Sensitive in Medical News

DeltaTRAK Responds to Swine Flu Outbreak With Full Line of Products for Temperature Sensitive Vaccines

PLEASANTON, Calif., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- DeltaTRAK(R), Inc., a leading manufacturer of cold chain management solutions and life science products has increased production of all products that help ensure product efficacy for vaccines and pharmaceuticals. All these products are designed to monit...

SOX9 renders melanomas sensitive to retinoic acid and stops tumor growth

Melanomas are often resistant to standard cancer therapies such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and retinoic acid (RA). Given the lack of available treatments for melanoma, the prognosis for patients is often poor. However, Vincent Hearing and colleagues at the National Cancer Institute at the Nati...

Vericept Announces 100 Customers in Healthcare Industry for Sensitive Data Protection

WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Vericept, the leading provider of data loss prevention (DLP) and intellectual property protection, is proud to announce the achievement of a significant milestone in healthcare industry. Over 100 companies in the healthcare industry have selected Vericept...

Kroll Fraud Solutions Launches "Handling Sensitive Patient Information in the Healthcare Workplace: An eLearning Course for Safeguarding Patient Data"

New resource teaches healthcare professionals how to reduce data security risks within their organization. New York, NY (PRWEB) July 14, 2008 -- Kroll Fraud Solutions today launched " Handling Sensitive Patient Information in the Healthcare Workplace ," an e...

Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) Found to Be Highly Sensitive for Early Stage Breast Cancer

Researchers Determine BSGI a Useful Tool in Detection, as Sensitive as MRI for Invasive Cancers and Perhaps More So for DCIS NEWPORT NEWS, Va., May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- According to an article in the June issue of Radiology, researchers at The George Washington University Medical Center...

New Ion Trap Mass Spectrometers From Varian, Inc. Offer the Ultimate in Sensitive Detection and High Productivity

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 31, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI) announced today its new 200-MS Series of ion trap mass spectrometers for GC/MS (gas chromatography/mass spectrometry). GC/MS is used by analytical chemists for the detection and characterization of compou...

Tom's of Maine Introduces a Patent-Pending New Formula with the Launch of its Natural Clean & Gentle Care and Sensitive Care Toothpastes

~~ New Ingredient Creates a Natural Foaming Experience ~~ KENNEBUNK, Maine, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Tom's of Maine, a leader in natural oral and body care, announced a patent-pending breakthrough formula in its new Natural Clean & Gentle Care and Natural Sensitive Care Toothpastes. (...

Auditory neurons in humans far more sensitive to fine sound frequencies than most mammals

The human ear is exquisitely tuned to discern different sound frequencies, whether such tones are high or low, near or far. But the ability of our ears pales in comparison to the remarkable knack of single neurons in the brain to distinguish between the very subtlest of sound frequencies. Repor...

Brain stem cells sensitive to space radiation

Cold Spring Harbor, NY Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists recently led a team of researchers to study potential effects of space radiation on astronauts. The results of their study are revealing and will provide the foundation for ensuring the safety of crew members participating in ...

People with rare type of memory loss still sensitive to others, study shows

Toronto, Canada People with a devastating brain injury that has wiped out many of their personal memories may still be able to understand other peoples feelings and intentions, according to a joint study by the Rotman Research Institute at the Baycrest Centre for Aging and the Brain, and York Uni...

Building efficient, effective, locally sensitive solutions for dementia care

INDIANAPOLIS Dementia is a growing burden for society, propelling patients and caregivers to increasingly use the health-care system. A year ago, local researchers, health-care professionals, and community advocates came together to form the Indianapolis Discovery Network for Dementia (IDND) to e...

Actor Joe Pantoliano Discloses Depression; Talks About His Latest Movie and His Sensitive Side

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Actor Joe Pantoliano reveals a personal history of depression and his belief that his mother struggled with untreated bipolar disorder, in a guest blog entry http://www.nami.org/blog published today by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAM...

Siemens Building Technologies Pioneers Wireless Solution for St. Anthony's Sensitive Environment

Wireless Communications Key to Upgrading Building Controls Without Disrupting Hospital Patients or Operations BUFFALO GROVE, Ill., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -. At St. Anthony's Hospital in Oklahoma City, Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., recently demonstrated the pote...

