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Abstract: Thoracotomy is one of the most painful surgical procedures and patients are at high risk of developing opioid addiction. Recent studies have shown 1 in 7 patients became new persistent opioid users after physical recovery from the surgery was complete. The largest risk factor for opioid addiction is being prescribed opioids in the first place, and Thermaquil wants to reduce this incidenc ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT In October 2017, the U.S. Government declared the current opioid epidemic the worst drug crisis in American history. Synthetically derived opioids such as fentanyl and fentanyl-derivatives have been at the forefront of this public health emergency, exhibiting the highest year-to-year contribution to overdose deaths. While the mu opioid receptor (MOR) antagonist naloxone ha ...

Seventeen million people each year suffer from an ischemic stroke and millions are left dead and disabledTreatment with recombinant tissue plasminogen activatorr tPAis only modestly effective at reducing disability and it is associated with brain hemorrhage in up toof patients when serial imaging studies are performedBrain hemorrhage causes death and disability andis the major cause of early morta ...

Project Summary Abstract Clinical decision supportCDSis a process for enhancing health related decisions and actions with pertinentorganized clinical knowledge and patient information to improve healthcare deliveryFor exampledoctors may have trouble remembering to order all guideline recommended care for sepsisCDS delivered via an order set in the electronic health recordEHRcan simplify this proce ...

The long range goal of this fast track research application is to improve healthcare quality and reduce healthcare costs nationwide among those at risk for medication related hospitalizationThe specific objective of this proposed research is to develop an algorithm that uses existing electronic health information to efficiently identify patients at risk of medication related hospitalization so tha ...

Small-molecule combinations expand hematopoietic stem cell ex vivo and in vivo Abstract Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are featured by their self-renewal potential and ability to differentiate into multiple blood lineages. Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) is a mainstay of life-saving therapy for hematopoietic malignancies and hypoproliferative disorders. The use of noninvasively accessib ...

JT MeSh diagnostics is developing novel biodosimeter devices which will allow for rapidsimpleon site mass screening in the event of a nuclear disaster or an act of terrorismdirty bombBiodosimeters are critical in the event of a large scale radiological emergencyin the form of a nuclear disasterterrorist attack or radiation exposure of military personnelwhere a large population ofexposedindividuals ...

The goal of this STTR is to provide a preclinically validated monoclonal antibody or antibody combination for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virusRSVin high risk patients including infants and the elderlyWorldwideof children are infected with RSV before the age ofresulting in an estimatedmillion lower respiratory tract infectionsIn the United States adults overhavemillion RSV infections c ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The for profit small business concernTricorder Array Technologies LLCwill developin partnership with the University of Alabama at BirminghamSIDECAReSensing and Integrating Data for Environmental Conditions in Animal ResearchThis device will automate collection of relevant data that will enhance consistency in animal models used to study human health treatment researchOur innovative ...

PROJECT SUMMARYABSTRACT To datethe standard method to access a mouse tail vein is manual injectionbut its yield rate is poor in generalThis leads to multiple needle insertions associated with tissue damage and painBesidesfailure in tail vein injection leads to data lossand thereby more animals will be required to compensate itFinallythe dose variation induced by unreliable injection increases erro ...