Survival improves in clinical trial for severe birth defect, with or without fetal surgery
...vere birth defect that hampers lung growth have an equal chance of survival whether they are treated with maternal/fetal surgery or receive their first operation after birth -- if the infant receives life support from the moment of birth from a highly experienced neonatal intensive care team. Both treat...New studies show factors responsible for enhanced response to music
...er, the Suzuki children showed responses that were equal to children about two years older than them. The next step in this research is to determine whether enhanced P2 responses are observed when children are trained on novel auditory tasks with which they have had no prior listening experience. Experimen...Tumor size predicts survival in patients with lung cancer
..., which categorize lung tumors as being less than, equal to, or more than the baseline value of 3 cm, furth...81.4 percent for patients with tumors less than or equal to 2 cm and 63.4 percent for patients with tumors greater than 2 cm. "Lung cancer is most curable w...Panel: Clinical use of embryonic stem cells jeopardized by Bush's policy on federal funding
...at all ancestral groups in the U.S. should have an equal chance of finding a match in an ES cell line bank aimed at providing clinical treatments. African-Americans have a greater variety of HLA profiles, so more cell lines would be needed in the bank to potentially match the same percentage of that popula...Lowering blood pressure immediately after stroke can be harmful
...ss than 90. When blood pressure is greater than or equal to these numbers, the result is hypertension, the major risk factor for stroke....Foundation trusts threaten core NHS principles
...of the founding principles of the NHS - to provide equal care for equal need, argue doctors in this week's BMJ. The new Health and Social Care Bill abolishes government con...Whole-breast irradiation after lumpectomy may protect women from recurrence long term
...ed by prior studies, but by 15 years it was nearly equal to the risk of recurrence in the original breast quadrant. "While this may seem to support a favorable outcome for replacing whole-breast irradiation with partial-breast irradiation, our study shows a dramatic shift in the location of recurrence betw...St. Jude leukemia therapy overcomes differences in treatment outcome between black, white children
...t for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), if given equal access to the most advanced therapies. This finding--that black and white children had virtually equal rates of survival over 10 years--contrasts with the results of clinical studies from the Pediatric O...Mayo Clinic finds weight not a factor among women using fertility technologies to become pregnant
...rates for non-obese and obese subjects were nearly equal (27 percent and 29 percent, respectively). Live birth rates also were comparable, with 44 percent of non-obese and 42 percent of obese women giving birth. Although the Mayo Clinic study suggests that uterine function is not the cause of lower birth ...Forgiveness a factor in blood pressure
...income neighborhoods from Ypsilanti, Michigan with equal numbers of blacks and whites and males and females. Participants were 25-55 years of age (M = 40.2). Measures Forgiveness was assessed using a three-item forgiveness subscale of the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality. Th...Gender and geography increase racial disparities in health care, Dartmouth study shows
...y, and Los Angeles, rates of knee replacement were equal or even somewhat higher among African-American women. But among black men in the same cities, rates of knee replacement were about half the rates of white men, or even less. Indeed, in Memphis, rates for black men were less than one-third the rate ...... are more likely to forgive than men, but both are equal in seeking revenge. When counseling forgiveness in victims of child sexual abuse, there is no such thing as an open and shut case of forgive and forget. An ongoing ten-year study on the long-term impact of child sexual abuse found that reconcili...NIAID funds construction of biosafety laboratories
...entists have the commitment, creativity and energy equal to the task. The new laboratories will give these dedicated scientists space to conduct this critical research, and equally important, they will be able to conduct it safely." The overall objective of the NBL construction program is to provide fund...Actonel helped preserve bone quality at five years, new data show
...systemic glucocorticoid treatment (greater than or equal to 7.5 mg/d prednisone or equivalent) for chronic diseases. In clinical trials, Actonel was generally well tolerated. Actonel is contraindicated in patients with hypocalcemia, known hypersensitivity to any component of this product, or inability to...Risperdal (risperidone) produces continuous improvement of 'manic' symptoms in bipolar disorder
...n in the total YMRS score that was greater than or equal to 50 percent. Response was significant at the first, second and third weeks for treatment with risperidone, whereas for haloperidol, the difference from placebo was significant only at week two. During the 12-weeks of double-blind treatment further ...Brief telephonic questionnaire detects early signs of dementia
... results. A positive result on the screen does not equal a diagnosis of dementia but rather provides evidence that further diagnostic evaluation is needed. The researchers designed the questionnaire to be administered to new enrollees in Medicare managed care plans. Several features make the questionnaire ...Major new center at UIC to study racial/ethnic disparities in health
...aid. According to Warnecke, data show that roughly equal proportions of women in white, black and Hispanic populations receive regular screening mammograms for breast cancer, yet minority women are more often diagnosed with more advanced disease, when treatment is least effective. As a result, compared wit...Lesbians' weight patterns may trigger more heart disease
... surveyed 324 lesbians living in California and an equal number of their heterosexual sisters closest in age. Their work reflects previous studies that show lesbians have a higher body mass index (a ratio of weight to height used to define overweight and obesity) and are less concerned about weight issues ...Taking Ecstasy during pregnancy may cause brain damage, behavior problems in babies
...daily from day 14 through day 20 of pregnancy. An equal number of pregnant rats were given sham injections of saline twice daily during the same period as a placebo. The most striking finding was that 21-day-old Ecstasy exposed rats had a 502% increase in the number of dopamine neuron fibers in the front......inical periodontal attachment loss greater than or equal to three millimeters. Patients were randomly assigned to one of the three treatment groups with stratification on the following factors: previous spontaneous birth at less than 35 weeks, body mass index less than 19.8, or bacterial vaginosis (vaginal...