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Longer Anthracycline Therapy Reduces Heart Failure in Adult Cancer Patients

..., noting that there are few good studies about the length of anthracycline treatment in children. Among the children in the study, there was no difference in heart damage between the long and short treatments “and no information on survival and tumor shrinkage was available,” van Dalen said. Recent stud...

Can Early Nutritional Modification Prevent Type 1 Diabetes?

...(NE) had a higher birth weight but a shorter birth length than infants in Central and Southern Europe (CSE). The NE children remained heavier than those from CSE at least up to the age of 18 months. The NE children were also taller than the CSE children starting already from the age of 3 months up to the ag...

Parkinson's Mutation Stunts Neurons

... into embryonic rat brain, they saw a reduction of length and branching of neuronal wiring during brain development. The researchers wrote that their findings offer "a useful animal model for early LRRK2-associated disease." They concluded that their techniques of introducing the mutated gene could lead t...

Prestigious Wilson Award Goes To Yale Cell Biologist Joel Rosenbaum

...elevators. He saw particles moving up and down the length of the flagella, between the membrane and the microtubule-based core of the flagella. They named the process intraflagellar transport (IFT). These initial observations led to biochemical and genetic studies showing that molecular motors controlled ...

Staffers Benefit from Single-Room Design for Baby Care

... head circumference, hospital-acquired infections, length of stay, etc. “This study presents an agenda for further research. In addition, it can be used as a tool for hospitals to determine if their NICUs should or can be designed as single-family units,” Harris said. “For those renovating existing space,...

Pregnant Women With Placental Infection Have Doubled Risk of Recurrence

...e known risk factors for chorioamnionitis, such as length of labor, Dr. Laibl said. “Circumstances do play an important role,” Dr. Laibl said. “But once you factor that out, the women who got the infection the first time were still more prone to getting it in their second pregnancy. “The patient’s doct...

Mentally-Ill Patients Get Re-Hospitalized More

...ospitalizations.It was also found that the average length of their hospital stays were more than double the length of others. The risk of readmission increased with age. The longer the initial hospital stay, the g...

Large Variations in Cost Has No Effect on Length of Stay or Mortality

...U), higher resource// use has no effect on patient length of stay or possible mortality. This research appears in the first issue for December 2006 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society. Allan Garland, M.D., of the Division of Pulmo...

Telomerase Expression Linked To Body Mass

...tors. It's clear that evolution has found that the length of time an organism is alive has little effect on how likely some of its cells might mutate into cancer. Instead, simply having more cells in your body does raise the specter of cancer-and does so enough that the benefits of telomerase expression, su...

From a Lowly Yeast, Researchers Divine a Clue to Human Disease

...A as it goes. Multiple genes strung along a single length of DNA are separated by gaps to mark boundaries. As the polymerase reaches the end of a gene, Sen1 flips a switch and knocks it off the DNA track. The group, led by Brow and Eric Steinmetz, compared normal yeast to a strain with a mutated form of S...

Patients' Requests for Antidepressants can Influence Physician Evaluation of Depression

...f depression was placed in the medical record, the length of the visit, and whether minimally acceptable initial depression care had been provided. Minimally acceptable depression care is defined as any combination of the following steps - prescribing an antidepressant prescription, providing a mental healt...

Balance Training Better Than Tai Chi at Improving Mobility in Older Adults

...uggests that a program focusing on increasing step length and speed is more effective at improving mobility ...orward, to the side and backward (the maximal step length test). Another measure had them take a series of steps and return quickly to the starting position (...

Underground Air - Associated With - DNA Damages

...t of them do not remain in the underground for any length of time," says scientist Hanna Karlsson. "However, particle levels are often very high. My results show that there is every reason to speed up the work being done to clean the air in the underground." Every year, some 5,300 Swedes die premature dea...

HIV Patients Have Increased Risk of Pneumonia, Death Following Surgery

...difference between the two groups was found in the length of hospital stay, number of complications or need for additional procedures to treat complications. However, more HIV patients developed pneumonia (eight or 2.4 percent vs. one or .3 percent) and more died within 12 months (10 or 3 percent vs. two or...

Light Therapy Fights Depression With Sun Substitute

...otonin. A filter blocks out harmful UV rays. The length of time spent looking at the lamp depends on its strength. Stronger light require just 30 minutes daily, while those with less strength require as much as two hours. "The best time to use the light is in the morning so that the body recognises that...

New Line of Antibiotics Could Halve Treatment Time

...w drug to be potent against MRSA and could cut the length of time people need to take medication by half. Clive Page, professor of pharmacology at King's College London, also working on the study, said: "It may lead to us providing a combination of drugs - one to target the dividing bacteria and one to ta...

Scientists Come Up With A Powerful Weapon To Fight Drug Resistant Bacteria

...-like ability to dissolve oils. By altering the length of the fatty acid chains and the sequence of posit...a whole range of potential applications. The short length of the synthetic peptide makes it attractive for drug design as it would be both easier and economic...

For Kids With High BP, Surgery Can Help When Medicines Fail

...vessels. As a result, surgeons often have to use a length of blood vessel taken from elsewhere in the child’s body to get around the blockage. In some patients, the persistently high blood pressure has damaged one kidney too much to allow it to be saved, and it must be removed. Once a child has had su...

Surgery, the Best Option for Kids With High Blood Pressure

...vessels. As a result, surgeons often have to use a length of blood vessel taken from elsewhere in the child's body to get around the blockage. In some patients, the persistently high blood pressure has damaged one kidney too much to allow it to be saved, and it must be removed. Once a child has had su...

Cancer Care-Patient's Time Costs Studied

...g the first 12 months after diagnosis, the average length of time for hospitalization was highest for patients with gastric and ovarian cancers (21.1 and 20.8 days) and shortest for patients with melanoma (2.2 days), prostate cancer (3.8 days) and breast cancer (4.0 days). Compared to similar people without...

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