Life Sciences & Biotechnology Update articles from October 1998

Life Sciences & Biotechnology Update archives from October 1998

WHAT INTENSIVE CARE UNIT NURSES PERCEIVE AS SPIRITUAL CARE-GIVING
October 1, 1998... This (Air Force Institute of Technology) thesis details a phenomenological study that addresses what intensive care unit (ICU) nurses perceive as spiritual care- giving in their day-to-day experiences. Interviews are conducted with 10 ICU nurses...

OUR CHANGING HEALTH-CARE SITUATION: CREATING TOMORROW'S WINNING HEALTH-CARE ENTERPRISE TODAY
October 1, 1998... One of the major health-care tasks is to deliver more value to consumers through better and expanded products and services. This (Knowledge Exchange LLC) document presents the strategies that all health-care organizations must adopt if they want...

THEORIES FOR HEALTH-PROMOTION PRACTICE
October 1, 1998... This (National Cancer Institute) monograph describes theories of health-related behaviors, the processes of changing behaviors, and community and environmental factors that influence behavior in a practical, easily applied style. Public-health...

ROLES, ACTIVITIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN A MANAGED- CARE ENVIRONMENT: WORKBOOK FOR LOCAL HEALTH OFFICIALS
October 1, 1998... This (Health Systems Research Inc.) workbook for local health care officials assesses the roles, responsibilities, and activities in a managed care environment. Its contents are as follows: Introduction and Purpose; Overview of Current Local...

RESOURCE GUIDE FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE AMONG OLDER AMERICANS
October 1, 1998... This (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) report is a resources guide for substance abuse among older persons. Substance abuse affects everyone in our society, including older Americans; however many of the risk factors for...

INJURY VISITS TO HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOMS
October 1, 1998... This (National Center for Health Statistics) report describes ambulatory care visits for injuries to hospital emergency departments in the U.S. Statistics are presented on selected patient, hospital, and visit characteristics. The data presented...

OUTCOMES REGARDING EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN
October 1, 1998... This (Arkansas University for Medical Sciences) study: (1) evaluates the validation of scales for measuring cognitive and physical morbidity; and (2) obtains supplemental data on the nature, severity, and predictors of adverse outcomes of...

DISCHARGE SURVEY OF U.S. HOSPITALS
October 1, 1998... This (National Center for Health Statistics) report presents national estimates of the use of non-federal short-stay hospitals in the U.S. during 1995. Estimates are provided by demographic characteristics of: patients discharged; geographic...

PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN BREAST CANCER DETECTION AND TREATMENT
October 1, 1998... This (University of Pennsylvania) paper describes predoctoral training in breast cancer detection and treatment. The training program provides an excellent training opportunity to those interested in pursuing research careers in this...

EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING THE CHEMOPREVENTION OF MAMMARY CARCINOGENESIS
October 1, 1998... This (Cornell University Medical College) report summarizes the experiments performed, and the results obtained, during a two-year funding period. The experiments utilize the human mammary terminal duct lobular unit (TDLU) explant culture and the...

PROGESTIN AND ANTIPROGESTIN TO REGULATE BREAST CANCER INVASION AND METASTASIS
October 1, 1998... It is known that breast cancer is dependent upon estrogenic hormones in about one-third of all clinical cases, and that it can be inhibited by antiestrogenic antagonists. This (Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center) study hypothesizes that...

FACTORS THAT EFFECT ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN HUMAN BREAST TUMORS
October 1, 1998... This (New York University Medical Center) study examines the mechanism of signal transduction by the estrogen receptor (ER), a hormone-dependent transcriptional regulator involved in many human breast tumors. The goal is to elucidate these...

AUDITOR'S GUIDE TO THE MAMMOGRAPHY QUALITY STANDARDS ACT (MQSA)
October 1, 1998... This (FDA) guide provides MQSA auditors with specific guidance in implementing the general audit requirements specified in the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). It assists in overall inspection quality assurance, and represents the...

THE NURSING PROFESSION AND ITS LACK OF TRAINING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
October 1, 1998... America's nurses, an estimated 2 million strong, are often at the front lines in confronting environmental health hazards, yet most nurses have not received adequate training to manage these hazards. This (Institute of Medicine) document explores...

A PRACTICAL RADIATION SAFETY MANUAL ON BRACHYTHERAPY: BASICS, APPLICATIONS, AND PROCEDURES
October 1, 1998... This translation from Austria (International Atomic Energy Agency) is part of a practical radiation safety manual series for different fields of application, aimed primarily at persons handling radiation sources on a daily routine basis. It is...

