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Staffers Benefit from Single-Room Design for Baby Care

...other staff in the unit. “However, once the unit switched to the single-family room, we found the opposite to be true. Staff noticed the obvious benefits of the private rooms for the patient and family,” Harris said. “At the same time, the staff were able to rely on technology to assist them in keeping abre...

New Study Shows Efficacy of AROMASIN on Early Breast Cancer

...e received two to three years of tamoxifen and are switched to Aromasin for the completion of a total of five consecutive years of adjuvant hormonal therapy. This indication is based on the results of the IES study. Study results from a median follow-up of 34.5 months showed that switching to AROMASIN after t...

Cancer Scientists' Gene Research Offers New Treatment Hope

..."switch" controlling the gene for DHFR. When it is switched off, the rapidly dividing cancer cells are starved of a vital building block - a chemical called thymine. "Inhibiting the DHFR gene could help to prevent the growth of neoplastic cancer cells - ordinary cells which develop into tumour cells - such as...

Bacteria Harnessed as Micro-Robot Motors

...otor, allowing it to move again. The rotors can be switched off in this way an unlimited number of times. Using the entire microorganism as a motor has many advantages, the researchers say. Bacteria are robust machines that can easily be integrated with other microscopic components and do not need to be pur...

Scientists Discover New Gene

... within our cells that normally prevents cancer is switched off. The ability of CHD5 to function as a master switch for a tumor suppressive network suggests that this gene is responsible for a large number of diverse forms of human cancers. "CHD5 functions like a circuit breaker that regulates the tumor-pr...

Once-daily Nevirapine Has More Side-effects Than Twice-daily Dose

...topped therapy versus twelve individuals (14%) who switched to once-daily dosing. The reasons for treatment discontinuation were: five cases of nevirapine-related hepatitis, two of acute pancreatitis, two of skin rash, two of dry mouth and one of peripheral neuropathy. “Unfortunately, when compared with tw...

C-Reactive Protein Induces Hypertension

...ediators of inflammation. "We found that when we switched on the gene that causes increases in CRP, the blood pressure went up, and when we turned off the gene and CRP levels went down, the blood pressure fell. Diet changes in the control mice had no effect, indicating that the blood pressure responses were...

Multiple Course of Steroids Protects Preterm Baby’s Lung

...commonly use that steroid anymore and have largely switched to sulfur-free steroids, such as betamethasone. This study was based on infants who received betamethasone prior to birth, and they did not show the same adverse effects as previous studies. "Perhaps these babies didn’t react the same way as in oth...

Gene Cell Test may Aid Early Lung Cancer Diagnosis

... cancer. They hope the analysis of which genes are switched on and off in cells// lining the airways leading to the lungs can be used to diagnose patients sooner and make treatments more effective. Lung cancer is the most deadly form of the disease. In Britain it is the most common cancer in men and the thi...

Successful Islet Cell Transplant in Mice With Type 1 Diabetes

...mutant strain of mice in which p53 activity can be switched on and off. “In principle, tumors in these mice could be obliterated by turning p53 back on,” says Thomas-Tikhonenko. “The problem was that a protein called MDM2 sent p53 into the teeth of the proteasome shredder.” The proteasome inhibitor bortezomib...

French 'euthanasia Doctor' Avoids Jail

...-support equipment for a terminally-ill patient be switched off. But it does not allow a doctor to take action to end a patient's life. The case had generated huge interest across France. The issue found its way into the presidential election campaign too. The leading candidates indirectly backed the docto...

Kerala Youth Die of Carbon Monoxide Inhalation

...ar with its windows rolled up and air-conditioning switched on, forensic experts said. Petrol engines emit considerable amounts of CO, often up to 25 per cent of the exhaust gas. Most modern day vehicles, such as the Maruti Zen, are equipped with catalytic converters that minimise CO emission (CO is often ...

Australian City Fights Global Warming in a Unique Way

...gainst global warming. The city authorities simply switched off power supply to many areas for an hour. Lights were out over the iconic coat-hanger bridge. The opera house was darkened. Families held candle-lit picnics on the edges of Sydney harbour, while thousands of suburban homes were blacked out. It ...

Low-sugar Potato Cultivation Spreads in India

... where more than half of the land under potato has switched to the new variety. The low-sugar potato is giving much better yields than the traditional one and also processing firms snap up the produce without any delay, farmers say. Low sugar potatoes are preferred by the potato-processing farms as they h...

Is There Any Clinical Benefit to Staying on a Failing Regimen?

...onal treatment guidelines that treatment should be switched as soon as possible after virological failure is detected, and that resistance testing should be used in order to select the successor regimen. However, not all patients are able to assemble a drug combination that will contain three fully active d...

Electronic Mosquito Repellents Fail to Prevent Malaria Transmission

... during specified time periods in which an EMR was switched on or off. There were no significant differences in the landing rates with and without EMR, making the devices ineffective for preventing malaria transmission. “I agree with the Cochrane report,” said Joel Breman, M.D., a senior scientific adviso...

Major Mental Disorders Cut Life Span by Ten to Fifteen Years

... deaths from cardiovascular disease. Many could be switched to safer medicines. Mentally ill adults also are more likely than others to have alcohol and drug-abuse problems. Andrew Leuchter of the School of Medicine.in the University of California, points to the problems in public health systems. Getting a...

Hong Kong Choked by Growing Pollution Problem

...pumps that consume expensive electricity are often switched off at night when inspectors are less likely to notice. Young said the situation improved under Hong Kong's last British governor, Chris Patten, who introduced legislation including a requirement that all big projects undergo an environmental impact ...

Selection of Best X Chromosome in Women

...r scientific reason as to why one X chromosome was switched off rather than the other. The observations also seem to run counter to the usual idea that the biological mechanisms evolve in ways that allow a "best" choice to be made between things rather than a random one. Now researchers led by University o...

Right Side of Brain Play a Vital Role in Stroke

... everyday situations which require attention to be switched flexibly from one thing to another. This study highlighted the role that the right-hand side of the brain has in keeping track of our own actions and helping us to notice when we have made mistakes, Dr Hodgson added. This type of self-monitoring fu...

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