Molecular ballet unravels, links proteins so cell can direct own movement
...e; yet the ability to move purposefully also helps individual cancer cells break away from a tumor and spread to...lin and showed that it changes its shape by moving individual "cylinders" making up its head, much like the movement of fingers on a hand. The authors named this ...Speed and endurance are doled out by the pound
...I guidelines might be for individuals or any given individual athlete....Ability, not disability, at heart of yacht trek
...gram director Gilbert Devey, "is to aid a specific individual and give the engineering student a sense of purpose and pride, while helping engineering schools serve the community." Since its inception in the late 1980s, the senior design projects have helped some 1,200 people of all ages by providing devices as...Parasite genome sequences offer hope for new drugs and vaccines, Science studies say
...pproach is to focus on proteins that are unique to individual parasites. Many of these species-specific genes are located at the ends of the chromosomes and may encode proteins the parasite needs to survive or cause disease in humans or other host animals. Genes involved in parasite-specific adaptations are unl...Creating a new questionnaire to assess alcohol problems among college students
...is brief and appears to provide good resolution of individual differences in drinking problems along the entire continuum of problems assessed by the scale. On the other hand, limitations include the relatively little work done on it to date for example, the scale properties should be examined in more diverse...Decline in performance of candidates taking a postgraduate medical examination between 1997 and 2001
...mark by assessing the desirable knowledge based on individual questions. Thus the standard required to pass all components of the examination is now fixed and independent of the standard of the candidates sitting at that diet....Paramedic training challenges highlighted by University of Pittsburgh study
...looked at the frequency of intubation performed by individual paramedics. They found that two-thirds of Pennsylvania paramedics performed intubation less than three times per year, and 40 percent performed no intubations at all. "We need to find better ways to train paramedics to perform this very difficult pro...Recent use of antibiotics doubles your chances of being resistant
...tance, this is the first time that the risk to the individual has been assessed. The study looked at whether GP ...ing whether or not to prescribe antibiotics for an individual they may consider the risk as being minimal." Resistance was tested in organisms from urine sampl...Hospital 'report cards' found not effective for quality improvement
...of quality indicators relevant to care provided by individual hospitals can catalyze quality improvement at these hospitals. Ideally, hospital report cards provide clinicians with an accurate picture of the care they deliver and provide benchmarks for comparison, such as the care delivered at other hospitals or...Other highlights in the July 20 JNCI
...) for chemotherapy administration was 93% and that individual chemotherapy agents had similarly high sensitivities, from 81% for carboplatin to 91% for cyclophosphamide. The authors conclude that administrative Medicare claims data appear to be a valid source of information for chemotherapy administered to elde...Camera-guided colon surgery works best for most patients, study confirms
... the review, which appears to confirm other recent individual studies showing positive results for laparoscopy for colon cancer. Dr. Michael Stamos, chief of colorectal surgery at the University of California, Irvine, thinks that the difference in operating time will decrease as surgeons improve their laparosco...'Hospital-at-home' concept does not save money or improve outcomes, study finds
...rd University, the review combines results from 22 individual hospital-at-home studies that measure various outc...al, although it could be because the small size of individual studies reviewed did not offer enough statistical power to detect differences. For the studies inclu...Injuries higher among obese people, study finds
...esearchers categorized study participants based on individual body mass index (BMI) measurements, which relate a person's weight to their height. The National Institutes of Health recommends that BMI be used to classify someone as underweight, at a normal weight, overweight or obese, said Xiang, who is also an ...Minimally invasive solid tumor biopsy may replace surgery to get diagnostic specimens
...997 to 2003) in order to determine how many of the individual biopsy samples lead to the correct identification of a cancer. This would demonstrate how likely individual biopsy specimens provided suitable tissue for laboratory analysis, according to Hoffer. Among the tu...What is the best treatment for postherpetic neuralgia?
...able to assess the underlying mechanism(s) of each individual patient's pain and then tailor treatments accordingly....Arts program provides services, guidance to HIV/AIDS patients
...ent and funded by the Carle Foundation -- provided individual art instruction for just three people. Kellman taught the class, which met once a week for four hours -- over a 3 1/2-month period -- in a medical school computer lab that served as a makeshift art room. Art supplies and projects were stored in a nea...Delivery of routine preventive services suboptimal for medicare beneficiaries
...ay vary in association with the characteristics of individual physicians and their practices, according to background information in the article. Hoangmai H. Pham, M.D., M.P.H., of the Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, D.C., and colleagues examined the relationship between attributes of phys...BMJ highlights lack of international cooperation to investigate scientific fraud
...e international scandals and has to leave it to an individual journal." He resolutely stands by the decision to publish the saga, and believes that the scientific community has an obligation to the public to do better. But once the validity of one study is called into question, who should investigate the rest o...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, August 2, 2005
...ys that for many reasons the study cannot help the individual patient choose between the two forms of dialysis (Editorial, p. 229). The writer also discusses newer technologies for dialysis. A National Health Information Infrastructure Will Cost Billions Researchers estimate that achieving a workable nationa......nd behavior dynamics, personality development, and individual differences in the cognitive, affective, and interpersonal domains. Mireille Joussemet is an assistant professor in Child Clinical Psychology at the University of Montreal. She has extensively examined the role of parents and teachers in promoting ...