Report on health insurance coverage of Iowa children shows gaps
...ost important things we saw was that nearly one in eight children, or 12 percent, were without health insurance at some point in 2000. Although the data are from 2000, national studies indicate that the number of insured children has not changed since then," said Damiano, who also is a professor in the UI ...ZYVOX(R) demonstrates high success rate for patients who develop MRSA surgical site infections
...ents who took ZYVOX. The drug was discontinued in eight percent of the ZYVOX patients and four percent of the vancomycin patients. Serious adverse events occurred in 10 patients (15 percent) in the ZYVOX group and six patients (9 percent) in the vancomycin group. About ZYVOX ZYVOX was initially approve...Inadequate sleep in late pregnancy may influence labor and delivery
...ring women. It is generally accepted that seven to eight hours of sleep per night is the average needed for healthy adults, while six hours of sleep or less per night is considered severe sleep restriction, she said. The study assessed sleep of 131 women in their ninth month of pregnancy. Study findings sh...Study provides clues to alcohol's cancer connection
...ed cells. Embryos exposed to ethanol had more than eight times the level of cancer cell invasion of blood vessels compared to the control group. The authors say their findings "support the hypothesis that the induction of angiogenesis and VEGF expression by ethanol represent an important mechanism of cance...Study finds lemons, lilac among top 10 smells that predict Alzheimer's Disease
...0-smell test, which can be administered in five to eight minutes, were analyzed in Dr. Devanand's study which evaluated 150 patients with MMCI every six months and 63 healthy elderly subjects annually, with average follow-up duration of five years. Inability to identify 10 specific odors (derived from the ...Risk of stroke doubles for migraine sufferers
...also taking the oral contraceptive pill were up to eight times more likely to suffer a stroke than those not taking the pill. Though these results were at odds with other studies which suggest a smaller degree of increased risk for women in this category indicating the need for much more research in this...Novel p53 gene-based therapy boosts immune system and reduces tumor size
...ncer, each of whom had large tumors (an average of eight centimeters, larger than a silver dollar), received several injections of Advexin directly into the tumor, followed by a course of chemotherapy. The combination therapy resulted in significantly smaller tumors - all shrunk by more than 50 percent to ...Stressed mice quicker to get skin cancer
...first skin tumor in one of the mice appeared after eight weeks of testing. Mice exposed only to UV light began developing tumors 13 weeks later. By 21 weeks of testing, 14 of the 40 stressed mice had at least one tumor, and two non-stressed mice had tumors. Most tumors were squamous cell skin cancers, a...Marine snail study gives insights into human brain
...l be helped by his selection in November as one of eight scientists awarded the prestigious Senator Jacob Javits Award in the Neurosciences, which provides up to seven years of research funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). The Jacob Javits Award is presented to ...Sleep loss boosts appetite, may encourage weight gain
...than one out of four young adults, sleeps at least eight hours a night. As sleep time fell, average weights rose. In 1960 only one out of four adults was overweight and about one out of nine was considered obese, with a body mass index of 30 or more. Now two out of three adults is overweight and nearly on...Immigration & psychiatric disorders
...mong U.S.-born Mexican Americans (12 percent) were eight times those of Mexican Americans born outside the United States (1.7 percent). After controlling for age, sex, marital status, place of residence, geographic region, education, and family income, the authors examined relationships among the four...Study shows haploidentical natural killer cells may provide hope for some patients with AML
...ients with AML were compared to a control group of eight patients with renal cancer. The patients with renal cancer received a low intensity outpatient immune suppressive dose of the chemotherapy drug, fludarabine. The patients with AML received a higher intensity inpatient treatment of the chemotherapy dr...November/December 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...office visits, diagnoses and medications, and have eight times as many hospital admissions. The authors suggest that better targeted patient education and referral to other support services may decrease the number of calls and utilization of health services among this group. Improving Test Ordering ...Medication errors in sick children may be higher than previously thought
... Medication errors were identified in seven of the eight mock resuscitations. Frequent and potentially serious errors occurred at all stages of resuscitation, and both physicians and nurses made errors. Many errors could be detected only by analysis of syringe content, suggesting that the incidence of med...Early detection reduces threat of foot injury in college basketball players
... ultimately play the entire year instead of losing eight to 12 weeks on the bench," Major said. Major presented her findings at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago on Dec. 2, 2004. A stress fracture is a small crack in a bone brought on by overuse or repeate...Scholarship to attract 'top students' for optometry
...nity activities. The scholarship is renewable for eight semesters as long as the student continues to meet eligibility requirements. Established in 1955, FERV works at improving the quality of life for others through promoting education in the field of vision, as well as releasing pertinent information...Simple intervention nearly eliminates catheter-related bloodstream infections
...are believed to have prevented over 40 infections, eight deaths and saved nearly $2 million in additional h...hat the new interventions prevented 43 infections, eight deaths, and nearly $1,945,922 in additional costs in the study ICU. The same interventions have been...Female condoms overlooked in fight against spread of HIV/AIDS
...er said. In her paper, which examines the past eight years of female condom promotion in Africa, Kaler interviewed 34 health care workers from the United States and South Africa. She discovered that "female condoms, like other reproductive technologies, are judged against the 'gold standard' of the...Obesity tied to increased risk for dozens of conditions
...ew study. Men in the highest weight categories are eight times more likely to have diabetes, and six times more likely to have a knee replaced or have high blood pressure than are their normal-weight peers, say researchers for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. The researchers drew thei......s to gradually increased low-velocity impacts from eight different directions. The muscle responses were measured using surface electrodes. Each volunteer was fitted at the forehead and top of the back with accelerometers--devices which measured the effect of impact on the head-neck motion. The accelerati...