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Bioartificial kidney under study at MCG

...billions of donor kidney cells will help intensive care patients with kidney failure survive is under stud...enter has joined a study taking place in intensive care units across the country to evaluate the efficacy of the renal assist device, says Dr. Harold M. Sze...

Spleen may be source of versatile stem cells

...rm Partners HealthCare System, anintegrated health care delivery system comprising the two academicmedical centers, specialty and community hospitals, a network ofphysician groups, and nonacute and home health services....

Poor prenatal nutrition permanently damages function of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas

...t higher risk for developing diabetes, so prenatal care is important," Dr. Patti said. "Moreover, if someone was born with low weight, they need to pay special attention to prevention tactics, including exercise and weight control to minimize insulin resistance -- the other major factor involved in trigge...

Anti-bacterial additive widespread in U.S. waterways

...uentcontaminant among 96 pharmaceuticals, personal care products andorganic wastewater contaminants evaluated.To determine the validity of the analysis, the researchers comparedtheir predicted nationwide levels of contamination to experimentallymeasured concentrations in the Greater Baltimore region, and ...

Newly discovered virus linked to childhood lung disorders and Kawasaki disease

...te updatetonight; my girlfriend is sick and I took care of her. First headline :a newly discovered virus causing respiratory infection. Let's hope itsjust a coincidence :) A newly discovered virus may be responsible for many respiratory tractillnesses in infants and children, and may be associated with an...

Marburg virus disease in Angola - update

...Luanda, where training will be provided for health care staff from all provinces in the country. The Canadian National Microbiology Laboratory will be setting up a mobile laboratory in Uige and CDC will be providing laboratory support in Luanda. UNICEF is carrying out social mobilization activities, raisi...

Dinosaur DNA? New Patent Covers Degraded DNA recovery

...ts, and the CEO of DermaPlus, a science-based skin care company. Dr. Ensley is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and holds an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Arizona. ...

Antibiotic Resistant Bacterium Uses Sonar-like Strategy to “See?Enemies or Prey

... the US, adding an estimated $ 4 Billion to health care costs.Scientist have known since 1934 that especially harmful strains ofEnterococcus produce a toxin that destroys other cells, including humancells and even other types of bacteria. They also knew that this toxinwas made only under some conditions. ...

Placenta Is A Rich Source Of Blood Stem Cells

...hensive center for pediatric and adolescent health care grounded in the values of excellence in patient care and sensitivity to the complex needs and diversity of children and families. Children's also is the ...

Potential Cure for Lymphoma in HIV patients

Stem cell transplants have become thestandard of care for patients with relapsed lymphoma, but not forpatients who suffer from both this disease and HIV. A new study showingthat this treatment is a viable option for select patients withHIV-associated lymphoma will be published in the January 15, 2005,is...

HIV Infection Still On The Rise

...hcare costs each year, while the lifetime costs of care for the current 50,000 infected individuals in the United Kingdom, with a life expectancy of 20 years, is at least £12.5bn. "Prioritisation of sexual health with substantial investment is essential to avoid continuing deterioration in services, risi...

NYC's First Rapid HIV Drug-resistant AIDS Case Prompts Call to Step Up HIV Prevention

...ars to be resistant to most known AIDS drugs. AIDS care providers see many cases of patients with a high degree of some drug resistance; however, doctors and providers can usually find a second or third line drug therapy regimen for effective treatment. This man's strain of infection appears to be much mo...

New studies suggest airborne SARS transmission is possible

... During the outbreak in Toronto hospitals, health care workers became infected with the virus despite obs...ng risk of SARS coronavirus transmission to health care workers. To answer this question, they collected patient information and environmental samples from ...

Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective

...etection speeds linkage to proven, life-prolonging care and effective counseling to prevent further transm...forming voluntary HIV screening programs in health care settings. They also found that screening for HIV infection is cost-effective relative to other commo...

