their kidney transplant patients." Study Details: Personalized Dosing vs Fixed Dose of CellCe...Medical privacy vs. health care quality?
...ality research." In all, Eagle and his colleagues hope that lawmakers can factor their data and other studies into deliberations about HIPAA's impact on research. "The public's welfare is served by studying and reporting on the quality of health care, and there must be a way, within the spirit of the pri...Immune factor GM-CSF significantly improves Crohn's disease symptoms
...ults support this new understanding of Crohn's and hope they will lead to a new treatment option for the disease," says Korzenik, an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "We're working with other institutions to conduct the larger-scale studies that would be needed to apply for FDA...Ontario's mental health care evaluated
..."There is room for improvement provincewide and we hope these data will provide hospitals with a starting point."...K-State researcher discovers compliments go a long way to improve body self-image in women
...ater consideration how they talk to each other. "I hope they keep in mind we can have a great impact on those around us," Fea said. "I hope the impact will be for the better and not for the worse."...UNC launches study of liver injury caused by drugs
... to produce disease in some but not all people. We hope the factors identified by DILIN research will provide clues to susceptibility to the many diseases that represent an interaction with the environment."...People with diabetes more sensitive to cardiovascular effects from air pollution
...gher-than-normal black carbon concentrations." "We hope our study will remind people that reducing air pollution is important for everyone's health, but especially for vulnerable members of our population, including the elderly and people with chronic health problems such as diabetes," she said. Diabetes ...Stress may increase long-term success of vaccinations
...needs to be done to extrapolate them to humans. We hope that this study lays a foundation for designing interventions that would stimulate or simulate a natural acute stress response during times like vaccinations."...UC Davis Cancer Center awarded $4.5 million
...d work in their golden years. This grant means new hope for high-risk newcomers from Asia, and it will empower grassroots neighborhood groups, churches and service agencies to save many thousands of lives from preventable and unnecessary disease." Lee, an award-winning Korean American journalist, lives in...Dartmouth professor finds prescription drug advertising 'walks a communications tightrope'
...ds." This is one aspect that Glinert and Schommer hope to test further in the future. They also want to increase and diversify their participant pool, and they want to learn whether the gender of the voice-over influences how well people retain vital information. Glinert's second study concerned the bas...Benefits of continuous NSAID use in ankylosing spondylitis
....wiley.com/journal/arthritis ), their study offers hope for decreasing the progression of AS, without increasing the risk of peptic ulcers or other adverse events. The clinical trial began with 215 outpatients, drawn from the records of 76 hospitals and private practices in France, with a history of AS. ...Researchers demonstrate use of gold nanoparticles for cancer detection
...ated detection of cancer in biopsies. Further, we hope to use the scattering and absorption properties to develop techniques to detect cancer in humans without a biopsy." In the study, the research team found that the gold nanoparticles have 600 percent greater affinity for cancer cells than for noncance...UVa Health System doctors study surgery to stop epileptic seizures
...ng some from a lifetime of disability. UVa doctors hope to recruit at least ten patients from the mid-Atlantic region. They must be diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy (where seizures originate in the temple above the ear) and have had at least six seizures a year for no longer than two years. "Th...'Dr. Chef' improves quality of life for patients
...t of Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Kerem. . "I hope that in the future this project will become the basis for a larger center whose purpose it will be to improve the quality of life for patients with nutritional limitations in particular and chronic illnesses in general through combining the knowledge...Chemotherapy options improve for patients with advanced colorectal cancer
...d improved quality of life," Dr. Arkenau said. "We hope that oral capecitabine plus oxaliplatin will become the new standard treatment in first-line treatment for patients with metastatic colorectal carcinoma." Commenting on the study, Professor Hans Joachim Schmoll of Martin-Luther-Universitt Halle-Witte...IBM and EPFL join forces to uncover the secrets of cognitive intelligence
...ject to model other areas of the brain, scientists hope to eventually build an accurate, computer-based mo...as thought, perception and memory. Scientists also hope to understand more about how and why certain microcircuits in the brain malfunction thought to be t...Newly published summer camp health guideline advises parents, camp directors
...hool who has studied camp health for 18 years. "We hope this new guideline can help with that process." Walton and U-M colleagues recently published a study in the journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine showing that almost half of camp health officers reported caring for children with significant me......t must be solved before TB can be controlled." "We hope that the insight provided by the various articles in this issue of JAMA will stimulate more interest in better funding for research on the prevention, screening, and treatment of TB and more initiatives to use current knowledge to improve access to a...