Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe
...3-D probe is tipped with a dime-sized array of 504 individual ultrasound sensors. Each sensor is as wide as a few human hairs. "It took a craftsman to create this probe," said Smith. "Not many graduate students could have done what Chris Pua has done." "Maintaining the size of normal TE probes was a main factor...Ontario's mental health care evaluated
...ntario. The results are reported by region, not by individual hospital; the next mental health report in the ser...slated for 2007, will provide performance data for individual hospitals. "The introduction of this first-of-its-kind report on mental health is a positive step f...Swedish researchers first in the world to gain access to BIMS
...bases of phenotype and genotype information on the individual donors and to a variety of other data sources. The existence of large national epidemiological databases, such as the Swedish twin register, and a large number of tissue sample collections of national importance gives the Karolinska Institutet Bioban...Psychosocial aspects of genetic testing for hereditary cancers meeting at Jefferson June 9-10
.... I think that eventually, everyone will have an individual gene-testing kit, Dr. Kash says. If a person finds out he or she is at high risk for melanoma, for example, he or she can find ways to prevent it. A woman at high risk for breast cancer can make lifestyle changes. Insurance companies, she says, are ...Practice of defensive medicine widespread among physicians in specialties at high risk of lawsuits
...asses both day-to-day clinical decisions affecting individual patients and more systematic alterations of scope ...g the financial and psychological vulnerability of individual physicians in high-risk specialties to shocks to the liability system," the researchers conclude....May/June 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...st physicians for comorbid conditions than for any individual diagnosis. The authors point out that although pat...than undertake management strategies directly with individual patients. They conclude that in the search for effectiveness, efficiency and equity in health care s...Diabetes, hypertension and obesity negatively effect joint replacement outcomes
...ment procedure should be weighed by surgeons on an individual patient basis. " Specifically, in their analysis o... factors, such as the volume of cases performed by individual surgeons and hospitals, or patient characteristics such as age, gender and race. The analysis was su...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for June 2005 (first issue)
...association between primary graft dysfunction with individual short- and long-term mortality after lung transplantation. Outcomes studied included mortality at 30 days and 1 year after transplantation. They said that primary graft dysfunction occurs in the first hours to days after transplantation and that t...'Real life' study clarifies risk of recurrence for high-risk breast cancer patients
...es resulting from different trials and tailored to individual patients. Our study probably reflects the magnitude of benefits of the application of various studies on the whole population." The finding could be very important for patients, she said. "The identification of peculiar characteristics allows clinici...Gene linked to lower breast cancer risk
... IL 10 genotypes may help to obtain a more precise individual breast cancer risk profile."...Prevalence and severity of mental illness in the United States
...in that 12-month period and the likelihood that an individual qualifying in that 12-month period for a diagnosis for one mental disorder would also meet the criteria for at least one other (comorbidity). The disorders were divided into four classes: anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, post-traumatic st...Doctor 'report cards' may keep some heart patients from getting angioplasties
...atients assess doctors or hospitals based on their individual volumes and results. In New York, angioplasty and heart bypass surgery results have been publicly available since the early 1990s. The new study is based on New York data from the calendar years 1998 and 1999 that were published in January 2003. The ...Mental illness exacts heavy toll, beginning in youth
...earlier in life the disorder begins, the slower an individual is to seek therapy, and the more persistent the illness," said Dr. Kessler, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. "It's unfortunate that those who most need treatment are the least likely to get it." Treating cases early cou...Study links regions of two chromosomes to susceptibility for type of autism
...a complex developmental disability that affects an individual in the areas of social interaction and communicati...n. Autism is a spectrum disorder that affects each individual differently and to varying degrees of severity. As many as 1.5 million Americans - children and adul...Chest x-rays not effective in determining when TB acquired
...ysis is a method for comparing strains of MTB from individual patients on a genetic basis. These techniques allow comparison of patients who have recently acquired tuberculosis to those whose tuberculosis was acquired long ago. The researchers in this study used molecular fingerprinting and conventional epide...Multi-drug resistant TB persists in California
...tise and resources; health care cost estimates for individual MDR TB patients in the United States range from $2...herence. Although MDR TB may be curable at a great individual and societal cost, the implementation of both local and global TB control strategies is needed to pr......zymes, or proteases, clip the chain to release the individual proteins, the parts needed to assemble a mature virus. These two proteases -- called 3CLpro and PLpro -- are UIC's targets for drug therapy. "If we can block 3CLpro and probably PLpro, then we can stop the SARS virus from replicating," Johnson said....Johns Hopkins team finds 'ancestral' hepatitis-C virus at the root of evolution in infections
...eversions back to the consensus sequence. When the individual genome changes in each woman were mapped on a grid, each woman formed a unique cluster indicating individual, evolutionary selection. However, some of the changes were shared, suggesting convergence, which would not have occurred had the virus simpl...MicroRNA study opens potential revolution in cancer diagnosis
...enious bead-based miRNA capture method, where each individual bead was marked with fluorescence "tags" that could tell which miRNA was bound as well as its abundance in the sample. Testing a host of tumor samples on the miRNA-specific beads revealed that the expression patterns of miRNA not only correlated with...Shrinking brains but healthy memory - does brain matter matter?
...jectory is not well understood, and there are huge individual differences. "In this study, we found that, on average, men aged 64 years have smaller brains than men aged 60. However, despite this shrinkage, cognitive functions - like memory, attention and speed of processing - are unaffected. "In the present...