Six Football Players Died In 1997 Season: New Study
...en completelyrecovered from catastrophic accidents during games or practice. "Players need to be rem.... Shorter practices and non-contact drills during which players don't wearhelmets can help prevent heatstroke and reduce accidents, he said. Playerssh...Walking Or Bed Rest OK For First Stage Of Labor, UT Southwestern Research Shows
... gynecology researchers have concludedthat walking during the first stage of labor is neither harmful nor be...obstetrics practice dictates that a woman lie down during labor, but, as manydoctors know, patients sometimes want to walk around, hoping to find comfort inmo......third of thewomen reported headaches at some point during the two-week observation period. Serious side eff...Over two-thirds of successful abortions took place during the four hours womenwere asked to wait in the clinic, while 22 percent occurred at home and the rest......ent groupsaw their testosterone levels rise by 21% during the study. The team also looked at tissue samples for a marker of benign disease -- calledhyperplastic epithelial tissue -- and two markers associated with increased riskof prostate cancer -- the presence of precancerous lesions known as PIN (prosta...Repairing Cranio-Facial Deformities From The Inside Out
...less cumbersome in size and virtually unnoticeable during use since itis implanted internally. The device, which is not much larger than a standardpaper clip, is fixed to the jaw and then widened one millimeter each day by thepatient. The distraction process, which makes room for the new bone to grow,take...Mini-Pill Increases Risk Of Chronic Diabetes In Women With History Of Diabetes During Pregnancy
...LES, August 12, 1998 -- Women who develop diabetes during pregnancy facean increased risk of later developin...o had developedgestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) during a recent pregnancy, but whose abilityto process sugars had returned to normal after delivery. Duri...Remembering Your Medications: Older Are Wiser
...participants didn't make a single medication error during the twomonths studied. Of all the mistakes that were made, more than 98 percent wereerrors of omission; only 1.2 percent took an extra dose. Perfect adherence was more common among older than younger adults, Parks found. Fully 47 percent of those ov...Study Captures Images Of Memories Being Formed Within The Human Brain
...n researchers compared the level of brain activity during processingof words remembered with activity for words later forgotten, they found thatincreased activity in specific structures in the left frontal and temporal lobespredicted whether participants would accurately and confidently remember whethera pa...History In The Making: The Discovery And Clinical Trials Of Viagra
...t 24-27. It is one of 6,700 papers to bepresented during the four-day meeting. Who Dr. Nicholas K. Terrett, Discovery Chemistry Pfizer Central Research,Sandwich, Kent When Monday, August 24, 12:45 p.m. Where Sheraton Boston Hotel, Beacon A Note Information from the speaker is ...New "Body-Friendly" Fat Substitute Can Help To Transform
... benefits of Nu-Trim and other beta-glucan sources during the ACS meetingtoday: Wallace H. Yokoyama, Ph.D., a scientist at the USDA research center in Albany,Calif., said that because of the way it is processed, Nu-Trim makes more solublebeta-glucans available to the digestive system than does a comparable ...Sunlight Poses Universal Cataract Risk
...lic-- those who work indoors and only get sunlight during leisure activities in theyard or on vacation -- ma...em about their use of glasses, sunglasses and hats during workand leisure activity, as well as the geographic locations of these activities. The team ......mplete extensivequestionnaires about what happened during and after delivery and reviewed allmedical records...hree-quarters of the 41 extremely premature babies during the year wereresuscitated; 59 percent died, Doron said. Of those born at 24 weeks gestation,83 perce......r key findings of the FIT analysis to be presented during the European WorldCongress include: Patients wit...d be continuedregardless of change in bone density during the first year," said Cummings. "For the few women who do not have increases in bone mineral density...Better Survival For Women With Breast Cancer -New Evidence On Chemotherapy
...of chemotherapytypically prevented about 11 deaths during the next 10 years for every 100 womentreated. But, among younger women with no evidence of disease spread, thebenefits of chemotherapy were also substantial - about 7 fewer deaths per 100treated. Chemotherapy produced a small, but real, improvement ...UCSF AIDS Expert Warns Against Early Treatment For HIV Infection
...ufficiently to control HIV." Levy supports therapy during acute or primary infection, noting that "withinday... He notes that mutations occurring at a steadyrate during HIV replication are random and would not select for virusesresistant to current drugs. Instead, he ...Some CFS Patients Benefit From Low-Dose Steroid, But Side Effects Too Risky
...ctivities, moods andsymptoms for two weeks before, during and for six weeks after this treatmentperiod. Based on the primary self-rating instrument used, the Wellness scale, 54.3percent of placebo recipients and 66.7 percent of those who received treatmentjudged their symptoms as improved. The hydrocortiso...... glasses. If they were ever knocked off of my face during analtercation, I'd be in trouble. Now I feel more relaxed and confident about myeyes than I ever have," he said. This enthusiasm is typical of the reaction of patients who haveundergone excimer laser surgery, said Dr. H. Dwight Cavanagh, vice...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...ple, as an airplane wing is buffeted by turbulence during flight, complicated changes happen to the internal structure of the metal which can lead_in the absence of inspection and maintenance_to its failure. The proposed research will examine how: the atoms in the metal form defect lines (called dislocati...Study Ties Cerebral Palsy To Inflammation And Blood-Clotting Abnormalities
...f CP have beenattributed to suffocation (asphyxia) during birth, but recent studies haveindicated that this problem accounts for only a minority of cases. The newfindings support those of a study by Drs. Nelson and Grether last year (2) whichshowed that babies of normal birthweight who were exposed to inf......n who are of normal body weight. Onset is usually during adolescence andis characterized by bingeing and purging, either by vomiting or using laxatives. Women with the disease often have a distorted image of their bodies, changes inbrain chemistry and psychiatric symptoms such as depression, anxiety,obsess...