Surgeons lack training in palliative surgical options
...luation of surgical options when there is not much hope of cure may contribute to a lack of consensus treatment recommendations for patients with advanced cancer and a variety of common symptoms, the authors suggest. Joseph M. Galante, M.D., of the University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacrame...Scientists develop screening method for pancreatic cancer
...o carry out further trials of these techniques and hope the results encourage more widespread adoption of these screening methods."...Air pollution found to pose greater danger to health than earlier thought
...n New York City to try to duplicate findings. They hope to determine whether Los Angeles' tailpipe-emission-driven pollution poses a greater danger than that in the eastern United States, where power plants and factories contribute more heavily to pollution. They also plan to better understand pollution's...Academic medical centers face multiple challenges for conducting medical research
... federally sponsored research, giving rise to some hope that the federal government will at least partially restore the balance of responsibility that formerly characterized the historic federal-academic partnership in the country's research enterprise. If some relief is not forthcoming, some institutions...UVa scientists discover new type of nerve cell that could be target for drugs to ease pain
...nt disability in some people. Now there may be new hope for these pain sufferers. Scientists at the Unive...y serve as a volume control for pain impulses. "We hope that this new type of neuron will be amenable to new therapies. The next step will be to find a drug...New online atlas provides collective maps of human brain folds
...xpand and fine-tune the atlas' maps. The creators hope it will be useful in a wide variety of research projects. Among other studies, PALS is already helping scientists understand how an inherited disorder changes the brain and how brain function adjusts in response to blindness. A paper on the creation...Detecting Alzheimer's in the eye, lifting fingerprints without touching the surface
...t is over $1,000,000. Therefore, the researchers hope LEBS can serve as a screening toolthat will identi...ses 11-micron-wavelengthlight, but the researchers hope to push on into the near-infraredrange soon. Furthermore, the lensing effect seems to be highlysens...Univ. of Cincinnati receives $17.4 million grant to lead stroke study
...es to unblock heart arteries for several years. We hope that this trial can be the first step in that direction for acute stroke," Dr. Broderick said. "We're hoping this will lead to a paradigm shift in stroke treatment, from the standard tPA dose given intravenously to less tPA and a more interventional...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives SPORE grant for breast cancer research from NCI
... the growth of scientific knowledge offers genuine hope for meaningful advances against the disease," says Dr. Ingle. "This grant award will allow scientists and clinicians to work together in research projects addressing what causes breast cancer, how to predict who will develop breast cancer and how to...Scientists breed special rats to learn more about hypertension
... in marked increases in blood pressure, which they hope will help them understand why a woman's chances of getting high blood pressure increase considerably after menopause. Led by Liliya Yamaleyeva, M.D., the researchers measured nitric oxide, a hormone that has been found to relax blood vessels and lowe...Jefferson scientists design method to fight artificial implant infections with antibiotics
...nt can include cement-containing antibiotics. "The hope is that the drugs in the glue will protect the implant, but that doesn't always work," Dr. Hickok explains. She notes that while they are infrequent, such infections can occur right after surgery from contamination during the operation. Later, infect...Hopkins geneticist discovers mutations in cancer cells that suggest new forms of treatment
...effects of these mutations in the cancer cell. Our hope is that we can target enough of these mutations to treat the cancer."...NASH clinical research network launches trial for treatment of liver disease in children
... from obesity to liver injury. TONIC investigators hope to uncover the underlying conditions that contribute to the development and progression of NAFLD in children. Once considered a disease of adults over 40, NAFLD is increasingly reported in children. Determining population-based prevalence numbers fo...Smoking seems to increase brain damage in alcoholics
...s and smoking and non-smoking alcoholics, with the hope of replicating the results of their current retrospective study....Hospitals that follow guidelines save lives
...provements in care to higher rates of survival. "I hope that every acute care hospital in the country will use a system to guarantee the key priorities of care for every patient with an acute coronary syndrome, such as early reperfusion and correct medical treatment, the use of aspirin, beta blockers, sta...New blood transplant method stops fatal side effect, Stanford study finds
...rchers said that more research is needed, and they hope to begin testing their method with other cancer centers soon. FROM MICE TO MEN It makes sense that the regulatory T cells - a tiny subset of immune cells - could play such a vital role in stemming graft-versus-host disease: These cells appear to ac...Newly discovered gene may predict aggressive ovarian cancer
...hich patients will develop aggressive disease. "We hope new therapies can be tailored to target Rsf-1, in the same way that Herceptin for breast cancer attacks the Her2/neu gene pathway," says Tian-Li Wang, Ph.D., assistant professor of gynecology/obstetrics and oncology at Johns Hopkins. The scientists' ...MGH named by NHLBI as Specialized Center for Cell-Based Therapy for Heart, Lung and Blood Diseases
...ffort to extend the concept to human patients. "We hope to provide proof of principle that we can influenc...oncept on blood and bone marrow stem cells, but we hope to extend the work to other tissue types." A professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Scadd...Arranon cancer drug receives advisory committee support
...TON Oncology patients received a small dosage of hope last week when Arranon (nelarabine) Injection, a c...DA, Arranon will give us the ability to offer more hope to our patients and their families." In addition to the study in pediatric patients, a phase 2 study...New use of 64-slice CT scan to be studied at HUP to help diagnose coronary artery disease in the ED
...st pain not related to the heart." "In the end, we hope to find patients that we can send home right away because nearly 85 percent don't have ischemic coronary artery disease," said Judd Hollander, MD, the emergency medicine physician leading the study at HUP. "This is useful to Emergency Department phys...