Bacterial infection associated with heart attack in young men
...ed and stored in the Department of Defense's serum repository before the men had their heart attacks. They found that high levels of C. pneumoniae antibodies in blood were associated with the occurrence of heart attack. This association was particularly strong in blood collected one to five years before the men...New online atlas provides collective maps of human brain folds
...he functions of an interesting brain area and as a repository for adding new data that expand and fine-tune the atlas' maps. The creators hope it will be useful in a wide variety of research projects. Among other studies, PALS is already helping scientists understand how an inherited disorder changes the brain...Database of cancer records now available for research
...y bona fide clinical and medical researchers. This repository is the first major output of the Clinical e-Scienc...ssor Alan Rector, CLEF's director, said: "The CLEF repository is optimised to treat electronic healthcare records as an interactive knowledge source for academic ...NIST develops health care IT standards repository
...ment groups and others, are developing a Web-based repository of information called the Health Care Standards Landscape (HCSL). The repository will provide a comprehensive source of information on health care standards, standards development o...Serious adverse reactions to smallpox vaccine appear to be limited
...ide the World Health Organization−designated repository laboratories and may be used as a bioweapon. Detection of a smallpox case could represent an intentional bioterrorism event requiring an immediate, coordinated response by public health, medical, and law enforcement personnel to control the outbreak...Growing body of research links lead to osteoporosis
...scientists have known that the human skeleton is a repository for lead in people who were exposed to high levels of this environmental toxin in their childhood, but thought this storage to be benign. Recently, a growing body of research is showing that the opposite is true, and that lead in bone actually sets o...Social networks protect against Alzheimer's
...was most evident for semantic memory, which is the repository of knowledge about the world and is fundamentally involved in unique human cognitive processes such as language. The results were unchanged after controlling for cognitive, physical, and social activities, depressive symptoms, or number of chronic di...What is the sound of one person talking? New speech collection tells all, syllable by syllable
...actually was spoken. The result is a 306,652-word repository of how people in central Ohio speak. Now scientists from around the world, and in a variety of disciplines, can use the collection called the Buckeye Speech Corpus to advance their research. (Researchers refer to a collected body of recordings as a...Should patients have to opt out of electronic records?
...rms of security, access to a patient record in the repository requires a user name and password, he adds. User names are only issued to staff with confidentiality clauses in their employment contracts, and before accessing the patient record the user is asked to confirm that the patient has given consent. He ...NCI creates network of Clinical Proteomic Technology Centers for cancer research
...hnologies and computational methods, and a central repository of the resources needed to productively use these proteomic tools....UVA researchers to develop office-based cancer screening test
...ase of clinical outcomes, called the clinical data repository (CDR). "Our program is highly integrated. We are able to collect, process, and analyze sample data in automated ways that are uncommon at most medical centers, owing to this cooperation between Departments," Templeton says. It's the rapid process...Math model predicts cancer behavior
...mark of a good mathematical model: it's not just a repository of data that is put together; it actually tells you which variables are the important ones and gives outcomes that you wouldn't have otherwise predicted." The current model predicts that in mild environmental conditions imagine a lush rainforest, Qu...Bank on a Cure researchers identify pathways mediating myeloma treatment side effects
...ndation's Bank On A Cure (BOAC), the world's first repository of DNA samples created to advance the understanding of myeloma, today presented data identifying genetic pathways that may explain why some patients suffer from blood clots when undergoing treatment with thalidomide for multiple myeloma. The pathways...New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza
...ded LIAI a $25 million contract to create a single repository of immune epitopes from critical disease-causing microbes, including agents that might be used in a bioterrorist attack. Influenza epitopes comprise only a portion of the extensive database, which has become the largest single collection of such info...Home health care devices focus of FDA Conference at UH
...require FDA regulation; creating a device-labeling repository that would provide easy online access to device instructions; and the evolution of over-the-counter devices such as cholesterol meters and continuous glucose monitors that were once for professional use only and now approved for home consumer use. A...RAND, Health Dialog form alliance to create tools to evaluate health-care quality and efficiency
...r the agreement, Health Dialog will license a vast repository of quality measures and the associated scoring and attribution methodologies developed by RAND, which conducted the largest and most comprehensive examination ever made of the quality of American health care. Health Dialog will integrate the RAND QAS...