National Health Study Launched On The Internet
...e an evaluation about their weight and diet. These analyses will beprovided without cost or without any obligation to join the study. Data fromthose participants who do choose to join the will be used to test how exercise,diet, and dietary supplements affect disease risk. All information providedwill be st...Teen Marijuana Use Is Fueled By Change In Attitudes
...rage levels of use are low. (See figure.) Earlier analyses from the Monitoring the Future study also have shown thatmarijuana use goes down when perceived risk and disapproval go up. What the newanalyses show is that these changes cannot be explained by any shifts in theother lifestyle factors that were exa...Setbacks To Health Progress In Central America
...Dr. Roses. Intangibleinvestments such as sectoral analyses carried out over a year or more toidentify opportunities for reform, investment projects, and interventions willhave to be prepared again. "It's as if we lost all that work. It is now a newsituation: from that standpoint they are new countries, and ...National Study Suggests Heart Attack Severity May Be Declining
... Goff Jr., M.D., Ph.D., said results from previous analyses of the long-running Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study show that both in-hospital and out-of-hospital coronary heart disease mortality decreased between 1987 and 1994, paralleling national and international statistics. Goff, associ...Tiny Tools Give New Meaning To 'Cutting Edge'
...ments.They could be used to do on-the-spot medical analyses or measure dangerouschemicals in the air, water or soil. In all of these near-term and distant-future applications, Lal is a firmbeliever that silicon will make them perform cheaper and better. It may only befinely processed sand, but Lal is almost p...Kidney Transplant Recipients Require Less Long-Term Care If They Receive Well-Matched Donor Organs
... Schnitzler notes, however, that additional analyses from the studyfunded by pharmaceutical companies suggest that national organ sharing isunnecessary and makes care costlier. The problem is that kidneys deteriorateduring transport from a distant location. "You could match kidneys better local......could aggravatethe symptoms. "Additional analyses revealed dose-related improvement in comorbidsymptoms, such as self-reported attentional difficulties, hyperactivity,impulsivity and obsessive thinking," reports Principal Investigator Jorge L.Juncos, M.D., associate professor of Neurology at the Emo...Scientists can now see sense of smell
...ique required killing the animaland doing detailed analyses that took weeks." Rubin's and Katz's experiments already have settled a critical questionabout the nature of olfactory processing in the brain. "There has been considerable debate in the field about whether closelyrelated odorants cou...Study finds HIV breastfeeding risk highest in early months after birth
... HIV after they stopped breastfeeding. Statistical analyses showed that women who had fewer than four previous birthswere more likely to transmit HIV through breast milk than were women who hadfour or more. Similarly, younger mothers were more likely than older mothers totransmit HIV through breast milk. Drs...Research shows low lead in body can cause spontaneous abortion
...ples for lead. AnotherMexican laboratory conducted analyses for signs of infection. Women averagedabout 11 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood, which is similar to averagelevels in the United States in the 1970s. Researchers recorded whose pregnancies failed and whose did not andcompared those r...Study suggests some unruptured aneurysms do not need treatment
...n and cost-utility analyses. Until recently, these analyses have shown that aneurysm treatment is both advisab... and cost-effective. However, said Johnston, these analyses were based on estimates of rupture and complication rates that have been supplanted by newer, more p...A new strain of flu has turned up in Hong Kong
...a strain from pigs. Thefinding is worrying because analyses of preserved tissue from victims of Spanishflu suggest that it jumped from pigs to people (New Scientist, 29 March 1997, p20). "We're monitoring the case very carefully for that reason," says AlanHay, director of the WHO influenza collaborati...Recipients of well-matched kidneys received locally require less long-term care
...t them. Schnitzler notes, however, that additional analyses from his study which was funded by pharamaceutical companies, suggests that any expansion of current regions would cost taxpayers millions of dollars without necessarily improving the outcome of patients. As organs are shipped distances and accumulat...Researchers find one in five children not getting care they think they need
...are," Bearman said. Results of earlier Add Health analyses made national headlines in 1997 because they showed, among other things, that feeling connected with family, school and religious organizations helped steer adolescents away from unhealthy acts. A graduate of Florida State University and the Univers...Bexxar highly effective as first-line treatment for patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...e to be disease-free for at least three years. PCR analyses were conducted to test for detectable signs of disease in bone marrow among all patients before and after therapy. Of the 37 patients who had molecular signs of the cancer before treatment, 31 achieved molecular remissions when measured again later. ...... utilization and costs all derived from objective analyses of pharmacy claims data. A copy of the 1999 Drug Trend Report was provided to participants. Future Developments In Drug Discovery, William Peck, MD, Executive Vice Chancellor For Medical Affairs, Washington University School Of Medicine Express Scrip......t of HIV-1 infection. This indication is based on analyses of surrogate markers in controlled studies of up to 24 weeks in duration. At present, there are no results from controlled trials evaluating long-term suppression of HIV RNA or disease progression with Ziagen. Combivir in combination with other ant...Study shows farm work appears to protect against breast cancer
...nd. Those who farmed longer were better protected, analyses showed, while those with less agricultural experience were less protected. "We should continue to study this group of farm women to try to find what it is that puts them at lower risk," Duell said. Some pesticides such as DDT, banned in the United ...... also experienced less neurotoxicity. Preliminary analyses also show that this regimen was associated with fewer deaths. Also, only 3 percent of patients receiving weekly TAXOL plus Paraplatin experienced grade 3-4 neuropathy. Reducing the interval between doses of weekly TAXOL from the standard three-wee...