Largest NIH grant for NYU will create research network in dental practices
...nt and clinical conditions. The networks also will perform anonymous chart reviews, as allowed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), to generate data on disease, treatment trends, and the prevalence of less common oral conditions. NYU's PEARL Network draws its strength from a di...People can learn motor skills by watching
...nificantly reduced when the subjects were asked to perform unrelated arm movements during observation. "These findings broaden the scope of theories linking observation and action by demonstrating that by watching another individual learning to move, observers can learn not only what movements to make, but h...Dr. Gutin selected as Fulbright Senior Specialist
...sted in being fit for its own value: being able to perform well in physical activities and sports," says Dr. ...ck. "We wanted to see the factors that led them to perform better or worse in this kind of running event. The dominant factor, more important than any other ph...Lack of vigorous activity linked to functional decline in older adults with arthritis
... the strongest predictor of the loss of ability to perform basic activities of daily living after developing arthritis was the lack of regular vigorous physical activity. All patients in this study were diagnosed with having arthritis or rheumatism and were drawn from a large national study of health among p...Competition in health care may not result in better quality
... HMO competition, HMOs in less competitive markets perform better on HEDIS' women's care measures and the CAHPS factors, but show no difference in performance on childhood or adolescent immunization or the management of chronic illness. Performance is better in markets with a greater percentage of HMO enrol...Hopkins study shows older children also benefit from 'lazy eye' treatment
...g patches or receiving eyedrops were also asked to perform near-vision activities, such as drawing or reading. In the study, 53 percent of children ages 7 through 12 with glasses, patch treatment and near-vision activity could, after 24 weeks, read at least two more lines on a standard eye chart, which the r...Older children can benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
... unaffected eye. These children were also asked to perform near vision activities. The patching, near activities, and eye drops force a child to use the eye with amblyopia. Patching was prescribed for periods of two to six hours daily, while the eye drops were administered daily for the children seven though...Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...udent Chana Palmer to develop a gene chip that can perform a microbial census on complex communities and samples....New treatment for hereditary breast cancer
...ination essential. The breast cancer tumour cannot perform recombination and is therefore unable to replicate and create new cells. The tumour is then unable to grow and eventually dies. The beauty of this system is that only the tumour cells lack BRCA genes and thus only they completely rely on PARP. The o...New treatment 'roadmap' improves odds for unusual brain aneurysm
... treat each type. At UCSF Medical Center, surgeons perform more than 400 brain aneurysm procedures a year, and while all are not thrombotic, when this type does arise it presents particular challenges to a neurosurgeon, according to Lawton. "When confronted with a thrombotic aneurysm, the neurosurgeon's inst...Gastric bypass patients fare better as surgical programs' experience increases
...ng this field to centers that specialize in it and perform it on a regular basis," the authors write. Theoretically, high volume enables the surgeon and all involved clinicians to develop a significant experience with the procedure and these patients in a shorter period, according to the authors. "Our data s...U of T research examines nursing home quality of care
...not-for-profit homes south-of-the-border generally perform better than for-profit homes, especially when it c... is about not-for-profit homes that allows them to perform better," says Hillmer. "It could be as simple as them being required to put any profits back into th...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...le to look more seriously at these techniques, and perform some research that studies long-term outcome," says lead author Dr Kelly Shaw who works in the Department of Health and Human Services in Hobart, Australia. Review title: Shaw et al: Psychological interventions for overweight or obesity. The Cochrane...Trusts perform better on chemical incidents but protective suits and tents still imperfect
...t, while at the other trust, clinical staff had to perform both roles and felt overstretched. Tests showed that staff failed to decontaminate patients adequately and staff decontamination was poor due to leaks in the boot area of the protective suits. At both hospitals, no one was certain of correct procedu...'Virtual colonoscopy' effective in finding most polyps but may miss small ones
... all because there are not sufficient personnel to perform the test," the ECRI authors write. Guidelines published in 2003 by the American Gastroenterological Association and an evidence review by the Technology Assessment Center of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Associations of America in 2004 do not find enoug...Increased risk associated with combining carotid artery, coronary artery surgeries
...rs in the U.S., leaving the burden on surgeons who perform CEA-CABG to show that it can be performed with acceptable risks," noted Pullicino.......ient age should not on its own deter a decision to perform CABG if there is a clinical need for it and that older patients undergoing elective procedures may experience outcomes equivalent to those of younger patients....K-State professor takes chemistry to another world
...nels to either separate them or we can use them to perform chemical reactions. Specifically for NASA, we are developing microfluidic devices which will allow us to automatically monitor the health of human cells on orbit." In the past, astronauts have had to freeze cells and bring them back to earth for anal...Fatal brain disease holds clues to dementia
...ormal and Huntington's disease-susceptible mice to perform a complex touch-dependent learning task. The healthy mice could improve on their performance and learn the task, but the mice with Huntington's disease could not, proving they had learning and memory problems. In a second study, both mouse groups had...New portable device developed by Georgia Tech and Emory checks for concussions on the sidelines
...on of several parts of the brain as it attempts to perform the tests. For example, the first shows the wearer a series of shapes with different colors and textures and gives voice instructions. The wearer uses a simple controller (similar to a video game controller) to respond to the commands. The device the...