Award for work on hypertension
...ac hypertrophy. Moreover, the findings suggest the measurement of this cardiotrophin-1 would be a simpler, more reliable and cheaper method than the currently available methods for detecting the presence of heart hypertrophy of the heart in patients with high blood pressure. The researchers suggest 3 reasons for...Nearly half of people with diabetes are not using aspirin to reduce risk of heart attack and stroke
...rt on the Framingham Risk Calculator, a simplified measurement tool that assesses an individual's risk profile based upon a series of factors, including age, gender, previous cardiovascular events, presence of risk factors such as high cholesterol, blood pressure or diabetes, obesity, and other contributors such...International multi-center study confirms value of blood test to diagnose heart failure
... defining a clear diagnosis of heart failure. The measurement below which heart failure could be ruled out was t...r blood levels of the protein. In fact, NT-proBNP measurement was the single strongest predictor of death within that time period, and those with the most signifi...Australian National University's Anstey wins GSA's 2005 Margret M. Baltes Award
...ts include mood and depression, psychometrics, the measurement of change, and behavioral consequences of a variety of illnesses, functional limitations, or losses. At this point in her career, she is listed in the ISI Essential Sciences Indicators as one of the top one percent of most-cited researcher in the soc...Dogs ease anxiety, improve health status of hospitalized heart failure patients
...patients' hemodynamics -- the collective system of measurement for blood volume, heart function and resistance of...he at-rest group. Pulmonary capillary wedge, the measurement of left atrial pressure, dropped an average 2.1 mmHg, or 10 percent, at the end of the intervention ...Womb needed for proper brain development
...after about 10 weeks in intensive care, the second measurement of the premature babies' brains showed some portions of the front part of the brain were significantly smaller than those of babies who were born at or near full-term. Dr. Witelson said the findings indicate further research is needed to try to under...Measurement and standards issues in telemedicine
... on Dec. 7, 2005, to explore the need for improved measurement technologies and standards for telemedicine imagin... NIST to assess and document the nation's priority measurement and measurement-related standards needs for technological innovation, U.S. industrial competitivenes...Evacuation of elders during disasters to be addressed at GSA's upcoming annual meeting
...cussion about future federal activities to enhance measurement on the RC/AL population in light of these presentations. Sunday, November 20 at 1:45 p.m. The Capitol Hill Experience - Learning Public Policy From the Inside Out: Aging and health policy play an essential role in research, practice, and education...Should drugs for rare diseases be given special status in the NHS?
...fy special treatment, and that arguments about the measurement and valuation of health outcomes apply equally to orphan drugs and drugs for more common conditions. "Why should a person's health be valued less simply because the condition is not rare?" Special status for orphan drugs in resource allocation will a...Near infrared laser device can measure brain oxygen levels
...re monitored using the different blood oxygenation measurement systems pulse oximetry, jugular and radial arterial co-oximetry, and the prototype cerebral oximeter. In a stepwise fashion, the researchers decreased and then increased the concentration of inhaled oxygen through a range of 70 to 100 percent arter...Lancet publishes proactive study: Diabetes treatment reduces risk of heart attacks & strokes
...ve study results of ACTOS showed: HbA1c levels (a measurement of blood glucose control) were significantly reduced by 0.5% as compared to placebo (p<0.001). Lipid profiles significantly improved by increasing HDL cholesterol ("good" cholesterol) by 9% more than placebo (p<0.001) and reducing triglyceri...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for October 2005 (first issue)
...lood of the patients. The authors believe that the measurement of EPC colony-forming units is promising as a novel prognostic marker for survival in patients with ALI. The research appears in the first issue for October 2005 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Cri...Nerve changes from diabetes begin earlier than previously known
... agreed to periodic measures of their diabetes and measurement of nerve, eye, kidney and blood vessel complications. About half the people with diabetes develop some type of nerve damage (neuropathy) caused indirectly by high blood sugar levels. Symptoms can include pain, asleep-type numbness, tingling, burn...PRESERVE- 2-year study of initial combo therapy with nateglinide or glyburide + metformin
...ng diet and exercise alone. Patients had an HbA1c measurement between 7 percent and 11 percent. After a four-week maintenance period, when patients in both arms of the study took the lowest dose of their study medication, patients were aggressively titrated to reach a FPG goal. They were maintained on that do...Columbia study shows elderly with diabetes at increased risk for falling
...fter standing. The study showed that this kind of measurement did not, in fact, help prediction, but instead showed that diabetes, in addition to gait and balance difficulties were the most potent predictors of falling in this population....Advances in brain imaging for epilepsy
...rotonin is more sensitive than the traditional PET measurement of brain glucose," said senior author William H. Theodore MD, chief of the Clinical Epilepsy Section at the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. When drugs fail to control epilepsy, brain surgery is often the only remaining thera...Detecting Alzheimer's in the eye, lifting fingerprints without touching the surface
...present in air, and air doesnot interfere with the measurement (unlike some other laser-basedtechniques available). The SLP-FD system is still in the research stage, in a laboratoryenvironment with a 3-foot by 4-foot laser costing about $100,000.With continued development and advances in laser technology, there...Wheelchair technology & spinal cord injury
...njury (SCI) and discusses the validity of some QOL measurement tools. Three types of definitions of QOL are used ...tigators note that problems exist with some of the measurement instruments, and in certain instances, their use with a SCI group has not been justified. Literatu...New technology shows our ancestors ateeverything!
...ooth surface caused by use, offers a more accurate measurement of the surface's appearance and is described in the August 4 issue of Nature . "Paleontologists and physical anthropologists have had a somewhat naive view on diet, in part due to the limitations of time-consuming, subjective approaches to analyzing...Obesity lowers likelihood of receiving preventive health care
...ving mammograms and Pap smears went down. BMI is a measurement of body fatness based on weight adjusted for height. In data gathered in 2000, a white woman of normal weight was more than 50 percent more likely to receive a mammogram than a severely obese white woman (BMI greater than 40), the study showed. The...