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AMA Backs Advance Care Planning by Patients

The AMA has adopted a formal position on advance care planning. AMA President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal said today the AMA supports advance care planning //as a way to provide a competent patient with the means to articulate their current h...

Latest Enhancements to the Free Access Grid Toolkit Now Available

...s federal agencies and other organizations to help advance America's scientific leadership and prepare the nation for the future. Argonne is managed by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. (Source: Newswse)...

New Approach Assesses Risk of Water-Borne Pathogen Disease

...he findings will be published on line August 21 in advance of the September issue of the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine. “What we found supported our hypothesis that severe leptospirosis in the Peruvian Amazon is associated with higher concentrations of more virulent forms of the bacteri...

Scientists Claim Encouraging Progress On Hereditary Diseases

...their latest, cutting-edge and unpublished data to advance the search for a cure for Huntington's disease," said Carl D. Johnson, Ph.D., and Executive Director for Science of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. Topics covered: * Unraveling the cause of Huntington's disease * Novel therapeutic strategies ...

How HIV "Exhausts" Killer T Cells

... by Walker and his colleagues were published in an advance online publication on August 20, 2006, by the journal Nature. Walker is also at the Partners AIDS Research Center and Harvard Medical School. Other co-authors were from the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, Oxford University, Dana-Farber C...

A Human Brain Gene Could Hold Clues On The Evolution Of Brain Capacity

... The study, published by Nature on August 16 as an advance online publication, was led by CBSE researchers Katherine Pollard and Sofie Salama, who worked with an international team of collaborators including neuroscientists in Belgium and France. Pollard, now an assistant professor of statistics at UC Davis,...

Scientists Develop Non-Toxic, Food Safe Paint

...ndustry could benefit. He said, ‘I think that our advance is solely in the area of coatings. This could be used for coating candy or dietary supplements. If sugar were added to the coating it could be a candy itself.’ The researchers tested their technology by focusing on coating artificial turf. They did ...

Recurrent Stroke Risk is Minimized by Statin

...t neither the researchers nor the patients knew in advance which patients were receiving the active medication. The study found that atorvastatin, compared with the placebo, reduced the risk of fatal and nonfatal strokes by 16 percent. This overall reduction in the risk of stroke was present despite a sma...

Risk of Death Greater With Low Literacy Levels

...sses?" The study was part of an actual trial of advance directives, the name given to the forms that allow patients to state their wishes ahead of time with regard to medical treatment and end-of-life care. "We did not design the modified consent process in order to write a paper, but because we wanted...

Researchers Enhance Safety and Effectiveness of Therapeutic Virus that Fights Cancer

...e Mayo researchers say their contribution is a key advance because it provides a method of designing a therap... of the cancer-activated virus is a helpful safety advance for the promising experimental field of “oncolytic virotherapy.” The phrase refers to the natural ab...

Safety of Cancer Therapeutic Viruses Enhanced

...e Mayo researchers say their contribution is a key advance because it provides a method of designing a therap... of the cancer-activated virus is a helpful safety advance for the promising experimental field of "oncolytic virotherapy." The phrase refers to the natural ab...

Early Nitric Oxide Treatment Can Help Low Birth Weight Preemies

...lems in these babies would represent a significant advance in improving the health and quality of life of a growing number of premature babies,” Nabel said. During the study led by Kinsella, nearly 800 babies were given either low-dose inhaled nitric oxide or a placebo within the first 48 hours of life, co...

Britain’s cancer initiatives leap forward with a miracle dru

...rug and others like it, we think, are a very major advance in the treatment of this disease.” Judith Robinson, from the charity GIST Support UK, said: “Sutent is the first drug shown to be effective in patients with advanced GIST where the current standard of care has failed. For patients it can offer pre...

IVF Price To Be Reduced If Women Opt For Egg Sharing Scheme

...permission for a scheme for ‘egg sharing' so as to advance work on human cloning. They have announced that the women who agree for this scheme and pass on their spare eggs to the cloning researchers could potentially reduce the cost of IVF treatment by almost half. The researcher team from Britain are hop...

Molecular Therapy Holds Promise in the Treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

...n of ALS. The study will be published July 27 in advance of publication in the August issue of Journal of Clinical Investigation.With colleagues Timothy Miller, M.D., Ph.D., UCSD Department of Neurosciences, and Richard A. Smith, M.D., of the Center for Neurologic Study, Cleveland found that when effective...

Novel Approach Assists in Locating Leads for Drug Discovery

...mplete and reliable than traditional methods."This advance is crucial to NIH's goal of efficiently profiling the range of biological activities associated with large chemical libraries and making that data swiftly available to the worldwide research community," said Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director ...

Researchers Find Fewer Neurons in the Amygdala of Males with Autism

... of the neurobiology of the amygdala is crucial to advance autism research, and this study helps answer many important questions about the fundamental basis of autism,” said Andy Shih, chief science officer for the National Alliance for Autism Research, which is now merged with Autism Speaks. “Autism Speaks ...

Cancer patients benefited by online information services and support groups

...thor of the study. The results are published as an advance issue of the journal Health Education Research. To examine the most effective ways that cancer patients learn online, the researchers provided free computers and Internet access to 286 lower income women recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Parti...

Scientists Isolate Leukemia Stem Cells in Mouse Model

...l Nature has posted the study’s findings online in advance of print publication, (http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html). It had been speculated that leukemia begins in a totally undifferentiated stem cell that can become any type of specialized blood cell and has the ability to renew itself almost witho...

Cancer Research: Yet Another Milestone

...therapy. Their paper will be published online in advance of its scheduled August 1 publication date (www.genesdev.org).Using an approach that randomly alters expression of mammalian cell genes, together with a screen that detects altered gene function, Dr. Cohen and colleagues identified a previously uncha...

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