UCLA teams with Drew to provide cancer care
... million patients from the Crenshaw area south and east to Compton and Paramount. More than 30 percent of Drew patients live at or below the poverty level. About 23 percent of patients are black, while 58 percent are Latino. Drew also serves a large Asian population, Norris said. Dr. Charles K. Francis, p...Argonne licenses Anti-Jet-Lag-Diet software to online company
...s less likely to experience jet lag when traveling east and 16 times less likely when traveling west. The ...es, soldiers who used the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet flying east were 7.5 times less likely to experience jet lag. On the return trip west, soldiers who used the Ant...Concern for European public health as EU border extends to the east
...hat the widening of the European Union (EU) to the east could have potentially adverse effects on public h...s: "The changing patterns of communicable diseases east of the EU's new border has implications for how the EU aids the strengthening of public health syste...Envisat Symposium report day 3: Satellites supporting Kyoto - our future is in our forests
...hey are often affected by fires. In one vast fire east of Lake Baikal in 2003, some 202 000 square kilometres were burnt. MERIS and other optical sensors were used to home in on affected areas, then ASAR was used to peer through clouds and smoke mode, showing a successful ability to detect fire scars of ...Racial differences, poverty linked to mammography use
...e to the largest concentration of Native Americans east of the Mississippi River. In trying to identify a way to increase use of mammography among poor, rural women over age 40, researchers surveyed 897 women (33 percent African American, 41 percent Native American, 25 percent white) about their knowledg...Anniversary of one of the largest hepatitis A outbreaks in the US brings experts together
...cluding the one in Pennsylvania, occurred in areas east of the Mississippi that do not typically have high rates of hepatitis A," said Elders. "If you take a closer look at the 17 states where routine hepatitis A vaccination should be implemented or considered, you'll see what an impact the vaccination h...Leadership gift from Sulpizio Family for new state-of-the-art cardiovascular center at UCSD
...and Sally B. Thornton Hospital on the university's east campus in La Jolla. "We are excited about UCSD's efforts in the area of cardiovascular research and are pleased to help support such outstanding physicians and researchers, many of whom are among the best in the nation," said Rich Sulpizio. "Our fam...Drugs used to treat Alzheimer's in nursing homes are worsening sufferers' illness
...d at 93 patients with dementia across the north east of England over six months. Those in the study taking quetiapine experienced a doubling in cognitive decline compared with the control group who had been given placebo. Those taking another antipsychotic in the trial, rivatigmine, showed...Unsafe water and poor sanitation causes 4000 children to die each day
...eople without safe drinking water, particularly in east Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The article calls for immediate concerted efforts to confront the reality that sanitation coverage rates in the developing world barely keep pace with population growth. Four out of ten people in the world do not have acc...