Urgent action required to tackle escalating road-traffic crashes worldwide
...encies worldwide led to the UN General Assembly to pass a new resolution on road safety on Oct 26, 2005. In addition to recommending the implementation of the WHO report to reduce road-traffic injuries and deaths, the UN also called for the organisation of the first UN Global Road-Safety Week (April 2326,...M. D. Anderson: Setting the benchmark in brain tumor treatment
...e effect. Gilbert predicts that years will pass before testing of combined agents is routine. Drug testing guidelines are not yet flexible enough to allow clinicians to test approved agents with experimental therapies, he says, and issues will pop up as to who owns a winning drug combination. Stil...Perfect timing: Cardiologists meet in Chicago during May's National Stroke Awareness Month
... when it doesn't, the PFO can allow blood clots to pass directly from the right side of the heart to the left, where they are pumped to the brain, causing a stroke. Interventional cardiologists prevent PFO from causing a stroke by threading into the heart a pair of spring-loaded patches mounted on the end...'Bubble Bassets' cured of genetic disorder by in-vivo gene therapy technique
...virus vector the virus that had been engineered to pass on the gene " leading Felsburg and his colleagues to believe that there is a lower limit to the dose before the treatment becomes effective. Since the boys involved in the French gene-therapy study did not develop leukemia until more than three years...Holes in heart not a common cause of stroke in general population, study finds
...s commonly cause stroke by allowing blood clots to pass through the heart, bypass the lungs and go to the brain. Mayo's study, published in the May issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, contradicts previous PFO studies. Past studies may have overestimated the relationship between PFOs and stroke risk due to a...Gut microbes' partnership helps body extract energy from food, store it as fat
... as polysaccharides. Many types of polysaccharides pass through the small intestine mostly unchanged because our human genome does not have the genes needed to digest them. Bacterial partners living in our colons, such as Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, begin a fermentation process that breaks down these nu...Scientists discover why cornea is transparent and free of blood vessels, allowing vision
... is the clarity of the cornea that allows light to pass onto the retina and from there to the brain for interpretation. When the cornea is clouded by injury, infection or abnormal blood vessel growth, vision is severely impaired, if not destroyed. Scientists have been wrestling with the "clarity" puzzle...Synthetic version of scorpion venom delivers radioactive iodine to malignant brain tumors
...inds to glioma cells and has an unusual ability to pass through the blood-brain barrier that blocks most substances from reaching brain tissue from the bloodstream. "We're using the TM-601 primarily as a carrier to transport radioactive iodine to glioma cells, although there are data to suggest that it ...Keep the baby, toss the bathwater: How kidneys retain proteins, discard waste
... the Finnish team may slow the ability of water to pass through the diaphragm and into the urine without affecting the passage of blood proteins. This could increase the concentration of protein passed into the urine without increasing the actual quantity of protein passed. "It may be that the GBM is wh...Low literacy increases risk of death and misunderstanding of medical consent forms
...e first pass. Fifty-two percent needed a second pass and 20 percent needed three or more passes before ... most subjects had poor comprehension on the first pass in spite of the form being written at a sixth-grade reading level and read aloud, and also in spite...Sociologists dissect doctor-patient dialogue
... patients. Several schools now require students to pass an exam evaluating interaction skills. Meanwhile, medical residency programs are beginning to recruit residents with at least some communication training. The book targets sociologists, communication experts and medical professionals, and ultimatel......hat 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, because quarantine regulations (for rabies) eff...Rush researchers explore nanotechnology as diagnostic and treatment tool
...cer. Such nano ultrasonographic contrast media can pass through the smallest capillaries. These tiny bubbles light up on ultrasound and may be able to show the earliest vascular changes associated with ovarian malignancy. If this is successful, further research will be conducted to study targeted imaging...A third of the world population faces water scarcity today
...rrun predictions that this situation would come to pass in 2025. "Worrisome predictions in 2000 had forecast that one third of the world population would be affected by water scarcity by 2025. Our findings from the just-concluded research show the situation to be even worse," says Frank Rijsberman, Dir...Press update: The World Congress of Cardiology 2006, Barcelona Spain, September 2-6
...le to register on-site in Barcelona. Bring a press pass or a letter of assignment and identification to the press registration desk at the Fira Gran Via 2....Clean water project hit by funding drought
...ze to trap bacteria and viruses but allow water to pass through. Tests showed that the filter trapped 99.99 per cent of pathogens - equal to the efficiency of commercial filters which rely upon the addition of biocides, such as compounds of silver, to the clay before firing. This makes them more expensiv...Robot wheelchair may give patients more independence
...gular vertical frame. The frame is small enough to pass through the typical residential bathroom. The user drives the chair using a joystick and other simple controls. The HLPR chair's drive, steering motors, batteries and control electronics are positioned to keep its center of gravity--even when carry...Researchers seek to design first treatment for neuroAIDS
...rve cells exposed to HIV may lose their ability to pass on nerve signals long before the virus causes them to self-destruct. To protect themselves from infection, exposed nerve cells pull in their branches (dendrites), which would normally connect them to other nerve cells. Such disconnected nerve cells, ...'Yarning about Mental Health' during International Mental Health Week
...re about culture. So I can speak more language and pass it on to the kids. I want to learn about corroboree. I want to understand when they sing in ceremony. I want to stop fighting and arguing too.' At the launch of the booklet during International Mental Health Week at the third AIMHI NT (Australian In...