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..D. Institute of Applied Microbiology, Polymun Consultant Scientific, Vienna Austria Julie Overbaugh, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Ctr./Univ. of Consultant Washington James R Robinson, M.D...

..signals in additional European ancestry case-control samples from North America, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Italy...

..of Louisville, with assistance from an expert team of clinicians, engineers, and scientists located in Vienna, Austria. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: In this proposal we will develop new multielectrode arrays, which will be surgically ..

..Urbana-Champaign, with the vice- Chair being Bernhard Kraeutler from the Leopold-Franzens Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria. The aims for the 2007 meeting are: 1...

..Urbana-Champaign, with the vice-Chair being Bernhard Kraeutler from the Leopold-Franzens Universities Innsbruck, Austria. The aims for the 2007 meeting are: 1) To feature a group of scientists from widely different fields including ..

..Eighth and Ninth International Symposia on Neurobiology & Neuroendocrinology Aging will be held in Bregenz, Austria July 23-28, 2006 and in July 2008...

..The collaboration will include biophysicists Hansgeorg Schindler and Peter Hinterdorfer (University of Linz, Austria) pioneers in developing nm-scale molecular recognition techniques that use an antibody attached to an AFM probe...

..The Seventh International Symposium on Neurobiology and Neuroendocrinology of Aging will be held in Bregenz, Austria July 18 -24, 2004...

..The proposed meeting is "The Alpbach Workshop on Coiled-Coils, Collagen and Co-proteins," to be held in Alpbach, Austria. It is the fourth of a highly successful series of meetings in these key scientific areas...

..Newly developed isolated perfused duct segments will also be used to directly assess bile duct luminal events in the intact epithelium. ..

..This pilot data could lay the groundwork for a large scale trial to assess the chemopreventive potential of melatonin in women, both with and without a personal history of breast cancer. ..

..This project supports the rapid advances in DNA sequencing output by linking sequence data to other important biological and laboratory information and promoting collaboration among MFBS Centers and other participating scientists. ..

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..Specific projects deal with the structures of complexes of these proteins with their own promoters, their effects on transcription and their competition with histones in modulating transcription. ..

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..The results from this study could help identify individuals who are more susceptible to night work than others, based on their genetic profile. ..

..We will use existing resources from 2,846 participants of the ongoing MrOS Sleep Study. If successful, our study could lay the groundwork for a melatonin trial for healthy aging in the elderly. ..

..SETTING: In total, 29 rehabilitation facilities for SCI patients in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, with a total of 837 hospitalized SCI patients...

..Reasons for these differences are unclear, epidemiological or genetic factors may be responsible...

..This article describes the influenza surveillance schemes in Austria, Germany and especially Switzerland highlighting the differences between the three countries...

..Patients who are at risk should undergo more intense surveillance. Dentists should advise their patients to stop high-risk habits such as smoking and help them make choices for healthier lifestyles...

..In summary, research concentrating on the characteristics of tobacco and tobacco-associated diseases is witness to a continuity spanning different epochs and political systems...

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..However the discussion shows that the basic concepts of psychiatric treatment first changed with the discovery of new drugs in the 1950s...

..SETTING: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Switzerland...

..fracture was inserted in one issue of the membership journals of the AS patient organizations in Germany and Austria. RESULTS: Among the 1,071 patients responding who all had indicated that the diagnosis of AS had been established ..

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..6%, and 46.5% for all seizures. The 50% responder rate was 46.6% for focal seizures and 45.1% for all seizures. CONCLUSION: Add-on treatment with LEV in patients with refractory partial epilepsy was safe and effective in this study...

BACKGROUND: In Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, allergic reactions to balsam of Peru (BP) have now made it the third most common contact allergen...

..In addition, the domains are sensitive to change. CONCLUSION:: The OTA is a standardised assessment measuring the specific aspects of occupational therapy reliably, valid, sensitive to change and sufficiently comprehensive...

..In a multivariate analysis, urgency (p=0.008) and age (p=0.024) were correlated to the risk of de novo UI. CONCLUSIONS: This longitudinal study demonstrates that UI is not necessarily a progressive process but rather is a dynamic one...

..05). A high prevalence of common infections and allergic symptoms is seen in patients with AS, most of which are HLA-B27-positive. This may have implications both for underlying mechanisms of disease and for therapeutic options...

..A multicenter patterns of care study (PCS) was conducted in all RT institutions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In 2003 a standardized structured questionnaire was sent to all RT institutions...

Nationwide surveys for the occurrence of Isospora suis were carried out in Germany, Austria and Switzerland including a questionnaire regarding herd size, health status and management practices and a coccidiosis sampling kit for pooled ..

