U of M researchers assess effectiveness of computerized physician order entry system
...hool of Public Health. Evidence from these studies show that computerized systems can reduce mistakes, but unfortunately less than 50 percent of hospitals have implemented these systems. There is a lot of work to be done in the future. The rate of medication errors experienced by hospitals has skyrockete...Nepalese researchers identify cost-effective treatment for drug-resistant typhoid
...nd easy to administer." The results of the study show that a cost-effective new fluoroquinolone drug, Ga...ost common bacteria to cause enteric fever, do not show resistance to Gatifloxacin, unlike for other fluoroquinolones. "We have shown that Gatifloxacin ma...Early-morning Friday classes may prevent students from getting sloppy on 'thirsty Thursdays'
... drinking. "Given that men and Greek participants show a stronger Friday-class effect," he said, "these are precisely the folks who should be targeted."...Smoking may interfere with alcoholics' neurocognitive recovery during abstinence
...ics who continued to smoke during abstinence would show comparable levels of recovery after a sustained period of sobriety, he said. Study authors recruited three groups: 13 non-smoking recovering alcoholics (12 males, 1 female), 12 actively smoking recovering alcoholics (11 males, 1 female), and 22 n...Students with symptoms of mental illness often don't seek help
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Studies show that the incidence of mental illness on college campuses is rising, and a new survey of 2,785 college students indicates that more than half of students with significant symptoms of anxiety or depression do not seek help. This is despite the fact t...Damon Runyon renews its $2.25 million investment to support young clinical cancer investigators
...blood. Her mouse studies and early patient trials show encouraging results and she plans to move this technique into larger clinical trials. Dr. Douglas Graham investigates new treatments for childhood leukemias and lymphomas. Current therapies for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most commo...New survey uncovers how insomnia affects job performance and safety
...conducted the survey. The results from this study show that insomnia affects workplace productivity, performance and safety, regardless of the type of insomnia experienced. Yet in spite of the significant effects that were reported, the insomnia is rarely being addressed. Survey Findings ...Paying taxes, according to the brain, can bring satisfaction
...n a lot of unanswered questions, Harbaugh said. We show that people liked paying a tax that went to a food bank. But suppose the tax had been unfair. What then" Or suppose that people voted to make other people pay the tax, too" That would help other people even more, so would the voter get a bigger neura...Future therapies for stroke may block cell death
...ble to block cell death. "For the first time, we show which one of the 11 histone deacetylase enzymes mi... histone deacetylase inhibitors they have designed show promise for pancreatic cancer, while yet another, in work performed at the Walter Reed Army Institut...Rising skin cancer rates are more likely to affect wealthy people, says 12-year review
... per cent of all female cancers. These findings show that many patients will have more than one skin cancer, highlighting the need to analyse both patient numbers and sample numbers to provide an accurate picture of cancer levels says co-author Dr Susannah Hoey from the Dermatology Department at the Ro...Split the difference: Pill-splitting study looks at cost-saving step that could be used by millions
...use they had to split. Although the study didnt show that reducing out-of-pocket costs affected patients adherence to their statins over the six-month study period, the survey at the end of the study showed a clear desire among most participants to save money in return for long-term pill splitting. ...Aging stem cells in mice may hold answers to diseases of the aged, Stanford study finds
...ns that occur as people age. The next step is to show whether these results from mice hold true for human blood-forming stem cells. "If this work does extrapolate to humans, then it is absolutely consistent with the idea that blood-forming stem cells are the breeding ground for pre-leukemic mutations," ...Rochester spreads knowledge of cancer-related fatigue
... radiation expected to experience fatigue. Studies show the frequency of actual fatigue during chemo range...ite for cancer patients are for hypnotics. Studies show that sleep disturbances are more severe in the most fatigued patients, suggesting a reciprocal relat...UCLA researchers develop new nanomaterials to deliver anti-cancer drugs to cells
...m of many anticancer drugs. Silica nanomaterials show promise for delivering camptothecin and other wate... have been developed. The new research findings show that mesoporous silica nanoparticles offer great potential and a promising approach to the delivery ...Borderline personality disorder shows improvements with intensive psychotherapy
...lication of the study is that all three treatments show some effect in alleviating the impact of BPD. The weight of the evidence in the study importantly suggests that TFP and supportive psychotherapy are both viable alternatives to DBT for the treatment of BPD. We hope to explore the results of the stu...Dartmouth's alternative breast imaging techniques sort abnormal from normal tissue
...HMC, and the lead author of the paper. Our results show the potential power of using a variety of imaging techniques to get the best possible view of whats going on in the breast tissue. Specifically, the three techniques demonstrated significant differences in region-of-interest image summaries of nor...GSK announces launch of largest ever Phase III trial in lung cancer treatment
...o (p=0.107). Although the study was not powered to show statistical significance, the trend is encouraging and warrants continued clinical investigation of MAGE-A3 ASCI. In the Phase II clinical study, the most commonly reported adverse events were mild local (pain, redness, swelling) or systemic (fever...Low-carb diets' effects linked to rise in newly identified 'starvation hormone'
... published by Cell Press. Two studies in the issue show that the hormone plays a critical role in the metabolic shift seen in animals after a period of fasting and in those fed an Atkins-like diet. That shift is characterized by an increased reliance on fat stores as an alternative source of fuel when glu....... Working with Jeffrey Fliers lab, we were able to show that FGF21 is essential for fatty acid oxidation. Furthermore, she explains, when FGF21 was inhibited, the mice developed a massive accumulation of fat in the liver and an extreme increase in circulating lipids. A second study by Maratos-Flier an...