Eliminating health disparities requires community involvement
...tice in the April issue, devoted to the subject of eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities. Based on this collection of articles, the most successful interventions to narrow the gap in health disparities build community involvement and trust, says Kathleen Roe, Dr.PH, professor at San Jose State Univers...Input from youth is crucial in promoting adolescent health
...ice. This theme issue is devoted to the subject of eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities through community involvement. Including young peoples perspectives is an integral part of fulfilling the Centers mission to promote adolescent health, says co-author Lisa K. Hohenemser, MPH, a senior research pro...Sensitivity to gluten may result in neurological dysfunction; independent of symptoms
...ells. These results strengthen our contention that eliminating these antibodies through strict adherence to a gluten-free diet may have important therapeutic implications for patients with gluten ataxia, concluded Hadjivassiliou....Nanotech control device developed
...ch but are rather held in place by magnetic force, eliminating the friction that makes nanoscale positioning so difficult. "Compared with conventional technology, the main advantage of this technology is that it eliminates mechanical contact and friction," Kim said. "It also improves accuracy and resolution, de...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet
...ncial incentives for patients, such as reducing or eliminating copayments, also helped increase use of immunization and cancer screenings. Teaching patients and clinicians was the least effective technique studied....New guidelines for managing women with abnormal pap smears
...ame sample used for the original Pap test for HPV, eliminating the need for a repeat doctor visit. The test quickly reassures women who are HPV negative they are unlikely to have cervical cancer and that they simply need regular annual Pap tests and it identifies those women who are HPV positive...The Lancet Infectious Diseases (TLID)
...tative measures and the ways of controlling if not eliminating this disease, in the absence of a cure. A companion review of the neurological aspects of rabies appears in the June issue of The Lancet Neurology. Other reviews: Update on Kaposi's sarcoma Therapeutic vaccination against chronic viral infections Ho...New, non-invasive surgical procedure to eliminate epileptic seizures
...to determine the most effective radiation dose for eliminating the seizure focus in the brain." Currently, the only approved treatments involve medication or invasive surgery. This new radiosurgery protocol uses the Gamma Knife to focus 201 beams of gamma radiation on the precise location of the brain responsibl...Prostate cancer survival benefit from combination of androgen suppression and external irradiation
...outcome of external irradiation alone, by possibly eliminating occult disease. Moreover androgen suppression and external irradiation appear to have an additive effect on local disease control by inducing apoptosis [tumour-cell death]"....Smoke-free workplaces protect non-smokers and encourage smokers to quit
... 4.26. While producing benefits for non-smokers by eliminating passive smoking, smoke-free workplaces also make it easier for smokers to reduce or stop smoking and substantially reduce tobacco industry sales, say the authors. This loss in revenues explains why the industry fights so hard against legislation to e...Developer of anthrax quick test finds similar test for strep throat
...s in throat swabs and 90 to 95 percent specific in eliminating streptococcal infection as a consideration in rapid test-negative patients. Detection of streptococci by rapid antigen tests or throat culture has consistently been shown to be a cost-effective strategy in the management of sore throat, independent o...Know your risk for hepatitis C virus
...to determine whether the treatment is effective in eliminating HCV RNA from the blood. Treatment is usually monitored by using very sensitive assays for HCV RNA and the criteria for determining treatment response can vary, based on the type of treatment used. The goal of treatment is to eradicate HCV RNA from t...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet, Aug. 6, 2002
...lants, avoiding places where mosquitos are biting, eliminating standing water from gardens and yards, using window screens and wearing long-sleeved clothing....Chlorine dioxide gas kills dangerous biological contaminants
...ng systems necessary to meet USDA requirements for eliminating biological contaminants. These processors produce ...aordinarily" better than other chemical methods of eliminating pathogens on produce, he said. In the current research, the chlorine dioxide gas, used at a concentr...Other highlights in the September 18 issue of JNCI
...apoptosis may be a useful therapeutic approach for eliminating malignant urothelial cells. They add that the loss of CD40 expression by urothelial cells may be important in the development and progression of bladder cancer. The findings appear in the September 18 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Inst...Web therapy may help tinnitus sufferers cope with problem
...ychological treatment for tinnitus is not aimed at eliminating the tinnitus; rather, reduced annoyance is the goal," says lead study author Gerhard Andersson, Ph.D., from the Departments of Audiology and Psychology at the University Hospital in Uppsala, Sweden. This is the first Internet-based study on tinnitus....Macrophages from human lymphoma patients cause mouse lymphoma in mice, UCSF study finds
...ly for fighting lymphoma, but also could assist in eliminating latent reservoirs of HIV. A phase I/II clinical trial testing one of these therapies (SL11047) recently opened at UCSF under the direction of Lawrence D. Kaplan, MD, UCSF professor of clinical medicine and director of the UCSF Lymphoma Program. This...Researchers devise ways to reduce noise, improve sleep in nursing homes
...the TV set to the headboards of nursing home beds, eliminating the need for residents to turn up the volume too high. And they are experimenting with tiny speakers embedded in bed pillows."These environmental interventions are appealing because they create no additional burden on the staff, which is already stre...OHSU receives $7.8 million NIH grant to develop first ultrasound to also deliver heart treatment
...throat, can greatly improve patient outcomes while eliminating the need for anesthesia as well as reducing procedure duration, radiation exposure and cost. Other intracardiac catheter ultrasound systems have been developed, but they are expensive and are not reusable. Also, a separate catheter is needed in addit...Laser research yields precision breath analysis tool for asthma diagnosis (treatment)
...g the most efficient and effective treatment while eliminating overmedication. In diagnosing and treating asthma, physicians must assess how much air is actually flowing through a patient's airways, which is made more difficult with airway inflammation. Airway inflammation itself is most often assessed by phys...