Campus can be effective site for anti-smoking efforts
...looked at 20 years of tobacco-intervention studies aimed at college and university students and selected 14 studies that had strong statistical merit. Differences in the design of the studies and a dearth of rigorous research made it impossible to draw hard conclusions on the most effective tobacco-reducti...Physicians call for increased funding for federal infectious disease programs
...p is a broad "biopreparedness" bill (S. 3) that is aimed at protecting the nation against bioterrorism, antimicrobial resistance, pandemic influenza, and other emerging infectious threats. "We urge Congress and the Administration to show the same commitment and leadership as they move forward with the budg...IDSA applauds Senate leadership for introduction of S. 3
...sease market unattractive to industry. The bill is aimed at preparing the nation for pandemic influenza and other emerging infectious threats. "It's a simple fact; infectious disease physicians are running out of the tools we desperately need to treat patients. At the same time that we are seeing an increa...Calcium and vitamin D most effective for treatment of Crohn's-related bone loss
...'s disease adds no additional benefit. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of etidronate on bone loss in patients with Crohn's disease, an effect that has never before been studied in patients who were not menopausal or on corticosteroid therapy. "Calcium and vitamin D therapy alone provide benefit ...Smoking causes cognitive impairment in adolescents
...hese findings underscore the importance of efforts aimed at preventing smoking initiation in adolescents. They also show adolescents who are trying to quit smoking may need additional educational support," Jacobsen said....Views from space help oil prospectors see deep underground
...et Development (EOMD) project. EOMD is a programme aimed at strengthening the European and Canadian capacity to provide geoinformation services based mainly on Earth Observation data, with a particular emphasis on addressing the needs of small value-adding companies. ...How the stories of ordinary people could give them more say over planning decisions
..., these methods are to be used in an investigation aimed at giving far greater insights into the social, cultural and other factors which lie behind people's attitudes and reactions to technological risks to themselves and to their environment. It will also be possible to explore various local influences o...Climate change and the future of air travel
...o examine more complex aircraft routing strategies aimed at avoiding air masses that lead to persistent contrail formation. At present the production of contrails and their effect on the environment is not taken into account in government assessments of the environmental impact of air travel. Team leader,...Two minutes of magnetic stimulation can change your brain for an hour
...ver a period of 20 to 190 seconds. The pulses were aimed at the motor cortex that controls muscle response, because effects on the motor cortex can be objectively measured by recording the amount of electrical muscle response to stimulation. The researchers positioned the magnetic coil over the motor cort...The role of ethnicity in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
...need for culturally sensitive educational programs aimed at the early recognition and prevention of NAFLD, as well as the need for ensuring adequate representation of different racial and ethnic groups in future clinical studies."...Program effective at reducing depression in teens
An intervention for adolescents aimed at improving the quality of treatment for depression is effective at reducing depression, according to a study in the January 19 issue of JAMA. Lifetime prevalence for major depression in adolescence is estimated at 15 percent to 20 percent, current ...MGH researchers find way of regenerating cells key to hearing
...e findings will form the basis for the future work aimed at recovery of hearing through hair cell regeneration. In particular, they have to learn to control the presence of Rb for short times, allowing some regeneration but not too much. The genetic basis of hearing and deafness is almost identical in m...Researchers to put changing public services under the microscope
...e put under the microscope in ESRC-funded research aimed at understanding the key ongoing problems involved in providing essential facilities such as health and education, as opposed to 'currently fashionable pre-occupations'. Recent years have seen major changes in public services attempted or called for...Jefferson scientists help explain statins' effects in Alzheimer's disease
...ocktail that may involve using several drugs, each aimed at a different target, not unlike chemotherapy for cancer. A drug called Alzhemed, for example, which currently is in clinical trials at Jefferson's Farber Institute for Neurosciences, breaks up amyloid aggregates. Vaccines stimulate the immune syste...New programme will train the next generation of health leaders
...rial responsibilities in their organisation. It is aimed specifically at public health educators in Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, areas that face particular challenges. Dr Rifat Atun, director of the Centre for Health Management at Imperial and joint director of the Programme, expl...OHSU researcher says FDA could broaden access to results of clinical drug trials
...sults database would be restricted to those trials aimed at supporting U.S. drug marketing approval or a change in labeling in the United States. "Despite the limitations of the FDA's database, making it public is a strategy that could be implemented both rapidly and easily by building upon existing infras...Patient protection laws don't favor health providers
...known as patients' bills of rights, these laws are aimed at restraining the perceived excesses of managed care, including "gate-keeping," or denying insurance payment for medically necessary treatment and restricting patients' choice of physicians Critics of the laws, however, say they actually provide pro...Scientists identify protein critical to melanoma growth
...motherapy drugs, a CDK2 inhibitor drug wouldn't be aimed at killing melanoma cells, only halting their growth. Fisher said that CDK2-inhibiting drugs exist, and he hopes that the research results will soon lead to clinical trials of them in patients with melanoma. The study's lead author is Jinyan Du, PhD,...Assessing the season: LSU hurricane experts learned lessons during Hurricane Season 2004
...nd Jeanne. Because Hurricane Ivan was, for a time, aimed right at New Orleans, nine different models were run on the computer during a five-day period. Emergency management personnel from all levels of government, as well as industry, insurance interests and media members, utilized the Ivan storm-surge mod...Research by scientists affiliated with the Earth Institute at Columbia University
...ser, David Schaff, and colleagues present research aimed at increasing understanding of seismicity and faul...quifers in Bangladesh as part of a five-year study aimed at preventing people in rural Bangladesh from suffering as a result of ingesting arsenic in their we...