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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Patients with HIV: A Review of the Current Literature
Josh Matacotta–Mar 2, 2010
Several studies have found that people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at a higher rate than that of the general population (Gore-Felton et al., 2001; Kimerling et al., 1999; Martine...(Read more)
Safe Electronic Health Record Use Requires a Comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
Dean Sittig–Feb 2, 2010
1: Ability to report safety events related to use 2: Enhanced certification 3: Self-assessment of 8 aspects of the EHR safe use framework have been addressed 4: On-site, in-person accreditation of EHRs as implemented & used 5: National EHR-related adverse event investigation board that reviews incidents.(View details)Endotoxin and cancer: good remarks on TLRs
Mamuka Khvedelidze–Jan 30, 2010
The hypothesis that components of bacteria may retard cancer progression dates back to William B. Coley's therapeutic experiments ("bacterial vaccine") in the 1890s.(View details)Mamuka Khvedelidze–Jan 30, 2010
Over the past decade, immune therapy has become a standard treatment for a variety of cancers. Monoclonal antibodies, immune adjuvants, and vaccines against oncogenic viruses are now well-established cancer therapies. Immune modulation is a principal element of supportive care.(View details)Graeme Smith–Jan 20, 2010
Recent research has shown that facilitation follows attention in the Cerebral Cortex. In order to understand why this might be, it is important to recognize the fact that the 40 hertz signal noted in a recent article on anesthesia, and Facilitation m...(Read more)
Psychoneuroimmunology discussion group
Peter Todd–Jan 14, 2010
I have just completed my personal profile for membership of the proposed psychoneuroimmunology discussion group within ResearchGATE. This interdisciplinary science which emerged from the field of psychosomatic research, was founded by such pioneers a...(Read more)
Phosphorylation, the link between Bipolar and Schizophrenia
Graeme Smith–Dec 17, 2009
When people think of Circadian Rhythms, they think of sleep cycles, or those silly Bio-rhythm horoscopes in the newspaper. Recently however science has shown that even cyanobacteria have clock-like systems in their cells. A recent article on CAIK in...(Read more)
Clinical Information Systems: Overcoming Adverse Consequences
Dean Sittig–Dec 16, 2009
New Book designed to help fledgling organizations better prepare for the inevitable challenges and obstacles they will face upon implementation of HIT systems. Discusses 9 types of unintended adverse consequences that occurred at many of the leading medical centers during implementation and solutions.(View details)Why do we still use adenoviral type 5 backbones for Gene Therapy?
Ijad Madisch–Nov 23, 2009
I worked for several years in adenoviral research. My main research focus was to understand the evolution of adenoviruses and to understand how recombination events of adenoviruses effects the emergence of new adenoviruses. Adenoviruses are widely kn...(Read more)
8 Rights of Safe Electronic Health Record Use
Dean Sittig–Nov 19, 2009
8 Rights of Safe Electronic Health Record Use: Right Hardware or Software; Right Content; Right User Interface; Right Personnel; Right Workflow and Communication; Right Organizational Characteristics; Right State and Federal Rules and Regulations; Right Monitoring. Need multidisciplinary R&D to succeed.(View details)Soenke Bartling–Nov 18, 2009
People claim that cone-beam CT reduces radiation dose in comparison to multi-slice CT in maxillofacial imaging. Most do not relate dose to image quality! Saying so is like saying a Porsche can´t go slower than a VW beetle! Still 2nd order effects through design differences may cause minor dose differences(View details)Kusnadi Tjung–Nov 18, 2009
My study focuses on an aspect of NHS Connecting for Health Electronic Health Record system. The study builds upon a collaboration between NHS Connecting for Health (CFH), the developers of the NHS Electronic Health Record (EHR) and the University of...(Read more)
Constraint Based Architecture for Artificial Consciousness
Graeme Smith–Nov 17, 2009
Jerry Fodor, published a book called The Mind Doesn't Work That Way! in around 2000 or thereabouts in which he published some discussion on the scope and limitations of Computational Psychology. In it he suggested that Neural Network architectures ha...(Read more)
Using the high-resolution of flat-panel based Volume-CT
Soenke Bartling–Nov 14, 2009
By using the high-resolution of flat-panel based Volume-CT the accuracy (TRE) of intraoperative navigation could be increased in comparison to multi-slice CT so that new skull-base surgery concepts such as navigated, minimal-invasive cochleostomie might become possible. (View details)Imaging electron clouds from sheets of carbon atoms
Aaron Irving–Nov 14, 2009
Igor Mikhailovskij's team at the Kharkov Institute, Ukraine, have developed a method for imaging electron clouds from sheets of carbon atoms. Similar to imaging radio-isotopes on a phosphor screen, they have developed tools to image the electron cloud density of a sheet of graphite, - cabon atoms at 4.2K(View details)New intrinsically radiopaque hydrophilic microspheres for embolization
Soenke Bartling–Nov 14, 2009
All current embolization materials in interventional radiology are solely visible within one imaging modality (radiopaque as within cited article). Embolization materials being visible in more than one imaging modality may allow the combination of various modalities for therapy control.(View details)
