A new guideline for screening apparently healthy individuals to prevent a heart attack
... underlies both heart attack and stroke. This void leaves many individuals even those with severe atheroscl...ol and blood pressure) are the same. This practice leaves the high risk patients with an imminent threat of a heart attack or stroke (the Vulnerable Patient) ...Health-care workers' SARS protective clothing systems
...systems and found that one kind of protective gear leaves health-care workers prone to contamination at their forearms, wrists, hands and necks. Another more elaborate ensemble, while proving more protective, was time-consuming for these workers to don and remove without making procedural errors an importa...Stroke risk should determine anti-clotting treatment
...and clot. If a piece of a blood clot in the atria leaves the heart and lodges in an artery in the brain, a stroke results. Moreover, when the very rapid electrical signals from the atria reach the lower chambers of the heart (the ventricles) they start to beat quickly and irregularly causing palpitations ......leaving the dogs immune to re-infection. But that leaves enough time for the dogs and bitches to pass the tumour on through further sexual encounters. The tumour is rarely seen in pedigree dogs because they are not allowed casual sex, but it is relatively common in strays. It does not occur in the UK, be...Did 'ABCs' cause Uganda's fall in HIV rates?
...powered to insist on abstinence or fidelity, which leaves them at risk of infection. Nevertheless, they say, many women in Uganda had little power at the outset of the AIDS epidemic. "Fortunately," say Murphy and Greene, "a 'this could not work here' attitude did not deter Uganda from moving forward to i...Road wends its way through stomach
...agus, to the bottom of the stomach where the chyme leaves and enters the small intestine. The assumption was that particles left the stomach in the same order they entered the stomach. The researchers modeled the stomach contents and discovered that a narrow path forms in the center of the stomach along wh...Researchers seek to design first treatment for neuroAIDS
...ciency virus (HIV), which attacks immune cells and leaves patients vulnerable to infection. Before the arrival of modern antiviral therapies in 1996, HIV also had a devastating effect on the brain known as HIV-associated dementia (HAD) or neuroAIDs. The current, standard combination of treatments has extend...Researchers use novel three-dimensional imaging technique
...condition characterized by memory decline but that leaves other daily living activities unimpaired, and which immediately precedes Alzheimer's. IMPACT: The technique is significant because it makes it possible to track the progression of Alzheimer's disease in live patients. This will be crucial in evalua...A great honor for Professor Metcalf
...e near destruction of the white blood cells, which leaves recuperating patients highly vulnerable to opportunistic infections over a long period of time. When injected into patients, the CSFs rapidly increase the number of white blood cells and restore their normal function. Susceptibility to infection is t...Aggressive stem cells might improve transplant outcome
...lay in rebuilding the immune systema time lag that leaves children exposed to serious infections. The St. Jude finding is important because children whose own bone marrow stem cells have been destroyed by chemotherapy or radiation treatments for cancer routinely undergo bone marrow transplantation. There...Numbers, sequences pose problems for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome children
...ed by these children. Prenatal alcohol abuse often leaves them with losses in physical, behavioural, emotional and social functioning. The findings of the study, published in the December issue of Child Neuropsychology, may help refine assessments of FASD children and provide a 'neurobehavioural profile' ...Are one-third of costly implanted heart devices unnecessary? New study suggests yes
...e damage that weakens the heart's pumping ability, leaves patients prone to sudden cardiac death and therefore makes them candidates for an ICD. In recent years, ICDs have been shown to reduce the overall risk of sudden cardiac death well enough to be given approval by the Food and Drug Administration an...Einstein's tea leaves inspire new blood separation technique
...new method uses the same principle that causes tea leaves to accumulate at the center of the bottom in a sti...o this phenomenon in 1926 when he noticed that tea leaves collected at the center of the bottom of a stirred teacup instead of being expelled outward. The ti...Comprehensive reforms to move toward patient-centered care released by ACP
...cans. "By definition, a health care system that leaves out nearly 47 million Americans is NOT one that is centered on patients' needs," continued Dr. Kirk. "The nearly 47 million Americans who now lack health insurance coverage are much less likely to have a regular source of care, never mind having acce...Rapid flu tests may reduce threat of antibiotic resistance
...ive a prescription in return for their visit. That leaves doctors caught between prescribing medication that probably won't help, vs. appearing unhelpful to their patients. "Oftentimes people get sick, they just want to feel better, and they assume there is a pill that will make them better quickly," said...Imaging technique is highly accurate in diagnosing, locating pancreas defects in newborns
...ons may remove nearly the total pancreas, but that leaves the child at risk for later diabetes. Using a mildly radioactive compound called 18F-fluoro-L-dihydroxyphenylalanine, or [18F]-DOPA, the researchers diagnosed focal or diffuse hyperinsulinism correctly in 23 of the 24 cases, for an accuracy of 96 p...Effectiveness of over-the-counter decongestant questioned in new study
...n the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine. This leaves phenylephrine as the primary ingredient in OTC decongestants available today. Original FDA approval of the drug relied on expert opinion rather than today's meta-analysis techniques to draw conclusions from the conflicting data shown in the research....ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 31, 2007
...ency sets ground work for human lunar outpost, but leaves cost and science objectives up in the air" This story will be available on Feb. 5 at http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/85/8505gov1.html FOR ADVANCE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Michael Bernstein ACS News Service Phone: 202-872-6042 Fax: 202-872-4370 ...Batten down the hatches against HIV
...e into human T-cells and primary blood cells. This leaves few "entry hatches" for the HIV viruses. The researchers report in the journal Angewandte Chemie that this allows for much better silencing effect to the cells than current transport systems based on liposomes. T-cells are one of the types of white ...Holographic images use shimmer to show cellular response to anticancer drug
...e highways of the internal cellular structure, and leaves organelles stuck at dead ends unable to move. This reduction in motion translates to less shimmer in the image on the screen and can be quantitatively analyzed by a computer program, Nolte said. "Let's say there are 1,000 organelles reflecting li...