Annual conference on internal medicine
...t an Annual Session Advance Program, or if you are ready to register for press credentials, visit: http://www.acponline.org/college/pressroom/as_pressreg06.htm SAMPLE LECTURE & PANEL TOPICS: Anxiety and depression, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, disaster preparedness, ethics and health policy...Newly discovered killer cell fights cancer
...ct with environmental pathogens. "Here, IKDCs are ready to sense invaders and spring into action," says Housseau. Then, the group tracked the cells to the main messenger center of the immune system - the lymph nodes. Here, they found approximately 35 percent of the original group of IKDCs now secreting c...The first clinical test for saliva-based oral cancer detection: Ready now!
...d a standardized "Saliva RNA Test for Oral Cancer" ready for clinical usage. The "Saliva RNA Test" has been tested in 100 oral cancer and healthy people, and it has been confirmed that four saliva oral cancer RNA biomarkers are highly accurate in detecting oral cancer, at around 82%. This is the first stan...ECG transmission from ambulance cuts time to direct clot removal
...all the personnel necessary for the cath lab to be ready to go when the patient arrives." The researchers were studying a specific kind of heart attack known as an ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). When a cardiologist spots a major elevation of the tracing in the ST portion of an ECG stud...Purdue chemical-analysis method promises fast results
...ometry assets on the ground in Indiana, and we are ready to nurture this in the state."...Two new studies reveal benefits of laparoscopic surgery for uterine cancer
... the next morning and find that she is sitting up, ready to go home--this is quite different from the traditional open surgery." Uterine (endometrial) cancer is a common malignancy of the female reproductive tract. In 2005, the American Cancer Society estimated more than 40,000 cases of uterine cancer, a......ate with aging." Holloszy and Fontana are getting ready to launch a second phase of the CALERIE study, to look at the effects of calorie restriction over the course of two years. "We know people on calorie restriction will lose weight," says Fontana. "But this study isn't a weight-loss study. We're hopi......sts that they are focusing attention inwardly, are ready to switch to new trains of thought, and perhaps are actively silencing irrelevant thoughts. These findings are important because they show that people can mentally prepare to solve problems with different thinking styles and that these different for...UC Riverside psychologist explores human perception, finds 'wow factor'
...s on campus just from their echoes. "We get people ready for a test and tell them what we want them to do, and a lot of them think there's absolutely no way they'll be able to do that," said Rosenblum, whose field is perceptual psychology. "Some are very surprised when it turns out that they can." Rosenblu...Binghamton University research focuses on heart health in rural women
...the dangers of smoking. "I believe that people are ready to change habits at different times," Stewart Fahs said. "We will be matching our interventions to a person's readiness to change." Graduate student Nikki Austin has worked with cardiac patients throughout her nursing career. She noted that rural res...Treating populations infected with HIV and latent TB could speed the emergence of drug-resistant TB
...erstanding that large-scale IPT programs should be ready to diagnose and treat individuals with drug-resistant TB as part of the programs."...University of Utah to help build bionic arm
... He says a prototype of the bionic arm should be ready for testing in four years. It is not yet known if any Utah residents who lost arms will participate in clinical trials. Existing prosthetic arms differ from the arm the university will help develop. Current models have limited movements, such as be...Flick of whiskers helps tease out brain's 'shadow' signaling system
...hat the cell has been triggered in some way and is ready to send out a signal itself. While it's been shown before that astrocytes can become activated under extreme conditions in the laboratory, Nedergaard said this is the first time that such activity has been seen in an organism during everyday circumst...Turning the tables on drug discovery
... an easy-to-use condition, coated onto microplates ready for further studies and the development of the drug substance. Developing new drugs in this way is much faster than using conventional screening. It is also possible to reduce the side effects of conventionally-developed drugs - as the potential dru...Calorie restriction appears better than exercise at slowing primary aging
...ere slowed by CR. Holloszy and Fontana are getting ready to launch a 2-year study to look at the effects of calorie restriction. Later this year, they will begin recruiting volunteers between the ages of 25 and 45 who are willing to go on a CR diet for 24 months. Called the Comprehensive Assessment of the...Telemedicine solutions to optimise healthcare
..."By the time a patient arrives, the physicians are ready to put them on the operating table," the coordinator says. Saving time, increasing efficiency and improving care are also the main benefits of HEALTH OPTIMUM's telelaboratory service. Remote analysis equipment allows primary healthcare professional...Heart transplant program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital celebrates anniversary
...orial Hospital's transplant waiting list. "We were ready to go to the Cleveland Clinic for the heart transplant, but instead the Cleveland Clinic came to us," said her husband. Patrick McCarthy, M.D., co-director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute and chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northwestern Memorial...Ultrasound may help regrow teeth
...o a market-ready model and expect the device to be ready for the public within next two years. ...Novel gene therapy may lead to cure in hemophilia A patients
...d in blood platelets, hidden from view and attack, ready to release when a blood vessel is damaged, quickly enabling normal clotting before the antibodies can begin their attack. Our approach was very effective even in mice treated with five to ten thousand times the amount of antibody that would normally ...New hope in cancer vaccines emerges as novel therapies are developed and tested
.... "The dendritic cells take up the antigen and are ready to present it to T cells, which will cause the T cells to become activated," says Overwijk, who helped develop this approach. A clinical trial testing this protocol opened in early 2006, after Hwu and his research team worked for two years with ...