Broad-based vaccination of wild mice could help reduce lyme disease risk in humans
...ife carriers, the risk of infection is lowered for everyone in the community." Lyme disease is the leading cause of vector-borne illness in the United States. Approximately 23,000 cases of Lyme disease were reported in the United States in 2002. The disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a spiral-shaped ...Fair decisions more important when hospitals face crisis like SARS
...nd draw lessons from the difficulties inflicted on everyone -- medical personnel, SARS victims, non-SARS patients and their families alike."...Carefree people care less about cancer symptoms, endanger health
...tal bleeding as a sign of serious illness. "Almost everyone has heard about people who had cancer symptoms long before they sought help. I was curious about the psychology behind this," says Stephen Ristvedt, Ph.D., assistant professor of medical psychology in psychiatry and investigator at the Siteman Cancer...Grapefruit juice and medication can be a dangerous mix
...ons, nurse researchers remind doctors, nurses, and everyone who takes medicine and enjoys grapefruit juice, in a paper in the American Journal of Nursing, a journal of the American Nurses Association. Amy Karch, R.N., M.S., of the School of Nursing at the University of Rochester Medical Center reported on a m...Get ready for next generation surround sound
...ltra-realistic surround sound is a step closer for everyone thanks to a new method that will cheaply and efficiently compute the way individuals hear things. Currently, creating accurate 'virtual sound fields' through headphones is almost exclusively the domain of high-budget military technologies and involve...Teaching a less obvious medical skill -- Ethical decision-making
... with antibiotics. Improved communication may help everyone agree on what the goal of care should be and then understand what may facilitate that goal. For students in training, the biggest challenge may be handling the feeling of uncertainty when they realize there are different, legitimate answers to the qu...Researcher explores ways to make hypnosis a more effective therapeutic technique
... University, State University of New York. But not everyone responds to it equally well. In the popular imagination, a person who submits to hypnosis falls into a trance. The subject slavishly follows the hypnotist's commands, perhaps to squawk like a chicken, re-enact events from childhood or develop a lasti...When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
..."These problems with the aging brain, which nearly everyone experiences, are on top of problems with our ears, which you may or may not have as you get older. For many people, even if they can still hear sounds as they get older, they still lose the ability to hear and understand speech, because of these brai...NYU'S Duster cautions against FDA approval of 'race-based' pharmaceutical
...eness, thus assuring that the drug be approved for everyone with those markers, regardless of their ancestry or of their ancestral informative markers."...Common schizophrenia symptoms often overlooked by physicians, according to expert panel
...sensus statement. The survey found that virtually everyone with schizophrenia (94%) believes that daily functioning is part of successful treatment for schizophrenia and most (83%) believe with the right medications, people with schizophrenia should be able to lead full lives. In addition to Drs. Weiden, Sc...Sleeping Through the Night: Children's sleep expert advises parents
...er-friendly and provides simple strategies so that everyone in the family can get a good night's sleep." Dr. Mindell shares her experience as a pediatric sleep expert and offers advice on establishing good sleep habits early to prevent future problems. Parents will learn how to teach their baby or toddler to...Blacks less likely to get expensive, newer heart treatments
...d such racial disparities can be eliminated. "If everyone is well aware of the evidence and treats every patient according to these recommendations, these disparities may be eliminated," Sonel said. Co-authors on the study are Chester B. Good, M.D., M.P.H.; Jyotsna Mulgund, M.S.; Matthew T. Roe, M.D., M.H.S...US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say
...ently published health statistics and assumed that everyone who is currently obese acquired the body mass index of people who have the lowest risk of death. By calculating years-of-life-lost due to obesity and combining that with estimates of the prevalence of obesity in younger generations, the authors were ...Study finds majority of women willing to accept cervical cancer vaccine for self and children
...tion of cervical cancer. It is also important for everyone to understand that a vaccine will be aimed at both boys and girls, and how this will help prevent the disease worldwide." Factors influencing a woman's acceptance of the vaccine included their acceptance of all previously recommended vaccines for a c...Acupuncture found to lower elevations in blood pressure
...standard of acupuncture treatment that can benefit everyone who has hypertension and other cardiac ailments." Longhurst and his colleagues currently are testing this electroacupuncture treatment method in an ongoing human study....Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
...ed fossil fuels an unlikely option. "If you switch everyone off the dirtiest fuels to burning clean fossil fuels, you get the biggest health benefit," acknowledged Daniel Kammen, the Class of 1935 Distinguished Chair of Energy at UC Berkeley and a co-author of the paper. He continued, "But the economic cost t...Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
...d fossil fuels an unlikely option. "If you switch everyone off the dirtiest fuels to burning clean fossil fuels, you get the biggest health benefit," acknowledged Daniel Kammen, the Class of 1935 Distinguished Chair of Energy at UC Berkeley and a co-author of the paper. "But the economic cost to most African...