Afghanistan's health challenge
...stan has seen fit to develop. Such support has the capacity to benefit not only the health of 25 million Afghans but also the lives of millions of people in post-conflict situations to come.'...Cranberry component linked to reduced stroke damage
...ers. Additionally, cranberry is well known for its capacity to help prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs), and that same unique bacteria-blocking ability may also help inhibit stomach ulcers and even gum disease. While the data on stroke remains preliminary, a great deal of evidence shows that a daily dose ...UCSD-TCAG collaboration to focus on transformation of genome-based knowledge into health benefits
...NA sequencing center. Currently the Center has the capacity to sequence 45 billion base pairs of DNA per year....Are hepatitis A vaccine boosters unnecessary?
...authors highlight how immune memory-the protective capacity of the immune system after specific antibodies have become undetectable-could result in immune protection for up to 25 years. There are around 1.4 million cases of Hepatitis A reported worldwide every year; the actual figure could be ten times higher...Salk news: A new view on brain function
... cortex is "comparable to the total world backbone capacity of the Internet in 2002." But they point out that simply comparing the brain to the digital computers of today does not adequately describe the way it functions and makes computations. The brain, according to Sejnowski, has more of the hallmarks of...Gastric bypass surgery resolves or improves diabetes in most patients, reports Pittsburgh study
...aloric intake resulting from the reduced reservoir capacity of the small stomach pouch. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, in which the body is unable to properly use the insulin that it produces. About 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight....Emory's Jeffrey Koplan joins Hong Kong SARS expert committee in report to government
...so were cited as highpriorities. Inadequate surge capacity in hospitals and the publichealth system were noted as major problems during the SARS epidemic,and the committee recommended improvements in hospital facilities andclinical skills. Close collaboration with the entire internationalcommunity was stres...... structure, the centralization of specialties, and capacity planning.An important aspect of the modeling is improving interaction among hospital departments. "I and my American colleagues such as Dr. Seth Bonder are alarmed that individual departments, units, and functional groups within the health care sy...Data mining gains ground in key sectors
...lyze a terabyte of data equivalent to the storage capacity of a million floppy disks in a fraction of the time needed for human analysis. Keeping in mind the fact that many end users may not be highly skilled statisticians, data mining solutions providers are designing user-friendly software tools with visu...New drug proves helpful for treating long-term insomnia
...ent improvements in the patients' ratings of their capacity to function well during the day, said the researchers. Impairments in daytime function are one aspect of chronic insomnia, and the new study represents the first time any sleep medication has been shown to consistently improve all of the components t...Shape of beverage glass influences how much people pour and drink
...randomly given a tall and short glass of identical capacity in which to pour their orange juice. The tall glas...umption. "Because people believe there is greater capacity in a tall, slender glass, they will pour less into it, but thinking the opposite with a short, wide ...Evidence that neurons prune only 'twigs' to rewire themselves
...make neurons hyperactive, "so we knew they had the capacity to undergo change," said Katz. "We've concluded from these findings that the overall theme of this area of the brain is stability, and that these dendrites are not undergoing large-scale changes under natural conditions, even in response to changes i...Academy launches eBriefings Web site to help scientists
...alter criminal behavior, increase a persons memory capacity or intelligence. Each eBriefing features: Conference overview, including goals, background information and research agenda Meeting report and highlights Highlights of presentations and summaries of panel discussions Speakers abstracts and ...NIH grants support health disparities biomedical research
...rovide support to enhance the competitive research capacity and infrastructure at minority colleges and universities that offer doctorates in the health and health-related sciences. Institutions eligible to apply for RCMI grants must have one or more under-represented minority groups that individually or coll...Bone marrow cells improve failing heart function
... as a whole was severely limited in their physical capacity or activity at baseline and now the treated group are leading pretty active lives, Perin said. "One of the participants in the treatment group was in his apartment building during a blackout and had to walk up eight flights of stairs. He did it, an...Big cut in heart failure problems from one hour of education
...t the major symptoms and measures of heart-pumping capacity are; what drugs are used to treat heart failure, why there are so many, how they work, what their benefit is and what side effects they can cause; and what lifestyle changes and habits can improve a heart failure patient's prospects. She also discus...Multi-hospital angioplasty improvement effort reduces deaths and complications
... assigned one point, and those whose heart-pumping capacity is less than 50 percent get 0.9 points. Those who are having PCI within 24 hours of suffering a heart attack get 1.4 points, but those who have successfully withstood a previous PCI procedure get half a point back. Using this simple bedside scoring m...Jefferson scientists use gene therapy to restore function of damaged heart cells in laboratory
...," Dr. Koch says. "A failing heart then has little capacity to respond to exercise or stress because there are fewer receptors and the remaining receptors are more or less turned off. "We have thought that inhibiting ARK could increase signaling and increase function," he explains. In the laboratory dish, t...Interracial interactions are cognitively demanding
...s of the interracial interaction result in reduced capacity to engage in subsequent cognitive tasks, say the researchers. For the study, thirty white individuals were measured for racial bias, which involved a computer test to record the ease with which individuals associate white American and black American ......h time and money) is needed to improve state-level capacity to implement comprehensive tobacco control programs."...