Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
... are effective and how they can be translated into real life," says Kreek, Patrick E. and Beatrice M. Haggerty Professor and head of the Laboratory on the Biology of Addictive Disease. The Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment paper tells the story of a transformation within the system, says Kellogg, wh...Teens believe oral sex is safer, more acceptable to peers
...smitted infections due to oral sex, but there is a real risk," Halpern-Felsher said. "When teens are engaging in or considering oral sex, they need to know about methods to keep themselves safe from physical as well as emotional risks." The findings come from a larger longitudinal study on the relationshi...Six organizations vie for INFORMS 'science of better' innovation prize
...dule beef fabrication operations at five plants in real time as orders are received. This scheduling and capable-to-promise application has made Swift & Company a supplier of choice while providing a 200% ROI in its first year of production. The Edelman Award recognizes outstanding implemented operations...Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
... of Michigan Health System study suggests that the real culprit may be the underlying insomnia, rather than the medications used to treat it. Residents with untreated, or partially treated, sleeplessness have a much higher risk of falls than those who take sleep medications and get relief from their insom...Belgium doctors treating critically ill infants favour legalising euthanasia
...ortening of the neonate's life were the absence of real survival chances, and, if the baby survived, an expected very poor quality of life." Also in this week's issue of The Lancet a research letter by Astrid Vrakking (University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Netherlands) and colleagues finds that the frequ...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...d be to use nanotechnology responsibly to generate real benefits for the 5 billion people in the developing world."...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...up blood flowing through the veins and arteries in real time, an action that can be projected on a screen and saved. This new technology provides in several minutes the same information gleaned from the current gold standard for visualizing coronary artery blockages: the angiogram. An angiogram uses...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...d degradation. We are trying to get closer to the real situation." The results were published in the January 2005 issue of Acta Biomateriali. The work was supported by a grant from the Whitaker Foundation. Sakiyama-Elbert said lots of researchers are adopting the concept of affinity-based drug delivery ...Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
...civil protection exercise is planned. Just as in a real emergency, the International Charter on Space and ...ivery to COGIC. Serving as they increasingly do in real emergencies, high-resolution satellite images provide up-to-date maps of buildings, roads and railwa...Will cancer vaccine get to all women?
...irl is very virtuous, why vaccinate?' It will be a real challenge, not like other vaccines." Last but not least is the cost. Ganguly is trying to arrange for an HPV vaccine to be produced cheaply in India. But there are fears India's new patent laws will make licensing deals difficult....Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's may be delayed, says major clinical trial
...a real, clinical difference. I think there will be real opportunities in the future to test other therapies for patients with MCI." Donepezil, a cholinesterase inhibitor, is currently prescribed for mild to moderate stages of AD to improve memory and other cognitive functions. Cholinesterase inhibitors wo...Northwestern Memorial researchers release study on smart-pump technology
...n so that the physician's order can be verified in real time on the pump, and the pump can inform the hospital's medical record system how much medication the patient has received. "As Northwestern Memorial completes its rollout of the electronic health record in parallel with CPOE, it's creating a found...Scottish health minister launches major new clinical trials project to boost business and health
...ys given advice on their condition and are given a real chance to tackle their illness in new ways. The University's outstanding research base in medicine ensures that the city attracts the best clinicians and biomedical scientists. Research not only unravels the root causes of diseases, but also ensure...Measuring enzymes at end of cancer pathway predicts outcome of Tarceva, Taxol
... collaborator has provided a way that lets us test real enzyme activity within a human tumor sample," he s...ck to the cells, so this shows us that CDK2 is the real target of Tarceva. "This presents a concept that describes how Tarceva works, and it also shows that...Learning software developed by Rutgers-Newark scientist helps 450,000 students with reading
...l magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans taken in real time, that the brains of the dyslexic children "rewired" themselves during the training, and areas that previously had been inert "lit up" as they were accessed. The brains of the dyslexic children more closely resembled the brains of the normal read...Obesity adds risk of cardiovascular disease in siblings in families with a history of heart problems
... more important than previously thought to gauging real risk of heart disease in families where this is already a problem," says the study's lead author, cardiologist Samia Mora, M.D., M.H.S., then a research fellow at Hopkins. "When monitoring these patients with traditional Framingham Risk Scores, physi...Variant in gene associated with telomeres predicts longer survival of deadly brain tumor
...ne offering the poorest hope of survival. "It is a real advance because we have never seen any genotype that can stratify glioblastoma multiforme patients into different treatment outcome groups like this," says Bondy. "Now we need to verify the finding, study the mechanism, and see if there is a way that...NSAIDS okay for tonsillectomy, new study finds
...rgical recovery. "My take on the issue is that the real 'bang for the buck' in decreasing post-op tonsillectomy pain is coming from improved surgical techniques," he says. At least five new approaches make use of ultrasound, radiofrequency energy or lasers to break up and remove tissue, rather than conven...World-leading scientific databases now accessible via handhelds
...ucture and related data for specific substances in real time. "This capability opens up a new vista of convenient and personalized access to CAS data," said Bob Massie, CAS president. "Information professionals and scientists can retrieve key scientific information from CAS' unparalleled databases at any...New grants to Georgetown to help build national cancer biomedical informatics grid
...r research centers will be linked to each other in real time, using common research tools and instantly sharing new information gleaned from the thousands of clinical and basic cancer studies that are in progress at any one time. Because of that, the way data is shared and results are published will like...