Single reader with CAD more efficient, yields fewer false positives, and possibly more sensitive

Single reading of screening mammograms with computer-aided detection (CAD) is more efficient than double reading and yields a higher sensitivity than the first reader in a double reading program, according to a study conducted by researchers at Charlotte Radiology in Charlotte, NC. In addition, th...

New Nano-power Could Make Biopsies Sensitive and Efficient

A new research has found that turning cancer cells into mini magnets by using nanoparticles could make biopsies sensitive and efficient. Researchers from the University of New Mexico and the company Senior Scientific, both in Albuquerque have found that these nanoparticles could make biops...

Penis Loses Its Most Sensitive Parts During Circumcision Process

A new study has found that what boys lose in the process of circumcision turns out to be the most sensitive parts of the penis. The long-term-health impact of neo-natal circumcision has received little study, while the consequences of circumcision on sexual function in the adult male have ...

Researchers Have Identified Subgroup Sensitive to the Drug Cisplatin

Researchers have identified a subgroup of hard-to-treat breast cancers that may be sensitive to the drug cisplatin, rarely used in the treatment of breast tumors. They also have discovered// the molecular basis of this sensitivity, which may help identify patients most likely to benefit from cispla...

Adult stem cells are sensitive to responses from the environment

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have disclosed that a specific variety of adult stem cell is capable of changing into bone, muscle, neurons or other// types of tissue depending on the response from the physical environment. The researchers found that mesenchymal stem cells, ...

Worried About The Sensitive Skin Of Your 2 Year Old? Fetal Skin Cells To Offer Help

Fetal cells are truly a marvel. Yes! It has been proven yet another time in a procedure in which doctors have used fetal skin cells to successfully heal young children with severe // scalding injuries. The revolutionary procedure avoids the need to remove a patch of ones own skin for a graft. Th...

MRI with nanoparticles highly sensitive in detecting prostate cancer metastases

High-resolution MRI with magnetic nanoparticles is highly sensitive in detecting clinically occult lymph-node metastases in prostate cancer, according to a new report. In fact, routine use of this modality preoperatively could obviate many unneeded surgeries.// The nanoparticles, which are give...

Unborn Found To Be More Sensitive to Pollution

Unborn babies are particularly sensitive to cancer-causing pollutants found in the air, report researchers who studied pregnant women and their newborn babies // .Past studies in mice have shown exposure to pollutants is more harmful to fetuses than their mothers, despite the fact the placenta filt...

Some more sensitive to pain

A new brain-imaging study confirms that some people are much more sensitive to pain than others and should help doctors in calibrating patients' descriptions of their pain. "One of the most difficult aspects of treating pain has been having confidence in the accuracy of patients' self-reports ...

Sensitive to bright light? You may have sensitive teeth also

A new study which appeared in the General Dentistry journal suggests that people who are sensitive to bright light, loud noise, itchy clothes and strong perfumes are also likely to have sensitive teeth. This means// that such a person is likely to avoid very hot or very cold foods. The study con...

Rapid Swine Flu Test Misses Many Infections

...results, it's important to give the test early. Fast flu tests have been in use for a couple of decades. "It's not news that these tests are not as sensitive as we would like them to be," Shaw said. The question for the CDC was whether they would work with the new pandemic strain, he said. Dr. Marc Sieg...

Detroit Physician Among 10 Finalists for J.H. Kanter Prize

...f the Cheyenne River Sioux, one of less than 500 practicing American Indian physicians. Founded a center that works to develop and improve culturally sensitive care systems, allocating scarce healthcare dollars to align with the pressing needs of his community in South Dakota. "It was indeed fo...

Smart Balance Announces 2009 Second Quarter Results

... meet long-term debt covenants; and increase volume in case shipments in a competitive environment with rising costs and an increasingly price sensitive consumer. About Smart Balance, Inc. Smart Balance, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMBL ) is committed to providing superior tasting heart healthier...

Cambrex Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

...lts benefited from a recently enacted reduction in tax rates in Sweden. The Company's effective tax rates have been and are expected to remain highly sensitive to the geographic mix of income due to the Company's inability to recognize tax benefits where there has been a recent history of losses, primarily th...

