Hematology Week

Lung Cancer - Lung cancer incidence increasing in Sardinia

SARS - Quarantine is cost saving and effective in containing emerging infections

Tuberculosis - High prevalence of tuberculosis among health care workers in Kampala

Tuberculosis - Low sunlight/vegetarian diet cause of vitamin D deficiency in foreigners with TB

Tuberculosis - Targeted screening strategies for pulmonary tuberculosis in prisons unreliable

Adverse Drug Reaction - Advance liver disease hampers tolerance to hepatitis C combination therapy

Alcohol Use - Chronic ethanol consumption may contribute to development of restenosis

Alzheimer Disease - ELISA developed for amino-terminally truncated beta-amyloid peptide quantitation

Anemia - Outcome of clinical analysis of chronic benzene poisoning revealed

Angiology - Children presenting with SoJIA may have coronary artery dilation

Angiology - Coronary retrograde perfusion may be technique for myocardial ischemia

Angiology - Researchers publish new studies and findings in the area of angiology

Angiology - Heat shock proteins analyzed, regulatory role in vascular muscle tone revealed

Angiology - Laser perforation mobilizes matrix graft adaptation in treated arteries

Angiology - Needle-guided ultrasound enhances cannulation success

Angiology - Researchers detail new studies and findings in the area of angiology

Angiology - Skin sterol associated with history of coronary events, published study states

Ischemia - Reports add new data to ischemia research

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - Metallo-beta-lactamase-resistant bacteria is an emerging epidemic

Anticancer Drug - Deguelin enhances leukemia cell chemosensitivity with active PI3K/AKT pathway

Antiplatelet Drugs - Alterations of receptor gene may be a mechanism for clopidogrel failure

Antituberculosis Therapy - Some antituberculous drugs alone or in combination enhance PMN functions

Apoptosis - Hsp70 overexpression examined, effect in neonatal brain injury defined

Arteriosclerosis - Long-term treatment with nicorandil may prevent cardiovascular events

Atherosclerosis - Angiogenic growth factors localize in carotid atherosclerotic plaques

Atherosclerosis - Deposition of cholesteryl linoleate results in inflammatory lesions

Atherosclerosis - Higher serum IL-18 levels may be associated with greater carotid IMT

Bartonella -  Bartonella causes a broad number of infectious diseases

Benzene Exposure - Occupational exposure to benzene in South Korea

Blood Banking - Controlled-rate freezing used to cryopreserve embryonic stem cells

Blood Clots - Scientists measured elastic moduli of individual fibrin fibers in fibrin clots

Blood Safety - Filtration company awarded long-term contract for leukoreduction filter system

Blood Vessels - Model quantifies spiral motion in vessels, reveals progress of stenosis

Bone Marrow - Predictors of posttraumatic growth after bone marrow transplantation examined

Business & Finance - Cord blood banking company reports strong growth

Business Update - European Union's CHMP adopts positive opinion for NOXAFIL

Business Update - HemoSense strengthens worldwide INRatio System distributor network

C-Reactive Protein - Study examined processing of CRP by human aortic endothelial cells

Cancer Risk Factors - Higher cancer risk found in progeny of mice exposed to X-rays before conception

Cancer Therapy - Deltec and Groshong central venous access port systems compared

Cancer Therapy - Hydrocortisone may play a key role in cancer immunotherapy

Cancer Treatments - PSA quick testing used to screen for prostate cancer

Cardiac Drug Therapy - Insufficient data exist to allow selection of specific inotropic agents

Cardiac Drug Therapy - Study examined cerivastatin/nifedipine in injured coronary arteries

Cardiac Surgery - Hextend and Hespan exhibit same effect on platelet function

Cardiac Therapy - COPD and reversibility should be ascertained before withholding beta-blockers

Cardiogenic Shock - RV dilatation identifies subgroup with an improved long-term prognosis

Cardiology - CRP discriminates poorly between people with/without coronary disease

Cardiology - Cardiac index measures compared during rapid fluid loading

Cardiology - Cardiology must embrace preventive interventions that forestall future events

Cardiology - Device enables the crossing of severe coronary artery stenosis

Cardiology - ECG is the most important diagnostic test for aortic regurgitation

Cardiology - MI patients with high BMI were less likely to have invasive coronary procedures

Cardiology - Model provides method to assess changes in cardiac electrophysiology

Cardiology - Study compares sirolimus-eluting stents with vascular brachytherapy

Cardiology - Study examined recruitable coronary collateral blood ECG changes during PCI

Cardioprotection - Study examined effects of flavonoid treatment on endothelial functions

Cardiopulmonary Bypass - ACT system increased the heparin dose required to exceed target ACT

Cardiovascular Assessment - NIRS provides a valuable method to assess working muscle vasodilation

Cardiovascular Disease - Are there reliable mechanisms relating psychosocial stress to CV diseases?

