Orchestra pit no danger to hearing
...BA (noise exposure level measured in decibels dB, corrected to the frequency response of the human ear A) for an eight-hour day recommended by institutions such as the U.S. National Institute of Safety and Health, the International Standard Organization (ISO) and also included in the Canadian Standards Assoc...Culture-specific exercise sparks interest of older women
.... Participants were monitored for safety and were corrected by the instructors as needed. By the end of 12 weeks, the women had learned the entire Yang Style 24-posture short form. There were no falls or injuries. One woman dropped out of the program at six weeks due to recurring health problems. Following...Murder, eyewitness identification and the limits of human vision
...cts in the experiments had at least uncorrected or corrected 20/20 vision. "We determined that blurriness and distance are equivalent from the visual system's perspective," said Loftus. "When you make an image smaller you lose information in exactly the same way as happens when you keep the picture large but...Generation gap found in chronic pain
... of their racial group. Even after the researchers corrected for differences in the number of months the patients had lived with their pain, and for differences in gender, marital status and education, the effects remained. Why the gap? A combination of generational characteristics and attitudes, life experie...Pegaptanib provides benefit for neovascular age-related macular degeneration
...ovascularization caused by AMD and a range of best corrected visual acuity of 20/40 to 20/320 in the study eye and of 20/8000 or better in the other eye. Of the 1,208 patients randomly assigned to treatment in the two studies, (297 patients were assigned to receive 0.3 mg of pegaptanib; 305 patients, 1.0 mg of...Surprise! Cells have second source of phosphate
... can go awry in diseases, including cancer, and be corrected by various drugs. The source of these phosphate bits has been known -- a molecule called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. But in their new report, the Johns Hopkins scientists describe a brand new source of phosphate that seems to work with as many pr...Updated press release to October 2004 Cochrane Review
... being repeated, and undertakes to ensure that the corrected results are published as soon as possible....Chernobyl disaster caused cancer cases in Sweden
...f chance, or other unknown disturbances than those corrected for in the analysis, then one possible explanation is that the radiation hastened the growth of already established tumors in their early stages, rather than that new tumors occurred....Brain imaging study of drunk drivers pinpoints neurological changes
...emed aware of the fact that they were impaired and corrected for the deficit. The researchers also found that alcohol had a profound effect on some, but not all, brain circuits activated in sober driving. The areas most profoundly affected by alcohol were the orbital frontal and anterior cingulate areas, which...Infection puts extremely low birth weight infants at risk for developmental delays
... evaluated when they were between 18 and 22 months corrected gestational age--equivalent to the age they would be had they been born at term. The researchers found that the majority of these infants (65 percent) had at least one infection during their stay in the hospital after birth. According to Dr. Higgins...Women wait longer for emergency heart treatment
... to die in the hospital. Even when the researchers corrected for the fact that the women in the study had more co-existing health problems, they still found that women were slightly more likely to die before returning home. "We need to do a better job in making sure that both men and women recognize and ...New ways identified to treat 'lazy eye' in children: Beyond eye patches and daily drops
...avors one eye over the other. The condition can be corrected by temporarily impairing vision in the "strong" eye, forcing the weak eye to work harder to compensate. This traditionally has been accomplished when a child wears an eye patch over the strong eye. An earlier study by the same research group, kno...Not all beers are created equal
...h year in the US. For example, in 2000, using the corrected percentages results in about 10 additional standard drinks yearly for each person aged 14 or older in the U.S. State differences range from half a drink less in Iowa, where light beer is especially popular, to more than 14 drinks more in Mississ...Half the population at increased risk of neural tube defects
... levels associated with CT and TT genotypes can be corrected by folic acid, explain the authors. Therefore, this study underscores the importance of public health intervention programmes of folic acid supplementation and food fortification targeted at all women of childbearing age to prevent neural tube defect...Prudent-layperson laws help get insurance coverage for emergency room visits
...esenting symptoms and that these laws have largely corrected such practices," he said. However he stressed that being treated in the ED was not in question, given other laws requiring hospitals to at least screen everyone who comes through the door. "The only issue was who is responsible for paying after tre...Approximately one-third of people older than 40 have vision disturbances
...ctive errors. Usually, these errors can be easily corrected with glasses, contact lenses or refractive surgery. However, the high prevalence of refractive errors and the costs of correcting these errors make these conditions a substantial public health and economic problem in many parts of the world. John H....Computerized prescriber order entry systems may have limited impact on patient harm
...common in the hospital, but are usually caught and corrected before reaching the patient," said Bobb. "The bottom line is that hospitals that have invested in CPOE and support clinical pharmacists have a greater likelihood of preventing medication errors." Northwestern Memorial Hospital is currently imple...Brain activity, including memory-processing, changes in Tourette syndrome
...ctivation in people with Tourette syndrome that is corrected when they are given a dopamine-type medicine." The study is published online and will appear in the May issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry . Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers compared eight adults with Tou...Dietary supplements containing ephedra and caffeine may cause heart problems
...eine, in addition to several other ingredients, on corrected QT (QTc) interval duration and systolic blood pressure. The QTc interval is a measure of the time intervals that occur during the electrical impulses that stimulate the heart to contract. A longer QTc interval can increase the risk of developing......nary resuscitation (CPR) and could potentially be corrected through dispatcher training, variation in CPR technique, or community education. (Factors Impeding Dispatcher-Assisted Telephone Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, p. 731) In this study of 404 sudden cardiac arrest victims, 25 percent received bystander ...