New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections
The current goal to reduce sickness and death from infections that patients acquire in hospitals has created a renewed focus on identifying ways to reduce the problem at its source. Hospital water for drinking, bathing, showering, to make ice cubes or to rinse medical equipment is increasingly being recognized as a significant source of microbes that may contribute to many of these life-threateni...Preventing a pandemic: Study suggests strategies for containing a flu outbreak
Though quick to caution about the many things that could go wrong, researchers say that it may be possible to contain a Southeast Asian outbreak of avian influenza in humans, buying precious time for the production of a vaccine. Using a computer model to simulate an outbreak in a rural Southeast Asian population, the scientists have shown how a combination of strategies, including targeted...Polio vaccination strategies assessed as eradication nears
Polio is on track to become only the second disease ever eradicated. In two studies in the Dec. 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online, scientists are working to ensure that once it is gone, it stays gone. One study reduces concerns that people whose immune systems were weakened by HIV would re-introduce poliovirus into the community. The other study looks at the ho...Fitting in: Newly evolved genes adopt a variety of strategies to remain in the gene pool
The largest-ever experimental analysis of duplicated genes provides insight into mechanisms of evolution When Mother Nature creates an identical copy of a gene in an organism's genome, the duplicated copy is usually deleted, inactivated, or otherwise rendered nonfunctional in order to prevent genetic redundancy and to preserve biological homeostasis. In some cases, however, gene duplicat...Different strategies underlie the ecology of microbial invasions
Infectious disease can play a key role in mediating the outcome of competition between rival groups, as seen in the effects of disease-bearing conquistadors in the New World--or, on a much smaller ecological scale, the ability of bacteria to spread their viruses to competing bacteria. In a new study, researchers have compared two different general ways in which bacteria compete with one another,...Innovative Health Strategies near Milwaukee set to profit from Medicare expansion
Terri Bernacchi knows how to survive. The Milwaukee-area entrepreneur "bootstrapped" So now that IHS has begun to thrive, it is well positioned to help its pharmaceutical industry customers survive the massive new demands that...Strategies to Identify and Confirm Phase I Metabolites of Glyburide Using the 4000 Q TRAP System
In this application note, several different metabolite identification approaches are evaluated for their merits. A comprehensive examination of four Information Dependent Acquisition (IDA) survey modes was performed to illustrate data quality and types of metabolites found. A significant number of metabolites were found with each mode of operat...Going for the "Big Score" or hedging your bets: Two economic development strategies
announced his state would spend $300 million to convince a major biomedical institute to open a center in Or...Entrepreneurs Conference to focus on strategies, tools and culture
MILWAUKEE Turning big ideas into even bigger businesses is the theme of the second-annual to be held June 1-2 in Milwaukee, conference organizers announced Wednesday. The event is designed to encourage and foster entrepreneurial growth in Wiscon...Sales Strategies for the High-Tech Entrepreneur
MILWAUKEE - Ask any successful entrepreneur what the #1 priority for a small business is and you will get one answer: SALES. Despite this, sales force structure and management remains probably the most neglected discipline in business school curricula today. What They Dont Teach You (in B-school) was the subtitle for an event held by the K...Research on causes for falling helps develop preventive strategies
All of us would have had a fall at least once in our life. But how many of us wonder as to why we fall? Not many, in fact, not even a few of us. But researchers at the Locomotion Research Laboratory at Virginia Tech believe that finding the cause of a fall// will help prevent them better. The researchers, who claim that around 50 per cent of aged people (over 75yrs) are institutionalized or even...Strategies That Might Lower Blood Pressure Questioned
According to a new study simple strategies to improve lifestyle habits may not lower blood pressure in patients with a single high blood pressure reading .// Researchers investigated whether simple interventions, such as providing patients with an information booklet, encouraging lower sodium intake, and advice for a healthier diet, had more or less of an effect as standard care. Near...New Strategies For Effective Treatment Of Malaria
Researchers at the Thailand's Mahidol University are developing new strategies for effective treatment of Malaria. The approach includes use of new molecules like artesunate, derived from Chinese herb and Combination therapy for combating development of drug resistance in the parasite. // But now researchers are optimistic they can eradicate malaria altogether with a new approach to drugs and mos...Experts State Strategies To Increase Good Cholesterol
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have issued guidelines for patients with low levels of good cholesterol or HDL in order to stay healthy with unclogged arteries. The article will be published in The New England Journal of Medicine online. // The researchers report that existing strategies to prevent heart disease have not addressed the best means to raise HDL cholesterol and instead have...Strategies to prevent the rising tide of the epidemic of chronic diseases
The Lancet Early Online Publication, released on the 5th of October, which comprises of a Series of four papers about chronic diseases, has a comprehensive report on the threat of chronic diseases in India. In an article, co-authored // by Union Health Minister Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, the need to provide an effective public-health response to the growing challenge of chronic diseases in India was h...Treatment Strategies in Cardiovascular Medicine
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