National survey shows few physicians elected to Congress
The politically savvy may be aware that just eight of the current 535 members and four delegates of t...irection of health care in the United States." The eight most recent members of Congress who are physicians include Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn., cardiac surgeon...Capsule endoscopy aids in detection of small bowel tumors inaccessible to other diagnostic tests
... in the morning and wears the recording device for eight hours. The capsule is eliminated and discarded. A gastroenterologist reviews the images....Virco establishes comprehensive set of clinical cutoffs for the vircoTYPE HIV-1 resistance test
...s of virologic response to antiretroviral drugs at eight and 24 weeks versus baseline fold change in IC50 (...ates Clinical cutoff ranges: clinical response at eight weeks 1 FC values of wild type clinical isolates 0.6 to 0.9 CCOs based on 24-week out...Improving child survival in Kenya: Strengthening of district hospitals essential
...rst-referral level hospitals from seven of Kenya's eight provinces and obtained data for workload, outcome ...tric medicine from the medical school have adopted eight district hospitals. Together with designated hospital staff, the trainees have identified both good ...Adults with dyslexia can improve with phonics-based instruction
...ived phonics-based instruction 15 hours a week for eight weeks. Before the instruction began, they completed pen-and-paper tests to measure their reading ability and underwent fMRI. After the instruction, they completed a second round of written and fMRI testing. The written tests showed that partic...FDA approves Fosrenol(R) in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients
...ting therapy 7 , and reached target levels within eight weeks. 8 FOSRENOL has also demonstrated long-term efficacy and safety, with some patients maintaining reduced phosphate levels for 36 months or more. 9 Additionally, bone biopsies taken from patients who had been treated with FOSRENOL for up to...Exercise for special populations, sensory research, factors impacting rehabilitation top issues
...ers, 95% of the volume increase was reached within eight minutes after prosthesis removal. Results from this study provide a base from which to investigate fluid movement responsible for the shape changes in residual limbs. Q-TFA reliably measures prosthetic use, health in persons with a lower-li...Animal study suggests safer immunization approach to Alzheimer's
...xamined the animals' brain tissue at one, four and eight weeks. Since the antibody did not have to circulat...as 67 percent less than in control animals. But by eight weeks, with no further antibody injections, the protein had again accumulated. The younger the anima...Several new techniques show promise for spinal cord repair
...ospheres (3 m l of 10 mg/ml of cABC) directly into eight different tissue cultures containing chondroitin s...ection, 10 rats received cABC injection alone, and eight rats received Zymosan injection alone. Two weeks after nerve injury, the animals were euthanized an...Tip sheet for the October 26, 2004 Neurology
...ic Researchers in Minnesota report the effects in eight epilepsy patients when their health plans switched their medication from brand phenytoin to generic phenytoin, an antiepileptic drug. After the switch, the patients' seizures increased enough to require intervention. The study concluded that brand an...Supervised treatment interruptions fail to control HIV-1 viremia
...arch group, shows that the viral load rebounded in eight of the 14 patients by one year. "The findings are ...get at least transient control of the virus in all eight persons studied, and in five of eight the viral load was less than 500 copies (very low!) at the tim...Mixed signals to blame for restless legs syndrome
...human cells. In a third study, brain tissues from eight individuals with RLS were compared to tissues from the brains of five healthy individuals. The brain tissue was acquired through the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation's brain collection at the Harvard Brain Bank. As the animal and cell culture models...UGA professor receives $3 million grant from National Cancer Institute for breast cancer research
...preaching the importance of cancer screening about eight years ago because the disease was so common in his family. "Clearly having cancer so prevalent in my life was a motivating factor in me applying my research in the direction of health communications," said Springston. "My own experience has been a re...Advances in understanding brain circuits responsible for tics in Tourette's shed light on disorder
...mptoms usually appear between the ages of four and eight and include repetitive involuntary movements and utterances, or "tics." Tics vary according to where, how often, and how strongly they are expressed. They are often preceded by a sensory cue or "urge to tic" that can besiege the individual's consciou...High-fat diets hammer memory, more than a waistline worry
...tandard lab chow containing only 5 percent fat. At eight months of age, the mice on the high-fat diet weigh...sterol and 10 percent hydrogenated coconut oil for eight weeks. Control rats were fed a normal fat diet containing 10 percent soybean oil. Ra...Latest Asian-American tobacco use data reported
...ntrol Academy is a meeting of researchers from the eight institutions that make up AANCART: UC Davis, UCLA, UCSF, the University of Washington, the University of Hawaii, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, Harvard University and Columbia University....ESA looking for more European women to volunteer for WISE bed-rest study in Toulouse next year
...4 test subjects will be divided into three groups, eight in each. One will be the control group, receiving no extra stimulus over the course of the 60-day bed-rest period. The second will be put through an exercise programme while in bed during this time. The third will receive nutritional supplements over...Ductal lavage may not detect breast cancer, study finds
... 44 breasts from 32 women with known cancer and on eight breasts from seven women undergoing prophylactic mastectomy. The researchers found poor agreement between a cytologic analysis of the cells from ductal lavage and results from looking at breast tissue under the microscope. In breasts with cancer, du...Ductal lavage may not detect breast cancer
... 44 breasts from 32 women with known cancer and on eight breasts from seven women undergoing prophylactic mastectomy. The researchers found poor agreement between a cytologic (cell) analysis of the cells from ductal lavage and results from looking at breast tissue under the microscope. In breasts with......y women, drawn from within the University, over an eight week period. One group engaged solely in takin...rticipants was tested before, during and after the eight week period to measure their height and body mass; blood pressure; fitness on a treadmill and abilit...