New Patient Monitoring Devices Handle More Than Just Vital Signs
An aging population and a shortage of healthcare workers have driven the development of systems that can monitor patients remotely, process data, and even alert a healthcare worker if there is a problem.
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Researcher Makes Gains In Finding Treatments
Leading RSV investigator Dr. John DeVincenzo has taken another step toward finding effective treatment for the disease that causes bronchiolitis and pneumonia.
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Leave Bedroom Allergens High, Dry This Spring
This spring AAFA to educate consumers about combating indoor allergens by honing in on the area where Americans spend one third of their lives: the bedroom.
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Face Tells Everything About Person's Sexual Intentions
Study showed that women can judge if a man is looking for a short-term or long-term sexual relationship just taking a look at man's face.
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Spectral's EAA Used In Study For Sepsis Anti-Endotoxin Therapy
Spectral Diagnostics's Endotoxin Activity Assay will be used to measure endotoxin levels during the enrolment of patients in a Phase III sub study, part of a multinational clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of a treatment for severe sepsis.
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Hidden Benefit Discovered In Using Product Marketed To Athletes
A new product designed to improve the agility, coordination, and reaction speed of athletes has found its way onto Wall Street.
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MEDIHONEY Is Associated With Reduction In Wound Size
Derma Sciences's study involving MEDIHONEY Wound & Burn Dressing shows that use of the dressings are associated with a reduction in wound size, possibly driven in part by a significant reduction in overall wound pH.
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Pediatricians Alerted To Developmental Nature Of Underage Drinking
In a special supplement to Pediatrics, physicians will have access in one place to the reviews and analyses of current research on biological, behavioral, and environmental changes during childhood and adolescence that foster the initiation, maintenance, and acceleration of illegal use of alcohol by underage youth.
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Chronically Ill Patients Get More Care, Less Quality
Medicare pays many hospitals and their doctors more than the most efficient and effective health care institutions to treat chronically ill people, yet gets worse results.
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Mobile RNA Is Poised, Ready
A new picture of a genetic parasite isolated from a deep-sea bacterium is helping researchers see how certain specialized segments of RNA escape from their positions in the genome and invade new RNA or DNA.
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Better-Educated Smokers More Likely To Try Quitting In Response To Ads
Better-educated smokers are more likely to respond to TV ads that promote quitting smoking, while the effect of secondhand smoke messages is similar across educational levels.
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Physically Active Smokers More Likely To Kick The Habit
Physically active smokers might have greater success quitting smoking than those who are more sedentary.
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Why Some Genetic Association Studies Have Failed Replication Attempts
Researchers have described a possible reason why some studies have been unable to replicate associations between genes and traits.
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Cystic Fibrosis Trial In Children Returns Positive Data
Pharmaxis' Phase II clinical trial in children with cystic fibrosis demonstrated excellent lung function improvement following three months treatment with Bronchitol that matched that achieved by the current marketed product rhDNase.
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Market For Alcoholism Therapies Is Underestimated
Physician experts discuss the key controversies surrounding development of drugs for alcoholism, and why they think the biopharmaceutical industry is underestimating the size of this market.
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Knowing Doctor's Financial Interests Doesn't Deter Clinical Trial Participants
A patient's willingness to participate in a clinical trial may be unaffected by the disclosure of a researcher's financial interests in the study, unless the amount of money a researcher stands to earn depends on the results of the trial.
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Single Variant In Genome Sequence Confers Nicotine Dependence
Cigarette smoking is a major public health problem that contributes to millions of deaths around the world each year.
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Scientists Link Chromatin Changes With Alcohol Withdrawal Anxiety
Changes to genetic material in the brain may help induce the anxiety that is characteristic of alcohol withdrawal.
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BladderScan Eliminates Unnecessary Catheterizations, Decrease Urinary Tract Infections
Verathon is expanding their BladderScan bladder volume instrument product line and confirming their commitment to provide innovative and practical infection control solutions to acute care facilities.
