Pilot Programs in Medical Research

Triple-negative (TN) breast cancer (BC) patients have limited treatment options and poor prognosis even after extant treatments and standard chemotherapeutic regimens. Linking TN patients to clinically known phenotypes with appropriate treatments is vital. Location-specific sequence variants are exp …

Coherence is a frequency-domain measure of linear dependence between input and output of a system, e.g. a hearing aid, and describes the cumulative effect of different forms of signal corruption, e.g. noise and non-linear distortion. From the coherence function, a general frequency-dependent signal- …

ADA, toilet room design, healthcare design, evidence-based design, human factors, safety, staffPreferred Citation: Sanford, J., & Bosch, S. (2013). An investigation of noncompliant toilet room designs for assisted toileting. Health Environments Research & Design Journal 6(2), pp 43-57.

Procalcitonin concentrations are considered as a component of the inflammatory response and as an acute-phase marker, after shock or tissue injury (i.e. burn, trauma, surgery) or infections and sepsis. No data are so far available on the dynamics of procalcitonin ...

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A selected group of doctors were asked to state the number and names of the ingredients of several drug combinations they were accustomed to prescribe. The results indicate that among physicians there are serious gaps in their exact knowledge of the content of the preparations they order for their p …

Creative writing has gained some interest in the medical profession in the last decade. There have been a fair amount of publications of using creative writing in the health-care setting as a teaching tool in humanism and doctoring of medicine. As an adjunctive effort, our institution has been exper …

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Successful intraoperative placement of Copper T-380A IUDs through incision at the time of cesarean birth is possible.

Nature Communications - Whether accelerated Arctic warming is favorable for more frequent severe winter weather remains controversial. Here the authors present an observational analysis that links...

Biomedical Engineering (BME) bachelor education aims to train qualified engineers who devote themselves to addressing biological and medical problems by integrating the technological, medical and biological knowledge. Design thinking and teamwork with other disciplines are necessary for biomedical e …

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The nervonic acid levels in the CSF did not differ among the patients with MDD, BD, and the healthy controls; however, a significant negative correlation with depressive symptoms and a positive correlation with manic symptoms was observed. Thus, the nervonic acid levels in the CSF may be a candidate …

Rarely does an organization have the luxury of employing full-time staff whose sole purpose is to seek out, select, pilot, and recommend new technology. If such an effort is not a dedicated activity, an organization will have a hard time keeping abreast of technological development with an eye towar …

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As radiology departments become filmless, they are discovering that some areas are particularly difficult to deliver images. Many departments have found that the operating room is one such area. There are space constraints and difficulty in manipulating the images by a sterile surgeon. This report d …