Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
... the most polluting for the global environment and potentially destructive to African forests. The researchers' analysis shows that charcoal can provide comparable health benefits of 1 to 2.8 million avoided deaths. However, scenarios that forecast large shifts to charcoal without improvements in harvesting and ...Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
... the most polluting for the global environment and potentially destructive to African forests. Their analysis shows that charcoal can provide comparable health benefits of between 1 and 2.8 million avoided deaths. Majid Ezzati, Assistant Professor of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health an...International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
...ide women with important information about another potentially effective tool for breast cancer prevention." Women enrolled in the ExCel research study will be randomized to one of two groups and all will take one pill per day for five years. Group A will take exemestane and Group B will take a placebo. Wo...Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
...nt population," Buzdar says. "It shows that we can potentially change the natural history of a disease that is associated with a high risk of recurrence and death." He cautions, however, that although this combination of therapies seems to show better efficacy, as well as less risk of heart damage than has been ...Acupuncture found to lower elevations in blood pressure
...ypertensive states. Such treatments, they believe, potentially can become part of a therapeutic regimen for long-term care of hypertension and other cardiovascular ailments in people. "This study suggests that acupuncture can be an excellent complement to other medical treatments, especially for those treating ...Hopkins begins human trials with donor adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged from heart attack
...ic heart failure, sudden cardiac death or another, potentially fatal, heart attack. "This is an important milestone on the journey to better cardiovascular care and to realization of the promise of adult stem cell research," says lead study investigator and cardiologist Joshua Hare, M.D., professor of medicine a...Child care may affect entire community's risks of infection
... may also affect an entire community's carriage of potentially dangerous bacteria known as Streptococcus pneumoni...ng emphasized that there are many factors that can potentially influence a community's level of pneumococcal carriage. "The model provides one hypothesis as to why...African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
... have more aggressive tumors than Caucasian women, potentially leading to worse outcomes. Specifically, the investigators first performed a retrospective study of data from four treatment trials carried out by the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) in a clinical trial setting where patients receive similar care,...Energy and sports drinks attack enamel
...n advance dental erosion. These organic acids are potentially very erosive to dental enamel because of their ability to breakdown calcium, which is needed to strengthen teeth and prevent gum disease. AGD spokesperson and President-Plect Bruce DeGinder, DDS, MAGD, agrees that it is healthier to drink a soft drin...Explosion of child obesity predicted to shorten us life expectancy
...ge 12 or 14, the consequences to public health are potentially disastrous -- imagine heart attack or kidney failure becoming a relatively common condition of young adulthood." Two thirds of American adults today are obese or overweight, and the proportion of people with extreme obesity has risen especially rapid...Use of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly common in some European countries
...tial differences between European countries in the potentially inappropriate use of medications among elderly hom...g to a study in the March 16 issue of JAMA. Use of potentially inappropriate medications in elderly patients is a major health care concern, according to backgroun...Mayo Clinic discovers 'new pathway' against pancreatic cancer
...the report. To identify new target molecules with potentially therapeutic impact for a cancer for which there is currently no real useful treatment is incredibly important. "Based on the literature, you would predict the opposite of what we found. But in fact, we determined that we can decrease a known regulat...Ethical discussion should come before research
...of 20 years or so before research in the lab could potentially be applied in humans," says Jones. "But now, there are fewer years to get to that point. When we're working on these techniques in the laboratory, society needs to be ready prior to when it hits the application stage. "I'm for science, but I don't th...Malt liquor beers, and the people who drink them, are different
..."The study also confirms that MLBs are consumed in potentially more hazardous amounts and settings than regular beers, and that grouping MLB drinkers with regular beer drinkers is likely to result in underestimates of alcohol consumed among MLB drinkers as well as the consequences of this consumption." "Future r...Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...hallenging to assemble patient information that is potentially very useful for improving care to veterans. The Integrated Stroke Outcomes Database (ISOD) is a national-level resource that contains clinical, functional, psychosocial, cost, and long-term outcomes in a single package, providing a valuable tool for ...Chemicals in tattoo inks need closer scrutiny
...ealth threats in the form of heavy metals or other potentially dangerous chemicals. Overall, the study covers 17 inks from five different manufacturers. "We chose to study five different brands of black ink as it is the most common color used in tattoos," Finley-Jones says. The researchers also are testing three...Radiography used to identify teens with sleep apnea
...mporary suspension of breathing during sleep, with potentially serious consequences.) Researchers at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH) wondered whether similar radiographic use could identify adolescent orthodontic patients with high RDI scores. The investigators studied the case histories of 590 p...Aircraft cabin ventilation influences the transmission of diseases in-flight
...apid spread of newly emerging infections and could potentially even start pandemics. In addition to flight crew, public health officials and health care professionals have an important role in the management of infectious diseases transmitted on airlines and should be familiar with guidelines provided by local a...Computerized order entry systems can increase risk of medication errors
...wed as crucial for reducing prescribing errors and potentially saving hundreds of billions in annual costs. Published studies have indicated that CPOE reduces medication errors up to 81 percent. Few researchers, however, have focused on the existence or types of medication errors facilitated by CPOE. Ross Koppe...News tips from the 2005, 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology
...machines, a diagnostic and imaging tool long ruled potentially unsafe and off-limits for more than 2 million Americans who currently have them in their bodies. The Hopkins team has also developed new guidelines for their use, making MRI scans more available to people who might benefit from early detection of ca...