NYU Child Study Center receives grant from the American Red Cross September 11 recovery program
...this recovery grant the Child Study Center will be able to address persistent needs of children of uniformed personnel and their caregivers as well as provide surviving parents with tools to serve as active, responsive parents and to develop coping skills that allow them to manage their own grief and dist...Press advisory: White House Conference on Aging Forum
...e vast supply of talent represented by willing and able older adults to improve the quality of life in communities across America. The Forum is part of The Gerontological Society of America's Civic Engagement in an Older America project and designed to help shape the policy recommendations of the WHCoA, ...Use of cell phone images appears feasible for visualizing leg wounds
...smelled the ulcer and the wound dressings, and was able to judge the context of the whole patient, his or ...0.94," the authors state. "In this study, we were able to show for the first time that telemedicine for chronic wounds is feasible under routine conditions...Computer model being developed at Stanford may help surgeons better predict patient outcomes
...incredible what we can see, but what we need to be able to do to make a good decision is to project into the future," he said. In other words, he said, "the diagnostic data tells us what is there, but we need to know the answers to the 'what if' questions." These questions include, "What if it is better t...Study: Young adults can be motivated to eat fruits, veggies
...icipant was to make dietary changes. "We were then able to use that information to tailor educational messages to their specific interests," she explains. For example, someone who had not given much thought to eating healthier might need basic information about the importance of good nutrition, while some...Lack of specific collagen type leads to osteoarthritis
...ns, Alexopoulos said. "Using a tiny syringe, I was able to go across the surface of the cartilage and vacuum up the chondrons without damaging them," Alexopoulos said. "The chondrons literally popped out of the cartilage and into the syringe. From that point, it was easy to analyze their structure." It is...Hard choices: Pitt researcher presents findings on when to accept organ transplants
...lart of Case Western Reserve University--have been able to show that mathematical models can provide insight. "We're actually able to model decisions that real patients face all the time," Schaefer said. "These mathematical models ...Diabetes a bigger heart disease risk for women than for men
... evidence as an alternative. The researchers were able to adjust for age, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol and cigarette smoking in most of the data sets, he said. Perhaps better monitoring and control of blood glucose levels in women with diabetes would reduce their CHD risk compared with men...How often should women get mammograms?
... clear that the more mammograms you give, the more able you are to locate disease that a person didn't know about," Zelen says. But, testing with increasing frequency has diminishing returns, while boosting the odds of "false positives" that can be traumatic to women and lead to unneeded biopsies that dr...Heart attack treatment gap may be closing for women
...ently as men. One in ten women with ACS, who is able to take the medicines, didn't receive aspirin or beta-blockers. Still one-third of these women did not receive statins. Past studies have shown that women with heart disease were not receiving as much therapy as men after heart attack or unstable a...Unemployed women at higher risk for cardiovascular disease
...stress in response to being laid off and not being able to locate a job." While results show an association between unemployment and cardiovascular disease and mental health, the reason for the worse health outcomes cannot be determined with the cross-sectional data in this study. The data was drawn from ...Miniaturized lab permits saliva screening on the go
...eactions," Malamud said. "Bau and his wizards were able to duplicate the entire process in a loop just a few centimeters long that carries out the process in a fraction of the time." In the device that Malamud and his colleagues are working on to detect HIV or B. cereus, a sample is taken with a small s...Viagra used in stroke recovery study
...hat Viagra is helping the recovery, but she is now able to smile, eat, move all four limbs and stand up wi...fferent compounds and cell-based therapy, they are able to produce new cells and electrical connections within the brain that help people recover from strok...Young blood revives aging muscles, Stanford researchers find
...uscular dystrophy, such blood-borne factors may be able to reactivate the regenerative cell's ability to repair tissue that has been damaged....Most episodes of HIV 'blips' not clinically significant in patients receiving HAART
...mmunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) who have been able to suppress the virus while receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) experience intermittent episodes of detectable viremia (presence of the HIV virus in the bloodstream), which are also known as "blips." These blips may raise concern...Next generation body scanner launched by the University of Manchester
...m the scanner. By studying patients, they will be able to look at the way brain tumours and cancers grow ...n and how it works. For the first time we will be able to see how different parts of the brain communicate with each other and this will be invaluable to m...Another look finds promising proteomics test is not biologically plausible
...cer test, the researchers say. "Are we going to be able to measure what we want to measure?" Baggerly asks. "Given issues in technology and a lack of standards, I think it will be a few years before we can know what works."...An implanted nerve stimulator helps drop foot sufferers walk faster and better
...ctions to it. Feedback is excellent - patients are able to walk better, faster and further, with a more normal gait. Although the device is a world first and is expected to generate a market of 30,000 units a year, the partners first have to explain the benefits to patients and demonstrate the surgical pr...Alcohol's damaging effects on adolescent brain function
...g and driving, but it can also make the brain less able to learn important life skills that can help one a...amage increases, because the brain is no longer is able to compensate for the disruption caused by alcohol." The association between antisocial behavio......ographical information, the latter maybe be better able to detect outbreaks not primarily related to place of residence but, for example, school or workplace. With their new "space time permutation scan statistic," they found four highly unusual clusters of diarrhea cases, three of which heralded citywide...