PAHO To Provide $1 Million For Cholera Programs In Central America
...ses. The Pan American Health Organization, founded almost 100 years ago, works with the countries in the Western Hemisphere to protect the health of all. PAHO also serves as the regional office of the World Health Organization....High education plus heart attack: Sure-fire way to quit smoking
...to quit the habit, a new study shows. What almost guarantees that the smoker will quit, says Linda A. Wray ofthe Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan and hercolleagues, is having both a postgraduate degree and a heart attack. "The dramatic influence of higher levels of ..."Super" Aspirin Does Super Job In Fighting Heart Attacks
...ved for every 1,000 treated, says Kong. There were almost 30 fewer deaths, heart attacks, or need for repeat angioplastyor bypass for every 1,000 patients treated, and the benefits were statisticallysignificant through six months. "Using the drugs saves lives, reduces the number of heart attacks, and cuts d...UCSF Study Shows Drug Reduces Risk Of Spine And Hip Fractures By Half In Women With Osteoporosis
...ally reduced the risk of spineand hip fractures by almost half and the risk of other painful fractures by 30percent among women with osteoporosis, according to a study by University ofCalifornia San Francisco researchers. The drug, called alendronate, is a bisphosphonate that binds to bones andprotects agai......typically treat actinickeratoses, we found that in almost 80 percent of the cases, doctors chose toremove the lesion on the initial visit." In comparison, doctors chose to do nothing in 19 percent of initialvisits. In 1.5 percent of the cases, doctors chose to use both topical creamsand removal. Not...Ultrasonography Predicts Heart Attack/Stroke Risk
...ery walls. Those with thethickest arteries had an almost fivefold greater risk of heart attack or strokethan those with the thinnest measures. Even after accounting for standard cardiovascular disease riskfactors--such as cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol,and diabete...New Surgery At Cedars-Sinai Provides Hope For Epilepsy Patient Who Has Had A Lifetime Of Seizures
...ures, started not longafter that blow. "My parents almost lost me," she related. The seizurescontinued, on and off, for the next 33 years. Finally, thanks to state-of-the-art diagnostic and surgical advancements, Mary Kate's seizures maynow be no more than memories. In December 1998, Mary Kate underwent mul...School Computer Posture Problems Found
...nd environmental psychology researchers found that almost 40percent of the third-to-fifth graders studied used computer workstations thatput them at postural risk; the other 60 percent scored in a range indicating"some concern." None of the 95 students studied scored within acceptable levelsfor their postu...Routine Use Of Coronary Stents Found To Yield Better Outcomes, Be More Cost-Effective
...andtreatment. "The number of hospitalizations was almost two and a half times higher for theballoon angioplasty/provisional stent group," Dr. Weaver said. According to Dr. Weaver, stents have revolutionized the way in whichcardiologists treat blocked coronary arteries. Today, an estimated 75-80 percentof ...More Evidence Of Possible Adverse Effects From New Hormone Use In Women With Heart Disease
...ttack were hospitalized for unstable angina within almost a year. That rate of hospitalization was significantly higher than for women who had never used hormones (17 percent) and those who had used them before their heart attack (21 percent). "These data contribute to the evolving understanding of the b...Vinegar Offers Dependable Test For Cervical Cancer
...white when exposed to vinegar. The testidentified almost twice as many cases of disease as did Pap smears. A simple screening test such as this is urgently needed, the authorssay, because only 5 percent of women in developing countries are routinelyscreened for cervical cancer compared to up to 70 ......n't judge the distance. Now hisdepth perception is almost perfect. And he doesn't have to fight wearing theglasses."......ovascular disease;but after testing by EBCT we saw almost zero calcifications. She must be'immune' to arterial build-up. I would not give her drugs to reduce hercholesterol." Dr. Newman concluded, "About 10 percent of the whole population in thisstudy had minimal to no evidence of atherosclerosis....Low Educational Level Increases Risk For Congestive Heart Failure
...hool increases the risk of congestiveheart failure almost as much as smoking and high blood pressure, according to astudy presented today at the American Heart Association's epidemiology andprevention meeting. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is an often-fatal condition in which a weakenedheart muscle fails t...Tiny Tools Give New Meaning To 'Cutting Edge'
...r. It may only befinely processed sand, but Lal is almost philosophical about the stuff. "If you look at history, a lot of the major periods were defined by thematerials that came of age at the time," he said. "We had the stone age and thebronze age, and the industrial age was iron and steel. I think the ne...People With Brain Injury To Frontal Lobe Don't Get Punch Lines -- Prefer Slapstick Humor!
...ty," says Dr. Stuss. "It receives information from almost all otherbrain regions and integrates multiple types of information." The ability to understand and produce humor requires the concerted functioningof several cognitive processes: working memory (holding a piece of informationin mind while you manipu......, rabbits,and guinea pigs. "This new approach can almost certainly be used to rapidlyrejoin cut or crushed axons in humans," Bittner says. To aid this effort,Bittner and his colleagues have already published papers showing how the severedends of mammalian axons can be kept alive for at least days after th...Americans Skip Dialysis; Swedes And Japanese Don't, Wake Forest Study Shows
...medicine(nephrology) said that Swedes and Japanese almost never miss a dialysistreatment. That's not true in the United States, despite specific physicianinstructions. "Even an occasional missed treatment places the patient as a much higherrisk of life-threatening conditions," Bleyer said. "We have ......rs the episodes occur dozens of times aday, making almost any simple movement from room to room a laborious task takingseveral minutes. Patient Stan Clark of Old Forge, a small town in northern New YorkState, noticed that when his legs stopped, looking at patterns on the floorsometimes helped him st......ine, and a pioneer of 20th Century medicine. "It's almost like having a dictionary when you want to look up a word and knowthe exact meaning of it." A Century of Trust To celebrate the 100-year milestone, the Centennial Edition is packaged with acomplimentary facsimile of the 192-page First Edition. Com...