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Effects of Multiple Copies of Genes on Disease Risk

...s paper are numerous and fairly large—they vary in length between two thousand and two million DNA base pairs," Graubert says. "Datasets this large require a lot of analysis to be sure that what you're seeing is real, so we really worked hard to prove that these gene copy number variations are real and vali...

Gene Behind Lincoln’s Diseas

...inated in 1865 at age 56. Most of a nerve cell's length is the thin, wire-like axon. A typical axon's diameter is about 5 microns in humans, or one-twentieth the thickness of a human hair. Every movement we make "puts stress on neurons," Bastiani says. Yet the thin axons do not break. In the new study, ...

HIV-positive Individuals Have a Massively Increased Risk of Osteonecrosis

...n between various studies of osteonecrosis in HIV: length of HIV infection, AIDS-defining illness or very low CD4 counts in the past, longer time on antiretroviral treatment (Mary-Krause 2006), and use of megestrol acetate (Megace) (Koller 2000). Most cases, however, have been observed after antiretroviral ...

Chemo Combination Improves Survival in Asbestos-Related Cancer

...ination with cisplatin significantly increases the length of survival, when compared with cisplatin alone,” the researchers say. “Further research is needed into the optimum treatment regimen for pleural mesothelioma.” The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The C...

Rewards For Hospitals With Less Mortality Rates

... effective in bringing down the death rate and the length of stay at the hospital. Levels of complication and readmission are also decreasing. JYT...

FDA Clears Critical Limb-Saving Vascular Device

...center of the device so it can be cut to a shorter length if needed. To facilitate this accelerated review process, the device manufacturer worked in close collaboration with FDA's Division of Cardiovascular Devices after discussion of the need for the device with the U.S. Air Force. There are currently n...

Home-going Delayed for Miracle Baby

...odds, survived. The tiny tot who was around the length of a ball point pen when born and weighed less than 10 ounces has now progressed to 4 pounds and for her mother, Sonja Taylor, that’s plump. The baby was expected to be discharged yesterday, yet doctors led by Dr. Paul Fassbach are keeping her for...

Busy Intersections Invite People to Walk More

...ronment. The other two — housing density and the length of a city block — did not appear to have any impact on the probability of walking, the study found. “I see our study as a step on the way to evidence-based guidelines for design of the built environment in order to make it more conducive to walking...

Risk of Birth Complications Varies Between Racial Groups

...s risk. However, evidence shows that the average length of gestation varies between racial groups. For exa...e that there are genetic variations in gestational length and argue that increased fetal surveillance and growth monitoring from 40, rather than 41, weeks’ ge...

DVT Treatment Vacuums Away Blood Clots – Prevents Disabilit

... extensive, large volume DVT that commonly ran the length of the leg from the ankle to the pelvis, and often...ood flow in the vein. The treatment can reduce the length of a hospital stay, thus reducing costs. The current standard catheter-directed thrombolysis treatme...

Indian American's Contribution in Cancer Gene Discovery

...a at a meeting in the U.K. Anindya and I talked at length about things we might learn by altering chromosomes - the technology was amazing. Even though Anindya was only a student at the time, it was clear that this was a guy with guts - just the type of person that I wanted as part of my research team," Mil...

Minirobot for Medical Procedures Inside Human Body

...rams and measures two centimeters (0.79 inches) in length and one in diameter. The tiny robot incorporates various medical devices including a small camera, sensors and a drug delivery injector, which could reduce the need for surgery. Miniature robots used thus far have been designed to be swallowed an...

Stroke Patients With High BMI Less Likely to Be Discharged After Hospitalization

...statistically nonsignificant trend toward extended length of hospital stay when compared with the lowest BMI category (6.3 days vs. 5.2 days). "Eighteen of the 451 patients died and in-hospital mortality did not differ among the BMI groups," the authors note. "No significant differences in the functional ac...

Artery Stiffness Reversed By Smoking Termination

...t step smokers can take to enhance the quality and length of their lives. It shows both the unhealthy effects of smoking and the benefit of smoking cessation on the arterial wall," he said. "The longer one stops smoking the better." However, researchers noted that results need to be confirmed in a prospecti...

Patients Own Dental Plaque may Cause Ventilator-associated Pneumonia

... infection can add $40,000 to costs and double the length of stay of the patient in the hospital. Ironically, it turns out that the patient’s own dental plaque is a major source of germs that cause ventilator-associated pneumonia. In results to be presented today (March 23, 2007) at the International As...

Obese Heart Patients At Greater Risk

...eadmission to the intensive careunit and prolonged length of stay," says Dr Yap."We did not find an increased risk of early mortality in patients with obesity or morbidobesity." Unlike current Australian population data that suggest obesity was most prevalent in the 55-74 year age group, the researchers f...

Emergency Department Strain As Ice Problems Grows

...tamine-related presentations resulted in prolonged length of stay in the ED andconsumed considerable resources. "A third of patients required sedation, which correlates with a high pre-hospital, nursing, medicaland security load to manage these patients safely," says Dr Gray. "Further contributing to th...

Being Sad Can Kill You

... women. It was also seen that significantly, the length of pregnancy in average, was much shorter in depressed women. This the researchers attributed to the overproduction of stress hormones. According to O’Keane: "There's a myth really that women are protected from depression during pregnancy and that ...

Research Explains How Lead Exposure Produces Learning Deficits

...which allow learning and memory to take place. The length of the neuronal processes, called dendrites, in lead-exposed rats were shorter and twisted when compared to the long and relatively straight dendrites in neurons found in control rats. “The fewer connections between neurons found in lead-exposed ra...

Pigeon Feathers to Judge Pollution Levels

...st collected and then tested in the laboratory for length and the heavy metals in it. The feathers are chemically tested in nitric and perchloric acid. Pigeons normally have a fixed habitat in a particular area. The heavy metals in the environment enter the feather, and remain even after they are shed. Th...

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