Cardiovascular Disease - Experimental studies suggest NAD(P)H oxidase activates vascular remodeling

Cardiovascular Disease - Method measures all known plasma forms of vitamins B₆ and B₂

Cardiovascular Research - 2-methoxyestradiol exerts renal and CV protective effects

Cardiovascular Research - Aerobic exercise increase cardiac function in offspring of HT parents

Cardiovascular Research - Deficiency of eNOS is compensated in coronary circulation, not in aorta

Cardiovascular Research - Study examined autonomic activation in response to stress and anger imagery

Cardiovascular Risk Factors - Specificity of low ankle-brachial index to predict CV outcomes is high

Cardiovascular Risk Factors - Strong associations were found between social class and CV risk factors

Childhood Cancer - Management strategies for asymptomatic cardiac damage discussed

Childhood Cancer - Prevalence of RIB anomalies in normal and childhood cancer patients calculated

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Trial begins for telomerase inhibitor drug GRN163L in patients with CLL

Cisplatin - Cisplatin, gemcitabine and treosulfan used to treat metastatic uveal melanoma

Clinical Trials - Eight-week doxycycline course safe/effective for lymphatic filariasis

Clinical Trials - Florida hospital approved to enroll patients in phase 2 synthethic blood trial

Clinical Trials - Prasugrel and clopidogrel both resulted in low bleeding rates in PCI patients

Coagulation Therapy - Brand-name and generic warfarin have equivalent performance

Coronary Artery Bypass - Depression and anxiety don't alter CABG candidates' neuropsychology

Coronary Artery Bypass - Depression linked to poor postoperative recovery

Critical Care Medicine - Test to rule out heart attack could reduce hospital admissions

Crohn Disease - MAP specific IS900 DNA is a predominant feature of Crohn disease

Cryptococcus Neoformans - CD8+ T cell function independent of CD4+ T cells in C. neoformans infection

Cytomegalovirus - CMV-specific cytotoxic T cells expanded using recombinant polyepitope

Diagnostics - Contrast-enhancement discerns vessel activity in multiple myeloma images

Diagnostics - Young patients with acute leukemia share unique genetic features

Diet & Nutrition - Effects of diet on blood lipids and energy expenditure examined

Diet & Nutrition - Functional foods may offer stress management benefits

Diet & Nutrition - Olive oil compounds are antioxidants, anti-inflammatories, and antimicrobials

Disease Associations - SARS studied, response of memory CD8+ T cells revealed

Dyslipidemia - Effects of acute coffee ingestion on lipid levels determined

Echocardiography - 3D ECG enables measurement of aortic root in Marfan syndrome

Echocardiography - Ultrasound alters microbubble-based myocardial perfusion assessment

Embryonic Stem Cell Research - Patient-specific ESCs derived from somatic cell nuclear transfer blastocysts

End-Stage Renal Disease - Cortical excitability characterized in different patient populations

Endothelial Cells - Computer-controlled microcirculatory EC culture system devised

Epstein-Barr Virus - SM protein enhances expression of Epstein-Barr virus lytic genes

Escherichia Coli -  E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak caused by nonintact blade-tenderized frozen steaks

Escherichia Coli -  E. coli alpha-hemolysin studied, structural/functional role of LPS shown

Estrogen - Estrogen elicits cortical zone-specific effects on fetal adrenal gland growth

Familial Hypercholesterolemia - DNA array provides information about mutations and familial hypercholesterolemia

Fibrin Glue - Intralesional injection of Tisseel fibrin glue used for lymphangioma resection

Finance - Genomics-focused pharma reports Q2 loss of $15.7 million

Finance - Laboratory holdings company reports second quarter 2005 financial results

Food Poisoning - Yusho poisoning affected hematogenesis

Gastric Cancer - Serum aberrant methylation compared to conventional tumor markers

Gene Therapy - Enhanced CD20 expression in tumor B cells controlled by ERK-dependent mechanisms

Genital Herpesvirus Infection - Topical microbicides needed for prevention of genital herpes infections

HAM/TSP Pathogenesis - Interferon-beta 1a affects immune mechanisms central to HAM/TSP pathogenesis

HIV/AIDS Coinfection -  Neisseria gonorrhoeae enhances infection of dendritic cells by HIV-1

HIV/AIDS Disease Progression Risk Factors - Pattern/type of non-injection drug use associated with progression to AIDS

HIV/AIDS Drug Development - Amino acid Asn136 of HIV-1 RT enables rational design of RT inhibitors

HIV/AIDS Drug Development - Mesuol inhibits HIV-1 replication by targeting NF-kappa B pathway

HIV/AIDS Drug Development - Short hairpin RNAs targeting human cyclin T1 suppresses HIV-1 replication

HIV/AIDS Education - Low health literacy associated with HIV test acceptance

HIV/AIDS Education - Peer education or lecture increases HIV/AIDS knowledge among college students

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - Differential susceptibility important determinant of steady-state HIV prevalence

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - Majority of HIV-1 cases among Africa-born patients in Minnesota are non-B

HIV/AIDS Needlestick Injury - Postexposure practice inadequate in medical students with needlestick injury

HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infection - Calciviruses may be important opportunistic pathogen in HIV-infected children

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - CD4+ cells have impaired base excision repair/oxidative base lesion accumulation

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Cultured myeloid dendritic cells from HIV patients fail to differentiate

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - HIV Tat induction of IL-10 dysregulation associated with PKR activation

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Infectivity of CXCR4-using isolates depends on CD4 expression

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Peripheral S-phase T cells in HIV disease have a central memory phenotype

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Reports describe recent advances in HIV/AIDS pathogenesis research

HIV/AIDS Perinatal Transmission - Nevirapine resistance after single NVP dose higher in women with HIV-1 subtype C