Landmark school-based 'social influences' smoking-prevention program found not to work
...y a team effort involving many thousands of people across the state. This study experienced great cooperation from students, parents, teachers, administrators and staff. We are so grateful to them. Without this support we could never have maintained the rigor of this study and found the answer to this vital......out to commence at approximately 50 research sites across the country, including the Scheie Eye Institute. The goal of the study is to determine whether neuro-protection-- i.e., delivering a proprietary and investigational topical agent to help a damaged nerve-- is viable. Specifically, Allergan is testin......o recruit more than 1,000 patients at nine centers across the country. Cedars-Sinai began recruiting patients in December 2000. Patients who volunteer to participate in the study will be examined and have x-rays taken to verify the presence of OA. Once OA is confirmed, patients will be randomly assigned t...Nursing profession must be reinvented to ease personnel shortages, according to UCSF report
...untry and abroad. "With growing demands for nurses across the country and the rising cost of living in California, we can no longer rely on others to educate our nurses." The researchers made the following recommendations for improving nursing education: Increase the numbers of non-white and male nursing...Hand size counts in safe handgun use
...the thumb crotch and place the distal phalange pad across the centerline of the trigger, the fit is acceptable for safe handgun operation. The guidelines included here can be applied by police departments in need of information to equip female officers with handguns that can be used safely. In addition, ...Attitudes to body weight might explain some of the difference in weight across socioeconomic groups
...ol might explain some of the differences in weight across the UK class divide, shows a study in the Journal ...ocioeconomic groups. Ideal weights differed little across the groups. Half of all the women interviewed and around four out of 10 men felt that they were over...Columbia presbyterian to participate in accord diabetes study
...sity affiliates. Altogether, more than 60 clinics across the United States and Canada will recruit 10,000 participants, age 55 years or older for Caucasians and African-Americans and age 50 years or older for Hispanic and Asian participants. Half of the participants are expected to be men and half women. ......om sample of 33 accident and emergency departments across England and Wales between 1995 and 1998. The episo...e frequency of assaults for both men and women and across all age groups and most areas of England and Wales followed what the researchers call a biphasic pat...New program shown to help heart attack patients get the best care
...a national survey found that heart attack patients across the country weren't getting all the care that guidelines - which are based on studies involving thousands of patients - said they should. Eagle and colleagues decided to evaluate heart attack care at UMHS, with a surprising result: Despite being a ma...Brain image database benefits research and education worldwide
...of available data, but it also stimulates dialogue across the scientific community," says Steve Breckler, NSF's acting director for cognitive neuroscience. "Researchers and educators with modest budgets will now have access to recent fMRI data." For the fMRI Data Center, see: http://www.fmridc.org/...UCSF researchers move in on role of brain's naturally occurring marijuana
...nsmitter GABA release their signal and it diffuses across a synapse and on to receptors on cells containing ...y release a molecular signal that moves backwards, across the synapse, to a subset of inhibitory GABAergic neurons that have a receptor known as CB1. The even...Providing better playgrounds could improve children's physical activity
...e rates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity across play areas, including indoor gyms and outdoor fields and courts. The most common improvements to activity areas were basketball hoops and courts, baseball backstops, volleyball nets, tennis courts and racquetball courts. Although the overall message ...Undergraduate conducts high-tech tests on dental enamel
...variations in the stiffness and hardness of enamel across the surface of a typical tooth. For these tests, Braly used a device called a nanoindenter. This instrument employs a computer and a microscope to define a set of locations where a diamond-tipped rod will push down into the enamel. The device allowed...Science, engineering and technology newstips
...lengths, and the best way to route the WDM signals across networks. Optical communications depend on advances in optics, electronic engineering, computer science and software development, said Mukherjee. The greatest payoff would come from merging the best of each field, rather than focusing on one area, h...Duke orthopedic surgeon bucks conventional wisdom; develops surgical approach for broken collarbones
...h to this injury that is now drawing patients from across the country to Duke's operatingrooms. The new procedure and device developed by Basamania not only offers immediate treatmentfor patients with newly broken collarbones, but is finally providing relief for patients who, likeLemire, have lived for ye...Increased prostate cancer diagnoses tied to access to screening
...ostate cancer was diagnosed at about the same rate across all socioeconomic levels, within each racial or ethnic group.That changed after 1987. For men diagnosed in the 10 years after PSA testing started, the higher their socioeconomic status, the greater the incidence of prostate cancer. And, the higher a ......tors used a standardized approach to data analysis across all five studies and we did not find a consistent association in the various subgroups we looked at: Caucasian women, African-American women, women of various body mass and lactation histories." ...Smoking prevention programs may miss minority teens
...oking prevalence. However, if peer influences vary across ethnic groups, these prevention programs may not be equally effective across ethnic groups," the researchers said. The study will be published in the May 2001 issue of Nicotin...National survey examines factors related to high levels of dust mite and cockroach allergen in beds
...pied by 2456 individuals in 75 different locations across of United States. In the survey, researchers collected vacuumed dust samples, environmental and demographic data, and health information from surveyed homes and their inhabitants.From their data, the researchers estimate that dust mite allergens at l...