New hope for treating heart rhythm irregularity that often follows surgery
...flammatory response in the rest of the body. "Our hope is that we can soon bring this treatment to the operating room and eliminate one of the major complications of heart surgery," Damiano says....Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...ren's weight and cardiovascular health. The hope is that the evidence-based recommendations will be taken to heart by children, parents and schools as well as an elite list of organizations that impact children's health, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, ...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...n children's weight and cardiovascular health. The hope is that the evidence-based recommendations will be taken to heart by children, parents and schools as well as an elite list of organizations that impact children's health, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, ...Promising new TB drug enters clinical trial
... slow-growing stages. For this reason, researchers hope PA-824 will significantly reduce the time needed to cure TB. In 2000, C. Kendall Stover, Ph.D., of Pathogenesis Corporation, and his co-authors, including NIAID scientist Clifton E. Barry, III, Ph.D., published the first evidence of PA-824's potentia...Nanoparticles carry cancer-killing drugs into tumor cells
...mproving the therapeutic index of cancer drugs, we hope to turn cancer into a chronic, manageable disease." Results of the study will be published in the June 15, 2005, issue of Cancer Research. The drug delivery vehicle used by U-M scientists is a manmade polymer molecule called a dendrimer. Less than f...New base for North American cancer screening pioneers
... East as their base, this job will get easier. "We hope by helping GGUK smoothly integrate into the region's existing healthcare and life science work, we may attract more companies of this standing to the region."...New computer program uses brain scans to assess risk of Alzheimer's
...e sampling of PET brain scans. The NYU researchers hope the technique will enable doctors to measure the metabolic rate of the hippocampus and detect below-normal metabolic activity. The technique grew out of years of research by Mony de Leon, Ed.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Cente...Conservative surgery preserves fertility in women with borderline ovarian tumours
... time to recurrence." Dr. Poncelet and his team hope to follow up the work with a prospective observational study one where patients are watched and followed up for subsequent development of disease. "These results were obtained from a retrospective study", he said, "and it would be interesting to lo...Researchers shed new light on cause of bedsores and other chronic wounds
...e better the outcome. The research also raises the hope for new treatments for chronic wounds by identifying possible targets for intervention. Chronic wounds, which include bedsores, are a common and potentially life-threatening problem, typically occurring in people with diabetes or poor circulation, th...Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say
...e than for this survey's number one challenge! "We hope this research will be followed by a global level s...ts for ethical consultations today," she added. "I hope this study will encourage more investigation into the conflicts and dilemmas of healthcare from both...$5.1 billion would save 6 million children
...d other fixed resources isn't necessary. It is our hope that policymakers, donors and governments will use our price estimates to strengthen their health systems. If they don't, 16,000 children will continue to die each day as a result," said Jennifer Bryce, EdD, lead author of the study. This study follo...A promising candidate for a Lassa fever vaccine
...ubiquitous in the endemic area, the only realistic hope for control of the disease is a vaccine. Lassa vaccine initiatives have suffered from a lack of funding in the past, but bioterrorism and recent importation of the disease to the United States and Europe have brought new resources to Lassa virus scie...Mayo Clinic finds kidney disease associated with 'benign' prostate obstruction
...on of kidney disease. Ultimately, the researchers hope the results of the study will encourage both physicians and patients to consider BPH as a factor in kidney disease. "Men with diagnosed BPH may need to be screened to see if this condition is causing kidney damage," says Dr. Jacobsen....4D proton therapy, radiation-resistant tumors, interpreting medical images
...dels and then patient tumor biopsies), researchers hope that they will soon be able to produce reliable, in-vivo images of hypoxic tumor regions (Paper MO-D-I-609-8, Monday, 1:30 PM). III. READING BETWEEN THE LINES OF MEDICAL-IMAGE INTERPRETATION Properly interpreting a medical image can involve a lif...Routine vaccination could eliminate Hib disease in children in developing countries
...supply, elimination of Hib disease is possible. We hope other countries in sub-Saharan Africa will now be encouraged to also adopt routine Hib vaccination programmes as this could help achieve the United Nations' Millenium Development goal of decreasing childhood deaths by two-thirds by the year 2015." (Q...Voice-to-voice translation machine perfects bedside manner
...to go about creating such a system are working. We hope to have something that will be useful in emergency rooms or ambulances within two years or so." The system that exists, funded by two DARPA grants totalling $3.8 million, is a result of intensive research in information technology, critically supple...Doctors able to predict potential ovarian failure after radiation
...HS Trust Foundation in Sutton, United Kingdom. "We hope this enables doctors to confidently counsel women on their reproductive potential following the successful treatment of their cancer." "This information can be used either to vary the treatment so that less radiation is received by the ovary or pos...Renewed hope for Parkinson's patients
...for this degenerative condition, providing renewed hope for patients disappointed by the recent withdrawal of this drug due to concerns about its safety. GDNF, which stands for glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor, is a natural growth agent needed by brain cells to produce dopamine, which transmits...Could reality TV save academic medicine?
...nts from each of them," say the authors. "Our main hope is that other groups may find them useful in thinking about both the present and the future of academic medicine we seek not agreement but broader thinking." Four commentaries, also published by the BMJ, discuss the implications of the scenarios for...Brain function in schizophrenia can improve with support, holds promise for cognitive rehabilitation
...e problems that underlie schizophrenia, and offers hope that schizophrenia's suffering can be alleviated through the development of more effective cognitive rehabilitation programs. "These are interesting findings for a number of reasons," said Aaron Bonner-Jackson, lead author of the study and psycholog...