It's time to look at health risks in a new light, authors say
..., youre told that the Orioles scored twice as many runs as the Yankees, Rifkin said. But if you dont know the actual numbers involved, you dont know whether this was a close 2-1 game or a 20-10 rout. If you dont know where youre starting from, the relative risks figures will not be helpful. In their boo...Happier hospitals means healthier patients
...have formed a genuine alliance, the health service runs more efficiently and patient outcomes are improved. Frictions between doctors and managers have been well documented. And the new research, led by Professor Ian Kirkpatrick of the Leeds University Business School, blames poor relationships between...Study: Directly observed HIV therapy for children is promising
...Maryknoll, the international Catholic charity that runs a program for AIDS orphans in Phnom Penh, Cambodias capital city. The study is the first to test the benefits of directly observed treatment in children living in developing countries. Findings are published in the June issue of the American Journal ...System to pinpoint airline passengers who contaminate cabins
...a material disperses throughout the cabin and then runs the dispersion in reverse to find its origin. Sensors track the airflow pattern and collect data related to factors such as temperature, velocity and concentration of gases and particles in the air. "This is difficult to do, in part because an airl...Commonly used drug offers promise for premature babies
...ace of all brain cells in an infant. The structure runs like a jagged coastline just below spaces in the brain called ventricles, and in premature infants it's extremely active, churning out new brain cells that migrate and settle into other parts of the brain. "This is a very, very important part of t...Who receives a kidney transplant first?
...tion to the system that may be perceived as unfair runs the risk of undermining patient confidence. "Transplantation is the only technologically advanced field of medicine that is totally dependent on public understanding and support, for without donors and recipients, transplantation would simply not exi...Johns Hopkins develops pancreas cancer risk model
...ment has long been sought for pancreas cancer that runs in families, Klein says because of the difficulty doctors have diagnosing it before it has already spread. Survival rates are extremely low. To test the models effectiveness for predicting cancer, Klein and her colleagues fed the software family ...A new, nanoporous ceramic filter offers hope to kidney-dialysis patients
...Everything checked out." The company's NIH grant runs through 2007, by which time EMV expects to have developed a prototype that demonstrates the filter's improved efficiency. At that point, says Van Geertruyden, EMV will apply for a second NIH grant to run clinical trials on the filter. Mimicking the...Trans-Atlantic Healing Collaborative gets underway at DFCon 07
...eles. Dr. Armstrong is co-chair of DFCon; DFCon 07 runs March 22-24. This international conference is attracting participants from 30 countries on five continents. ...IADR presents Research in Prosthodontics & Implants Award to Stanford
...opography on gene expression. Administratively, he runs the Office for Clinical Research in the College of Dentistry and is the Associate Director for the NCRR NIH General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. In this role, he helps to organize and perform basic, tra...Many injuries in elite soccer can be prevented
... due to injuries. A player who suffers an injury runs a greater risk of incurring the same injury the following season. Players in the Allsvenska who had a thigh, groin, or knee injury during the 2001 season were two to three times more likely to suffer the same injury in 2002. Roughly one injury in f...Uninsured often receive less medical care, take longer to improve after sudden health change
...d unintentional injuries or new chronic conditions runs counter to the perception that the uninsured receive care, either through the safety net or their own resources, when they really need it (e.g., when they experience a health shock from an unintentional injury or develop a new chronic condition)," he...Specialist centers increase chance of surviving abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery
...ccurs when the muscle wall of the main artery that runs vertically through the body (the aortic artery) weakens and the artery bulges out irreversibly due to the blood pressure inside pushing out on the weakened segment. The wall can become extremely weak and the resulting bulge very large. If not repaire...Sick teens in crisis: Organ transplant patients may die when insurance for medicine runs out
...n families do have coverage after a transplant, it runs out 36 to 44 months post-transplant or when the child reaches adulthood. Schnitzler and his team studied the medical records of 1,001 children who underwent kidney transplants between 1995 and 2001, half of whom lost their health insurance. He say...Charting our health by the stars
... Science (AAAS) Conference in San Francisco, which runs from Feb. 15 to 19, 2007. What he found was that even though each astrological sign had its own unique disorders, his initial results were not reproduced when they were explicitly tested in a second population. Scientists take pains to make sure t...Custom-made cancer cell attacks
... Science (AAAS) conference in San Francisco, which runs from Feb. 15 to 19. Individual therapy means patients will require fewer radiation doses and treatment sessions, says Ruth, who is director of the TRIUMF PET (Positron Emission Tomography) program at the University of British Columbia. And the pati...Researchers show surprising interaction between genes, gender and hypertension
... that hypertension is a "heritable" condition that runs in families, though diet and other factors also contribute to high blood pressure. It is also known that there are differences in the occurrence of hypertension between men and women, and varied responses to treatments. For example, men normally ha...Breastfeeding overcomes a genetic tendency toward ear infections, scientists discover
... "We know that the tendency to get this infection runs in families, and so we decided to look for small variations what we call single-nucleotide polymorphisms,' or SNPs in three important genes that produce inflammatory signaling molecules for the immune system," said lead author Janak A. Patel, a pro...'Inverse planning' system improves brachytherapy treatment for prostate and other cancers
...tiveness at improving treatment plans. The system runs on high-end personal computers. Beyond prostate cancer therapy, the mixed-integer algorithms can also be used to optimize radioactive seed and external beam radiation treatment for a broad range of other cancers. With support from the National Sci...Targeted cancer drugs may work by disrupting balance of cellular signals
...er Center present evidence for their theory, which runs counter to an alternative hypothesis called "oncogene addiction." Better understanding these drugs' mechanism of operation could help surmount current limitations on their usefulness and lead to the discovery of additional protein targets. "It lo...