..METHODS: Questionnaires were sent to all otorhinolaryngology departments in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; 52% of hospitals completed the survey...

The 7th annual meeting of the memory clinics of Germany, Switzerland and Austria in March 2002 in Göttingen, Germany was an optimal opportunity to make an inventory about the state of the art in diagnostic and therapy of dementia and ..

..But further prospective studies utilizing recently developed diagnostics seem warranted to the potential influence of CMV-infection on morbidity and mortality in burn patients...

..Measurement of the perceived human rights status of populations and population groups may contribute to health policies sensitive to human rights...

..It is also essential that these guidelines do justice to the patients and their relatives...

..Despite the high prevalence of COPD in Germany, Switzerland and Austria there is no validated disease-specific instrument available...

..registers sequelae of therapy for Ewing's-, soft tissue- and osteosarcoma in patients treated in Germany, Austria and Switzerland within the trials EICESS-92/EURO-E.W.I.N.G.-99, CWS-96/CWS-2002P and COSS-96...

..In contrast to wide-spread belief, metabolic control is only marginally better in summer compared to winter. Some improvement in metabolic control was observed during the last 10 years...

..As NISS is easier to calculate, its use is recommended to stratify patients for clinical and research purposes...

..Only an effective immunization campaign will be able to prevent a future epidemic...

In Austria, a new federal law concerning university reorganization (UG 2002) has led to the former university medical faculties in Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz becoming independent medical universities, despite warnings by competent ..

..These data will be used for further evaluation of the impact of hygiene measures and therapeutic regimens for these patients...

..The overall risk of hypoglycaemia was comparable, whereas the risks of both severe and nocturnal hypoglycaemia were significantly lower with insulin detemir...

..Last not least due to the fact that they came from Rüdin's former institute these publications were not taken much notice of...

..CONCLUSION: The feasibility of NOS has been demonstrated in various experimental studies. We believe that this technique will create a spectrum of innovative and high quality operations and will improve patient safety...

..Early referral of patients with renal failure is indispensable to improve dialysis outcomes...

..Perioperative morbidity is determined largely by the surgeon's experience. We therefore believe that rectal prolapse is a suitable indication for the minimally invasive modality in the hands of trained surgeons...

..applications of BT were performed by Roggenkaemper, Dressler, and Benecke in Germany and by Poewe and Auff in Austria. According to a worldwide trend, a rapid expansion regarding BT users and indications followed...

..In Israel they combined the German/Austrian medical tradition with the new American influence, which eventually became the most prominent...

..Early identification, prevention, and treatment of additional risk factors seem to be necessary, particularly in light of the high incidence of future cardiovascular disease...

..In the meantime there are many investigations available also to the need of treatment and the demands of this special field. Period of treatment, number of personal included and quality management are also part of the short survey...

..the directorship of the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic of Rudolfspital in Wien, Ruttin no doubt tried to leave Austria due to the beginning of anti-semitic influences of the Nazi regime in Germany, which had lead him to sign a ..

..Like other brain maps, for example the languagemap, the lovemap requires an intact human brain in which to develop. The personalized content of the lovemap has access to the brain by way of the special senses...

..There, he also attended at the consultation of Prosper Meniere. Finally, he went to London to perfect his knowledge of anatomopathology of the ear by studying Joseph Toynbee's temporal bones collection...

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..A limited number of laboratory-confirmed cases have been reported from countries in Europe, including Austria, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden...

..9 per 100,000), with only Austria having a rate under 400. Eastern European men had the second highest rates of cancer (414...

..of blepharospasm and cervical dystonia and the treatment of equinous gait in children with cerebral palsy in Austria and Germany. Up to now only in Switzerland Botox is licensed for the treatment of focal spasticity...

..analysed (namely: Finland, Denmark, Scotland, England and Wales, Ireland and The Netherlands in Northern Europe; Austria, Germany and France in Central Europe; Italy, Spain and Portugal in Southern Europe), for the 1978-1994 period...

..1 year old animals, 46 animals >1 year) originating from the two free-living sika deer populations in Austria (Ostrong, 35 animals; Tullner Donauauen, 73 animals) was studied...

..MATERIALS AND METHODS: Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland cover a population of 13 million ..

..A comparison of technical measurements with the biomonitoring method could lead to a more general acceptance of the results...

..They were submitted from all parts of Austria for routine diagnosis in 1993...

..SETTING: Microbiology laboratory of the Medical University Vienna, Austria. PARTICIPANTS: Twenty-four healthy adult volunteers without skin lesions. Surgical hand rubs...

..4 mm LCP Distal Radius Plates; Synthes, Salzburg, Austria)...

