Workplace environment can improve eating habits
...creased the restrictiveness ofthe smoking policies across the three-year span of the study. However, theresults at the intervention work-sites merely kept pace with the changes in thecomparison groups and society at large, where the smoke-free work environmentwas rapidly becoming the norm....Walking markedly improves mental abilities of those over 60
...ult, Kramer said. "Whether you'd get improvements across the board withhigher levels of fitness or a lifetime of staying in shape, who knows? It is apossibility," he said. "These people were de-conditioned. They had been doingvery little in terms of physical fitness." Kramer's colleagues on the study we...Oxygen reduces effects of retinal detachment
...lights, newfloaters, or a gray curtain which moves across the eye. During retinal detachment, the retina is separated from its only sourceof nutrients and oxygen, the choroid, a bed of capillaries that serves totransport them. With oxygen therapy, the retina is supplied with more of thoselife-sus...One in seven adolescents still doesn't have health insurance
...aluate programs orto compare program effectiveness across states. Adolescents are particularlychallenging to enroll because traditionally they have fewer contacts with healthcare providers than younger children. The burden is on health care providers,especially pediatricians, and on all children's advocates...UCSF Cancer Center joins elite group of National Cancer Institute-designated centers
...n a specific cancer and cancer type. Collaboration across disciplinesensures that insights gained in the lab can be applied to developing new andeffective cancer treatments, McCormick says. For instance, researchers at the UCSF Cancer Center have developed a newprocedure, called the genome array analysis, ...NYU researcher unveils the scientist in painter Chuck Close
...predicts thatfaces with fewer than, say, 10 blocks across the face (from cheek to cheek),should never be rec... Close's portraits have variable numbersof blocks across the face, and every one is recognizable at some distances andnot at others. The second theory, as m...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...sentative sample ofadult respondents in households across Virginia with a margin of error ofplus-or-minus 4.4 percent. In other words, if the survey were repeated 100times, results would vary beyond 4.4 percent in only five out of the 100surveys. Copies of the QOL survey are available for $12 includ...New study finds graduating nurses ill-prepared to care for the elderly
...y of nurses working in hospitals and nursing homes across the countryhave never been adequately trained to care for their elderly patients. Many ofthese nurses have never even taken a single course in geriatrics. This is alarming news when you consider that today, a nurse's typicalpatient is an ol...Study suggests potential new approach to glaucoma therapy
...o protect nerve cells is beingaggressively pursued across the country," said Carl Kupfer, M.D., director ofthe National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, thefederal agency that helped fund the study. "New approaches to treating glaucomaare welcome, and this work will be followed clos......etrieve basicinformation leads to impaired ability across the three domains of reading,writing and math. ... the big message is if your child is havingtrouble across subjects, it may be because he or she is having trouble gettingthings on automatic pilot," says Bern...... and 64 psychological characteristics. Coaches across the board emphasized the importance of psychologic...gious SearsCup for the top number of championships across sports," said Dr. Kuchenbecker. Of all the psychological and physical characteristics the coache...Inflammatory pain may help deter inflammatory diseases like arthritis
...ers' observation will likely apply to inflammation across theboard, said Strausbaugh, though, she added, painful stimuli will likely prove tobe one of several factors modulating the inflammatory response. The researchers conducted their study in anesthetized rats with inflamed kneejoints, determining that a...UCSF professor receives Pharmaceutical Scientist of the Year Award
...dentified variants in genes that control transport across cell membranes. This effort -- part of the emerging fields of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics -- is considered crucial to allow scientists to tailor drugs precisely for their intended targets. The International Pharmaceutical Federation was f...OHSU Researcher studies possible negative impacts of long-term soccer play
...dy is released as soccer enjoys growing popularity across the UnitedStates. Worldwide, more than 200 million athletes play the game. Here in theUnited States, the sport is popular among youngsters and adults alike. This pastJuly, more than 40 million television viewers watched as the U.S. team beatChina to ...Study suggests why estrogen not helpful against heart disease
... loss ofestrogen receptor across the cardiovascular system. "One of the most peculiar things about the waymethylation changes this part of the human genome is that it canhappen as a mosaic; you can have a se...Research finds U.S. adolescents inactive; blacks, Hispanics, Asians at biggest risk
...0 teen-agers enrolled in theseventh to 12th grades across the nation in 1996. Information came fromdetailed, confidential surveys of teens about their experiences, practices andattitudes and included 3,135 non-Hispanic blacks, 2,446 Hispanics and 976Asians. Researchers looked chiefly at patterns of...Attitudes and social norms delay adolescents' 'first time'
...ntal education. Then at around six-monthintervals across the next two years they asked the students if they had begun tohave sex. The results of the study appear in the September issue of HealthPsychology. Over the two years, 222 students reported they had sexual intercourse for thefirst time, and 605 r...Fire ants can attack humans in homes or health care facilities
...ved in the U.S. about 60 years ago and have spread across theSoutheastern U.S. and Puerto Rico. They have consumed most of the native blackant population in the Southeast and have recently been spotted in some Westernstates, says Richard D. deShazo, MD, lead author of the Annals article, directorof the divi......rrived in the U.S. about 60 years ago, have spread across theSoutheastern U.S. and have been spotted in some Western states. Fire ants attackhumans when their ant mounds are disturbed. This issue of Annals of InternalMedicine carries two case reports of fire ants attacking elderly nursing homeresidents in t...