Raising The Retirement Age In The United States Could Save Billions In Social Security Payments
... a very high tax burdenthat could potentially slow down the growth of the U.S. economy," hesaid. Manton said the United States isn't the only country dealing with this phenomenon. "It's a problem for most developed countries where fertility is dampeningout and older populations are growing rapidly. It's...Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...nt of vaccines works within the body has been shot down by a Purdue University study. Purdue researcher Stanley Hem has found that aluminum hydroxide, a small particle used to carry antigens into the body to boost an immune response, begins to dissolve in the muscle immediately after an injection and is e...Milk Extract May Heal Wounds And Smooth Wrinkles
... - although suchapplications were still a fair way down the track, and depend on the successof human trials. Dr Belford says the main ingredients which make the extract work as ahealing agent are a cocktail of different "growth factors", purifiedfrom the whey. Growth factors are naturally occurring chem...Affordable, Hand-Held Biosensor For Diagnostics
...was able to detect DNA concentrations at levels of down to9 femtograms per square millimeter. (A femtogram is a millionth of a billionthof a gram.) By comparison, current technologies are only capable of detectingamounts about 100 to 1,000 times greater than the new biosensor. "We have found nothi...Jefferson Researcher Finds New Digital X-Ray Technology May Cut Costs And Improve Patient Care
...iology departments to see more patients and cut down on repeat examinations. In time, hospitals could have totally filmless radiology departments, Dr. Shaber noted. “This should improve output and increase productivity, and this is one of the issues that radiologists will have to fac...Stress: It's Not Just All In Your Head; Scientists Map The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life
... their lives. "Numerousstudies show that the lower down you are on the socioeconomic scale, thepoorer your health. This is largely independent of access to health careor lack of health insurance." According to McEwen, the stress of livingin poverty, or working in a low-level job that lacks autonomy, or re...Chemists Closing In On Commercial Potential Of Alkanes
...0 nanoseconds (billionths of a second). To slowit down for detailed study, Bergman and Bradley Moore, another chemist who alsoholds a joint Berkeley Lab-UC Berkeley appointment, conducted experiments inliquefied noble gas solvents under extremely lowtemperatures. Since these conditions are far remo...Diuretics And Beta-Blockers Are Best Drugs To Combat High Blood Pressure, Study Finds
...e medical regimen that would mosteffectively bring down blood pressure with a minimum of adverse effects. ... All of the medications brought some patients down to the HSTP goal. But the pattern of lower treated pressure with the older agents and higher treated...Poor Heart Disease Patients Pay More For Medications, Get Less Preventative Care
...ult, 20 percent of the low income patients had cut down or stoppedtaking medication, versus just 2 percent...ication costs of $100 to $150 a month. If it comes down toa choice between paying the rent, buying food or taking medications, themedication is going to go ...Higher Prices Won't Stop Teenage Smokers
...dult smoking by encouraging current smokers to cut down or quit." However, he says, the latest study shows that "higher taxes will have a statistically insignificant impact on youth decisions to start smoking." The Cornell economists used what they call statistical predictive modeling techniques to make...Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
...the same issue however suggested continued benefit down to a level of 100 mg/dL, although there was some lessening of benefit as LDLapproached the lower levels. Even though the data suggest that there may be attenuation in the benefit ofcholesterol lowering below 125 mg/dL, Grundy stresses that these repo...PITT Researchers Demonstrate Human Brain's Natural Mechanism For Guarding Against Errors
... According to Dr. Carter, a task like driving down the freeway is fairlyroutine for most American drivers. Because the driver is familiar with thissituation, the brain does not need to exercise much executive control. But putthat same driver onto a freeway in England and driving suddenly takes on a...Compound In Meat Prevents Diabetes, Study Suggests
...t from ever occurring. We also want to really nail down the effects on the whole body," Houseknecht says. "We really have a lot to learn about this compound. For one thing, we have not optimized the dose. We picked a dose that is effective in fighting cancer, and started there." In addition to these proje...American Heart Association Comment: Tirofiban -- The Platelet Receptor Blocker For Heart Attack
...keepingblood cholesterol and blood pressure levels down and increasing physicalactivity. "The best way is to prevent the blood clot in the first place," says Fuster, whowas one of the first scientists to show that blood clots that cause heart attackare derived from platelet clumps on top of the fatty buil...Dying To Quit: Why We Smoke And How We Stop
...ette today is worth more than good health 35 years down the road. She notes that in deciding whether or not to quit, smokers' immediate concerns with stress reduction and the pure pleasure of smoking usually win over the seemingly far-off prospect of eventual ill-health or death at an earlier age. Why ca...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
...could simulate smoking levels from two packs a day down to half a pack -- wefind that all the brain damage that occurs at growth-retarding levels ofnicotine is still present at doses that don't affect growth. The brain is muchmore sensitive than the rest of the body," said Slotkin. Nor should the ...Teen Marijuana Use Is Fueled By Change In Attitudes
...uture study also have shown thatmarijuana use goes down when perceived risk and disapproval go up. What the newanalyses show is that these changes cannot be explained by any shifts in theother lifestyle factors that were examined. "Young people did not become distinctly more conservative or conventional ...Research Explains Lithium's Dual Anti-Manic/Anti-Depressive Effect
... strives overtime to reset raised glutamate levels down into a fixed range. When the levelsare too low, as postulated in depression, lithium brings them up into the stableregion. The research findings support clinical observations, he noted. "It takes a few weeks before lithium begins to relieve depress...Walking Or Bed Rest OK For First Stage Of Labor, UT Southwestern Research Shows
...rrentobstetrics practice dictates that a woman lie down during labor, but, as manydoctors know, patients sometimes want to walk around, hoping to find comfort inmotion. Bloom and his colleagues assigned 1,067 women at Parkland MemorialHospital in Dallas in spontaneous labor with uncomplicated preg...... "The behavioral disturbances wear care givers down and areone of the main reasons that patients are admitted to acute andlong-term care institutions," says Porsteinsson. "People don'tput their husbands or mothers in nursing homes because they areforgetful; they're put in a nursing home because they a...