First head-to-head study to compare lidoderm patch and Celebrex in treating pain
...y of life. Due to safety concerns regarding the entire COX-II inhibitor class in the fall of 2004, the sponsor of the study, Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., voluntarily elected to prematurely halt the study prior to reaching the original enrollment target. However an analysis of data after six weeks of treat...Study shows patch therapy may be as effective as oral medications
...wever, due to recent safety concerns regarding the entire COX-2 inhibitor class, the sponsor of the study, Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., voluntarily elected to prematurely halt the study prior to reaching the original enrollment target of 200 patients. These results therefore need to be confirmed with further...Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
...ucts have the advantage of uniform coverage of the entire area of the river basin," explained Nicola Casagli...ents with a precision of one centimetre across the entire area of interest. The second is the Displacement Monitoring Service. Updated more regularly than th...Child care may affect entire community's risks of infection
...y together. However, child care may also affect an entire community's carriage of potentially dangerous bacteria known as Streptococcus pneumoniae, according to an article in the April 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online. S. pneumoniae often exists in the nose and throat without ca...Can you read my mind? W.M. Keck Foundation funds innovative brain research at Carnegie Mellon
...ecific brain regions influence the function of the entire brain system. In addition to this Keck Foundation grant, Mitchell and Just have received funding from the National Science Foundation for related studies, for a total of $1 million. "If successful, our research will result in a significant advance...Kandel pays tribute to Hubel's and Wiesel's 25-year partnership and work in neurobiology & vision
...ne for groundbreaking research that transformed an entire branch of neurobiology and made lasting contributions to the field of neuroscience. Thanks to Hubel and Wiesel, scientists now have a greater understanding of how the brain processes visual information. By identifying the precise layers of brain ti...Recovered king of beasts returns to his home, thanks to unique operation
...ho inquired about his welfare. I want to thank the entire staff of the veterinary Hospital of the Hebrew University for their wonderful work." Dr. Merav Shamir, a specialist in veterinary neurology and neurosurgery, who diagnosed Samson's medical problem and operated on him, said: "Samson's illness was brou...Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
...sessing a 960-kilometre swath SCIAMACHY covers the entire world every six days. This versatile instrument represents a national contribution to ESA's Envisat mission. SCIAMACHY was funded by the German government through the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), the Dutch government through the Netherlands Agency...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
...square kilometres, making it about as large as the entire country of Luxembourg. Back in Janauary the iceberg appeared to be drifting towards the 70-kilometre-long Drygalski ice tongue in McMurdo Sound on the Ross Sea, and an unprecedented ice collision looked imminent. However B-15A eventually slowed dow...New thrust needed to tackle health inequalities globally says UCL scientist
...al conditions that will ensure good health for the entire population." Of 11 policy domains, five relate to social determinants: participation in society, economic and social security, conditions in childhood and adolescence, healthier working life, and environment and products. These are in addition to hea...Single mothers at higher risk for depression
...and employment as well as significantly affect the entire families' quality of life. This study, published in a recent issue of Journal of Nursing Scholarship suggests that with nursing intervention for depressive symptoms particularly negative thinking the rate at which these at-risk women develop depr...Minorities, poor, uneducated bear the burden
...ANES survey results were designed to represent the entire U.S. population. Also among their findings: Hispanics were least likely to have health insurance, least likely to receive flu or pneumonia vaccinations, and had the highest prevalence of poor or fair health. Data from the Racial and Ethnic Approac...Postmenopausal breast cancer survivors at increased risk for bone fractures
...ical fractures. "Using the age distribution of the entire WHI-OS cohort, we computed age-standardized fracture rates per 10,000 person-years [number of persons times number of years of observation] for breast cancer survivors and the reference group," the authors write. "Except for the hip fracture rate, fr...Sleeping Through the Night: Children's sleep expert advises parents
...ts for their child. "A sleepless child affects the entire family. Parents are usually at their wits' end by the time they seek advice," says Mindell. "Sleeping Through the Night is user-friendly and provides simple strategies so that everyone in the family can get a good night's sleep." Dr. Mindell shares...Northwestern Memorial physicians encourage screenings during colon cancer awareness month
...st amount of discomfort, the physician can see the entire colon and they only need to be done once every ten years," says Dr. Halverson. Colonoscopy uses a flexible, slender tube that contains a micro video camera at its tip to detect polyps or other suspicious matter. The colonoscope not only allows ident...Severe injuries on the rise among children and adolescents riding motorbikes
...ted injuries increased about 50 percent during the entire study period. "Most injured children did not wear a helmet and sustained multiple injuries," says Dr. Pomerantz. "The severity and increased frequency of these injuries underscore the need to increase efforts to prevent these injuries, particularly a...Tobacco industry pays scientists to challenge secondhand smoke's link to infant death risk
...eal dangers of secondhand smoke and to distort the entire scientific process," says Glantz. The tobacco industry documents were made available as part of the Master Settlement Agreement, in which among other things, tobacco companies pledged to cease their efforts to discredit research on smoking and health...Cognitive behavioral therapy and medication is effective in the treatment of panic disorder
...o learned that many patients did not adhere to the entire CBT program, even though it was brief and delivered with considerable flexibility of scheduling," the authors conclude. "This finding suggests the need for qualitative research to elucidate the reasons for nonadherence in these patients. A major goal...Study shows faces are processed like words
...miling or frowning. To the left of the dot was an entire face. When the words to the left were spaced normally and the face was of normal proportions, subjects had a great deal of difficulty identifying out of their peripheral vision the letter and the characteristics of the lips. Pelli concludes that con...Sunflower seed oil can protect low birth weight babies from infection
... no intervention. The treatment was applied to the entire body of the babies apart from scalp and face three times daily for the first fourteen days then two times daily until discharge. The babies were assessed daily for signs of infection. Infants treated with sunflower oil had around 7.0 infections per ...