Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
...Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley and lead author of the paper. But whichever path Africa takes, he added, "we are saying there are multiple consequences, including preventable deaths and pollution emissions. Decisions made now or in the near future are going to have large effects on health and envi...Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
...gy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley and the lead author of the paper said, "If the rapid urbanization continues and all signs indicate that it will then the trend is going to be toward greater charcoal use in Africa. It's the most affordable source of household energy. But whichever path Africa takes, w...Exercise-induced shortness of breath not always caused by asthma
...he said. In addition to Weinberger, who was senior author on the study, the research team included Mutasim Abu-Hasan, M.D., UI assistant professor (clinical) of pediatrics, and Beatrice Tannous, M.D., who was a pediatric resident at UI Children's Hospital of Iowa at the time of the study and who now works a...Hormonal treatment improves survival in high-risk prostate cancer patients
...the University of California, Los Angeles and lead author of the study....UIC professor receives international humanitarian award
...chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition and is author of "Cancer-Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War." The award will be presented to Epstein June 10 at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, during the International Symposium of the Polish Academy of Medicine. The Albert Schweitzer World Academy of Med...UCSF study offers insight into human circadian rhythms
...ersity of California, San Francisco and the senior author of the paper. "As the enzyme produced by the gene ...ing the neurobiology of the brain," says co-senior author Louis Ptacek, MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and UCSF professor of neurology. Th...Hausman to give keynote address at 'Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Feminism' symposium
...eory, and cultural studies of medicine. She is the author of many scholarly articles and the book Mother's Milk: Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture (2003), which draws on medical studies, feminist scholarship, anthropological literature and Hausman's own experiences to demonstrate what is at st...HIV testing should be routine part of primary health care for sexually active
...ould be a routine part of primary care," says lead author Curt G. Beckwith, MD, an infectious disease physician at The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School in Providence, RI. "We see people diagnosed for the first time every month. It's astonishing that opportunities have been missed to diagnose the p...Geodon effective in psychiatric emergencies; Sharply reduces time in restraints
...mergency Department." Horacio Preval, M.D., lead author of the study and director of psychiatric emergency services at Stony Brook University Hospital, said that having patients in restraints for a shorter period of time offers substantial benefits. "Reducing the time in restraints lowers the chance for ...Brain activity prior to treatment flags vulnerability to antidepressant side effects
...pressant side effects," said Aimee M. Hunter, lead author and research fellow at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. "The ability to identify individuals who are at greatest risk of side effects would greatly improve the success rate of antidepressant treatment," Hunter said. "For example, physicians might...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
...nclude a book signing by David M. Oshinsky, Ph.D., author of Polio: An American Story, and George Littlefield Professor of American History at the University of Texas, Austin. (Dr. Oshinsky is the keynote speaker at a private dinner that night.) April 12 David L. Heymann, M.D. (World Health Organization...Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
...bin Larson, instructor in medicine at DMS and lead author of the study. The study, published in the March 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, examined marketing practices of the 17 academic medical centers named to the 2002 US News & World Report's honor roll of "America's Best Hospitals." The ...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...omist at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and author of the new study on Cuban baseball. "Cuba's system makes a great case study of how organizing sports through non-market rules has unintended consequences." According to Baird's research, to be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Sport...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
...e of the UCLA clinical psychology program and lead author of the study. While other bullying studies have asked questions like, "How frequently have you been picked on?" the UCLA study asked students what happened today, she said. Sixty-six percent of students at one school, and 42 percent at the other, wit......f different statins at various doses. Finally, the author suggests a reexamination of the product labeling on statins, which currently calls for monitoring of liver biochemistries before and during usage. "It is now evident that elevated aminotransferases are insensitive to detect underlying hepatic steato...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...l research in the MGH Cardiology Division and lead author of the current study. "The ability to identify da...rd Medical School. Along with the study's senior author Bouma and Tearney, additional co-authors are Briain MacNeill, MD, Masamichi Takano, MD, and Fabian M...Child care may affect entire community's risks of infection
...real developmental and social benefits," said lead author Susan Huang, MD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. "The take-home message really relates to key preventive steps" that can keep children from becoming infected, such as vaccination against pneumococcus and good hygiene,...Cardiac deaths peak in sleep hours for patients with sleep apnea
...during the sleeping hours." Apoor Gami, M.D., lead author of the study, examined the death certificates of 112 Minnesota residents who had sleep studies at the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorder Center between 1987 and 2003 and who died suddenly of cardiac causes. More than half (54 percent) of the 78 OSA patients ...Specific test key to determine whether or not allergy symptoms are really allergy-related
... symptoms, said Sheryl Szeinbach, the study's lead author and a professor of pharmacy practice and administration at Ohio State University. And most people with allergy symptoms first seek help from their family doctor. With hay fever season nearly upon us, anywhere from 20 to 50 million Americans will deve......he emerging field of "behavioral cardiology." Lead author Dr. Alan Rozanski, of St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University in New York, says "The real battlefield has become 'What should cardiologists do with this information?' given that there are no guidelines for integrating the manageme...