Program may improve physicians' knowledge about diseases caused by bioterrorism agents
...nt. Early recognition is essential to minimize the potentially devastating impact of a bioterror attack." (Arch Intern Med. 2005; 165: 2002-2006. Available pre-embargo to media at www.jamamedia.org .)...From aircraft aerodynamics to improved heart implants
...mans. Complications, ranging from the minor to the potentially fatal, are widespread among patients who receive implants either as a long-term solution to a failing heart or as a temporary 'bridge' while they await a transplant. Though such implants play a vital role in prolonging the lives of people with cardio...Optical imaging added to ultrasound improves breast cancer diagnosis
...tage breast cancer from non-cancerous lesions--and potentially reduce the number of breast biopsies performed. The study appears in the October issue of the journal Radiology. Ultrasound, which uses reflected sound waves to produce images of the internal structures of the body, is often used to further evaluate...Smoking seems to increase brain damage in alcoholics
...in other studies, their results will raise several potentially important questions. The first is whether recovering alcoholics should also be treated for smoking -- and if so, at what point during their treatment. At present, alcohol treatment programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous do not discourage smoking or ev...Flavanols key to potential chocolate benefits
...taining 176 to 185 milligrams of flavanols, a dose potentially exerting maximal effects. These changes correlated with increases in flavanol metabolites. In addition, the improvements were reversed when the participants were given a drug (L-NMMA) that interferes with nitric oxide signaling, thus supporting the i...New blood transplant method stops fatal side effect, Stanford study finds
...r, but in up to 80 percent of the cases there is a potentially deadly side effect: The donor's incoming immune cells attack the patient's body as "foreign" in what is known as graft-versus-host disease. The new method tested at Stanford appears to retain the desired result of the transplantation - killing the ca...Scientists show that tick-borne flaviviruses use a novel mechanism to evade host defenses
...a and Southeast Asia, rarely infects people but is potentially fatal. If the research group can track the movement of NS5 in Powassan-infected cells and learn how it interacts with other proteins to block immune defenses, "that would provide a target for therapeutics to counteract tick-borne flaviviruses," says ...New use of 64-slice CT scan to be studied at HUP to help diagnose coronary artery disease in the ED
...r. Baxt further explains, "On the other side, this potentially could save society vast amounts of money by foregoing unnecessary admission into hospitals for further testing. Also, more beds as well as emergency medicine personnel would be available to treat the really ill patients who need care."...Adult stem cells aid recovery in animal model of cerebral palsy
...y, this time to help newborn babies recover from a potentially devastating injury of birth for which there currently is no treatment," says Dr. Gil Van Bokkelen, chairman and chief executive officer of Athersys. Ischemic brain injury accounts for about 10 percent of cerebral palsy, broadly defined as brain inj...Microarray technology could help predict patient response to adjuvant therapy for breast cancer
...ents whose breasttumours express these genes could potentially be used to predict which patientswould not benefit from adjuvant therapy, and avoid patients being giventherapies with the potential of causing more harm than good. A team of researchers led by Jonas Bergh from the Karolinska Institutet inStockholm, ...Preventing communication errors in telephone medicine
...d to patients asking informed questions that could potentially save their lives," said first author Anna B. Reisman, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale and at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. "Physicians should also take the time to listen and explain carefully." Past s...Large sinus tumors can be removed endoscopically, study finds
...chnique called facial degloving, and moving bone - potentially the upper jaw and cheekbone and sometimes brain out of the way. Complications include eye loss, cerebral spinal fluid leaks and disfigurement, which may require reconstructive surgery. With the endoscopic approach, Dr. Kountakis uses tiny scopes an...New insights into cost-effectiveness of implanted heart device
... their conclusion. The cost-effectiveness of these potentially life-saving implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) is an important public health issue, the researchers said, since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that as many as 500,000 of its patients could be eligible to rec...Mechanism controlling DNA damage response has potential novel medical applications
... the body of useless cells and prevents cells with potentially cancer-causing mutations from multiplying and spre...ors." "On the other hand, these insights provide a potentially novel way to try to decrease levels of p53 so that we could protect cells in normal tissues from dyi...Stroke patients with mild symptoms may still need clot-dissolving drug
...at tPA treatment could cause a brain hemorrhage, a potentially devastating complication. Because of this risk, patients with less severe symptoms may not receive tPA in the hopes that they will get better on their own. An observation from an earlier study suggested that many of those patients would not do wel...UK government's privatisation plans for the NHS put patient welfare at risk
...als are untested and, therefore, irresponsible and potentially dangerous, states the editorial. The Lancet commen...als are untested and, therefore, irresponsible and potentially dangerous. Patricia Hewitt is playing fast and loose with the public's trust. Until there is indepen...National stereotypes common, mistaken, study reports
...rable stereotypes of national or ethnic groups are potentially very dangerous, forming the bases for prejudice, discrimination, persecution, or even genocide." Stereotypes become "cultural phenomena" and are perpetuated through media, hearsay, education, history, and jokes, according to the study. In previous st...Immune therapy could treat leukemias, autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection
...m accepting some donor grafts." In contrast to the potentially benign nature of the CD19 mAb treatment for such patients, current therapy involves removing the spleen and giving such patients chemotherapeutic treatment and plasmapheresis to remove antibodies from the blood. Tedder and his Duke colleagues are now...Alzheimer's & Dementia marks first issue
... of 400 micrograms per day. Other studies address potentially new approaches to early identification and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and dementia, including the possible protective effect of treatment for high blood pressure. Alzheimer's & Dementia will be published quarterly, along with a special supplem...March of Dimes receives federal grant to help meet needs of pregnant women and infants in Louisiana
...egnancy will be created to help them through their potentially stressful pregnancies. The program also will provide education and support for an estimated 2,500 families with infants in NICUs at three Baton Rouge hospitals. Prematurity is the leading killer of America's newborns, and those who survive ofte...