Early blood tests show promise for Down syndrome screening
Doctors in Maine report a two-blood-test combination could detect about 60 percent of Down syndrome in fetuses between nine and 15 weeks, using pregnancy associated protein A and human chorionic gonadotropin. The method, tested on 4412 women undergoing invasive testing, needs licensing for P A testing and would require ultrasound age dating, raising cost.
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Boston
Foundation For Blood Research
Scarborough
Maine
James E. Haddow
United States
Haddow
Nasal Flu Vaccine Shows Promise In Children
An experimental nasal spray flu vaccine called FluMist reduced illness in a NIH funded trial of 1,602 children aged 15 months to 6 years. In the following flu season only 1 percent of vaccinated children contracted influenza versus 18 percent in the control group, and fever with earache was also lower. The results were first reported by The Associated Press from NIH release and funded by NIH and Aviron of Mountain View California which produces the vaccine.
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Boston
Associated Press
National Institutes of Health
NIH
Aviron of
Mountain View
Calif
A Short History of Nursing as a Profession
Nursing evolved from rudimentary care by women to a formal profession. Florence Nightingale’s reforms shifted focus to education and knowledge, moving from hospital diploma programs to college level nursing. Today nurses are male or female, culturally diverse, with high technical skills and ongoing patient education across hospitals and communities.
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Florence Nightingale
School of Nursing
America
Appalachia
Link Found Between Alzheimer's and Vitamins
Researchers from Oxford and Bergen report Alzheimer's patients show high homocysteine and low folic acid and B12. In 76 patients versus 108 controls, the blood imbalance may be a consequence or clue, suggesting a testable hypothesis for prevention or delay in disease progression.
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Nijmegen
Netherlands
Britain
Oxford University
Norway
Bergen University
David Smith
Jos van der Poel
The
Alzheimer Foundation
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