States find alternate routes to health coverage
...ins palpable. "State officials continued to foster debate on strategies to expand health insurance" says Alice Burton, SCI program director. "States are finding alternate routes to expand coverage and make existing programs work most effectively in this changing environment," says Burton. Most states en...Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
...rsity Baptist Medical Center. "The hormone therapy debate is one more example of a larger issue: are the medications that doctors prescribe safe, and do the benefits outweigh any risks?" said Michelle Naughton, Ph.D., lead author of an article in the current issue of Journal of Social Issues. The researche...Brain activity of men and women during hostile or impulsive acts differs less on nicotine
... same stimuli -- a result sure to fuel the ongoing debate over fundamental variations in brain function based on gender. Since these differences are present even in non-smokers, they appear to be inherent differences in brain metabolism and function between men and women. The study also found that nicotine ...Suicidal behaviour caused by antidepressants 'cannot be ruled out'
...depressant drugs in children and adolescents. "The debate is not yet done, but these papers crystallise arguments that have been drifting in the ether these past months," says Kamran Abbasi, BMJ Acting Editor. "How many people who turned to 'happy pills' would not have done so if they had been fully aware o...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
...lated, genetic characteristics of a child. "Public debate and media coverage of reproductive genetic technologies hide a surprising level of concordance among Americans for using genetic testing to identify risks of disease," says Kathy Hudson, director of the Johns Hopkins University-affiliated Center, whi...Can routine commercial cord blood banking be scientifically and ethically justified?
...nking scientifically and ethically justifiable? A debate in this month's PLoS Medicine looks at both sides of the commercial cord blood controversy. Nicholas M. Fisk, Professor of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, and Irene A. G. Roberts, Professor of Paediatric Haematology, both at Imperial College Lond...Disease testing for immigrants: Discrimination disguised as public health policy
...ealth threats posed by immigrants. But the intense debate these proposals have generated-mainly because of their similarity to current government policies-has unfortunately obscured a more important point: that disease must not be a basis for discrimination, writes The Lancet . In the UK, migration has bee...New book on anti-aging hype consolidates latest research
...focuses on the history of anti-aging research, the debate among scientists on the societal implications of modifying the biological rate of aging, and the reality of what is currently known about the aging process. Further attention is given to growth hormones and supplements and legal issues associated wit...Society of Hospital Medicine to launch new medical journal
...pital medicine and foster responsible and balanced debate on medical issues or healthcare trends that affect hospital medicine and patient care. "The journal will also inform readers about non-clinical aspects of hospital medicine and public health, including the political, philosophic, ethical, legal, en...Men more likely to get screened for prostate cancer than colon cancer, U-M study finds
..., test, is more controversial. Experts continue to debate what PSA level is cause for follow-up, and research suggests the test has not led to fewer deaths from prostate cancer. "Colon cancer screening is proven to be effective at reducing deaths from colon cancer, while the effectiveness of the PSA test in...The impact of cruciate ligament rupture on osteoarthritis of the knee
...for OA patients with ACL ruptures is still open to debate and investigation. "Arthroscopic reconstruction of early ACL rupture has recently been shown to lessen episodes of rotational instability compared with knees that remain ACL deficient, leading to the speculation that reconstructive surgery may reduc...2005 Behavioral Sciences & Health Services Research Award
...ws, Dr. Hausen has the rare ability to stimulate a debate instead of just rejecting misinterpreted data or analyses performed in an inappropriate way....Orchestra pit no danger to hearing
...rsion of Applied Acoustics settles a long-standing debate as to whether playing in the pit causes hearing loss. While most studies have tested noise level in concert halls, little has been known about that in an orchestra pit. "The orchestra musicians are part of a union and they were concerned about the no...Euroscience Open Forum 2006 launches call for proposals
...vide an interdisciplinary forum for open dialogue, debate and discussion as well as showcase European achievements right across the scientific spectrum. Through ESOF, researchers and scientists, as well as journalists and the general public are provided with an adequate platform for exchanging views and dis...Public policy should address the social factors behind ill health
...nants of Health, which will review evidence, raise debate and recommend policies to improve health on a national and global level. The Commission will be chaired by Professor Marmot and includes global experts on health, education, housing and economics. Professor Marmot concludes: "Inequalities in health b...Kandel pays tribute to Hubel's and Wiesel's 25-year partnership and work in neurobiology & vision
...ricate mechanisms. Their discoveries also renewed debate on the "nature" vs. "nurture" question: Are the nerve connections responsible for vision innate or do they develop through experience via the early life of an animal or human? In celebration of their unusually long collaboration and the publicatio......countries during recent decades, and there is much debate about exposure to pets in early life and later development of asthma and allergy. Some studies have suggested that keeping pets actually protects against later allergy - i.e., that early exposure may somehow modify an individual's immune system to to......sing the role of uric acid in heart disease. The debate over the role of uric acid in heart disease has been going on for more than 50 years, starting with a paper published in 1951 which found higher serum uric acid concentrations in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) compared with controls. Sinc...