NYU College of Dentistry study equates poor oral health with preterm birth risk
...to the March of Dimes and other organizations that track pregnancies. PLBW is the second leading cause of infant death in general, and the major cause of infant mortality among African-American infants. Using bacterial samples of 297 predominantly African-American women in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Dasa...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
... ASAR imagery is also being used operationally to track icebergs in the Arctic by the Northern View and ICEMON consortia, which provide ice monitoring services as part of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative, jointly backed by ESA and the European Union. The Northern View ...Mountaineering doctors hike medicine to new heights with Xtreme Everest
...acute mountain sickness. The genetics project will track and compare the genetic profile of high altitude natives, lowlanders and summiteers to identify genes that aid survival in extreme altitudes. A separate initiative called Project Everest will recruit over 1000 volunteers to take part in cardiovascul...Treating depression helps slow physical decline in older adults, study shows
...sks critical to independent living such as keeping track of medications or managing money. Prior clinical trials of successful treatment of depression in this age group reported improvement in emotional functioning, but had not demonstrated that improved emotional health also translated into improved physi...New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
...esence of food, soil or saliva that can be used to track down evidence of the childs movements, the scienti...s, such as soil type and food particles, that help track a suspects movements. Even partial prints that cannot be used to identify a person might contain che...Folic acid and vitamin B12 decrease risk of hip fracture in stroke patients
...ived placebo. Participants were instructed to keep track of falls on a daily calendar. Five hundred fifty-nine patients completed this two-year follow-up. The researchers recorded six hip fractures in patients who received folic acid and B12, and 27 hip fractures in the placebo group. The difference in to...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...wborns and young children. This week, Feuer et al. track the insidious path of CVB3 infection in neonatal mice....Drugs aid weight loss among type 2 diabetes patients
...self might cause weight gain, Norris says. Keeping track of a complex series of treatments for diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure "all complicate behavioral change aimed at weight reduction." Recommendations by the American Diabetes Association in 2002 say that weight loss drugs may be use...Researchers track program's success in curbing aggressive behavior
...e goal is to identify preventive strategies with a track record of improving the educational success and mental health of children and encourage wider use of these programs....Study examines effect of managed care on quality of care for cancer patients
...kinds of future analyses that will be necessary to track variations in cancer care across populations and over time as health care markets change....UT Southwestern doctors track Oklahoma Alzheimer's patients via telemedicine
...medicine link has made it very efficient for us to track patients' progress. We think this is a model that other Alzheimer's Disease Centers could be able to use across the country," said Dr. Roger Rosenberg, director of UT Southwestern's Center, and holder of the Abe (Brunky), Morris and William Zale Dist...New bedside tool gauges mortality risk in heart failure patients
...nal data from across the United States in order to track and study the medical management of patients hospitalized with acute heart failure. ADHERE is overseen by an independent scientific advisory committee of nationally recognized heart failure experts, including the study authors. Additional study aut...Clinicians report missing patient information is common
...time. Systems should be set up within practices to track all tests until the results are in the patient's chart. These tracking systems do not have to be sophisticated or expensive -- a notebook and a copy of an order form have proved successful." "Patient care is a team sport, and clinicians, patients, an...How the stories of ordinary people could give them more say over planning decisions
...eople's understandings of technological risks, and track how they develop and sustain particular values. Professor Pidgeon said: "Complex new technologies create uncertainties over their risks, and governments have to be involved in planning and managing these. Often, however, they know very little about h...Calcium boost to youths' bones could reduce osteoporosis risk
...dical Center, which is the first clinical trial to track calcium's effects on bone density in girls age 8-13 for as long as seven years, researchers found that calcium supplementation significantly increased bone mass development during a critical childhood growth spurt. The findings suggest that elevated ...JCI table of contents, January 20 2005
...ly sensitive technique to visualize, quantify, and track the HIV-specific CD4+ T cell population in patients with early-stage HIV infection who were given a short, fixed course of antiretroviral therapy. They found that return of viral replication after cessation of treatment does not destroy this importan...T cells target HIV in a relationship on the rebound
...ly sensitive technique to visualize, quantify, and track the HIV-specific CD4+ T cell population in patients with early-stage HIV infection who were given a short, fixed course of antiretroviral therapy. They found that return of viral replication after cessation of treatment does not destroy this importan...Future of clinical medicine research is at risk, warns professor
... lost to many young doctors, whose faster training track will focus only on clinical activities. Also, younger consultants appointed under the new consultant contract will have fewer opportunities to be involved in clinical research, he will say. In his inaugural lecture, Professor Greening, will highligh...Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
...f underlying social and environmental factors that track with race fail to produce knowledge of complex gene-environment interactions, knowledge that is needed to understand disease etiology and address racial health disparities. The authors believe that new genetic investigations should spur the field to ...Baby talk: Infants have much to say if adults will only listen
... With answers to these questions, researchers can track the progress of infants who use cochlear implants ...nfants have seen the each woman "speak," the audio track changes and plays only one of the words. What researchers want to know is if the infant will match t...