Five Questions About Eczema

...e effective second line therapy. Among the benefits of TCIs are that they can reduce eczema signs and symptoms and have been shown to be effective on sensitive areas. (21) TCIs have not been associated with certain side effects such as skin thinning, stretch marks, and growth suppression in children. (22) ...

K-State Researcher, Collaborators Study Virulence of Pandemic H1N1 Virus; Work at K-State Would Protect Pig Industry If the Virus Jumps to Swine Populations

...ludes drugs like Tamiflu that target the neuraminidase protein. He said that this pandemic H1N1 is already resistant to the M2 inhibitors but still is sensitive to Tamiflu. "Some pandemic flu isolates from humans have now shown resistance to the Tamiflu," Richt said. "So the big issue now is if these Ta...

A 'super sensor' for cancer and CSIs

... Like the sensitive seismographs that can pick up tremors of impending earthquakes long before they strike, a similar invention from Tel Aviv University researchers may c...

Genes key to staph disease severity, drug resistance found hitchhiking together

... methicillin-resistant S. epidermidis strains analyzedwhereas the researchers did not find it in strains of S. aureus or S. epidermidis that are sensitive to methicillin. The research group confirmed its theory by identifying the specific location that encodes the toxin, which was in gene clusters tha...

Immune responses to flu vaccine are diminished in lupus patients

...not find a correlation between CD4+ T-cell and antibody responses using flow cytometry, they did find a modest correlation using ELISpot assay, a more sensitive technique. They also found that flu vaccination did not induce disease activity over three to four months. Although the sample size in this study ...

Protein Clumps May Appear Years Before Memory Problems

...explore the early, asymptomatic phase of [Alzheimer's disease], the ability to measure amyloid distribution in living humans and the identification of sensitive markers of brain dysfunction" in the disease, Dr. Reisa Sperling, of the Center for Alzheimer's Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women's Hospital...

WellPoint Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results

...do not adequately support goodwill and other intangible assets; intense competition to attract and retain employees; unauthorized disclosure of member sensitive or confidential information; changes in the economic and market conditions, as well as regulations, that may negatively affect our investment portfoli...

Mathematical modeling predicts response to Herceptin

... with 122 breast cancers treated with Herceptin and found that quantitative PTEN protein expression was a key determinant of who would be resistant or sensitive to Herceptin. Furthermore, using the mathematical modeling techniques, the absence of PTEN was more predictive than could be determined using stan...

Bad Air Day Alert: Outdoor Air Pollutants at High Level

...ike smoke and smog, as well as other air pollutants may cause anyone who is sensitive to these airborne contaminants to experience shortness of breath, wheezing ... (3) According to AirNow.gov, code orange means the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups About 3M A recognized leader in research and develop...

Air Quality Action Day Declared for Today, July 28, 2009

...partment of Transportation announced that today, July 28, 2009, is an Air Quality Action Day, a day when air quality will be unhealthy, especially for sensitive individuals, such as children, seniors and people with asthma and other respiratory ailments, due to forecasted high levels of ground-level ozone poll...

Nexicon Technology to Protect Healthcare Industry

...nities are tremendous, and the need for MARC's capabilities continues to grow as the healthcare industry continues to maintain the integrity of highly sensitive data." About Nexicon Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, Nexicon (PNK: NXCO) delivers next-generation digital media protection and digital ...

Must-Haves for Your Summer Vacation Bag

... People often recognize the need to protect their skin from the dangers of the sun, yet few people realize that their eyes are also at risk. Even the sensitive skin surrounding the eyes can be damaged by prolonged sun exposure and is susceptible to wrinkling and forms of skin cancer. Consider wearing photochr...

FDA Warnings on Mercury Tooth Fillings Expected Today: New Regulation Result of Lawsuit Settled Last Year

...ings. Until now, dentists who used amalgam have not had to disclose the type of materials used in dental fillings or advise patients, and particularly sensitive populations, of its use. The ruling results from a lawsuit settled last year by the plaintiffs in the case of Moms Against Mercury v. Von Esche...