Classifying indoor tanning behaviors can help physicians tailor prevention messages
Identifying indoor tanning behavior patterns can help physicians tailor prevention messages, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Nearly 2 million Americans tan indoors each day, with the number of individual users in the Uni...Human Membranes Crystal Structure may Help Tailor Asthma Drugs
Scientists have managed to reveal the crystal structure of a human membrane protein, LTC4 synthase, which has a major influence on the development of asthma . LTC4 synthase is tremendously difficult to analyse, and previously only low-resolution information has been available on two...How to make negative services less unpleasant for consumers
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... ADVANCED OR METASTATIC ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE LUNG (ABSTRACT # PRS.4) Doctors are constantly on the look out for advancements to better treat and tailor cancer treatment to the individual. Targeted therapies have been introduced that have improved standard chemotherapy approaches. Combining targeted th...Protein level may serve as predictor of severe osteoarthritis
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...MA's managing director and vice president of business development & strategy. "AHIMA can offer excellent benefits for international members as we tailor products and services to better serve the needs of global partners. We want to be able to learn and share our best practices as a means of further adv...Lilly to Unveil More Than 30 Studies at Premier Lung Cancer Meeting
... M.D., Lilly vice president, cancer research and global oncology platform leader. "In lung cancer in particular, histology provides us with one way to tailor treatment with ALIMTA for patients living with nonsquamous NSCLC." ALIMTA, launched in 2004, continues to be evaluated in a number of NSCLC tre...Affymetrix Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results
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...ve chronic condition that frequently requires long-term treatment. A range of treatment options and combination regimens are needed so physicians can tailor therapy to the individual patient needs. We are now awaiting results from additional ongoing studies which will further assess the full potential of l...Creighton Medical Laboratories First to Offer New Cancer Test
...e test in a clinical setting and make it available for routine clinical use. The method can help doctors make more accurate cancer diagnoses and tailor patient management based on the DNA profiles of each person's cancer. Array-based karyotyping is a 21st century spin on older genetic testing met...Freezing Prostate Cancer Does a Man's Body Good
... but it is less invasive and traumatic for patients, preserves sexual and urinary function and has no major complications. Interventional radiologists tailor treatment to each patient's disease. Instead of removing the entire prostate, or freezing the entire prostate or using radiation on the entire prostat...Gene Abnormality Found to Predict Childhood Leukemia Relapse
...children who experience a relapse of ALL will survive five years. Determining the risk of relapse faced by an individual patient would help physicians tailor treatment intensity appropriately, but until now there has been no good marker for predicting outcome. "Great progress has been made in recent ye...The System 1200 Smoke Evacuator
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Men with a family history of prostate cancer and African-American men are particularly susceptible to the disease, with a twofold to sevenfold increased risk. Assessing risk in these populations has been difficult. "There have been years of effort to try to identify genes and genetic mutations ...Cells use mix-and-match approach to tailor regulation of genes
Scientists eager to help develop a new generation of pharmaceuticals are studying cellular proteins called transcription factors, which bind to upstream sequences of genes to turn the expression of those genes on or off. Some pharmaceutical companies are also hoping to develop drugs that selectivel...UTMB study identifies women at risk of gaining excessive weight with injectable birth control
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...m to separate molecules by size difference. Their pores may also be used to trap drug molecules for controlled drug release. Therefore, the ability to tailor the pore structure of mesoporous material is of fundamental importance for various chemical and biological applications. "IBN-9 demonstrates that i...Queen's scientists find new way to battle MRSA
...uid antibiofilm agents remain liquid at the ambient temperatures found in hospitals. One of the attractions of ionic liquids is the opportunity to tailor their physical, chemical, and biological properties by building specific features into the chemical structures of the positively-charged ions (the cat...Molecular fingerprints point the way to earlier cancer diagnosis and more targeted treatment
.... He's already begun to identify metabolites that indicate not only the presence of prostate cancer, but its aggressiveness, a tool that could help tailor optimal treatment. The search began in men at risk: those with elevated prostate specific antigen, or PSA, levels. A PSA test along with a digital re...UC San Diego bioengineering professor trey ideker wins 2009 Overton Prize
...n Diego Bioengineering Professor Trey Ideker Named Top 35 Young Scientist by MIT's Technology Review Magazine Cells Use Mix-and-Match Approach to tailor Regulation of Genes , according to research from Trey Ideker's Bioengineering Lab Trey Ideker Part of Technology Commercialization Project Funded ...Freezing prostate cancer does a man's body good
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...scent centres. Such a fine fabrication process can now be used for the large-scale production of fluorescent diamond nanoparticles. One can vary and tailor their properties via the composition of the starting material to answer the needs of future applications. These fluorescent diamond nanoparticles open...Neogen Partners With Chinese Government
...lutions specifically for the Chinese," said James Herbert, Neogen's CEO. "This opportunity is a logical expansion of Neogen Europe's proven ability to tailor solutions to the varying regulatory and quality assurance environments in the large number of countries it serves." A recent high-level meeting...Agendia Opens CLIA-Registered U.S. Genomics Laboratory
...rately predict breast cancer recurrence and sub-typing, and help physicians tailor individual treatment plans to their patients. Agendia's goal is to provide ...ssion profiling, the company's tests aim to help physicians more accurately tailor cancer therapy. The company markets four products, with several new genomic...Inexpensive plastic used in CDs could improve aircraft, computer electronics
...that this remarkable plastic can now not only have good optical and mechanical properties, but also good electrical characteristics. By being able to tailor the amount of nanotubes we can add to the composite, we also can change it from the conductivity of silicon to a few orders below that achieved by met...Open Frame DNAscope from Biomedical Photometrics Inc.
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