Children Of The Great Depression By Glen H. Elder, Jr.
...ount of the life course of people who werechildren during the Great Depression of 1929-1939, and came to maturity at theoutset of World War II, offers a convincing story of survival, endurance andachievement. Born in 1921, this sample of Oakland, Calif. residents experiencedeconomic privation, some ...Medical Students Are Taking Risks With HIV During Elective Studies
...have an elective period as part of their training during which they are encouraged to pursue their clinical...ines regarding protection from blood borne viruses during clinical studies, including electives. This view is supported in a paper by Peter Moss and Nick Bee...Cancer Added To Hangover Headaches
...on to alcohol metabolism, acetaldehyde is produced during normaldigestion and is found in many foods, automo... and cigarette smoke. It also is commonly produced during industrial processes to make dyes, plastics,and synthetic rubbers. Scientists even found N2-ethyl-d...JAMA Study Shows Jefferson Medical College Program Brings Family Physicians To Small Town America
...evlin was able to take his family medicinetraining during his junior and senior years of medical school in r... "The PSAP allowed me to complete training during my years of medicalschool in rural areas and also conduct some interesting academic research," saysD...New Surgery At Cedars-Sinai Provides Hope For Epilepsy Patient Who Has Had A Lifetime Of Seizures
...lly with greater intensity. Theepilepsy that began during infancy seemed to abruptly end at age five, thenresumed during her freshman year of high school. Mary Kate remembers a "ringingsound" then that would herald her se...MIT Microchip Releases Chemicals On Demand
...to flow between the two. The cathoderemains intact during this process, but the anode dissolves due to anele...Achim M. Göpferich, an MIT visiting scientist during the earlystages of the project now at the Lehrstuhl Für Pharmazeutische TechnologieUniversit...Forecasting Killer Heat: UD Systems Predict Deadly Weather Worldwide
...an average of 490 to anastounding 1,260 fatalities during a single 24-hour period in 1966. Every summerin th..."showcase" heat-warning systems for selectedcities during a January 1997 meeting of climate and human health experts inFreiburg, Germany, says Gerd Jendritzky...Campaign Targets Oral Complications Of Cancer Treatment
...re cancer therapy, as well as supportive oral care during therapy, enables the patient to proceed through tr...patient is a key player in maintaining oral health during cancer treatment. Campaign materials for patients explain the importance of seeing a dentist to ensu...Nurse Practitioners Reducing Costs, Expanding Care
...care across the life span ofa patient, and usually during regular office hours." To help meet the demand for advanced practice nurses, universities such asPurdue have broadened their graduate-level nursing curriculum and made it moreaccessible using distance education technology such as two-way videocon...Statistician Keeps Health Researchers Ahead Of The Curve
...ly if theirmothers consumed insufficient vitamin A during pregnancy. Drug addiction expertswanted to see whe...s. The mothers had beentested for vitamin A levels during their third trimesters. The biostatisticiansdeveloped a growth curve showing that children whose mot...An Ergonomically Redesigned Analgesia Delivery Device Proves Safer And More Efficient
...cally, nurses neglected to administer a bolus dose during the programming task, an error that is not unexpec...at The Toronto Hospital to administer a bolus dose during programming as was required of them during the experiment. This aspect of the experimental condition...AAPS Announces Call For Nominations For 1999 Awards
...minations for the 1999 AAPS Awards, to bepresented during the 1999 AAPS Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on Nov. 14 in NewOrleans, LA. The following is a full list of the 1999 AAPS Awards. The deadlinefor nominations follows each award. New Investigator Grant In Pharmaceutics And Pharmaceutical Technology ...AAPS Announces First Online Education Event
...dapted from the live presentation which took place during the AAPS EasternRegional Meeting in June of 1998. The online version consists of audio lectureswith synchronized PowerPoint slides. Beginning today, this online course will be available to the general public.Listed below is information regarding the...Study Finds Olestra Chips Don't Generate Gastrointestinal Woes
...e olestra group reported anaverage of one more day during the six weeks of more frequent bowel movements. Olestra-eaters in the top 10 percent of chip consumption had somewhatmore frequent bowel movements than other volunteers, while those in the top 10percent of regular chip consumption had somewha...Far Few Drugs Are Tested On Children
...roportion of water in the body changesdramatically during the first two years of life, which affects the concentrationof a drug. Finally, children's ability to respond to a drug may be different."The organ upon which it is supposed to work may be immature," says Robert Ward,a paediatric pharmacologist at th...Promising Bone Cancer Therapy Advances To Next Level
...g gauged. Patients receiving tin-117m DTPA during the trial are being given one ofthree doses, either one of the two amounts used in the previous BNL studies or ahigher dose. Patients receiving Metastron receive the approved therapeuticdose....Duke Doctors Can Now Cure Most Babies Born With Fatal Immune Disease
...nts vulnerable to infection is alsoof some benefit during treatment, Buckley said. Because they have no T-cells,SCID patients do not require chemotherapy to destroy them, as is the case withcancer patients. "Patients with SCID have no immune systems to reject the transplants.Our approach avoids chem...Women Who Have Invasive Cervical Cancer Benefit From Addition Of Chemotherapy To Radiation Treatment
...so received the drugs cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil during at leastthe first and fourth weeks of radiation treatment. About 100 of the volunteerswere treated at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The RTOG study showed that 73 percent of the women who receivedchemotherapy and radia...Morning Coffee Boosts Blood Pressure, Stress Hormones All Day
...essure seen in this study --an average of 3 points during the day and evening -- can have clinicalsignifican...t rate and stresshormone levels at timed intervals during normal working conditions, whilesubjects are exposed to a range of moods and activities. "Yo......act that fewer people are dying from heart attacks during clinical trialsplaces certain limitations on researchers, he said. For a study to havestatistical significance using death as its only endpoint, more than 50,000patients would need to be enrolled. "Since this is not very practical, we have essentia...