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...lished in this week's BMJ. The authors found that even when asked to write a neatly as possible, doctors produce handwriting that is worse than that of other health professions. However, the study also found that legibility was confined to letters of the alphabet rather than numbers which perhaps indica...Candles with lead wicks emit lead into the air
...d to provide rigidity to the wick whichprovides an even and slower burn rate, and to reduce the mushrooming at the tip. Since lead and its alloys melt at relatively low temperature, a large fractionof the wick core material is volatilized as the candle is burned. "Because it is costly and difficult to con...University Of Florida Researchers Hope To Ease Asthma Pains And Provide A Sigh Of Relief
... modeling and pharmacology. "Unfortunately, even if we identify a compound with the potential totreatasthma in the laboratory as a result of Nowicki's efforts," Richards said,"it requires a significant amount of time to ensure that it is safe enoughto test on people." Richards said such a pr...Exercise Can Help To Exorcise Stroke Risk
...week. We found that doubling that effort showed an even greater reduction in strokerisk." Lee says that physical activity can help reduce or eliminate other common strokerisk factors including high blood pressure, high levels of blood cholesterol,obesity and diabetes.She and her co-author, Ralph Paffenbar......ew materials. Someday, combinatorial processes may even help scientists grapple with suchcomplex problems ...s, it appears thatcombinatorial methods will yield even more important, far-reaching results whenapplied to discovering and improving non-drug materials suc...UNC Researchers Find Drug-Resistant HIV In Semen
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...specialeducation costs annually. The cost is even larger for receptive language skills: an additional 4,432 to 80,550 children each year will need special education because of their language skills, at an annual cost of $22 to $352million. The subtle effects on intelligence are in...Physicians Slow To Adopt Newer Drugs For Atrial Fibrillation
...r medications continue tobe used in most patients, even though newer options may be more effective andhave fewer side-effects. They also found that overall usage of these medicationsmay be too low. "Physician's practices appear to be guided more by tradition than by the latestscience," says Randall Staff...6,000 Pharmaceutical Scientists Convene November 15-19 In San Francisco
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....5 inches deep.With modest equipment improvements, even smaller tumors at least two inches deepcould be detected. These results were consistent with those developed by thesupercomputer simulations. The results also suggest that microwaves can detectsome early-stage tumors that are invisible to X-ray mammo...... for HIV.This type of testing program is available even in many of the states thatrequire HIV named report...e to offer anonymous HIV testing and in some cases even enhanceavailability. Study co-investigators are Dennis Osmond, PhD; Frederick M. Hecht, MD; KarenVr...Study Finds Less Intensive Treatments May Not Maintain HIV Suppression
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...rberation and background noise, making itdifficult even for those students with healthy hearing to perceiv...cades and have been proven inoffices, theaters and even the New York City subway system. The topic of classroom acoustics will be addresse......ome women do not undertake CVS or amniocentesis -- even if they are atincreased reproductive risk for a conception with a genetic disorder -- becauseof their unwillingess to risk loss of the pregnancy as a direct consequence ofperforming either procedure," Pergament said. Pregnant women under 35...World's Premier Pharmaceutical Scientists Share Latest R&D Findings
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...ng this isolation procedure. It's been difficultto even show that the free islets are functional immediately after isolation." Despite those obstacles, Duke researchers have already done their firstpreliminary trials in animals, harvesting islets from dogs, surrounding themwith polymer, and trans...