Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
... "It would be ideal if the surgeons could see what they are doing so they don't close the chest being one conduit short," said Fitzgerald. "Now for the first time the surgeons can take a picture with a direct way to assess how efficient their procedure has been." As a cardiac surgeon, Pellet...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...cifically, we added a component where we can model what would happen if there is a cell in part of the del...delivery system. "Before you only could address what would happen in a culture dish with no cells around it. We're really interested in what will happen...... West, added: "This research has uncovered much of what was previously hidden in the lives and experiences of people with learning difficulties. "I am sure there are more challenges ahead before this issue can be said to be properly tackled."...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...llected from ASSENT-2, the researchers analyzed to what extent incorrect dosing whether over or under wa...additional studies are needed to better understand what these factors may be." Granger cited as a similar example the issue of hormone replacement therapy (...To boost efficiency, hospitals borrow principles from factory floor
... Lin is beginning discussions on how to tackle what is likely the least efficient part of any hospital -- the emergency room. "In the ER, the physician sees you for five minutes, and the actual services you receive take 10 minutes, but nobody can get out of there in under four hours," said Lin....Too much water may be as dangerous as too little during long-distance athletic events
.... "All serious distance athletes should find out what their rate of fluid loss is and individualize their fluid intake prior to a distance event," Dr. Levine said. "It's also good to accept some mild dehydration during a long race. There are plenty of Web sites available now that show how to customize y...Delay in Alzheimer's disease onset seen for first time
...estigators are optimistic about these findings and what they represent. Rather than focusing on the effects of the particular drugs tested, Dr. Petersen indicates he is enthusiastic about the underlying concept -- causing any amount of postponement in the heretofore unstoppable progression of Alzheimer's ...Anxious and pessimistic personalities linked to Parkinson's disease later in life
...health. "I think it's important to understand that what our study looked at is people with anxious persona...r and colleagues conducted this study to determine what types of personality or cognitive style -- one's habitual way of perceiving, remembering, behaving a...Study shows symptom-driven therapy may be ok for some adults with mild persistent asthma
...nts need to know how to recognize asthma symptoms, what to do when symptoms begin, and -- perhaps most essential -- they must have at hand the means to treat their symptoms quickly." Clinical centers for the Improving Asthma Control Trial were Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Bos...Scientists identify protein that controls cancer cells
...spread. The researchers' initial goal was to learn what controls this process. But, when they measured lev...le to regulate a set of different genes. Fra-1 is what is known as a transcription factor. It is one of many proteins that "reads" the genetic material in ...Ovary removal elevates risk for Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism
...ery, received doses that were generally lower than what is produced naturally by the ovaries and for a shorter number of years. Prior Mayo Clinic epidemiologic and laboratory studies have pointed to a role for estrogen in defending the brain from attack as a woman ages. "We conducted a previous study sugg...The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners hosts 20th Annual National Conference
...eriences over the past 40 years and their views on what the nurse practitioner role will be 40 years from now. While the conference has been shortened to four and a half days, the new format offers more clinical and expert faculty presentations, workshops and special programs than ever before. In additio...NY Academy of Sciences reveals how scientists plan to combat bioterrorism & deadly pathogens
...he United States, eBriefings offer a compendium of what today's researchers worldwide are most concerned about....Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...ed more than 13,000 sequences of 16S rRNA. Most of what they identified included the usual suspects in the... communities may indicate where they have been and what activities they have pursued in terms of travel, diet, antibiotic use and the like. Relman emphasize...Exercise variety - not intensity - appears to reduce some Alzheimer's disease risk
... "We don't yet know why this association exists or what causes it. It could well be that maintaining a variety of activities keeps more parts of the brain active, or that this variety reflects better engagement in both physical and social activities. Confirmation of this association in future studies may ...Execution by lethal injection is not humane or painless suggests study
...ether you receive the death penalty depends not on what you have done, but where you committed your crime, what colour your skin is, and how much money you have. The use of the death penalty not only varies from ...Pessimism and depression increase dementia risk
...a and colleagues conducted this study to determine what types of personality or cognitive style -- one's habitual way of perceiving, remembering, behaving and experiencing emotions -- were associated with the development of dementia or cognitive impairment 30 or 40 years later. He and colleagues extracted...Medical journal editors condemn ghostwriting
...ant content that pushes back the interface between what is known and what is yet to be discovered. Articles' content must be based on high quality and reproducible methods," ...College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
...college students tend to put too much alcohol into what is considered a "drink," likely leading to inaccur...some of the most basic information about alcohol - what a single serving is. It also tells us that students' answers on alcohol surveys are probably inaccu...Alcohol magnifies the rewarding effects of smoking, even for light smokers
...ed. King and her colleagues next plan to examine what she calls "chipper" smokers, that is, nondependent smokers who smoke even less than the sample in this study. "These 'chippers' may only smoke when they drink or only smoke a few cigarettes a day," she said. "We will be examining their cigarette c...