September/October 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ction (6 percent), and gastroenteritis (4 percent) accounting for 86 percent of all diagnoses. The authors point out that many of these disorders are relatively common in primary care practices. Consequently, surveillance systems for early detection of bioterrorism events that scan electronic medical data for t...Military hazards are greater for Native Americans, according to sociological research
...close proximity to Indian reservations. Even after accounting for a number of factors that influence the location of military bases and unexploded ordnance, "Native American lands," according to the authors, "are positively associated with the count of extremely dangerous sites. The more acres owned by Native A...Scientists find acid rain an unlikely ally in the battle against a greenhouse gas
...main the single largest source of methane emission accounting for about one third of the global annual total methane. "It's a complicated process because multiple factors at microscopic to global scales interact in these processes," said Elaine Matthews, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studie...Elevated inflammatory enzyme, Lp-PLA2, significantly linked to ischemic stroke
...ently predict increased risk of stroke, even after accounting for both traditional and novel cardiovascular risk...ding cause of both death and disability worldwide, accounting for more than 20 million deaths annually, WHO predicts. About the ARIC Stroke Analysis ARI...Body's biological clock found to affect cardiac rhythm patterns in healthy adults
...s the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for 29 percent of the deaths from the nation's 10 leading causes (including homicides and accidents), according to the latest statistics (2001) available from the National Center for Health Statistics. When designing their study of this deadly di...Put science at center of decision-making on third world development, experts tell UN
...business studies, computer science, languages, and accounting since it's creation with the help of the World Bank in 1997. Most importantly, enrollment of women was (more than 40 percent), a result of the flexibility offered by distance learning. The AVU model could be adopted at the national level, linking na...Study identifies the most common genetic cause of Parkinson's disease
...o date. Finding the same mutation in a single gene accounting for such a large percentage of patients is quite remarkable, and this mutation should be included in any future genetic testing for the disease," Dr. Nichols said. The patients in the Cincinnati Children's study who had the mutation did have longer d......t expressed functional proteins and messenger RNA, accounting for a third of the hypothetical genes. They enlisted analytic software to scour public databases and applied expression data to improve gene annotation, identifying similarities to known proteins for 97 percent of these hypothetical proteins. All tol...Bacterial spread all down to chance: Some strains 'just the lucky ones'
...share an infection due to increased contact. After accounting for these differences in the opportunities for person-to-person spread, the researchers were amazed to find that there was little evidence for differences in the ability of pathogen strains to spread. Dr Christophe Fraser, from Imperial College Londo...Children's taste sensitivity and food choices influenced by taste gene
...fluences taste sensitivity of children and adults, accounting for individual differences in taste preferences and food selection, report a team of researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center. In addition to genes, age and culture also contribute to taste preferences, at times overriding the influence of...Study: Turkey hunting most dangerous, deer hunting most deadly
... 1999. There were 1,382 injuries and 77 fatalities accounting for nearly 92 percent of all hunting-related shooting injuries and 93 percent of such fatalities during this time period. Data showed that fall turkey hunters had the highest shooting-related injury rate at 7.5 per 100,000 hunters and grouse hunters...Fewer fish discarded after individual transferable quotas offered
...ces between the two systems include full mortality accounting in the British Columbia fishery meaning any marketable fish that was discarded at sea was deducted from the amount the vessel was allowed to bring to shore and the presence of observers on every boat. In the U.S. West Coast fishery, there is no ded...Other highlights in the April 20 JNCI
...ording to a new study. Male breast cancer is rare, accounting for less than 0.5% of cancers in males and about 1% of all breast cancers. Because of its rarity, the etiology of the disease has not been well described, but many of the risk factors for breast cancer in women--including family history and higher so...PNAS highlights for the week of April 25-29
... system. These results emphasize the importance of accounting for differently tuned sensory systems when studying animal behavior and evolution. Chestnut Tree Clock Stops for Winter The circadian rhythms of the chestnut tree go silent during cold winter months, according to researchers. Winter dormancy is an ...Romond heads up study and reduces breast cancer recurrence
...st cancer will occur in 2005 in the United States, accounting for about 15 percent of all cancer-related deaths in women in the nation....Gene variants predict bleeding after heart surgery
...so, these factors are only partially successful in accounting for the striking variability in outcomes among patients undergoing heart surgery." Within the circulatory system, three main factors control bleeding or clotting blood vessel constriction, platelet activation and the activity of clotting factors tha...Tamoxifen-like drug suggests new ways to selectively block estrogen
... as the estrogen receptor, are major drug targets, accounting for more than 20 percent of all drugs. This finding suggests "we could move beyond 'designer estrogens,' to all sorts of small molecules that mimic the actions of various hormones," Greene said. "We could create designer androgens for prostate canc...Traditional models underestimate extinction rates
...xtinction models with empirical validation--and of accounting for population density--to accurately evaluate risk and enhance recovery programs for at-risk populations. As threats to endangered species continue to mount, biologists will need ever more robust methods to estimate extinction risk. Unfortunately, f...NASA satellite data capture a big climate effect on tiny ocean life
...hytoplankton, help regulate the Earth's climate by accounting for about half of the carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, absorbed annually from the atmosphere by plants. But, these organisms are also the base of the marine food web, responsible for most of the biological activity in the ocean. Microscopic an......, evidence is certainly converging to suggest that accounting for greater differences may increase the overall effectiveness of treatments."...