AScribe Medicine News Service articles from January 2006

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from January 2006

Media Teleconference to Discuss Formation of Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group.
January 3, 2006... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Jan. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Harvard Medical School, through a grant by the National Institute of Mental Health, will recruit 2,000 survivors of Hurricane Katrina to create the Hurricane...

Bringing Hearts Back to Life: After Cardiac Arrest, Children Fare Better Than Adults, Landmark Study Shows.
January 4, 2006... Byline: University of Arizona TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Children are more likely to survive in-hospital cardiac arrests than adults and with appropriate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the survival rates for both...

Penn Researchers Call for New Paradigm in Clinical Trials: Individual Factors Must Be Considered When Designing and Interpreting Clinical Trials.
January 5, 2006... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two studies published this week from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine point to the need for a more individual approach to medicine...

Engineers Design Nutrition Delivery System for Kenyan AIDS Victims.
January 5, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University engineering professors are building a nutritional supply chain to help fight AIDS in Africa. Mark Lawley and Yuehwern Yih (YOU-wern YEE) say...

Researchers Uncover New Toxic Mechanism in ALS.
January 6, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Exactly how ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease - damages motor neurons is one of medical science's lingering mysteries. At least six mishaps within cells appear to...

Coffee, Tea and Me: Southwestern University Study Finds Caffeine Increases Sexual Motivation in Female Rats.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Southwestern University GEORGETOWN, Texas, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Could something as simple as caffeine be the female version of Viagra? Maybe, according to research published in a forthcoming issue of Pharmacology,...

Study Shows Increasing Nursing Staff Improves Safety and Quality in Hospitals; Increasing RN Staff Saves 6,700 Lives and 4 Million Patient Days Each Year.
January 9, 2006... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study in the January/February 2006 issue of the journal Health Affairs concludes that increasing the number of registered nurses and hours of nursing care...

Common Enzyme is a Key Player in DNA Repair.
January 11, 2006... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Jan. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- A quarter century after they discovered it, researchers have identified the job of one of the most common DNA-damage response proteins. The enzyme has...

Mayo Collaboration Identifies Gene in Childhood Kidney Disease; New Insight Into Related Disorders.
January 13, 2006... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international research collaboration led by Mayo Clinic has identified a new gene involved in causing the inherited kidney disorder, Meckel-Gruber syndrome (MKS)....

American Dental Education Association Celebrates National Join ADEA Day.
January 17, 2006... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) has declared today National Join ADEA Day. Under its new system of open membership, initiated on Jan....

For Orthopedic Injuries, a Robot That Follows Patients as They Move.
January 20, 2006... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The MRI and CT scan may one day have a robotic cousin capable of following and peering into patients as they move around. A University of Florida engineer...

Record Gift Will Transform Specialty Care at Comer Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago; $42-Million Gift From Lands' End Founder a Major Step Forward for Children's Health Care in Chicago.
January 25, 2006... Byline: University of Chicago Hospitals CHICAGO, Jan. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Gary C. Comer, founder of the Lands' End clothing-catalogue company, and his wife, Frances, have made a $42-million donation to the University of Chicago to...

New Effort to Help Alleviate Nursing Shortage, Improve Health Care.
January 26, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nurses are arming themselves with new tools - systems engineering, information technology and management principles - to revolutionize health-care delivery. ...

A Real Time Look at Interactions Between RNA and Proteins: Intracellular Observation of RNA Metabolism Will Help Identify Disease-Associated RNAs.
January 30, 2006... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time, researchers can now peer inside intact cells to not only identify RNA-binding proteins, but also observe -- in real-time -- the...

Mayo Clinic Research Collaboration Shows Infant Transplant Patients Resist Infections That Kill Adult AIDS Patients.
January 30, 2006... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Investigators have discovered that some type of protective system goes into action in some cases when a baby's immune system is deficient. This discovery indicates a...

California Pacific Medical Center Named Center of Excellence by American Society for Bariatric Surgery.
January 30, 2006... Byline: California Pacific Medical Center SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- California Pacific Medical Center has been deemed a Center of Excellence by the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. For our patients, this...

Journalism Panel Joins Debate at Purdue Nanotech Conference.
January 31, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- The smallest of particles can give life to the biggest of news stories, and three leading national journalists will kick off a Purdue University conference to...

Secrets of the Sea Yield Stronger Artificial Bone.
January 31, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- The next generation of artificial bone may rely on a few secrets from the sea. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley...

American Lung Association of California Restructures.
January 31, 2006... Byline: American Lung Association OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Lung Association, American Lung Association of California and the 11 local American Lung Association affiliates in California have announced a...

All Placebos Not Created Alike: In Trial of Sham Acupuncture vs. Oral Placebo Pill, Patients Experienced Greater Pain Reduction From Sham Device Than Those Receiving Placebo Pill.
January 31, 2006... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Feb. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The debate about the existence of a placebo effect has heated up over the past year as more and more lab experiments are detecting immediate physiological...