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Helping Patients Breathe Easier
Researchers recently announced the start of the EASE (Exhale Airway Stents for Emphysema) Trial to explore an investigational treatment for advanced widespread emphysema.
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How A Smoker To Become An EX
Most smokers in America - 70 percent - want to quit, but in 2000, only about five percent were successful in quitting long-term.
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Immune System Taught To Play Nice With Unrecognized Protein
Vaccines are a staple of modern health care. Though each one is complex, the idea behind them is simple: immunity is achieved through exposure to a weak or fragmented bug.
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Studying Joint Wear With Hip Simulator
Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak is one of the only health care facilities in the United States using a 12-station hip simulator to measure wear and tear on total joint replacement devices.
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How Information Travels In Cells
Method allows scientists to tap today's computing power to better analyze cellular signaling pathways key in cancer and other diseases.
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Synosia Starts Phase II Efficacy Trial For Rufinamide
The trial is an eight-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled, exploratory study being conducted in 20 sites in the United States.
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Sewer-Gas-Induced Suspended Animation Is Rapid, Reversible
Low doses of the toxic gas responsible for the unpleasant odor of rotten eggs can safely and reversibly depress both metabolism and aspects of cardiovascular function in mice, producing a suspended-animation-like state.
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IntelliPharmaCeutics Completes Trial For Abuse, Alcohol Resistant Sustained Release Oxycodone
IntelliPharmaCeutics announces significant results from a recently completed pilot clinical trial for its new abuse-resistant, alcohol-resistant once-a-day oral oxycodone formulation by its operating company IntelliPharmaCeutics.
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How Much Does Heavy Drinking Affect Your Body?
It's the time of year when more than 1.5 million high school and college students head for warm climates to soak up the sun and drink large quantities of alcohol.
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Aeterna Zentaris Initiates Trial Of Cetrorelix For Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Aeterna Zentaris reported dosing has commenced with its flagship product candidate, cetrorelix in the second efficacy study of its Phase 3 program in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate.
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Nventa Announces Positive Data From Cervical Dysplasia Trial
Nventa Biopharmaceuticals Corporation announced interim immunological data from the first two cohorts of its ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of its lead product candidate, HspE7, in patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, or CIN, a precursor to cervical cancer.
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Comprehensive Sex Education Works
Adolescents receiving comprehensive sex education had a substantially lower risk of teenage pregnancy than students who received either abstinence-only education or no education at all.
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Using Web To Tackle Young People's Drinking
Health researchers are helping young people take the first steps towards reducing dangerous alcohol intake through an online personal analysis of their drinking behaviour.
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A Switch That Controls Whether Cells Pass Point Of No Return
Investigators have revealed the hidden properties of an on-off switch that governs cell growth.
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Smokers Treated For Brain Aneurysm With Coils At Higher Risk Of Recurrence
Cigarette smokers who were treated for cerebral aneurysms with coil embolization are at greater risk of developing another aneurysm.
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Building Enzymes From Scratch
Researchers have designed and built two functional enzymes never seen in nature.
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E-cards Encourage Tobacco Users In Quitting
WeDidItStory.com has unveiled a new set of e-cards for users to send to their loved ones as encouragement in quitting tobacco.
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Educating Families About HPV Vaccine
New Mexico Department of Health to educate parents and students about human papillomavirus, the virus that can cause cervical cancer, and the vaccine available to protect young girls.
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Search For A Kidney Stem Cell
With the population aging and rates of hypertension and diabetes higher than ever, there is a growing importance to understand how the kidney works to repair itself in order to guide the development of much needed future therapies
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Safety Prompts B. Braun Heparin Recall
B. Braun's supplier recall of Heparin API prompts voluntary recall of Heparin solutions.
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WoundStat Is Most Effective For Wound Treatment
TraumaCure's ground- breaking product, WoundStat, is the most effective wound treatment available to stop severe bleeding - the number one cause of death for soldiers in battle.
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