Affymetrix and the Karolinska Institutet Announce Translational Medicine Strategic Alliance

...al research and application of genomics in patient care by bringing together leading clinical research institutes with advanced Affymetrix microarray technology. Karolinska Institutet will have access to a number of new microarray technologies from Affymetrix, including the Mapping 100K. The 100K is the ...

Chemists identify key gene in development of type 1 diabetes

...vatives could ultimately save lives, reduce health care costs and help prediabetic people, particularly children, avoid a lifetime of insulin injections, Al-Abed says. Prediabetic individuals are those who have blood markers ?either antibodies or genetic markers ?that are predictive of the disease but are...

Vascular structure and function improve with diet and exercise

...ngle-blind trial of SNAC intervention versus usual care lifestyle counseling included 38 patients with high-normal blood pressure (systolic greater than 130 mmHg to 139 mmHg, diastolic greater than 85 mmHg to 89 mmHg) or pre-diabetes indicated by impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance. The...

Towards precise classification of cancers based on robust gene functional expression profiles

...vatives could ultimately save lives, reduce health care costs and help prediabetic people, particularly children, avoid a lifetime of insulin injections, Al-Abed says. Prediabetic individuals are those who have blood markers ?either antibodies or genetic markers ?that are predictive of the disease but are...

Asthma gene clusters identified

...s with medicine and genetics in order to customize care for patients based on the patient's individual gen...a analyses. This, in turn, will lead to customized care based on a patient's personal needs," according to Bruce Aronow, PhD, co-director of the CMC and co-...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

...rneas, which have revolutionized the treatment and care of patients like her. "I was blind for twenty yea...thalmologist specializing in cornea and refractive care at Duke University Eye Center and one of the few surgeons performing the implantation of artificial ...

US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say

... Security, but the obese themselves and the health care system that cares for them will pay a very heavy p... terms of higher death rates and escalating health care costs." To estimate the current impact of obesity on life expectancy, the researchers calculated ho...

Surprising findings reported about iron overload

...that results of the study will prompt more primary care physicians to consider hemochromatosis and iron ov...older men. A previous UAB study found that primary care physicians provided fewer than 70 percent correct responses about screening at-risk populations for ...

Hirsute Or Hairless? Two Proteins May Spell The Difference

...of fur down the midback and tail—and needs special care to thrive as a pet. Hairless animals in the lab, on the other hand, can be very instructive. Understanding how hair develops sheds light on the fundamental processes that generate a wide range of tissues and organs, including the lungs, cornea, and m...

Substance protects resilient staph bacteria

...nt staph infections that can be acquired in health care settings." The PGA discoveries came during Dr. Otto's research of how Staphylococcal bacteria biofilms contribute to evading human immune defenses. Biofilms are protective cell-surface structures. Biofilm formation does not depend on PGA, but other ...

NIH Calls on Scientists to Speed Public Release of Research Publications

...arch more readily accessible to the public, health care providers, educators, and scientists. Beginning May 2, 2005, the policy requests that NIH-funded scientists submit an electronic version of the author's final manuscript, upon acceptance for publication, resulting from research supported in whole or...

Nanoscale Diagnostic Sets Sights on Alzheimer's

...d their loved ones, in addition to lowering health care costs." ?Sohi Rastegar ...

Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show

...ed plants in the field, the researchers took great care to minimize the transfer of genes through pollen. "Before we started the study, we took aerial surveys to ensure that no other mustard-related plant species were being grown in the vicinity," said Banuelos. He noted that every morning trained worke...

50-year-old Mystery Solved: Protein Tags Regulate Key Ion Channel

...hy so many of the most potent mediations we use to care for our patients' target one or another ion channel." Goldstein's team discovered the type of ion channel known as background (or leak) potassium channels in yeast cells in 1995 and in fruit flies in 1996. Although potassium leak was first described...

Increased risk of osteoporosis associated with gene that one in five people have

...p to 25 percent may require long-term nursing home care and only 40 percent fully regain their prefracture level of independence. Given the seriousness of the condition, Villareal asserts it would be very advantageous to identify those people at especially high risk for osteoporosis of the hip. The CYP1A...

Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update

...r and electricity are intermittent, also in health care facilities. Weakened infrastructures, including th...with the exception of those involved in the direct care of patients, have been infected. There is no evidence that people can spread the virus before the on...

Rare surgery performed to remove pancreas, prevent diabetes

...t transplant program. The patient was in intensive care at UAB Hospital for two days following the surgery, and will be in the hospital until sometime next week, doctors said. Stewart's chronic pancreatitis developed four years ago as the result of a congenitally malformed pancreatic duct that closed dow...

Scientists identify genetic pathways essential to RNA interference

...m Partners HealthCare System, an integrated health care delivery system comprising the two academic medical centers, specialty and community hospitals, a network of physician groups, and nonacute and home health services. ...

Emergence of cancer as major cause of childhood death in developing countries is not being adequately addressed

...ernational charities, the researchers say. Health care organizations and charities have traditionally foc...nferior to rates in countries with advanced health care systems. However, the World Health Organization and many international charities don’t even list chr...

Youth With HIV Take More Risks After New Meds Introduced

... Although HAART use has significantly improved the care of HIV patients, the longer lives of those patients could mean more opportunities to transmit the virus to others, says Lightfoot. "Simultaneously, evidence suggests that many people living with HIV believe that sexual behaviors that could lead to t...

Leprosy microbes lead scientists to immune discovery

... from maternal and children's health to quality of care measurement; from health care management to international health and human rights. ...

Shift of weather patterns necessitates rethinking of reforestation methods

...ng everything right" meant meticulous attention to care of the bare root seedlings, soil moisture at planting time, attention to weather conditions and planting techniques, Taylor said. If everything is done correctly, containerized plantings have little or no economic advantage over bare root seedlings ...

FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines

...Data Submissions." Pharmacogenomics allows health care providers to identify sources of an individual's profile of drug response and predict the best possible treatment option for this individual. For example, genomic tests are helping to identify cancers that have a good chance of responding to a partic...

The evolutionary triumph of flower power

...e of pleasure ?a positive emotion inducer ?we take care of them. In that sense they're like dogs. They are the pets of the plant world." Psychologist Haviland-Jones had conducted three studies that tested the ability of flowers to induce positive emotion. The objective was to demonstrate the immediate, l...

Scientists discover that three overlapping signals in embryo help get the backbone right

...y and an attending physician in pediatric critical care at UC San Francisco. "Redundancy is designed to make the embryo robust, so as to avoid birth defects." The three proteins identified in the team's report are among at least five that block other signals to allow the back, or dorsal, structures to fo...

Doctors closer to using gene analysis to help trauma patients

...is routinely used in emergency rooms and intensive care units. In a report published today (March 7) in t...t to develop standard operating procedures for the care of burn and trauma patients and increase understanding of the body’s molecular reactions to injury, ...

FDA Warns About Antipsychotic Drugs and Elderly

...ay issued a public health advisory to alert health care providers, patients, and patient caregivers to new...ould have their treatment reviewed by their health care providers. In analyses of seventeen placebo-controlled studies of four drugs in this class, the rate...

AIDS Public Awareness Campaign Expands Following Report Of Rapidly Progressive HIV

...le in which patients provide their names to health care providers. HIV testing is especially important for pregnant women, because medicine is available that can reduce the risk of maternal/child HIV transmission. Mothers who know they are HIV positive also will be advised against breast-feeding. Under ...

WHO suspends Marburg work, appeals for new funds

... favourable outcome, and confidence in the medical care system has been eroded. WHO is familiar with such...ince. To reduce the risk of transmission in health care facilities, priorities include the provision of personal protective equipment for front-line staff a...

UCLA study assesses cost-effectiveness of Hepatitis B drugs

...able therapies -- may still be preferred in health care systems with limited resources and is especially c...rd measure used in assessing the outcome of health care procedures or services. According to Kanwal, the study showed that only two strategies fell well wi...

Aircraft Cabin Ventilation Influences The Transmission Of Diseases In-flight

...to flight crew, public health officials and health care professionals have an important role in the management of infectious diseases transmitted on airlines and should be familiar with guidelines provided by local and international authorities." ...

