Bioengineering to prevent iron deficiency?
...the last five years, to prepare the Seminar, which looks at the issue of nutritional iron deficiency in both industrialised and developing countries. The authors say: Iron deficiency is one of the leading risk factors for disability and death worldwide, affecting an estimated 2 billion peoplethe high pre...Indiana University Imaging Center receives $6M grant for kidney research
...data associated withit. Instead of just saying, it looks like the blood flow is lower, wehave developed methods so that we can quantify blood flow," Dr.Molitoris said. Development of techniques to get images from deeper in tissues.Currently maximum depth for imaging is about 0.2 millimeters in...It's time to look at health risks in a new light, authors say
...tory. One measure, called absolute risk reduction, looks at the difference in death rates between two groups, such as one group that received a medication and one that did not. If one person died among 100 people who took medication, the death rate would be 1 percent. If two people died among 100 people wh...Method shows promise for early detection of pancreatic cancer
...cancerous lesion in the pancreas, even tissue that looks normal and is away from the lesion -- including in the duodenum, a different organ than the pancreas -- will have molecular and other kinds of abnormal changes. No one can detect these changes earlier than we can. To test the effectiveness of the t...UT study reveals inaccuracies in cardiac PET-CT imaging, finds fixes
... the PET and CT data fail to match, Gould said. It looks like someone has severe disease. On discovering the problems, Gould developed a solution with Tinsu Pan, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Imaging Physics at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, by rewriting the softw...High-Need Physician Workforce Incentives Act endorsed by American College of Physicians
...rants to new primary care residency programs. ACP looks forward to working with Rep. Burgess and other members of Congress on legislation that would lead to repeal of the SGR-- while providing positive, predictable and stable payments during the transition years to repeal --and on the most effective appro...Institute of Medicine Advisory: Public health physicians
...EERS, a new report from the Institute of Medicine, looks at steps that should be taken to attract physicians to such jobs and to fully prepare them to make positive differences on the ground. The report will be released at a one-hour public briefing beginning at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 6, in the Lect...Snoring in children might be an allergic type disease
...ildhood allergic diseases. So whilst the condition looks and sounds similar in adults and children it can have quite different causes and risk factors. The study published in the latest edition of the international medical journal, Pediatric Pulmonology has established children with rhinitis who were fir...OHSU Cancer Institute, VA researchers find way to identify which men need a second biopsy
... of grading prostate cancer tissue based on how it looks under a microscope. Gleason scores range from 2 to 10 and indicate how likely it is that a tumor will spread. A low Gleason score means the cancer tissue is similar to normal prostate tissue and the cancer is less likely to spread; a high Gleason sco...Men worry more about penile size than women, says 60-year-old research review
...are much more interested in a mans personality and looks than the size of his penis, but men can experience real anxiety even if they are average sized, according to a research review published in the June issue of the urology journal BJU International. Dr Kevan Wylie from the Porterbrook Clinic and Roya...'Energy Up' demonstrates success as obesity intervention program for inner-city girls
...eat when they know it is bad for them. "Energy Up" looks at causes, as opposed to being reactionary. The program frames overeating within the realm of food addiction, something that no other American school based program does. Studies show that binge eating triggers the same neurological pathways as drug...Research shows aerobic exercise helps maintain muscle in elderly
...take, and improves endurance," Volpi said. "Now it looks like it may also slow the rate of muscle loss in aging. We need to test this hypothesis further with larger trials, but still, it's one more reason why elderly people ought to be regularly walking, swimming or cycling." ...Brain activity reflects differences in types of anxiety
...is month online in Psychophysiology. "This study looks at two facets of anxiety that often are not distinguished," said U. of I. psychology professor Gregory A. Miller, co-principal investigator on the study with psychology professor Wendy Heller. "We had reason to think there were different brain mechan...Psychological bullying hits just as hard
...as hitting, pushing, and name calling. This study looks at how other forms of aggression that target victi...ems. Contrary to other work in this field, it also looks at the effect of witnessing relational aggression, rather than simply focusing on victims. There is...NHLBI Asthma Clinical Research Networks and ALA ACRC Network to present at ATS 2007
...study from NHLBIs Asthma Clinical Research Network looks at the impact of overweight and obesity on asthma severity and response to asthma therapy. The study is using data from the NHLBI on approximately 1,200 people with asthma. This type of study provides extremely rich data in terms of the participant...Medical, high-energy physicists collaborate to improve PET scans
... working with Chen more than a year ago. "It still looks good, and we think it's far from crazy," Frisch said. "In fact, it may be possible."...New prevention, treatment methods for patients with painful bowel inflammation
...esented today at Digestive Disease Week 2007 (DDW) looks at preventative measures and potential treatment options for these painful and debilitating conditions. DDW is the largest international gathering of physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointes...'Star Trek'-type scanning may reveal genetic activity of tumors, Stanford study shows
...that two very different aspects of cancer - how it looks by imaging and how it behaves on a molecular level - have a strong connection. Out of the 5,000 or more genes that have different activity in cancerous tissue, the researchers could reconstruct 80 percent of gene expression based on looking at standa......t promising to further reduce tobacco use. It also looks at barriers to action and policies that need to be changed or adopted to lower rates of smoking. The report will be released with a one-hour public briefing. BRIEFING DETAILS: 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, May 24, in Room 100 of the National Academies' ...$2.6M grant awarded to New York University College of Nursing
...is important because illness in older people often looks different than in younger ones," said Mathy Mezey, EdD, RN, FAAN, principal investigator, and director of The Harford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. "Yet few faculty or care providers outside of the geriatric specialty are prepared to conduct or t...