West Africa: meningitis epidemics driven by the wind
...he annual changes in atmospheric humidity and wind speed to epidemiological data collected over several yea...the epidemics. In order to do this, they used wind speed and atmospheric humidity data to develop synthetic atmospheric indices essential for building models...Women with heart attacks benefit from stenting
...heart attack. She urged the medical profession to speed evaluations and the time to treatment from the emergency room to the catheterization lab. This will help optimize treatment for women, she said. Co-authors are Cody Pietras, BSc; Ricardo A. Costa, M.D.; Yoshihiro Tsuchiya, M.D.; Bruce R. Brodie, M....ACHRI study finds CellCept improves survival in pediatric heart transplant patients
...s in the vital areas of one-year survival rate and speed of transplant receipt. In 2001, ACH became the only children's hospital in the nation approved as a Medicare cardiac transplant center and one of only three approved by the BlueCross BlueShield Association....Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
...ormal childhood illnesses. "The unexpectedness and speed of diagnosis left all parents ill prepared to deal with the situation. Their world suddenly changed, leaving them insecure and uncertain about the future. "Diabetes intruded emotionally and practically upon all of their lives." Lesley Lowes and her t...New grants to Georgetown to help build national cancer biomedical informatics grid
...hange everything what we do, how we do it, and the speed by which we can develop and bring new therapies to patients," says Robert Clarke, Ph.D., D.Sc., professor of Oncology and Physiology & Biophysics. Clarke leads a team of 15 researchers at Georgetown participating in what is dubbed "caBIG," or the "C...New portable device developed by Georgia Tech and Emory checks for concussions on the sidelines
...r's response. In addition to the advantages of its speed and portability, DETECT can also be administered by a non-medical personnel such as a coach or parent rather than a trained neurophysiologist. While the device has already been tested in the lab and in a hospital emergency room, the Georgia Tech foot...Watching metals melt, nanometer-scale views inside cells
... researchers have slowed down light from itsnormal speed of 186,000 miles per second to zero velocity. Such afeat may be useful, for example, in using light to make morepowerful all-optical versions of computers, memory chips andtelecommunications systems. Now, a Cornell-Rochester-Duke teampresents a new...Microbicide partners receive $5.7 million from Gates Foundation
...iance for Microbicide Development will continue to speed the development of microbicides by collaborating with researchers, policy-makers, and health experts to track the microbicide pipeline, clarify and influence regulatory processes, problem-solve, and conduct research and convene participants around cr...Low-dose MDCT 'better option' than x-rays for imaging children's sinuses
...t also has more benefits, such as better accuracy, speed and a broader diagnosis potential, say researchers from Heilig Hart Hospital in Belgium. For the study, the researchers compared the imaging results of 69 children who had undergone x-rays and 125 children who had undergone low-dose MDCT. They found ...Innovative study finds way to 'bio-synthesize' an anti-cancer compound
...ne drug candidates from microbes. This process can speed up the time it takes for a drug to go from lead compound to actual drugs." By proving that the patellamide compounds are made by the microbes inside sea squirts, scientists say, the study shows it would be possible to produce sufficient quantities o...Younger is better when implanting cochlear implants, IU study finds
...during the early years of life. In the study, the speed at which language was learned was greater for children who received cochlear implants earlier.The implants provide congenitally deaf children with a sense of hearing, but the children must learn how to interpret the sounds the implants provide. The r...Blocking the Odc gene is effective in preventing cancers
...disabling Odc disrupts the ability of Myc genes to speed up cell division. Myc controls the expression of many genes; but the investigators showed that disrupting just this one target delays the onset of cancer in a laboratory model that mimics human Burkitt lymphoma (BL). BL is a cancer of B lymphocytes,...Researchers find way to streamline new non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment
...at medication is going where it should, that would speed treatment while maintaining quality care for patients. "This treatment approach is growing, and is a new and realistic alternative to conventional chemotherapy. Making it easier for physicians to administer the treatment by avoiding unnecessary steps...Ultrasound images transmitted over phone allow real-time diagnosis of patients in poorer countries
...feasible. Real-time images were compressed to help speed the file transfer. The compressed images were the...use satellite in an effort to expand bandwidth and speed file transfer, he said. "Our objective is to use technological advances in places in the world, such...Ultrasound images transmitted over the phone allow radiologists to diagnose patients in real time
... Popov. Real-time images were compressed to help speed the file transfer and these images were then compa...te capability in an effort to expand bandwidth and speed file transfer, and connect remote areas of the world that do not have any internet access at all." ...Cognitive function and compliance with Seroquel examined in separate studies in schizophrenia
...ovement associated with improvements in memory and speed of cognitive processing." Treatment Compliance In an analysis of a large health claims database, also presented today, that studied 7,216 antipsychotic monotherapy treatment episodes in patients with schizophrenia, several atypical antipsychotics ...Children need better cancer drugs, says expert panel
...iatric oncology drug pipeline, the IOM proposes to speed up the drug development process by setting priorities to determine which pediatric drugs should be tested among the limited pool of children with cancer. It also recommends initiating pediatric trials earlier than they typically begin....Harvard Medical School and Project A.L.S. join forces to target ALS research
...ill manage the new initiative. Launched in 2001 to speed translational biomedical neuroscience, HCNR has brought together neuroscientists and neurology researchers working at HMS, its affiliated teaching hospitals, and throughout Harvard. Its strategy is to rapidly apply basic neuroscience discoveries to c...Airbags associated with increased automobile accident deaths, according to new UGA study
...uces the odds of death by 67 percent for any given speed category and airbag availability. Airbags, however, cause no statistical difference in car-crash deaths, except for unseatbelted occupants at low speeds, where the odds of death are estimated to be more than four times higher with an airbag than with...Experimental shingles vaccine proves effective in nationwide study
...a is difficult to treat. Antiviral medications can speed the healing of shingles and reduce the severity of nerve damage caused by the disease, but only if these medications are used within 72 hours of the first sign of a shingles rash. Thus, it is important for people to recognize the symptoms of shingles...