New generation contact lenses cut risk of severe eye infection
...ere asked to supply details of lens hygiene, type, and pattern of wear, including whether they slept in t...scored below 8, defined as 'non-severe keratitis,' and 38 were scored above. Among the 80 who scored below 8, 18 slept in their lenses. Among the 38 with ......es damage DNA, finds a small study in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. To gauge the levels of exp...e urine of 47 female motorway toll-booth operators and 27 female office workers. The 20 toll booths were located on a motorway 10 km south of Taipei, Taiwa...Hospitals may now be more willing to partner up with former adversaries
... published evaluations of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality Improvement Organization...ercome, to some degree, the previously adversarial and punitive roles of their predecessors, the Peer Review Organizations. The feedback they received poi...TB Alliance announces new drug discovery program with GlaxoSmithKline
...from the TB Alliance on status of TB drug pipeline and discussion with GlaxoSmithKline, patient and public health groups. A Q&A session for journalists follows. Who: Dr. Maria C. Freire, Global ...Energy and sports drinks attack enamel
Sports beverages and energy drinks appeal to people who maintain a heal... dental enamel to bottled lemonades, energy drinks and sports drinks can do more harm to tooth enamel than soft drinks. "This study revealed that the ename...Strengths and failings of U.S. health care 'system' are driven by embedded vested interests
...ociologists examine how American social, cultural, and political-economic contexts govern the structure, efficiency, and operational nature of U.S. health care delivery in a special issue of the Journal of Health and Soci...Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
...ssociation for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the International Liver Transplantation Society (I...behalf of the societies by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and is available online via Wiley InterScience at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/livertransp...Boston University team finds link between high cholesterol and better cognitive performance
... data from the long-running Framingham Heart Study and found an association between naturally high levels of blood cholesterol and better mental functioning. The results were recently published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine...Donor age has no affect on long-term liver transplant survival
A new study on the effect of donor age on survival and recurrence of hepatitis C after liver transplantat...ssociation for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS). The journal is published on behalf of the so...Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
... was made between space-based methane observations and model simulations for atmospheric methane for the ...rts of China caused by emissions from rice paddies and domestic ruminants such as cattle. "However in large parts of the tropics there is a considerable d...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
...alski ice tongue in McMurdo Sound on the Ross Sea, and an unprecedented ice collision looked imminent. However B-15A eventually slowed down and stopped. Local bathymetry charts suggested the iceberg had become anchored at a point near the middl...NJIT taps into solar energy to power new campus center
...sey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is saving money and energy while also protecting the environment. The...s. The panels provide power for the campus center and save the university $40,000 a year in electrical bills. NJIT also received a $215,000 rebate from th...Storage time and temperature effects nutrients in spinach
...Luke LaBorde, associate professor of food science, and Srilatha Pandrangi, graduate student, both at Penn...h stored at 39 degrees Fahrenheit loses its folate and carotenoid content at a slower rate than spinach stored at 50 and 68 degrees. However, the spinach a...College alcohol problems exceed previous estimates
...irector of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institute...mulate both improved measurement of these problems and efforts to reduce them," added the report's lead author Ralph W. Hingson, Sc.D, Professor at the Bos...Physicists find patterns within seemingly random events of physiological systems
...s between stock markets fluctuations, earthquakes, and heart rates, for example, or discovering similarities in mice, men, and other mammals for such fundamental phenomena as wake periods during slumber. Eugene Stanley, a profe...Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
...ed patient consent for audit purposes is difficult and is unlikely to be successful unless extra resource...ntrols on the use of personal data, but the Health and Social Care Act 2001 allows patient identifiable information to be made available in certain circums...Chemical decoy shows promise for slowing Alzheimer's by acting as decoy
...sts at The University of Maryland-Baltimore County and Texas A&M University. If successful in future stud...orm of dementia that primarily strikes the elderly and causes severe memory loss and eventually, death. A complex disease with many probable causes, it is ...Diagnostic test for range of blood disorders on the horizon
...s: polycythaemia vera, essential thrombocythaemia, and idiopathic myelofibrosis. The disorders are characterised by overactive production of blood cells and can lead to thrombosis, haemorrhage or acute myeloid leukaemia. The absence of a definitive diagnost...Protein that helps skin cancer spread identified by Stanford researchers
...omething to do with cancer formation. What Khavari and postdoctoral scholar Susana Ortiz-Urda, MD, PhD, f...lls to break free from the neighboring skin tissue and spread - a step that turns an otherwise benign tumor into a killer. "When we blocked this sequence w......istant to multiple classes of antiretroviral drugs and associated with the rapid development of AIDS, rep...man who had unprotected sex with multiple partners and regularly took the illegal stimulant metamfetamine. His infection with HIV resulted in progression t...