..03% respectively. (8) The rate of organ-confined tumors increased from 28.7% in 1993 to 65.7% in 1997. (9) In this evaluation a new approach to proceed with a prostate biopsy based upon the individual risk of having prostate cancer rath..

The central European countries Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Luxemburg are confronted with a variety of individual problems concerning health care...

..to assess the lethality of Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) and the PCR ribotypes prevalent in Austria, the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety requested isolates of C...

..RESULTS: Personnel costs for medical services were lower in Austria (617 euro) than Germany (1,271 euro) and Switzerland (1,305 euro)...

..After air pollution had decreased in Austria in the 1980's--as documented by data on SO2, and total suspended particles (TSP)--no such associations between ..

..Japanese encephalitis virus complex, was for the first time detected outside Africa in the region around Vienna (Austria) in 2001 by Weissenböck et al. [Weissenböck, H., Kolodziejek, J., Url, A., Lussy, H., Rebel-Bauder, B...

..part of a Europe-wide study on the costs of multiple sclerosis (MS) and is based on information from patients in Austria. The objective was to estimate the costs and quality of life (QOL) related to the level of disease severity and ..

doi:10.1111/j.1741-2358.2009.00281.x Oral status among seniors in nine nursing homes in Styria, Austria Objective: To investigate the oral state in participants cared for in residences for senior citizens in Styria, Austria...

The groundwater system in the mountainous area of Semmering, Austria, was studied by environmental tracers in several karst springs. The tracers used included stable isotopes ((18)O, (2)H), tritium ((3)H) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)...

..R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center (STC) in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Lorenz Böhler Hospital (LBH) in Vienna, Austria. RESULTS: Hospital admissions resulting from traumatic brain injury (TBI) account for a significantly greater ..

..METHODS: A prospective, multi-national study was conducted. Centres included Isle of Wight (UK), Vienna (Austria), Freiburg (Germany), Athens (Greece), and Kaunas (Lithuania)...

Based on internal medicine and psychiatry and in close connection with pathology, the neurosciences in Austria began to develop in the 18(th) century, e.g. with the description of inflammation of the central nervous system by J. P...

This paper presents data obtained in a one-day census investigation in five European countries (Austria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia). The census forms were filled in for 4191 psychiatric inpatients. Concerning legal status, 11...

..According to our data it can be assumed that only a few uraemic patients with LADA are suitable for simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation...

..AND PARTICIPANTS: In this prospective study, mobile teams enrolled 1664 female patients from 95 nursing homes in Austria. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Calcaneal stiffness (n = 1117), radial speed of sound (SOS) (n = 1332), and phalangeal ..

..METHODS: A survey of randomly selected physicians in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Austria, and the first seven eligible women with osteoporosis from each of their practices, was conducted...

..In this cross-sectional study, we re-examined the previous data on allocation of medical training posts in Austria. All board-certified physicians practicing in Vienna were surveyed with a 12-item questionnaire...

BACKGROUND: An ad hoc peer-review committee was jointly appointed by Drug Authorities and Industry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 1999/2000 to review the evidence for a causal relation between phenacetin-free analgesics and ..

A study group of paediatric endocrinologists was established in Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia in order to investigate various aspects in children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)...

..feces (from cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses, rabbits, chickens, geese, and pigeons) from farms in France and Austria and from 92 of 955 production and processing chain samples of beef and pork (obtained at slaughter, cutting, and ..

..Group 1 (mean age 48 +/- 10 years; male:female ratio 25:15) was treated in a spa resort in Bad Hofgastein, Austria; group 2 (mean age 49 +/- 9 years; male:female ratio 28:12) in a spa resort in Arcen, The Netherlands...

..study is to map QTL for milk yield (MY) and milk protein percent (PP) in the Brown Swiss cattle populations of Austria, Germany, and Italy, considered in this study as a single population...

..METHODS: A questionnaire was sent to all 289 internal medicine specialists in Upper Austria (the third largest of the nine Austrian provinces, with more than one million inhabitants)...

..this parasite has been detected in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) circulating in an Alpine region of Italy, close to Austria. This finding raised the question as to whether an autochthonous cycle exists in Italy or whether the infected ..

..multilocularis belong to the most serious parasitic diseases. Both forms of echinococcosis occur in Austria; in addition, imported cases are diagnosed and treated regularly in Austria...

Usutu virus (USUV), family Flaviviridae, has been responsible for avian mortality in Austria from 2001 to 2006. The proportion of USUV-positive individuals among the investigated dead birds decreased dramatically after 2004...

..METHODS: In Austria, an active surveillance program for human prion diseases was established in 1996...