Community MRSA is re-emergence of 1950's pandemic
... public places which are resistant to treatment by powerful meticillin antibiotics - may have evolved from this earlier pandemic-causing strain. The researchers have sequenced key genes from 80/81 samples isolated between 1955 and 1969 in Australia, England and the USA, and compared them with the same regions...Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
... both numbers and the stories. Together, this is a powerful mechanism for change." The intervention was first ... changed, I'm feeling better,'" he says. "It is so powerful to hear, so powerful to witness. I would love to see the whole treatment system adopt this intervent...Largest NIH grant for NYU will create research network in dental practices
...ts together for research projects that can deliver powerful solutions to the day-to-day problems confronted in dental offices. It bridges the gap that has traditionally existed between practicing dentists and academia, and has the potential to transform the way dentistry is practiced. This award places NYU Co...Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
...study did not look at patients who were prescribed powerful sedatives to help them sleep, such as morphine, nor did it include patients taking anxiety drugs that also aid sleeping ability. Sleep-aiding medications, Chervin and Avidan note, are only one way to deal with persistent insomnia, and in fact are not...People can learn motor skills by watching
...ion of the mechanical requirements of the task. "A powerful new idea in neuroscience links motor control with action observation," wrote Mattar and Gribble. "When we observe the actions of others, we activate the same neural circuitry responsible for planning and executing our own actions." In their experimen...OHSU scientist helping explain basis of psychotic behavior
...er psychotic disorders are "supersensitive" to the powerful neurotransmitter dopamine. David Grandy, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology and pharmacology, OHSU School of Medicine, co-authored a study appearing recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that found a link between dopamine ...Fifteen-year hunt uncovers gene behind 'pseudothalidomide' syndrome
...omic information, and the computer analysis become powerful enough to find the genetic mutations behind a dise...lopment. Without these techniques, and without the powerful computer programs, we wouldn't have been able to identify this gene and confirm its role in Roberts ...Scientists identify protein that controls cancer cells
...est University Baptist Medical Center. "It is very powerful and may be an attractive target for anti-cancer th...r-producing, they stopped forming tumors. "It is a powerful biological factor," said Debinski. In their studies, the researchers found that more than 50 differe...Public leadership in neurology award honors Leeza Gibbons for Alzheimer's awareness efforts
...ly invested in the American Academy of Neurology's powerful work." Her advocacy has aimed to take the shame and stigma out of memory disorders. She began by working with various Alzheimer's-related nonprofits and visiting Capitol Hill. In addition to producing episodes about Alzheimer's and dementia on her da...Execution by lethal injection is not humane or painless suggests study
...but also a stain on the record of the world's most powerful democracy. Doctors should not be in the job of killing. Those who do participate in this barbaric act are shameful examples of how a profession has allowed its values to be corrupted by state violence."...College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
...," said White. "Surveys are still one of the most powerful tools we have. The data simply suggest that we shouldn't take students' answers to questions about how much they drink at face value until we are certain that all students are being taught how to better define standard drinks." "We need to improve t...SKCC's Gennadi Glinsky addresses predicting risk in cancer treatment outcome
...gnature expression in tumor cells is a consistent, powerful predictor of therapy outcome. Its presence indicates a short interval to disease recurrence, distant metastasis, and death after therapy in cancer patients diagnosed with 10 distinct types of cancer, including prostate, breast, lung, ovarian, bladder...Combination chemotherapy shows small survival benefit in advanced stomach cancer
... most commonly used chemotherapy drugs, along with powerful antibiotics called anthracyclines and a platinum-b...overall survival for the combination chemotherapy, powerful statistical analysis did "demonstrate a small but statistically significant and consistent benefit f...Researchers develop 'genetic blueprint' to predict response to esophageal cancer treatments
...t that combined pathway-based analysis may provide powerful clinical outcome predictors for esophageal cancer as well as for other cancers," says the study's lead author Xifeng Wu, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Epidemiology. "This points to a promising new direction for cancer pharmacogenetics...Increasing benefit seen in novel drug that treats Gleevec resistance
ANAHEIM - An investigational drug is producing powerful responses in patients resistant to Gleevec, the ta... to this experimental drug. "Gleevec is incredibly powerful and failures are very rare in early phase CML. It is very effective in the great majority of patient...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for May 3, 2005
...ful strategy for lowering cholesterol in an age of powerful drugs like statins (Editorial, p. 793). 3. Alendronate is Not Cost-Effective Therapy for Women with Osteopenia Alendronate is not cost-effective in treating postmenopausal women with osteopenia or low bone mass, a new study finds (Article, p. 734)...Microbicide partners receive $5.7 million from Gates Foundation
...e Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will fund a powerful strategy to support development of safe, effective, and affordable microbicides. The Alliance will receive $2.8 million and the Global Campaign will receive $2.9 million, for a total sum of $5.7 million. Over the course of the next three years, the...Monitoring program finds serious, unreported adverse drug reactions
...y by government grants. RADAR has proved to be a powerful new instrument that supplements existing FDA surveillance systems and has helped save hundreds to thousands of patient lives, said lead author Charles L. Bennett, M.D., who directs the adverse drug reaction surveillance program. Bennett is professor ...Acupuncture treatment no more effective than sham treatment in reducing migraine headaches
...onspecific physiological effects of needling, to a powerful placebo effect, or to a combination of both," the authors write....Study examines influence of celebrity endorsements of cancer screening
...ere is little question that celebrities can have a powerful impact on the public and that their influence can be put to good use. However, when it comes to public health endorsements, we feel that celebrities should be judicious in using their powers of persuasion. [W]hen it comes to communicating about compl...