Sleepyheads, snorers face risk of stroke
...t during the day. We found that certain sleep characteristics such as sleeping for more than eight hours, the tendency to fall asleep during the day and the tendency to snore influence the likelihood of having a stroke, says Qureshi. Individuals who snore severely or have trouble staying awake during the day sh......located adjacent to these tumors. By analyzing the characteristics exhibited by genes in these various tissues, the scientists hoped to find those that might be involved in the progression of normal glial cells to malignant cells. As a result of their study, the team for the first time documented four genes that exp...Unergrad's invention may deliver life-saving medicine
...in important research is one of the distinguishing characteristics of an undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins. About 80 percent of the university's undergraduates engage in some form of independent research during their four years, most often alongside top researchers in their fields. The Provost's Undergraduate...Undergraduate conducts high-tech tests on dental enamel
...in important research is one of the distinguishing characteristics of an undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins. About 80 percent of the university's undergraduates engage in some form of independent research during their four years, most often alongside top researchers in their fields....Study: Children with more hours of child care act more aggressively
... and direct observation and controlled for varying characteristics such as family backgrounds. On the positive side, both high-quality care, regardless of type, and center care, independent of quality, appeared to boost intellectual growth, memory and language skills. Differences were small but statistically signifi...Use or non-use of beta blockers provides clues for improving healthcare quality in hospitals
...re not well understood." The researchers found six characteristics at hospitals where B-blockers were used frequently: goals for improvement; administrative support for improvement efforts; support among clinicians for such efforts; design and implementation of initiatives for performance improvement; use of data co......groups were equivalent with respect to demographic characteristics (age and gender), etiology of renal disease and prevalence of co-existing conditions (e.g., diabetes), as well as blood tests and physical examination measures (e.g., blood pressure, weight, height). The clinical study design was successful in achiev...New research shows workplace homicides more likely at smaller businesses open late, Saturdays
...hors could not assess the contribution of personal characteristics or behaviors to the risk of homicides on the job w...o describe the occurrence of deaths or injuries by characteristics whose distribution can be estimated from population statistics, like industry, occupation and worker...Biomolecule studied for medical uses
... and tenacious links with other substances. These characteristics make them "ideal candidates for medical and tissue engineering applications," said Mark Grinstaff, the assistant chemistry professor who heads the Duke team. One potential application, which Duke Medical Center eye researchers are beginning to test, ...UCSF study finds shortage of California dentists in rural, poor, minority communities
...entists in California and to examine the community characteristics associated with the supply of dentists. There were 19,801 dentists in the survey provided by a computerized file from the American Dental Association. The plight of rural communities in recruiting and retaining health professionals is not new, Mertz ...Americans leading healthier lives, reducing risk of death from heart disease, UCSF study finds
...od pressure and cholesterol levels and the smoking characteristics of the US adult population during the period of 1981 to 1990 and then projected those estimates to 2015. The researchers then estimated the costs of the population-wide medical efforts initiated to reduce heart disease risk factors (ie: blood pressur...News tips from the care and outcomes meeting
...ts that clinical factors rather than socioeconomic characteristics of patients were increasingly more important determinants of who undergoes revascularization. Jing Fang, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 718-430-2316; fang@aecom.yu.edu . P83 Which heart failure patients get which medications? Resu...Four researchers awarded Dutch Nobel Prize
...ng the hereditary component in various personality characteristics from environmental factors. She will use part of the prize money to extend the twins register by adding data on other family members. In the field of cognitive development, Professor Boomsma has discovered that the hereditary component of a childs I...Chemical society convenes regional meeting in San Antonio, October 17-20
...wastewater sources. The researcher has studied the characteristics of the lakes. (Vincent Romeo, University of Texas at San Antonio, 210-458-4450) General chair of the meeting is Susan Weintraub, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (210-567-4043). Conference program chairs are Stephan Bach, Un...UNC to share in $34 million study of what happens to cancer patients
...aken all will be examined along with other patient characteristics and experiences. "Well learn quite a lot from this study, including whether being poor, living in rural areas or being a minority affects how patients do with either of these two important cancers," Sandler said. "Of special interest to us will be pa...Consortium aims to improve protection of human research subjects
... to create a comprehensive database on the current characteristics of clinical research, including data on the number and nature of clinical trials being conducted, the number of participants enrolled, the costs of IRB review and oversight and the source of funding for the research. "For example, although IR...Stanford researchers challenge value of widely used prostate cancer diagnostic methods
... was not a useful predictor of any of the measured characteristics of the cancer. They also showed that surgical cure rates in men with PSA less than 4 ng/ml and men with levels as high as 10 ng/ml were no different. The bottom line is that prostate cancer, like all other cancers, cannot be detected at an e...Researchers identify for the first time proteins vital to maintaining nervous system architecture
...t is a primitive organism because it shares enough characteristics of human biology to be of value for understanding basic life processes. Its fertilized egg goes through cell divisions that have been well characterized until becoming a 959-celled adult worm. The nervous system consists of approximately 300 neurons,...Honing the tools to identify clues to surviving cancer
...eenhuman genotypes and the physical and biological characteristics of tissuesand organ systems. The new SPIN builds upon twenty-five years of experience with theinternationally respected Regenstrief Medical Records System. RMRS is adatabase with over 300 million laboratory results, radiology and pathologyreports,...Women more likely to get regular cancer screening if primary care is well-organized, study finds
...udy is the first to examine the impact of specific characteristics of primary care delivery on willingness to have cancer screening tests while also taking into account a variety of attitudinal, socioeconomic and insurance barriers to screening. It involved 1,205 primarily low-income African American women over the ...