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UK's Largest Study Into The Quality Of Nursing Care To Be Launched
Date: Feb-12-2013The University of Stirling is to lead the UK's largest ever study into patient experience and the delivery of frontline health care. Improving Patient Experience of Care (IPEC) will involve around 6000 patients and almost 1000 nurses and other health professionals over a two year period. IPEC will draw on the collective expertise of academics at Stirling, Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian universities...
Experimental Gene Therapy Treatment For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Offers Hope For Youngster
Date: Feb-12-2013Jacob Rutt is a bright 11-year-old who likes to draw detailed maps in his spare time. But the budding geographer has a hard time with physical skills most children take for granted -- running and climbing trees are beyond him, and even walking can be difficult. He was diagnosed with a form of muscular dystrophy known as Duchenne when he was two years old. The disease affects about 1 in 3,500 newborns -- mostly boys -- worldwide. It usually becomes apparent in early childhood, as weakened skeletal muscles cause delays in milestones such as sitting and walking...
Study Assessed Benefits Of Targeted Clot Removal Based On Brain Status
Date: Feb-12-2013The use of advanced imaging shortly after the onset of acute stroke failed to identify a subgroup of patients who could benefit from a clot-removal procedure, a study has found. The randomized controlled trial known as Mechanical Retrieval and Recanalization of Stroke Clots Using Embolectomy (MR RESCUE) was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, and was published online in the New England Journal of Medicine...
Parents Need To Be Mindful Of Their Eating Practices To Avoid Obesity In Preschoolers And Help Them To Develop A Healthy Relationship With Food
Date: Feb-12-2013While sugary drinks, lack of exercise and genetics contribute to a growing number of overweight American children, new research from Washington State University reveals how a mom's eating habits and behavior at the dinner table can influence her preschooler's obesity risk. The findings come from WSU alumna Halley Morrison's undergraduate honors thesis, which recently was published in the journal Appetite. As a biology major and student fitness instructor, Morrison knew she wanted to focus on health and the human body...
New Guide To Peer Review Launched To Help The Public Make Sense Of Research Claims
Date: Feb-12-2013People are bombarded with claims in newspapers and on the internet that are based on scientific studies. When faced with a headline that suggests an Alzheimer's drug increases the risk of heart attack or that watching TV is bad for children's mental health, or that pesticides are causing a decline in bee populations, people have to work out what to believe. Which claims should be taken seriously? Which are 'scares'? I Don't Know What to Believe: Making Sense of Science Stories...
Emerging Infectious Diseases Can Be Identified And Tracked Via Surveillance System
Date: Feb-12-2013A team of researchers have developed a method to identify the cause of infectious disease outbreaks based on online reports about the symptoms, the season, and the ratio of cases to fatalities...
Promising Target To Block Staphylococcus Infection Discovered
Date: Feb-12-2013National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have identified a promising lead for developing a new type of drug to treat infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium that frequently resists traditional antibiotics. The researchers discovered a system used by S. aureus to transport toxins that are thought to contribute to severe staph infections. These toxins - called phenol-soluble modulins (PSMs) - have gained much attention in recent years, but their multitude and diversity have hindered efforts to target them for drug development. Expanding on work that first described S...
Molecular 'Calcium Sponge' Developed To Tackle Heart Failure
Date: Feb-12-2013Researchers at the University of Minnesota's Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology and the Lillehei Heart Institute have utilized molecular genetic engineering to optimize heart performance in models of diastolic heart failure by creating an optimized protein that can aid in high-speed relaxation similar to fast twitching muscles. Within heart cells, calcium plays a major role in orchestrating normal heart pump function...
Predicting The Influence Of Lifestyle On Health Through Twitter
Date: Feb-12-2013Researchers at the University of Rochester showed last year how Twitter can be used to predict how likely it is for a Twitter user to become sick. They have now used Twitter to model how other factors - social status, exposure to pollution, interpersonal interaction and others - influence health. "If you want to know, down to the individual level, how many people are sick in a population, you would have to survey the population, which is costly and time-consuming," said Adam Sadilek, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rochester...
Tracing The Origin Of The Usutu Virus Through Forensic Pathology
Date: Feb-12-2013It is generally a mystery how new diseases arise and how the pathogens that cause them first enter countries. However, clues may come from examination of specimens from similar outbreaks. This approach has recently been taken by scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna to trace the origin of the virus that caused a sudden decrease in the number of blackbirds in Vienna in 2001. The results are published in the current issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases...
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