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...arch Madness," track and field, and golf all offer equal excitement for athletes of both genders. The opportunities for sports excellence have never been better. At the same time, the professional athlete's body has never worked harder and the need for post-exercise nutrition has never been greater. Bac...Alarming rise in incidence of lung cancer and death in women
...omen will die from lung cancer this year; a number equal to all deaths for breast and gynecologic cancers c... his practice. "We now see women and men in almost equal numbers. Many of these women stopped smoking twenty years ago yet still get cancer. However, their r...Other highlights in the April 7 JNCI
..., even among participants who reported aspirin use equal to or greater than 30 times per month or who had u...und that patients with a PSA response less than or equal to 1 had a shorter time to prostate cancer-specific mortality than patients with a PSA response of m...Black men less likely to be treated for aggressive prostate cancer, UMHS study finds
... the context of health policy. Equal treatment for equal disease is something that should be achievable." While black men are often diagnosed with prostate cancer at a younger age and with a higher grade of disease, previously studies have shown that when adjusted for age and tumor grade, there is no racia...Blood pressure may predict recurrent cardiovascular events in women
...s with diabetes or chronic kidney disease with SBP equal or greater than 130 mm Hg," he said. "Our data suggest that women with CVD and borderline elevations in SBP are at increased risk of future events and might benefit from a lower targeted blood pressure."...Effectiveness of safer smallpox vaccine demonstrated against monkeypox
...to the current vaccine. Although MVA may not quite equal Dryvax in its effectiveness, it did extraordinarily well, with all of the monkeys who were vaccinated with MVA surviving a potentially lethal monkeypox infection and, aside from a few minor lesions, showing no clinical signs of disease." In a separat...Implantable cardiac defibrillator use significantly lowers heart failure mortality
...nts were randomly entered into three study arms in equal proportions: conventional therapy plus a placebo; conventional therapy plus amiodarone; and conventional therapy plus ICD. The drug arms of the trial were double-blinded so that neither the patient nor the medical providers knew who were receiving pl...FIRST fellowship program proves worthy model for training faculty in biological sciences
...onally top-ranked minority-serving institutions as equal partners with a nationally ranked research institution. The four AUC institutions are Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Morehouse College and Spelman College. Half of the current group of 31 fellows are members of minorities. ...Nevirapine plus zidovudine to prevent perinatal HIV in Thailand
... in developing countries and achieve success rates equal to those treatments currently used in industrialized nations," said Dr. Lallemant, IRD researcher, the principal investigator of the study. More than 1,500 infants get HIV from their mothers every day and 95% live in developing countries. In countr...Trouble sleeping in the hospital? Maybe it's that jackhammer
...f more than 80 percent. (A 10-decibel reduction is equal to a 50 percent drop in sound intensity.) The average overnight noise level was reduced from 45 decibels originally to 42 decibels after the changes. Nearly two-thirds of the patients commenting in a satisfaction survey about noise and sleep issues g...Women are displacing men in healthcare services in New Zealand
... are now dominated by female workers, proving that equal opportunities legislation has widened choices for ...f Auckland, compared census data from 1971 before equal opportunities legislation was introduced with data from 2001. It focussed on healthcare workers ag...Hospital volume may not be best criteria for selecting hospital for coronary bypass surgery
...arly half of very-low-volume centers with outcomes equal or better than overall STS mortality results." "In this national study we found that hospital procedural volume was only modestly associated with risk-adjusted CABG mortality rates; however, there were many low-volume hospitals with low mortality rat...Parents' vaccine concerns on the rise, making accurate information crucial
...ments (VIS), such as pain and fever. But a roughly equal proportion of all physicians said they sometimes o...ine again with the parent at a later visit, and an equal number said they provided additional information to the parent. The proportions were lower when the ...Study suggests driving restrictions are not necessary for users of methadone, buprenorphine and LAAM
...f alcohol in producing diminished performance were equal in all groups. Results from this study question the need for the imposition of restricted driving standards on stabilized methadone, buprenorphine, and LAAM patients....Its never too late to start exercising and losing weight , Joslin study shows
...d coronary heart disease and that obese people get equal clinical benefit from weight loss, whether they have diabetes, pre-diabetes or have normal blood glucose levels," Dr. Hamdy said. These latest findings are consistent with those of the recently completed national Diabetes Prevention Program (type 2 d...... Newton put it best: 'For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'. Free floating in the cabin is banned for safety reasons not least because when the double gravity arrives you would hit the ground very hard indeed. But there is a netted-off area where flying is allowed nicknamed the 'monk...Study questions benefits of costly schizophrenia drug
...ts about half as much as olanzapine, and has shown equal benefits in most clinical trials. According to 2002 figures from VA's National Psychosis Registry, more than 80 percent of VA patients with schizophrenia are on atypical antipsychotics, with about 37 percent on risperidone and 38 percent on olanzapin...Caterpillar Inc. bolsters Southern Community study with $1 million gift
...id. "Caterpillar is a company that is committed to equal opportunity and that is, it seemed to us, what the Southern Community Cohort Study is all about. We are pleased to have the opportunity to support and participate in such an important endeavor to ensure that the burden of cancer and other diseases is...Study finds subtle brain damage in some HIV patients on drug therapy
... hand away). But the fact that response times were equal could mean that alternate neurological pathways that compensate for the disruption have developed in the brains of the HIV-positive subjects. To assess where HIV-triggered damage might be occurring in the brain, Chao examined the relationship between...... But in diabetic women, survival rates were nearly equal for angioplasty (53 percent) and bypass surgery (51 percent). Men's bypass survival advantage appeared limited to those getting an internal mammary artery graft, but use of this conduit didn't improve results in women. Ten-year survival rates remai...