MONITORING PROTEIN AGGREGATION, NUCLEATION, AND CRYSTALLIZATION WITH FIBER OPTIC PROBES
October 1, 1998... This (NASA) paper concerns the use of fiber optic probes to monitor protein aggregation, nucleation, and crystallization, The work entails protein crystals experimentally grown in hanging drops in microgravity experiments on-board the Space...

USING ELECTROOPTICAL ANALYTICAL DEVICES AND SYSTEMS IN MEDICINE
October 1, 1998... Microfabricated chip technologies offer researchers novel types of analysis of human clinical samples. Current examples of such technology include DNA amplification and analysis, and fluorescent cell analysis by flow cytometry. Potential...

USING MICROBIAL DIFFRACTION GRATINGS TO DETECT HEAVY METAL POLLUTANTS THAT ARE IMPLICATED IN DISEASES
October 1, 1998... As a significant industrial pollutant, cadmium is implicated as the cause of itai-itai disease. This brief (NASA) paper concerns the biological detection of cadmium toxicity using an assay device involving the motile response of the protozoa...

INJURIES TO THE EYES FROM DIFFERENT WAVELENGTH LASERS
October 1, 1998... The eye is an imaging system sensitive to light. An incident laser beam can form an image in a very small retinal area, so that the dosage (irradiance or illumination) increases by four to five orders of magnitude. Therefore, very little...

EFFECT OF COMPUTER-MOUSE DESIGN ON CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER (CTD)
October 1, 1998... This brief (New York University Medical Center) paper concerns risk factors that are present during forearm pronated (FP) computer-mouse use, that are associated with the development of forearm and wrist cumulative trauma disorder (CTD). The...

MEDICAL SIMULATION OF BATTLEFIELD TRAUMA
October 1, 1998... This (High Techsplantations Inc,) study concerns work involving the development of fundamental simulation technologies needed for battlefield trauma treatment training software. New approaches, including haptic feedback for trauma surgery, are...

UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF COMBAT STRESS, TRAUMA, AND EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS ON WOMEN'S HEALTH
October 1, 1998... This (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences) multi-study programmatic-project, is directed at understanding the effects of the stress of combat, trauma, and extreme environments, on women's health and performance. The report...

RISK FACTORS FOR ORAL DISEASES AMONG ADULT DIABETICS
October 1, 1998... Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) has been associated with several oral diseases in adult populations (tooth loss, gingivitis, periodontitis). Only recently have risk factors (such as age, glycemic control, and/or duration of disease)...

INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, ON CD-ROM
October 1, 1998... This (National Center for Health Statistics) CD-ROM contains the 9th revision of the "International Classification of Diseases," and which is the official version of the World Health Organization. It is designed for classification of morbidity...

BLOOD CHOLESTEROL FACTS
October 1, 1998... This (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) report presents facts regarding blood cholesterol. Blood cholesterol plays an important part in deciding a person's chance or risk of getting coronary heart disease (CHD). The higher your blood...

MIGRAINE HEADACHES: CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW DURING HEADACHE-FREE TREATMENT PERIODS
October 1, 1998... The pathophysiology of migraine headache (HA) remains poorly understood, as do the mechanisms of action of most anti-migraine drugs. This (Buffalo Institute for Medical Research) report details a study of cerebral blood flow (CBF) in migraine...

GUIDELINES FOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF MEDICAL RESEARCH
October 1, 1998... This report from Canada (Medical Research Council of Canada) presents a set of draft guidelines which are relevant to the process by which the economic potential of medical research is realized (commercialization). The guidelines cover such...

OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY
October 1, 1998... This report from Canada (Library of Parliament) concerns the opportunities and challenges of biotechnology. The report: discusses the agricultural biotechnology products now on the horizon; considers their potential benefits and risks for the...

HUMAN MACROPHAGE DIFFERENTIATION: INTERACTION BETWEEN INTEGRINS AND FIBRONECTIN
October 1, 1998... This (Argonne National Laboratory) report examines the role of the (beta)(sub 1) integrin family of adhesion receptors (VLA), and the extracellular matrix protein fibronectin (FN), in macrophage differentiation of: (1) human HL-60 myeloid...

ANIMAL, PLANT, AND MICROBIAL TOXINS
October 1, 1998... This translation from Mexico (International Society of Toxicology) summarizes the proceedings of a world congress on animal, plant, and microbial toxins (1998, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico). Approximately 320 participants from 30 different...

HUMAN SKIN AND THERMOREGULATION
October 1, 1998... This (Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine) report concerns human thermoregulation. Lying at the boundary between the body and the thermal environment, the skin is strategically placed for an important role in thermoregulation, and...

HYPOXIA IN WOMEN
October 1, 1998... This document from Canada (McMaster University) contains the proceedings of a hypoxia symposium (1997, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) dealing with women at altitude. Its partial contents are as follows: Women, Exercise and Acute Mountain Sickness;...