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"Natural" antibody and histo-blood group A in biological...
Decades ago a fortunate experimental condition was discovered in the anatomy of the C57BL/10J inbred mouse, where a purely endogenous origin of "natural" antibody production could be demonstrated (1,2,3). The first time a so called classical "natura... Read more »
Composition of Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Is Associated With Ca...
I've recently come across this interesting article. Read more »
Dennis Quaid and Medical Errors
On the drive to work today I listened to an interview on CSPAN's Washington Journal with a doctor based in Texas and actor Dennis Quaid. Nearly a year ago, Quaid and his wife Kimberly were in the room when their newborn twins were given a dose of he... Read more »
What is the diagnosis?
Please feel free to leave a comment if you know the diagnosis. Read more »
Low-level of radiation - is it known that CT is harmful?
Just a reminder: In hard sciences it is an assumption, BUT it is actually not known that low level of radiation (e.g. as experienced during CT scans (<100 mSv)) is harmful or can cause cancer. Probably it does not. Still, we should avoid radiation whenever possible! Read more »
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Patients with HIV: A Review of the...
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 Monitori...
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. Read more »
Endotoxin and cancer: good remarks on TLRs
The hypothesis that components of bacteria may retard cancer progression dates back to William B. Coley's therapeutic experiments ("bacterial vaccine") in the 1890s. Read more »
Immune Therapy for Cancer
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. Read more »
Facilitation and Attention
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
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
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
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. Read more »
Why do we still use adenoviral type 5 backbones for Gene Therapy?
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
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. Read more »
Cone-beam computed tomography
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 Read more »
My Phd Study
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
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
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. Read more »
Imaging electron clouds from sheets of carbon atoms
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 Read more »
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