$5.1 billion would save 6 million children

...ld be put in place during 18 visits with a primary care provider from one month before birth until the child reaches age five. In their cost analysis, the researchers also ensured that treatment for the major causes of child death were available to all children who needed them. Universal coverage levels f...

Survey reveals women and doctors aren't talking about HPV

...unded in 1963, ARHP's mission is to educate health care professionals, public policy makers, and the public. The organization fosters research and advocacy to promote reproductive health. To learn more about ARHP, visit www.arhp.org. For more information about the HPV survey visit www.arhp.org/HPVsurvey....

New study: Sexually transmitted disease treatment can be effectively administered by sex partners

...pting to control STD spread and recurrence. Health care providers ask STD-infected patients to contact their sexual partners, inform them of their risk for infection, and encourage them to seek medical care. A second method, booklet-enhanced partner referral, also provides the patients with booklets that ...

Measurement Challenges In Detecting Cancer Biomarkers

...pting to control STD spread and recurrence. Health care providers ask STD-infected patients to contact their sexual partners, inform them of their risk for infection, and encourage them to seek medical care. A second method, booklet-enhanced partner referral, also provides the patients with booklets that ...

New Finding May Aid Adult Stem Cell Collection

...pting to control STD spread and recurrence. Health care providers ask STD-infected patients to contact their sexual partners, inform them of their risk for infection, and encourage them to seek medical care. A second method, booklet-enhanced partner referral, also provides the patients with booklets that ...

Open Access journals get impressive impact factors

...3.21, and the journal is now third in the critical care medicine field having leap-frogged the competitor title Intensive Care Medicine, the official journal of the major European society. Breast Cancer Research also increased it's impact factor from 2.93 to 2.98 and remains the second highest ranking bre...

'Bionic' arm gives amputee sense of touch

...3.21, and the journal is now third in the critical care medicine field having leap-frogged the competitor title Intensive Care Medicine, the official journal of the major European society. Breast Cancer Research also increased it's impact factor from 2.93 to 2.98 and remains the second highest ranking bre...

Two studies document rise of superbugs in the environment

...ections in Texas should raise red flags for health care workers everywhere. "There have been deaths relate...atient to patient, often in hospitals or long-term care facilities like nursing homes. In the study, living in a long-term care facility, being 65 or older ...

Anthrax test, developed by army and CDC, receives FDA approval

... our research efforts into products for our health care providers and clinical laboratory professionals." ...

'Mad cow' proteins successfully detected in blood

... our research efforts into products for our health care providers and clinical laboratory professionals." ...

Scalpel-free surgery could reduce risk of HIV and hepatitis exposure for health care workers

...me time to prevent the spread of disease to health care workers in the operating room," said Martin A. Mak...le in high-risk settings to further protect health care workers from accidental transmission," added Makary. Sharpless surgical techniques include laparosc...

New defibrillator signals doctor of patient's irregular heartbeat or device malfunction

... "The new ICD provides faster delivery of care to patients and also reduces the number of times a patient has to go to the doctor's office for follow-up visits," said Varma, who specializes in treatment of arrhythmias. Because patients' heart muscle pumping action can be poor as a result of the ...

Looks matter to female barn swallows

...ongbirds, half of all male barn swallows typically care for at least one young chick that was actually fathered by another bird. The researchers used this widespread phenomenon of cheating to test the factors that may keep a female barn swallow faithful to her mate. Sometimes males even rear an entire nes...

Gambling monkeys give insight into neural machinery of risk

...or of the lights on each trial, the monkeys didn't care anything about it." In fact, when the researchers made the average payoff for the risky target less than for the safe target, "we found that they still preferred the risky target," said Platt. "Basically these monkeys really liked to gamble. There ...

NIH renews network focused on how genes influence drug responses

...imately improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, MD. The network is supported by nine NIH components: NIGMS; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Cancer Institute; the National Human Genome Research Institute; the National Institu...