Brightening prospects of using fluorescent nanotubes in medical applications
...rple color and, when analyzed, proves to contain a surprisingly uniform population of the brightest nanotubes. The researchers had expected this approach to boost the quantum efficiency by five to ten times. The fact that the improvement was considerably larger 20 to 100 times came as a pleasant surprise. Quant...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
...om generation - now reaching age 60, we still know surprisingly little about these decisions or the factors that shape them, says University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Deborah Carr. A study by Carr and her Rutgers University colleague Dmitry Khodyakov now offers insight into a critical aspect of end-of-li...Resistant HIV quickly hides in infants' cells
...drug-resistant HIV transmitted from their mothersa surprisingly high figure. Of those five, four were resistant to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), a common class of antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV infection and to prevent mother-to-child transmission. All had uncommon drug-resista...Costs of treating arthritis on the rise nationwide, study finds
...nditures for an individual with arthritis remained surprisingly stable $1,762 in 1997 and $1,752 in 2003 said Louise Murphy, PhD, at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and a co-author of the study. "In 2003, th...Strong marriage helps couples deal with tempermental baby
...evelopment. Schoppe-Sullivan said there has been surprisingly little study about how the characteristics of an infant can affect how couples interact as parents what researchers call the "coparenting relationship." While there have been studies examining how mothers themselves deal with difficult babies, thi...Aga Khan University team discover which patients keep on taking their medicine
...is context, the proportion of adherent patients is surprisingly large in the Pakistani population investigated here. As for the associated factors, similarly to what has been reported worldwide, younger age, poor awareness, and symptomatic treatment adversely affected adherence to antihypertensive medication in t...Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes
... computer-vision systems, the biological model was surprisingly versatile. Traditional systems are engineered for specific object classes. For instance, systems engineered to detect faces or recognize textures are poor at detecting cars. In the biological model, the same algorithm can learn to detect widely diff...Esophageal cancer rates climb with obesity; U-M study finds esophagectomy safe in obese patients
... undergoing a THE at a high-volume center can have surprisingly and acceptably low morbidity and mortality rates, similar to those of non-obese individuals matched for co-morbidities," says Orringer, head of the U-M Section of Thoracic Surgery and co-director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at the U-M Comprehens...Research ethics committees in Africa report inadequate funding, staffing and training
...rticipating in health research is on the rise, yet surprisingly little is known about how research ethics committees the critically important, independent review groups charged with protecting human subjects and reviewing protocols actually operate. In a new case study published in the January 2007 issue of PLo...Women on osteoporosis drug can discontinue use with no risk
... versus those who stopped but the differences were surprisingly modest and there were no differences in rates of non-spine fractures or in spine fractures as assessed by comparison of spine x-rays. Severe spine fractures associated with painful symptoms were lower in those who continued but were relatively rare ...In case of pandemic flu majority of Americans willing to make major changes in their lives
...ering outside home while schools were closed. "A surprisingly large number of people would be able to keep their children home and away from others if schools closed during a severe pandemic," said Blendon. About six in ten (64%) of these adults would need only a little or no help at all in order to deal wit...Human brain region functions like digital computer, says CU-Boulder professor
...elieve is critical to human intellectual abilities surprisingly functions much like a digital computer, according to psychology Professor Randall O'Reilly of the University of Colorado at Boulder. The finding could help researchers better understand the functioning of human intelligence. In a review of biolo...Mathematical tools for predicting facial surgery results
... model, and the actual surgicaloutcomes, have been surprisingly good. The authors have also madequantitative comparisons, by creating a post-operative model of thepatient and comparing it quantitatively to the predicted outcome.They found a mean prediction error of between 1 and 1.5mm for the softtissue, which t...Mayo researchers discover HIV dependence on a human protein
...all to a pole. "It turns out that the virus needs surprisingly little p75 to integrate," says Dr. Poeschla. "Future studies will want to factor such potential potency into designs of screens for additional key cellular proteins that HIV either appropriates as partners, as in the case of p75, or schemes to evade....Anticipation plays a powerful role in human memory, brain study finds
...at means the simple act of anticipation may play a surprisingly important role in how fresh the memory of a tough experience remains. The findings of the brain-imaging study, which appear in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have important implications for the treatment o......rinary tract disorders is long overdue. One of the surprisingly small number of women practicing urology in the U.S., she explains what these diseases are and what patients can do to get themselves diagnosed and treated properly. But more than that, Dr. Kavaler extends expert, sympathetic, and helpful advice to t...Unique results from Swedish study of HIV vaccine
... for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) has produced surprisingly good results. Over 90 per cent of the subjects in the phase 1 trials developed an immune response to HIV. "Never has such a good result been seen with a vaccine of this type," says Professor Eric Sandstrm, Chief Physician at Karolinska University Hos...Even Superman couldn't win battle with pressure ulcers
...ople with impaired mobility, a new study has found surprisingly inadequate scientific evidence on the best strateg...ty-nine studies in 30 years, say researchers, is a surprisingly meager research effort given the magnitude of the problem. Most of the patients in the studies were ...Two-fifths of US adults report experiencing unsafe, wasteful or poorly coordinated health care
... Commission on a High Performance Health System, a surprisingly high proportion of Americans--42 percent--reported experiencing poorly coordinated, inefficient, or unsafe care at some time during the past two years, including unnecessary care or treatment recommended by a doctor, failure to provide important info......ears of age were diagnosed with cancer in 2001 yet surprisingly little is known about the impacts of cancer on the Australian workforce, according to UNSW sociologist, Frances Lovejoy. "We know very little about the experience of Australian workers once they are diagnosed with cancer," says Ms Lovejoy who in 20...