Whooping cough makes a national comeback
...ing fits can lead to vomiting, a hernia, or even a broken rib. In some cases, pertussis can lead to pneumonia. Even when school is out of session, pertussis finds ways to sicken teenagers, with recent outbreaks at summer sleep-away camps. Although whooping cough is rarely fatal in older children, the mor...Attention to detail can make kids' hospital stays shorter, less costly & less frequent
...itions, such as asthma or infectious diseases, and broken down by the severity of the condition. Where there is room for improvement, the data point medical staff toward opportunities for change. "The original medical data system, called DRGs for Diagnosis-Related Groups, was built for adults, but ki...Envisat Symposium report day 3: Satellites supporting Kyoto - our future is in our forests
...ranching in South America." Methane is eventually broken down by chemical reactions in the atmosphere, but carbon dioxide is a longer-lived greenhouse gas. Surface vegetation stores a vast amount of carbon, only released into the atmosphere when land is cleared or burnt. So mapping land cover and land co...Chicken pox vaccine saves $$, protects whole population
...s availability. When the hospitalization curve is broken down into ages 0 to 4, ages 5 to 9, ages 10 to 19 and age 20 or older, the sharpest decline is among 0 to 4 year olds, the first group targeted for vaccination. But all other groups declined too. "We're getting to kids before their peak risk years," ...Will the insured sacrifice to help cover the uninsured? New study suggests yes
... neighbor would be able to receive treatment for a broken leg. From reading the transcripts of the group discussions and evaluating the types of arguments made in each group session, Goold says the bottom line for many people ended up being the good of the community and caring for the worse-off mixed in wi...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...p doctors diagnose and treat ailments ranging from broken bones to cancer. Modern medicine has benefited significantly from medical physics research, which thus far has led to three Nobel Prizes in Medicine/Physiology. AAPM includes more than 5,000 members dedicated to advancing medical technology. Medi...New surgical device for long bone repair reduces X-ray exposure
...ll reduce the exposure to X-rays for patients with broken bones. Searching for a device to reduce X-ray expo...e hollow tube of the large nail that will hold the broken femur together and uses electronic sensors instead of X-rays to find the exact location in the magne...Tumor suppressor gene family may be key to new colon cancer drugs
...ccelerating cellular events. "If a bus' brakes are broken and they can't be fixed, another way to slow it down is to let up on the accelerator," explains Velculescu. "In this case, the faulty brakes are mutated tyrosine phosphatases and the accelerators are the tyrosine kinases." Tyrosine kinases have bee...Alzheimer's pathology reduced, longevity improved in mouse model, Gladstone study shows
...ty -- signals can no longer be transmitted through broken connections," says senior author and GIND director Lennart Mucke, MD, who is also Joseph B. Martin Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco. "Our results suggest that Fyn plays a key role in Alzheimer's-r...Dartmouth researchers advance fight against pancreatic cancer
...ng the brakes to slow the car down. The brakes are broken in pancreatic cancer but in addition, we found that the brake has been converted into an accelerator by the cancer cells. In essence, pumping the brakes gives you two accelerators." In fact, said Korc, the inhibitory factors that have been proven...Experimental drug improves sleep in older patients, Wake Forest Baptist study shows
...ry night for two weeks. When the code was broken to determine which patients were on placebo and who got the actual drug, patients treated with eszopiclone showed improvement in all measures of insomnia including falling asleep, staying asleep and total sleep time, as well as a reduction in frequen...Newly-described route to cancer solves a mystery in lung cancer
...stood, and the non-functional proteins are quickly broken apart inside the cell. Without FUS1 protein, cells cannot self destruct if damaged, thus cancer development can proceed unchecked. This is the first time that myristoylation has been fingered as a potential root cause of cancer, say the researchers. ...Examining motivational interviewing in drug abuse therapy
...or the psycholinguistic analysis, each session was broken into four parts: motivational interviewing, assessment feedback, additional motivational interviewing, and developing a change plan. The researchers found that during the motivational interviewing segments, the study participants used language that s...Elastic nails help children with broken legs recover faster than traction and body casting
...titanium nails help children recover faster from a broken leg than the traditional treatment with weeks of t...implanted flexible pins that are inserted into the broken bone to support the pieces while the bone heals. The nails are approximately 15 to 20 inches in leng...Winning the battle of the bulge: We're a scrimmage closer to victory
... that we now understand what part of the system is broken - why leptin isn't working. We have a better understanding of why people are becoming obese," Banks says. The research points scientists to a new direction in solving the obesity epidemic. "Lowering triglyceride levels may very well be a big part o...Botox injections restore voices, confidence to voice disorder patients
...oice disorder that makes the voice sound strained, broken or breathy. The shots relax the muscles in the vocal cords, just as they do to the muscles in the furrowed foreheads of those who use Botox for cosmetic reasons. But until now, no long-term data have been available on how the repeated injections affe...Injuries to children show definite patterns
...or treatment of an injury--everything from cuts to broken bones to a peanut stuck in the nose--can take solace knowing that injuries to children--especially boys--are a fact of growing up. A new study out of the University of Alberta shows that 84 per cent of children will sustain an injury before the age ...U of T researchers one step closer to creating oral insulin
...jected directly into the bloodstream because it is broken down in the stomachif taken orally.) More than two million Canadians have diabetes, and many of them requireregular insulin injections to help their bodies absorb sugar properly.Research has shown self-injection to be a problem for children and the ...New technology facilitates adherence for patients
...h acid, thus protecting the drug inside from being broken down too early, while still others have a slow-release mechanism that allows medication to be released gradually. "Polymers for delivering drugs in patients with schizophrenia have just been approved by the FDA," Dr. Langer stated. "These patients ...... a long time, taking between 15 and 55 hours to be broken down to half its initial levels, compared with a matter of minutes for heroin. The downside is that this means accidental overdoses are common, even when the drug is prescribed. According to a report last month by the Substance Abuse and Mental He...