Problems patients experience due to dental or skin conditions are often differently perceived by care providers. This is shown in a dissertation by Francesca Sampogna, a researcher in epidemiology at Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata in Rome. “To limit this problem, specific courses in communication should be included in the training of health-care personnel,” she says. On [...]
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Patients’ problems often misunderstood by caring staff
May 31st, 2010 
admin Researchers trace HIV mutations that lead to drug resistance
January 17th, 2010 admin Chemists at UC San Diego and statisticians at Harvard University have developed a novel way to trace mutations in HIV that lead to drug resistance. Their findings, once expanded to the full range of drugs available to treat the infection, would allow doctors to tailor drug cocktails to the particular strains of the virus found [...]
Study highlights implications of influenza pandemics on blood supplies
January 17th, 2010 admin A German research team has examined data on supply and demand for blood transfusions against a computer simulation of an influenza pandemic, and discovered that a severe pandemic scenario could quickly lead to a deficit of up to 96,000 red blood cell (RBC) transfusion units in Germany alone, creating potentially fatal outcomes. Their study is [...]
Researchers identify proteins that might contribute to memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease
January 16th, 2010 admin A scientific group led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have identified three kinases, or proteins, that dismantle connections within brain cells, which may lead to memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s disease. These findings, the results of a multi-year TGen study, are published in this month’s edition of BMC Genomics in a paper titled: [...]
Scientists hope to end sleeping sickness by making parasite that causes it self-destruct
January 16th, 2010 admin After many years of study, a team of researchers is releasing data today that it hopes will lead to new drug therapies that will kill the family of parasites that causes a deadly trio of insect-borne diseases and has afflicted inhabitants of underdeveloped and developing nations for centuries. In an article to be published in [...]
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