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Insomnia of sufficient clinical severity to meet diagnostic criteria is present in approximatelyof older adultsnearlymillion individuals in the US aloneIf left untreatedit can lead to increased rates of depressioncognitive impairmentand cardiovascular diseaseTreatment relies on pharmacotherapysuch as sedativehypnotic therapywhich is associated with an increased risk of fallsaccidentsand deliriumco ...

ABSTRACT Trauma is the th leading cause of morbidity and mortality after heart disease malignancies and lower respiratory illnesses in the United States Blunt abdominal trauma BAT is commonly caused by vehicular accidents and falls Uncontrolled bleeding is a major factor in early mortality after trauma contributing to to of trauma related deaths Transcatheter arterial embolization ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Dermal scarring affects more than million people worldwide annually over million people are injured in motor vehicle accidents over million patients are severely burned and thousands of warriors are wounded in military blasts In severe burns more than of patients develop hypertrophic scar contraction which leads to hypertrophic scar contractures HSc HSc a ...

VIGILANT DIAGNOSTICS NIAID NIH STTR Phase I Application Vastly improved influenza diagnostics through the development of a portable thermal contrast reader PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Despite recent advances in rapid influenza diagnostic tests false negatives stemming from poor sensitivity contribute to nosocomial transmission and prevent thousands from receiving appropriate antiviral treatment A ...

Minnesota HealthSolutions MHS in conjunction with Mayo Clinic of Rochester proposes the current project to address the NIMH DSIR priority to develop novel tools for the dissemination and implementation of evidence based treatment EBT We propose to develop a web and mobile based platform eChildPsych which integrates assessment treatment tools progress monitoring and reporting This susta ...

Polo like kinase PLK is a central player in regulating entry into and progression through mitosis Many studies have validated PLK as an anti tumor drug target and its inhibition is potently anti proliferative to cancer cells However recent data suggests that there are two major disadvantages of the conventional approach to blocking the kinase activity of PLK First both general kinome ...

Validation of a Novel Therapeutic Approach for Cryptococcal Meningitis PILadShivanand and McCabeAaron Project Summary When Cryptococcus is manifested as cryptococcal meningitisCMit creates a large burden of mortality and morbidity to the patient and is very difficult for the clinician to treatThere are now an estimatedUS cases andcases of CM worldwide annuallywith estimated mortality ofper yearCM ...

Project Summary Dental procedures can cause jaw pain and discomfort from opening too long too wide or from having too much downward force placed on the patientandapos s jaw These painful symptoms can be short lived or become chronic leading to temporomandibular muscle and joint disorders TMJD Third molar extractions wisdom teeth have been associated with a incidence of post operative TM ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Some of the most significant therapies that treat disease target nucleic acids Drugs that target nucleic acid include cancer drugs antibiotics and antivirals Combined these classes of drugs have annual sales worldwide of $ billion Antibiotics that target nucleic acids account for $ billion of the $ billion of sales annuall for all antibiotics an ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant One of the challenges of research in infectious diseases is to find ways to use the increasing knowledge of the mechanisms underlying disease transformation and progression to develop novel therapeutic strategies for diseases such as increasing menace of bacterial infections Targeting specific RNA such as rRNA which are involved in proliferation and survival ...