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Review: Composition Of Care Team Critical To Improved Outcomes For Nursing Home Patients
Date: Jun-24-2013An interdisciplinary team that actively involves a nursing home patient's own physician plus a pharmacist has substantially better odds of improving the quality of nursing home care, according to a new systemic review of studies on long-term-stay patients' care. "CMS [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] mandates an interdisciplinary approach to nursing home care, so all U.S. nursing homes have teams, but the composition and activity of these teams vary," said Arif Nazir, M.D...
CNIO Researchers Discover A New Gene Involved In Obesity
Date: Jun-24-2013RAP1 is a gene that also protects telomeres. This is the first time that a link has been found between these structures that shorten with ageing and obesity The discovery of an unexpected function for a gene that was associated to another process in the organism might be a solution in search of a problem, a clue to unsuspected connections. That is what has happened with RAP1, a gene that protects telomeres - the ends of chromosomes - after researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) surprisingly discovered its key role in obesity...
Berkeley Lab Confirms Thirdhand Smoke Causes DNA Damage
Date: Jun-24-2013A study led by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found for the first time that thirdhand smoke - the noxious residue that clings to virtually all surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from a cigarette has cleared out - causes significant genetic damage in human cells...
Outcome Of Experimental Chlamydia Infections Points Towards Cancer
Date: Jun-24-2013Chlamydia trachomatis is a human pathogen that is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted disease worldwide with more than 90 million new cases of genital infections occurring each year. About 70 percent of women infected with Chlamydia remain asymptomatic and these bacteria can establish chronic infections for months, or even years. Even when it causes no symptoms, Chlamydia can damage a woman's reproductive organs...
As Past Extinctions Show, Groups Must Continually Adapt And Evolve Or They Disappear
Date: Jun-24-2013The death of individual species is not the only concern for biologists worried about groups of animals, such as frogs or the "big cats," going extinct. University of California, Berkeley, researchers have found that lack of new emerging species also contributes to extinction. "Virtually no biologist thinks about the failure to originate as being a major factor in the long term causes of extinction," said Charles Marshall, director of the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology and professor of integrative biology...
Clot-Buster Trial Reveals Long-Term Benefits For Stroke Patients
Date: Jun-24-2013Patients given a clot-busting drug within six hours of a stroke are more likely to have a long-lasting recovery than those who do not receive the treatment, new research has found. A study of more than 3000 patients reviewed the effects of the drug rt-PA, which is given intravenously to patients who have suffered an ischaemic stroke. The international trial, led by the University of Edinburgh, found that 18 months after being treated with the drug, more stroke survivors were able to look after themselves...
Critical Seconds Saved During Brain Aneurysm Procedure With Pre-Surgery Rehearsal
Date: Jun-24-2013Surgical Theater's Surgical Rehearsal Platform™ (SRP) provided neurosurgeons the opportunity to rehearse a complicated cerebral case before entering the operating room, saving the surgical team critical seconds on a time-sensitive procedure. Recently, a patient was transferred to University Hospitals Case Medical Center for treatment of a ruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysm...
Researchers Identify Key Player In The Genesis Of Human Intestinal Immunity
Date: Jun-24-2013The trillions of harmful bacteria that populate the human gut represent a continuous threat to our health. Proper intestinal immune function creates a protective barrier between us and the extensive microbial ecosystem in our intestines. Now, researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have identified the structures that serve as the foundation for the development of the human intestinal immune system. Specialized immune structures in the intestines, referred to as gut-associated lymphoid tissues, or GALT, are critical components of intestinal immune function...
Goal Of Identifying Nearly All Genetic Causes Of Deafness Is Within Reach
Date: Jun-24-2013At least half of all cases of deafness that develop from birth through infancy in developed countries have a genetic basis, as do many cases of later onset progressive hearing loss. To date, at least 1,000 mutations occurring in 64 genes in the human genome have been linked to hearing loss. Next-generation DNA sequencing technologies are enabling the identification of these deafness-causing genetic variants, as described in a Review article in Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers...
Virus Combination Effective Against Deadly Brain Tumor, Moffitt Cancer Center Study Shows
Date: Jun-24-2013A combination of the myxoma virus and the immune suppressant rapamycin can kill glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and deadliest malignant brain tumor, according to Moffitt Cancer Center research. Peter A. Forsyth, M.D., of Moffitt's Neuro-Oncology Program, says the combination has been shown to infect and kill both brain cancer stem cells and differentiated compartments of glioblastoma multiforme. The finding means that barriers to treating the disease, such as resistance to the drug temozolomide, may be overcome...
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