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Aircraft Cabin Ventilation Influences The Transmission Of Diseases In-flight

...hey Clinic Medical Centre, MA, USA) and colleagues reviewed data from studies looking at the transmission of diseases during commercial air travel. They found that while commercial airlines are a suitable environment for the spread of pathogens carried by passengers or crew, the environmental control systems ...

Lipids get new comprehensive classification system

...ved with the LIPID MAPS project) and has also been reviewed by several other experts in the lipid research field, so it represents a well-balanced consensus view of what a modern-day lipid classification scheme should be." Examples of the classification scheme and interactive access to it can be viewed on th...

NHGRI targets 12 more organisms for genome sequencing

...mmendations of the coordinating committee are then reviewed and approved by NHGRI's advisory council, which in turn forwards its recommendations regarding sequencing strategy to NHGRI leadership. The genomes of a number of organisms have been or are being sequenced by the large-scale sequencing capacity deve...

Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)

...nt waterborne microbe transmission to patients. He reviewed the results of studies conducted with Pall-AquasafeTM filters, which are specifically designed to prevent patient exposure to waterborne microbes. The filters provide an absolute barrier between the microorganisms and patients. "Point-of-use filtrat...

New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections

...nt waterborne microbe transmission to patients. He reviewed the results of studies conducted with Pall-AquasafeTM filters, which are specifically designed to prevent patient exposure to waterborne microbes. The filters provide an absolute barrier between the microorganisms and patients. "Point-of-use filtrat...

FDA Warns About Antipsychotic Drugs and Elderly

...sociated with dementia should have their treatment reviewed by their health care providers. In analyses of seventeen placebo-controlled studies of four drugs in this class, the rate of death for those elderly patients with dementia was about 1.6 to 1.7 times that of placebo. Although the causes of death were ...

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

...enomic research. The voluntary data, which will be reviewed by an internal, agency-wide group and will not be used for regulatory decision making, will help FDA and industry gain valuable experience as this new field continues to evolve. FDA believes this approach will save time and resources and eliminate p...

NIH Calls on Scientists to Speed Public Release of Research Publications

... for public comment in September, and received and reviewed over 6,000 public comments. As part of on-going efforts to implement this new policy, NIH plans to establish a Public Access Advisory Working Group, as a subgroup of the NLM's Board of Regents. The Working Group will include representatives of the p...

Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity

... reporting NIH-funded research that have been peer reviewed and accepted by journals for publication. NIH would release these manuscripts to the public within 12 months or less after publication in the journal. The timing of the release would be determined by the authors, who "should ensure that their PMC sub...

Recent breakthroughs in common adult leukemia highlighted in New England Journal of Medicine

...ommon adult leukemia in the United States was last reviewed by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 1995, it was seen through the eyes of theories that dated back to the 1960s. As such, the journal recently invited three of the world's foremost experts on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) to write a...

UCLA Study Shows One-Third of Drug Ads in Medical Journals Do Not Contain References Supporting Medical Claims

UCLA investigators reviewed pharmaceutical ads in American medical journals an...he largest studies of its kind, UCLA investigators reviewed pharmaceutical ads in American medical journals to determine what materials are cited in support of ...

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