Outcomes for patients with hepatitis B who need liver transplants
...therapy. The researchers collected demographic and laboratory data for all participants, and computed a MELD score for each. They then followed the patients for a median of 30.2 months. The patients with HBV-HCC were older, more likely to be Asian and had less severe liver impairment than patients with HBV-ci...Drug treatment improves learning in mice with Down syndrome symptoms, Stanford/Packard study shows
...lar Wade Morishita, PhD, who works in the Stanford laboratory of professor Rob Malenka, PhD, found that it approached normal levels after chronic PTZ treatment and remained comparable to that in wild-type mice for up to three months after PTZ was discontinued. PTZs history of use in humans is an advantage whe...Honeydew honeys are better antioxidants than nectar honeys
...arameter), pH and electrical conductivity. These laboratory results show some aspects that people could use to get an idea about which honeys are likely to have the most potent antioxidant properties, says Prez....Multislice CT speeds the diagnosis of chest pain in the emergency room
...rmal scan were sent to the cardiac catheterization laboratory for further, invasive testing. In the CT group, patients with uncertain test resultseither because the images were not clear, or because there was only a moderate amount of disease in the coronary arteriesalso had a nuclear scan to help determine whe...Virtual activities: Virtuous or perilous?
...the center's use of its island in Second Life as a laboratory for experiments in virtual public diplomacy by the State Department, foreign ministries of state, and prominent think-tanks; and the advantages of virtual worlds over web sites or other media for public diplomacy and cultural exchanges. Fouts present...Disposable sensor uses DNA to detect hazardous uranium ions
... rivals the performance of much more sophisticated laboratory instruments. The sensor provides a fast, on-site t...rivaled the performance of much more sophisticated laboratory instruments. In 2000, Lus research group used the same catalytic DNA process to create a simple but ...Texas researchers aim to use saliva to diagnose health and disease
... technology was previously developed in McDevitt's laboratory and has been licensed to LabNow, Inc. Lab-on-a-chip systems are miniaturized biosensors that, coupled with portable instruments, promise to offer inexpensive, point of care medical diagnosis. The technology is being tested for use in the monitoring o...Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes
... For the first time, scientists in Tomaso Poggio's laboratory at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT applied a computational model of how the brain processes visual information to a complex, real world task: recognizing the objects in a busy street scene. The researchers were pleasantly surprised a...Americans fear decline in US performance in math and science
...th will lead to new approaches and advances in the laboratory and ultimately to new tools and treatments for patients, said William E. Brown III, PhD, vice president, Diagnostic Assays and Systems Development, Abbott. Other key findings of the poll include: 70% want more media coverage of science and resea...Grants from leading eye research foundation surpass $9M in 2006
...e years and up to $150,000 in a matching grant for laboratory construction. An additional $200,000 may be awarded during a two-year extension of the award. ...Risk for stroke, death not higher for sickle cell children with early complications
... future. Lots of investigators have looked at many laboratory markers with mixed results. What we did was to loo...and by doctors and that didn't require any special laboratory or equipment to make this sort of prediction." Also involved in the study were Dr. Zora Rogers, a...Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
...DR-TB diagnoses to date (which require specialized laboratory facilities) "likely represent a small proportion of the true extent of the problem. The number of persons harbouring latent infections is unknown (and likely unknowable at present)," they add. Factors fuelling the outbreak Isolated cases of XDR-T...Does endurance exercise promote life-threatening changes in athletes' hearts?
.../electrophysiology and director of the clinical EP laboratory who led the team, explained: "Although arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy is a known cause of arrhythmias in athletes, we found that we could diagnose it unequivocally in only six of the 22 athletes (27%). However, we could assign arrhyt...Einstein's tea leaves inspire new blood separation technique
...to be taken in a doctor's office and sent off to a laboratory and analyzed with a large centrifuge, a process that can take several days. In the new method, a tiny amount of blood enters a fluid chamber, and a needle tip is placed close to the surface of the blood at an angle. A voltage is applied to the needl...Penn researchers demonstrate ability of new therapy to treat severely elevated cholesterol levels
...g washout period. Analysis of lipid levels, safety laboratory analyses, and magnetic resonance imaging of the liver for hepatic fat content were performed throughout the study. All patients tolerated titration to the highest dose studied. In addition to the 51% reduction in LDL cholesterol, treatment at this d...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 3, 2007
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...he road. This example is illustrated on Woldorff's laboratory website at http://www.mind.duke.edu/faculty/woldorff/ . "When we direct our attention to such specific locations or events -- in this case, the bicyclist off to the side -- we tend to more quickly discriminate or detect changes there than at other ...Clinical guidelines help identify which children at risk of bacterial meningitis
...risk of bacterial meningitis by using clinical and laboratory measures readily available at the time the child is in the clinic could guide decision making and limit unnecessary hospital admissions and prolonged antibiotic use. Lise E. Nigrovic, M.D., M.P.H., of Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical S...Health care expenditures significantly higher for children with obesity
.... A significantly higher rate of utilization of laboratory services by overweight and obese children was foun...mpliance with expert committee recommendations for laboratory evaluation of obese children and adolescents," the authors write. "Compared with their healthy-weigh......urons could be the target of FTD. Working in the laboratory of senior author Stephen J. DeArmond, MD, PhD, UCSF professor of pathology, they compared the numbers of von Economo neurons and neighboring neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex, looking specifically at brain tissue from three sets of deceased pa...