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Chinese Doctors Tell Of Response To Wenchuan Earthquake
The 2008 earthquake in the Sichuan province of China was among the deadliest in history, killing an estimated 69,000 individuals and leaving millions displaced. Anesthesiologists are critically important medical responders to such disasters, as they have the skills required to resuscitate and stabilize patients while their injuries are surgically treated…
Flu-Induced Stress Response Is Critical For Resistance To Secondary Infection
A new study reveals how infection with the influenza virus impacts the way that the immune system responds to subsequent infections. The research, published by Cell Press in the February 18th issue of the journal Cell Host and Microbe, provides a new understanding of the physiological and pathological consequences of the flu…
The application of Item Response Theory on a teaching strategy profile questionnaire
Background:In medical education research, various questionnaires are often used to study possible relationships between strategies and approaches to teaching and learning and the outcome of these. However, judging the applicability of such questionnaires or the interpretation of the results is not trivial.Methods:As a way to develop teacher thinking, teaching strategy profiles were calculated for teachers in a research intensive department at Karolinska Institutet. This study compares the sum score, that was inherent in the questionnaire used, with an Item Response Theory (IRT) approach. Three teaching dimensions were investigated and the intended sum scores were investigated by IRT analysis.Results:Agreements as well as important differences were found. The use of the sum score seemed to agree reasonably with an IRT approach for two of the dimensions, while the third dimension could not be identified neither by a the sum score, nor by an IRT approach, as the items included showed conflicting messages.Conclusions:This study emphasizes the possibilities to gain better insight and more relevant interpretation of a questionnaire by use of IRT. A sum score approach should not be taken for granted. Its use has to be thoroughly evaluated.
SciClone And Sigma-Tau Announce Additional Positive Results In Clinical Study Examining ZADAXIN’s Ability To Enhance Response To H1N1 Vaccine
SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCLN) and its partner Sigma-Tau S.p.A., announced additional topline results in a clinical study evaluating the potential of ZADAXIN? (thymalfasin) to enhance immune response to the MF59 adjuvanted H1N1 influenza monovalent vaccine, Focetria? from Novartis…
A(H1N1) Influenza Pandemic: Sanofi Pasteur’s Global Response
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The scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met. The world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic. Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General WHO – Many people found the SARS episode at the beginning of the 21st century very worrying at the time, but now a lot of people have forgotten about it. Then there was H5N1 and I think that since then, all the experts agree that it is no longer a question of if there will be a pandemic but when it will occur. Jacques Berger, President Sanofi Pasteur France – We feel prepared, we put together a plan that we are following and what's really good for us, and for public health is that this is following a process that has been really well established and something we are used to doing. Philip Hosbach, Vice President, Public Affairs, Sanofi Pasteur USA – The Val de Reuil site is authorized to produce this type of strain, the so-called pandemic strain. Because we had already produced several H5N1 type strains, so, even if this pandemic strain is of a different type, we were ready, we have procedures and processes in place that meant we could mobilise our resources much more quickly. Franck Chassant, Head of Flu Vaccine Production, Val de Reuil, Sanofi Pasteur France – Visit pandimic.influenza.com
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SciClone And Sigma-Tau Announce Positive Preliminary Results In Clinical Study Examining ZADAXIN’S Ability To Enhance Response To H1N1 Vaccine
SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCLN) and its partner Sigma-Tau S.p.A. have received initial topline results in a clinical study evaluating the potential of ZADAXIN? (thymalfasin) to enhance immune response to the MF59 adjuvanted H1N1 influenza monovalent vaccine, Focetria? from Novartis…
Drive-Through Emergency Service Effective Response To Pandemic, Stanford Study Shows
Your car can be an effective examination room – one that prevents the spread of infectious diseases from patient to patient, and from patient to caregiver. That’s the conclusion of a study that physicians at Stanford Hospital & Clinics conducted last fall to test a model drive-through emergency department…
An Overactive Immune Response Linked To Viral Infections Among Elderly
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that exaggerated responses of the immune system explain why the elderly succumb to viral infections more readily than younger people. Published in the November 19 Cell Host & Microbe, the study bucks the general belief that declining immune responses are to blame for susceptibility to viral infections.
Spinal Cord Repair May Be Hindered By Damaging Inflammatory Response
The inflammatory response following a spinal cord injury appears to be set up to cause extra tissue damage instead of promoting healing, new research suggests. Scientists analyzing this inflammatory response in mice discovered that the types of cells recruited to the site of the injury are dominated within a week by those that promote inflammation. When chronic, inflammation can prevent healing, and these inflammatory cells are believed to remain at the injury site indefinitely.
Damaging Inflammatory Response Could Hinder Spinal Cord Repair
The inflammatory response following a spinal cord injury appears to be set up to cause extra tissue damage instead of promoting healing, new research suggests. Scientists analyzing this inflammatory response in mice discovered that the types of cells recruited to the site of the injury are dominated within a week by those that promote inflammation. When chronic, inflammation can prevent healing, and these inflammatory cells are believed to remain at the injury site indefinitely.
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