Clinical guidelines for recalled pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators developed
...for patients with implantable devices and having a rational mechanism to approach these patients is critical to patient care," said Ellenbogen. Ellenbogen and Amin collaborated with Mark Wood, M.D., VCU professor of internal medicine, and David Matchar, M.D., professor of medicine at Duke University. Acc...Obesity in prostate cancer patients predicts cancer recurrence and progression
...knowing this association, we may be able to design rational preventive strategies," she says....New osteoporosis medication not cost-effective compared with older, cheaper drug
...ng the authors to write that the therapy "is not a rational choice." They noted, however, that teriparatide may be a reasonable option for patients who are unable to use alendronate. The teriparatide/alendronate combination costs $156,500 per quality-adjusted life-year, relative to alendronate-alone. Though t...Outcomes of patients in trials; Better blood pressure treatment; Snake bites, and more
...s wanted to use this information to develop a more rational way of designing antivenoms. The research team st...matics and multiepitope DNA immunization to design rational snake antivenom. PLoS Med 3(6): e184. PLEASE ADD THE LINK TO THE PUBLISHED ARTICLE IN ONLINEVERSION...Beyond the hype and the scare stories, how safe are nanoparticles?
...he future success of nanotechnology will depend on rational and informed work to understand and minimize these potential adverse effects on health and the environment. "We need to understand both how harmful a substance is, and how much of it can get into the body, if risk is to be understood and managed," s...Simple formula predicts blood needs in heart surgery
...ources and staff time, but also can lead to a more rational allocation of banked blood, according to the resea...pas said. "This approach would appear to be a more rational and scientifically based approach for predicting blood needs." The simplified scoring system devised...Doctor proposes five steps we can take to help curb child obesity
...ond half of the book, Dr. Rao carefully explains a rational approach to helping your child achieve or maintain a healthy weight, including the science of changing people's behavior. You will also find several typical stories of overweight children, ranging from a heavy thirteen-month infant boy to a sixteen-y...Experts call for balance in addressing under treated pain and drug abuse
...ssionals in finding common ground and reaching the rational position of balance that is in the public's best interestHealthcare oversight must remain within agencies whose primary responsibility is to improve public health. Contrary to recent events in Washington, we must continue to insist that drug abuse c...ESA confirms CryoSat recovery mission
...ge. The positive decision on CryoSat-2 will allow rational use to be made of the technical and industrial competences for the original mission, as well as best use of the ground segment facilities and operational setup planned for that first mission. It means that the pre-launch scientific validation campaig...Web model of influenza-host lifecycles will aid scientists in creating anti-viral drugs
...za reacts with its host is really critical for the rational design of anti-viral drugs and new vaccines," said Dr. Richard Scheuermann, professor of pathology at UT Southwestern. Reactome, online at www.reactome.com, was created in 2004 and includes a variety of biochemical pathways for processes such as cel...Penn researchers call for new paradigm in clinical trials
...lly, they synthesize this information to provide a rational basis for treating patients with varied risk profiles as physicians await further information from ongoing trials. Lessons are drawn from the experience of the COX-2 inhibitorsparticularly the need to develop a more interdisciplinary approach to dru...Understanding fatigue in chronic liver disease
... may lead to the development of more effective and rational therapies for this disabling symptom of cholestatic liver disease."...NIAID researchers show how promising TB drug works
...ere flying blind in trying to optimize PA-824 in a rational way because we didn't know which M. tb protein was the target of PA-824's action," says NIAID scientist Clifton Barry, III, Ph.D., who headed the research team. In preclinical testing, PA-824 showed evidence of being effective against both activel...Potential pharmaceutical drugs in the field of cancer
...cal field as anti-cancer drugs. The PhD proposed a rational design based on various theoretical methods, thrown up by the new derivatives, the activity of which was subsequently tested. In a parallel manner and, as knowledge was gained about their possible mechanism, Raquel Villar proposed the investigation o...Older consumers prefer emotional appeals
...lts tend to prefer and have better memory for more rational appeals. However, when time horizon perspectives a...erspectives are manipulated to be long, all prefer rational appeals, regardless of age," explain Patti Williams (UPenn) and Aimee Drolet (UCLA). The research is...UGA receives $3.5 million CDC grant to create center in health marketing and health communication
...to adolescents about smoking risks tend to be very rational messages. Kids, however, tend to be more experiential, or more about feeling and doing, than logical in their thinking," she said. The group will use this information to develop anti-smoking media messages that effectively address this adolescent dec...Researchers show beneficial role of risk calculator in fighting progression of glaucoma
...can help physicians make decisions leading to more rational treatment of patients at highest risk, as well as discontinuing treatment and monitoring of patients at lowest risk. This could result in greater consistency in treatment, improving quality of care for patients with ocular hypertension and a decreas...Study provides guidelines for treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis
...al practices for JIA and provide physicians with a rational approach for treating the various subtypes of the disease. By examining a patients' symptoms physicians can determine the type of arthritis they have and what approach is most appropriate for treating their condition."...Change in focus needed for progress in HIV-vaccine research
...to progress there should be a shift in emphasis to rational approaches that are based on solid knowledge of HI...irically driven approaches and rely exclusively on rational approaches that are based on solid knowledge of HIV biology. I suggest after years of wandering, we ......grail" of structural genomics and highly prized in rational drug design. "This is the type of innovative methodology development that's crucial for achieving the goals of the Protein Structure Initiative and advancing structural biology," said John Norvell, Ph.D., director of the Protein Structure Init...