New online atlas provides collective maps of human brain folds
...olds of the cerebral cortex not just from a single individual but from a group of individuals. It is available o...th the tremendous variability found in billions of individual human brains. Genetic and environmental differences, reactions to injury, and inherited disorders ca...MRSA is a global problemperspectives from around the world
...he world as MRSA experts share the challenges that individual countries face in trying to control the spread of MRSA. Despite extensive research, "uncertainty remains about the best approach to prevent and control this worldwide plague", conclude coauthors Stephan Harbarth and Didier Pittet from the Infection C...One stop shop for clinical trials open for business
...tical industry association sites, and those run by individual pharmaceutical companies or other parties working on their behalf. IFPMA proposes that two broad types of information can be searched for. One involves listings or registries of ongoing clinical trials, where basic information such as title, descrip...Rutgers-Newark psychology researchers reveal link between body and action perception
...omprised of healthy individuals. "In order for an individual to perform a motor activity simulation, you need to know how it feels to perform the action," Knoblich notes. "The two deafferented individuals do not feel their bodies. They must see their bodies to perform the simplest actions, such as standing upr...Mayo Clinic boosts immune system
...ls that have been infected by viruses to which the individual has not been previously exposed. Says Dr. McKean, "A person in their 60s doesn't produce many new T cells. Yet in order to effectively respond to a pathogen you haven't seen before, you really need those new T cells produced by the thymus. So that's ...Eating foods with 'weak estrogens' may help reduce lung cancer risk
...ed risk by 34 percent, but no effect was seen when individual classes of phytoestrogens were evaluated. The researchers suggest that phytoestrogens may help protect against lung cancer development because they latch on to estrogen receptors that are present in both normal and malignant lung tissue, and this bi...Higher consumption of some soy products, grains and vegetables linked to reduced risk of lung cancer
...e was used to collect dietary data on intake of 12 individual phytoestrogens. "Our main findings were that patients with lung cancer tended to consume lower amounts of phytoestrogens than controls, that there were sex-specific differences both in intake and in protective effects, and that the apparent benefits ...Hospitals that follow guidelines save lives
...re can no longer depend solely on human memory and individual execution. This study demonstrates that improved patient care requires the combined efforts of individual health care providers and improvements in the systems in which we practice. We await long term resul...SCAI, NCQA partner to hold landmark conference on introducing complex medical therapies
...o make informed treatment recommendations for each individual patient," said SCAI Past President Dr. Michael J. Cowley, professor of medicine at the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. One of the major goals of the conference will be to determine the best procedures to put...'Secrets' of successful hospitals revealed
...ereby exceptional performance is not a property of individual clinicians but a property of more ideally designed systems in which individuals work," Dr. Bradley added. However, Dr. Krumholz noted that many ambulance crews do not have the equipment or training to perform ECGs in the field. He said this study sho...Exercise in midlife could reduce the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease
...wide implications for preventive healthcare; if an individual adopts an active lifestyle in youth and at midlife, this may increase their probability of enjoying both physically and cognitively vital years later in life"....Cancer treatment illustrates UI, private sector partnership
...ement, including the revenue shares distributed to individual inventors and their respective academic units, plus an institution-wide research enrichment fund administered at the discretion of the UI Vice President for Research. The UIRF has also received a share of the earnings to fund its continued operations...Nursing Resource Teams can recruit and retain nurses
...rn resource team is the range of units to which an individual nurse can be assigned. In a traditional float pool, a nurse is regarded as a generic worker who is able to work with various patient populations and utilize many skill sets. In resource teams, however, nurses' specialized skills are recognized and us...Use of kidney paired donation for incompatible donors could expand donor pool
...ion, which is significantly less costly than if an individual continues to undergo dialysis. While logistically ...is, examine the findings by Montgomery et al. "The individual organ recipients who undergo a successful transplantation have greatly improved expectations compare...Study identifies risk factors for multiple melanoma skin cancer
...ted States, with an estimated lifetime risk for an individual of 1.4 percent. This increasing incidence puts a larger portion of the population at risk not only for one primary melanoma but also for subsequent primary melanomas. Cristina R. Ferrone, M.D., and colleagues from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen...Biomedical engineer shows how people learn motor skills
...ty in St. Louis have now identified how people use individual experiences to improve performance. Kurt Thoroughm...two. Thoroughman and Taylor also could detect how individual movements trained people to make the next movement better. Surprisingly, people could very quickly ...Researchers find multiple proteins that stick to medical devices
... that is released from dying cells, protecting the individual from auto-immune disorders. "No one had ever observed serum amyloid P on biomedical materials before, because, unless you were specifically looking for them, the technology wasn't around to easily identify proteins present in such small amounts," E...New insights into cost-effectiveness of implanted heart device
...but instead reported their results specific to the individual trials. "In January, CMS agreed to cover the costs associated with ICD implantation for patients with left ventricular dysfunction as long as the patient's clinical data is entered into a national ICD registry," she said. "We hope that as this data i...Study proves genetic variations influence cystic fibrosis' severity
...c targets and perhaps even directing therapy in an individual patients toward different types of adverse gene mo...ed to be targeted to a particular area or areas in individual patients. This is important not only for CF, but for other lung diseases as well because gene modifi...Study finds surprising links between depression, suicide, and epilepsy
...g alcohol, having depression, age, and gender. The individual presence of other symptoms of depression, whether common (e.g., depressed mood) or more rare (e.g., weight change) did not predict a greater likelihood of later seizures. While this finding clearly suggests common underlying brain mechanisms for suic...