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Performance Assessment Improves Quality Of Colonoscopy Procedures
Date: Jun-25-2013A new study reports that the use of a quarterly report card is associated with improved colonoscopy quality indicators. Endoscopists at the Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis, Ind., who participated in the study showed an overall adjusted adenoma (precancerous polyp) detection rate increase from 44.7 percent to 53.9 percent, and a cecal intubation rate increase from 95.6 percent to 98.1 percent. These two metrics are validated measures of colonoscopy performance quality...
Single Mutation Can Destroy Critical 'Window' Of Early Brain Development
Date: Jun-25-2013Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have shown in animal models that brain damage caused by the loss of a single copy of a gene during very early childhood development can cause a lifetime of behavioral and intellectual problems. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, sheds new light on the early development of neural circuits in the cortex, the part of the brain responsible for functions such as sensory perception, planning and decision-making...
Adult Dogs Behave Towards Their Caregivers Like Human Children Do
Date: Jun-25-2013People have an innate need to establish close relationships with other people. But this natural bonding behaviour is not confined to humans: many animals also seem to need relationships with others of their kind. For domesticated animals the situation is even more complex and pets may enter deep relationships not only with conspecifics but also with their owners. Scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (Vetmeduni Vienna) have investigated the bond between dogs and their owners and have found striking similarities to the parent-child relationship in humans...
Therapeutic Hypothermia Is Potentially Life-Saving But Rarely Used For In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests
Date: Jun-25-2013The brain-preserving cooling treatment known as therapeutic hypothermia is rarely being used in patients who suffer cardiac arrest while in the hospital, despite its proven potential to improve survival and neurological function, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in the June issue of Critical Care Medicine...
Unwanted Side Effects May Plague Potential Alzheimer's Disease Drugs Under Development
Date: Jun-25-2013Researchers in Berlin and Munich, Germany and Oxford, United Kingdom, have revealed that a protein well known for its role in Alzheimer's disease controls spindle development in muscle and leads to impaired movement in mice when the protein is absent or treated with inhibitors. The results, which are published in The EMBO Journal, suggest that drugs under development to target the beta-secretase-1 protein, which may be potential treatments for Alzheimer's disease, might produce unwanted side effects related to defective movement...
Targeting Antioxidant Enzymes With Novel Therapeutics May Selectively Kill Off Metastasizing Cancer Cells
Date: Jun-25-2013A new study by a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame provides an important new insight into how cancer cells are able to avoid the cell death process. The findings may suggest a chemotherapeutic approach to prevent the spread of cancers. Metastasis, the spread of cancer from one organ to other parts of the body, relies on cancer cells ability to evade a cell death process called anoikis, according to Zachary T. Schafer, Coleman Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology at Notre Dame...
Diabetes Lifestyle Intervention Does Not Reduce Heart Attack Or Stroke Risk
Date: Jun-25-2013A long-term, intensive lifestyle intervention program for type 2 diabetes patients that focused on weight loss and exercise did not reduce the risk of stroke or heart attacks, researchers involved in the "Look AHEAD" trial explained at the American Diabetes Association's 73rd Scientific Sessions, Chicago, Illinois. However, the program improved patients' physical quality of life, reduced incidence and severity of depressive symptoms, lowered medical costs because of fewer hospitalizations, outpatient care and medications, and also reduced *microvascular complications...
Pediatric Sinusitis - Hold Back On Antibiotics, New AAP Guidelines
Date: Jun-25-2013The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has just issued new guidelines for physicians diagnosing pediatric bacterial sinusitis and determining whether antibiotic treatment is necessary. Acute bacterial sinusitis generally lasts up to a maximum of a month, it causes the patient's sinuses to become inflamed and swollen, leading to a build up of mucus and making it hard to breathe. The previous version of the AAP guideline was published in 2001...
Progress Made In The Development Of A First-Generation Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery System
Date: Jun-25-2013Animas Corporation has announced further promising results from the second phase of human clinical trials of a first-generation closed-loop insulin delivery system in development. Data investigating the predictive Hypoglycemia-Hyperglycemia Minimizer (HHM) System* demonstrated that the system is capable of maintaining safe glucose levels overnight. The data was presented at the 73rd Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in Chicago, Illinois...
Robots Help Reduce Vaccination Pain For Kids
Date: Jun-25-2013Robots can help reduce pain and distress kids experience while receiving a vaccination, according to a new study published in the journal Vaccine. Due to the amount of technology now existing in society, children are as familiar with devices such as cell phones and computers as they are with human beings. The experts said: "Millions of children in North America receive an annual flu vaccination, many of whom are at risk of experiencing severe distress. Millions of children also use technologically advanced devices...
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