Chemicals in tattoo inks need closer scrutiny
...self expression." The new research a joint effort between Finley-Jones and Leslie Wagner as part of an undergraduate research project directed by Jani Ingram, a professor of chemistry at NAU has two main goals: to characterize the diversity of tattoo inks, and to determine if any inks pose health threats i...Finances, not having a dentist are primary barriers to seniors receiving needed dental care
...y equal in importance. Of the major differences between age groups, Zittel-Palamara said: "It may be that younger seniors have more apprehension about spending a significant amount of money on dental treatment because they may have retired recently and now are living on a fixed income. This generation of...'Speaker's cramp', a new type of involuntary mouth-, lip-muscle movement
...ions every 3-4 months and evaluation once or twice between treatments. In response to treatment, patients reported marked improvement in and relief from the grimacing and speech difficulty associated with Speaker's Cramp. The level of digastric muscle activity was important and reflected the severity of the ...Routine dental panoramic X-rays not necessary, study shows
...ents who were admitted to UB dental-school clinics between January 2000 and December 2003. The sample was composed of records from 536 women and 464 men, who had a mean age of 52. Two dental experts evaluated the X-rays for evidence of bone lesions or other abnormal appearances that would indicate trouble....Study finds direct association between cardiovascular disease and periodontal bacteria
..., this is the first report of a direct association between cardiovascular disease and bacteria involved in periodontal disease, inflammation of the gums that affects an estimated 200 million Americans to various degrees. The researchers collected an average of seven dental plaque samples from 657 subjects (6...Radiography used to identify teens with sleep apnea
...igators studied the case histories of 590 patients between 7 and 18 years of age attending the orthodontic clinic at Case Dental School. They recorded age, gender, height and weight (abstracted from patient chart) along with tongue length and hyoid-to-mandibular-plane distance (measured from lateral cephalog...Fractured leg bone not the end of Tutankhamen mystery
... in an accident. There are remarkable similarities between his ribcage injuries and those of a British mummy ...he brain. We believe there was a substantial delay between death and mummification, during which time the brain would have liquefied. The priests have almost c...Access to oral health care: Not a level playing field
...ugared beverages in tooth decay, to the connection between pregnancy and tooth loss, to the role of insurance in whether children get sealants and subsequent restorations. All of the studies concluded that disparities in access are largely related to socio-economic status, race, gender, and age, and that the...Lip piercing can lead to receding gums
...few clinical studies have examined the association between tongue piercing and receding gums, and oral pierci...demographic (age, gender distribution) differences between the two groups of subjects. Receding gums were were significantly greater among subjects with lip pi...Gene for age-related macular degeneration discovered by Yale researchers
...cal analyses and were able to find the differences between the two groups. Subsequently, the gene association has been confirmed by at least three independent studies with results pending publication." "This work is not only important for the gene we have found, but also highlights the value in new paradigm...Will your kids grow up to be fat?
BOSTON - New research shows that children between 8 and 15 years old who are in the upper half of th...ion's national reference data, children with a BMI between the national 85th and 95th percentiles for age and gender are classified as at risk for being overwe...Failure to count Iraqi casualties is irresponsible, say experts
...em, and they do not allow for reliable attribution between different causes of death and injury. The inadequacy of the current US/UK policy was highlighted when the Lancet published research suggesting that Iraq had suffered around 100,000 excess deaths since the 2003 invasion, but the UK government rejected...Steady rise in HIV among heterosexuals in the UK
...ed with HIV in England Wales, and Northern Ireland between 1985 and 2003 were infected through heterosexual intercourse. Of these, 1,901 (9%) were probably infected in the United Kingdom. Sixty two per cent (1,179) had a sexual partner who was infected outside Europe, while nearly a third had a partner infec...European folic acid policies are not effective enough
...ce of neural tube defects in 16 European countries between 1980 and 2001, according to their folic acid policies during that time. They found no substantial decline in neural tube defect rates in Continental Europe in the past decade, and although levels in the United Kingdom and Ireland fell by 32% (a conti...Openness is key to winning the war over MMR
Openness and communication between experts and the public is key to winning the war o.... Yet by 2002, after claims of a possible relation between MMR and autism, the United Kingdom lost considerable ground. One of the lowest levels of coverage of...Houston meeting kicks off collaboration to advance cancer research
...e agreement builds upon professional relationships between clinicians and researchers at both institutions an... and development in biosciences and related topics between researchers in the UK and the region around Houston, Texas....2005 Craniofacial Biology Research Award
...physis and brow ridges and determined correlations between muscle activity and bone deformation. The techniques and approaches he developed have been widely applied in craniofacial biology, and his eminence has already been recognized by a variety of awards, including the highly prized Merit Award from the N...2005 Pulp Biology Research Award
.... His group again, through a subtractive cDNA bank between odontoblasts and pulpal cells, succeeded in clonin..., could be involved in the transfer of information between odontoblasts (through the dentin fluid) and the surrounding pulp tissue. Recently, he showed the exp...Emergency clopidogrel could save thousands of lives46,000-patient heart attack trial results
...y's cost of UK1.6 million (US$3 million) was split between the manufacturers of clopidogrel (Sanofi-Aventis/Bristol-Myers Squibb) and of metoprolol (AstraZeneca). The British Heart Foundation and UK Medical Research Council also supported the Oxford coordinating centre. However, the trial was designed, condu...Breakthrough in medical research: New chemotherapy gives hope to brain tumour patients
...nne, Switzerland. "Without the close collaboration between the hospital based research laboratory and the lea...this example will stimulate a closer collaboration between basic and clinical research in the future", remarks Monika Hegi, PhD signing author for the translat...