EPA Choosing Lab Science Over Epidemiology To Establish Drinking Water Guidelines
...f opinion among scientists overtechnical issues to cast doubt on results it finds inconvenient."...Nerve Agent Sensor A Million Times More Sensitive
...ular molecule you want to find, says Murray. "The cast is made of a stiffplastic so that when the molecule is removed, the shape of the molecule in thecastis preserved." Because the structure of each molecule is unique, the probe onlyrecognizes the specific molecule for which you are probing. The actual...UI Study Yields Encouraging Results For New Breast Cancer Treatment
... the papers presented at the ASCO meeting may have cast some doubt aboutthe usefulness of high-dose chemotherapy for patients with breast cancer, it istoo early to discard this approach," Gingrich said. "All we can be sure of isthat some of the first organized comparative trials to test this approachfail...Visionary physician pioneers alternative clubfoot treatment
...ear-normal muscle and bone alignment. Five or six cast changes are sufficient to correct most clubfeet. The method offers an alternative to the series of surgeries traditionally prescribed for many patients. Despite the success of the method, Ponseti, Weinstein and Dietz continue to struggle against tim...Hostility, coercion, sexism among causes of harassment in military
... the Defense Department. "The data reported here cast new light on the nature (as opposed to simply the incidence) of sexual harassment of female military personnel and suggest the wisdom of reframing both policy debates and interventions," wrote Fitzgerald, Drasgow and then-graduate students Vicki J. M...Effective Clinical Practice, Nov/Dec 2000 highlights
... half of these adverse events are preventable, and cast doubt on the estimate that up to 98,000 Americans die each year in the hospital because of preventable medical errors. To appropriately allocate limited resources to this problem, policy makers will need more credible estimates (How Many Deaths Are D...Intensity modulated radiation therapy at Fox Chase Cancer Center
...y centered in the treatment field. A foam mold or cast is made of the patients lower trunk or seat area. The mold hardens and helps to immobilize the patient each day for treatment. CT scans and MRI images are taken and fused together to further pin-point the target. Fox Chase Cancer Center was the ...Does direct to consumer drug advertising medicalise normal human conditions?
...ion of serious disease, many advertising campaigns cast too wide a net, adds the author In late 1999, Americans on average saw nine prescription drug advertisements a day on television. To an unprecedented degree, they portrayed the educational message of a pill for every ill and increasingly an ill for ......, they dissolved the liver tissue, leaving a solid cast of the organ's blood vessels. From this model they were able to take measurements of vessel diameters, branching angles and the distances between vessels. They fed the numbers into software that built a 3D fractal-like computer model of a liver's blo...Is government health policy based on evidence or assumption?
...nce of conventional wisdom and "expert" advice and cast a more critical and objective eye over the facts, they conclude....Study disputes link between increased birthweight and reduced blood pressure later in life (p 659)
...a meta-analysis in this week's issue of THE LANCET cast doubt over the widely held belief that lower birthweight is associated with higher blood pressure in adult life. The 'fetal origins' hypothesis proposes that impaired fetal development leading to low birthweight is associated with poorer health outco...Free smoke alarm programmes are failing
...moke alarms in all their properties, these results cast doubt on whether installation programmes are worth while, conclude the authors....Emory gathers global experts to address business and legal challenges of HIV/AIDS fight
A multinational cast of industry leaders, policy makers and leading scholars will gather at Emory University School of Law April 3-4 for a public symposium addressing the legal, medical, public health and development challenges of fighting the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. C...Lengthening achilles tendon reduces recurrence of diabetic foot ulcers
...velop foot ulcers. To treat them, clinicians put a cast on the infected foot to keep pressure off the woun...a foot cast, while the other group received both a cast and the Achilles tendon lengthening procedure. To lengthen the Achilles tendon, Jeffrey E. Johnson, ...Anaemia treatment could worsen cancer prognosis
... European study in this week's issue of THE LANCET cast doubt over the value of treating anaemia with erythropoietin (epoetin beta) among patients who have cancer. Results of the study show that anaemic patients fare better in terms of reduced cancer progression and increased survival if their anaemia is ...Simpler, cheaper way to make and fit prosthetics developed
...tise of a specially trained prosthetist. A plaster cast of the stump is made and then filled with plaster to create a model. The model is then used to make a socket, which is adjusted to optimize its ability to contour to the individual's stump and to comfortably bear the weight of that individual. Socket...Aspirin is most cost effective way to prevent heart disease
...idogrel, and 61,400 for simvastatin. These results cast doubt on present policy, says the author. A more efficient prevention strategy would be to offer most men over 55 and most women over 65 aspirin than to give statins to a few high-risk patients....Age-related muscle loss linked to protein interplay, says Stanford researcher
...auts or in people whose limbs are immobilized in a cast or from bed rest. "If you presume that normal muscle bulk is maintained by gradual replacement of muscle tissue by satellite cells and that gradual replacement is diminished in older people, that would lead to atrophy," Rando said. "Figuring out atro...Drug company fees for FDA reviews havent accelerated approvals, study finds
...st fees. As a result, the authors say the findings cast doubt on claims that PDUFA benefited more powerful firms disproportionately, or that the user fees directly promote industry influence on the drug approval process. But their findings also call into question the industry's claims that PDUFA and its ...Drop in hormone therapy use shows physicians heed clinical trial findings, Stanford researchers say
...doesn't necessarily contradict past studies, which cast doubt on that process, but it illustrates the conditions under which physicians are most likely to respond. In particular, special circumstances may be required to engender the response that we observed." The two studies appear in the Jan. 7 issue o...