First disease-specific (breast cancer) protein library opens new drug paths
...ow researchers to track cancer-causing proteins in simulated environments, with the goal of learning how to impede them." "The availability of this collection will enable pilot experimentation and accelerate the development of faster techniques for studying breast cancer in a mammalian setting," says Joshua L...GlaxoSmithKline funds $1.65 million effort for UNC-Duke public health care partnership
...ts in the health care professions at Duke and UNC, simulated teamwork exercises and best practices aimed at eliminating care-related disparities and improving quality of care and patient safety. At the end of the grant period, the curriculum will be available for national dissemination by CD-ROM or Internet. A...Mathematics and statistics combat epidemics & bioterror
...ical data with actual disease outbreaks as well as simulated data based on infectious disease transmission models. The team will develop models for a range of data sets at different geographical scales, from individual hospital wards to an entire country, and for different disease manifestations ranging from n...Nursing professor calls for steps to close the reality gap between education and practice
...she says. "Students should be exposed to extensive simulated learning opportunities. This would, at a stroke, reduce some of the pressures on practising nurses. "As a profession we should be deeply concerned, indeed embarrassed, that the problems identified by Eve Bendall 30 years ago still persist in today'...The science of tickling (ourselves) is no laughing matter, Queen's psychologist says
...t the same time as a tap of the active hand which simulated tapping onto one's own finger through a solid object. Previously the team had shown that people judge self-administered taps to be weaker than those not linked to their own motion. On unexpected "catch" trials the force sensor was removed, so subjec...Study shows increasing nursing staff improves safety and quality in hospitals
...000 full-time licensed practical nurses. The study simulated the effect of several options that would increase nurse staffing to a "feasible" level for most hospitals. Key findings include: Greater use of RNs translates into fewer patient deaths, reduced hospital stays and decreased rate of hospital-linked ...Gender plays role in religious sensitivity for medical students
...tudents, and they were unaware that the subsequent simulated patient interaction was related at all to religiou...lso, since both the communications trainer and the simulated patient were female, could the gender of these professionals have affected the outcome? We don't kn...Jefferson researchers find drug may give some cardiac protection 24 hours after heart attack
...ous studies, Dr. Koch had given EPO at the time of simulated heart attack in an another animal model, and found it protected the animals. But in further studies, Dr. Koch gave Darbepoietin to animals at the time of ischemia and heart attack, one to two hours after, and 24 hours later. In each case, the scien......t skin cancers caused by the sun. The scientists simulated the kind of skin damage that a person might sustain from the sun by exposing mice to UV light twice a week over 20 weeks. Then, each day (five days/week) they applied a few drops of an extract of broccoli sprouts on the backs of the mice and waited ...Which drugs should health plans cover?
...years to complete. Policy makers sometimes rely on simulated comparisons, but those comparisons are often based on expert opinion and subject to bias. "When models or simulations are the best data available, appropriate skepticism is necessary," the authors write. As an example, they point to Cox-2 inhibitor d...Long residency hours linked with impaired performance similar to effects of drinking alcohol
... lane variability and speed variability during the simulated driving test were 27 percent and 71 percent greater, respectively. Speed variability was 29 percent greater in heavy call with placebo than light call with alcohol, and there were similar errors and reaction times. "These findings have important clin...Researchers model avian flu outbreak, impact of interventions
...the models differed in the specific scenarios they simulated and the intervention strategies they tested, the g... first cases appear. The model presented in Nature simulated 85 million people living in Thailand and bordering regions of neighboring countries. It tested the e...Emory researchers offer new approach for testing potential HIV vaccines in animals
...andard statistical power analysis, the researchers simulated low challenge dose experiments more than 100,000 times. The outcome of these virtual experiments was statistically analyzed in the same way a real experiment would be. Infection with low doses has to-date not been performed very often, Regoes says,...4D proton therapy, radiation-resistant tumors, interpreting medical images
... a national exercise that included responding to a simulated dirty bomb attack. Other sessions throughout the week cover topics such as how Medicare and Medicaid reform are affecting insurance reimbursement of radiological procedures, medical errors, the impact of recent Nuclear Regulatory Commission training ...Japanese doctors likelier than US counterparts to involve patients' families in decisions
...school curriculum, exercises such as role playing, simulated family conferences, and increased supervision with end-of-life discussions may be helpful for both current medical students and residents. "Don't assume that just because a patient lives in the United States the patient prefers to know everything," G...New study questions benefits of aspirin for the over 70s
...line by the BMJ this week. Using a model, the team simulated the broad implications of routine use of aspirin in a population of 20,000 men and women aged 70-74 with no cardiovascular disease. The model suggests that any benefits gained from the use of low dose aspirin (prevention of heart attacks) may be offs...Women rising to the challenge of weightlessness
...y, however, that there are no effects arising from simulated weightlessness, as Elisabeth points out: "I feel fine, except for the fact that from time to time I forget I've got legs. You are not aware of losing muscle mass but you can see it has occurred". In the space of two months, friendships have formed b...Nature as important as nurture in developing ability for flexible self-control
...he frontal lobes of the brain. When inflicted with simulated damage, the model exhibited behaviors seen in peop...le said. "Our computer simulation results show the simulated prefrontal cortex maturing only after other interacting brain systems mature."...Cutting-edge technologies signify a new era for colorectal cancer screening
...ucers were located at four points: proximal to the simulated anus, the proximal and distal ends of the sigmoid flexure and the splenic flexure. The team measured reductions in average force measurements (pounds) using both a conventional colonoscope (CS) and the study device (SD) and found statistically signi......obots to seek and destroy infected tissue within a simulated terminally ill patient, a University of Houston co...to build and control a team of nanobots within the simulated human body of a terminally ill patient. The nanobots are injected into the blood stream to locate a...