Study Of Women And Hearing Reveals Need For Routine Hearing Tests
...nic conditions in women, thevast majority of women fail to include hearing testing in their routine health...ing in women. "Women experiencing hearing loss who fail to gain the appropriate support fromfamily, friends and professionals not only are likely to be at a...Advisory: Researchers Present Work At Annual Meeting
...han once in the two-year period and why. Did they fail to use other contraceptive methods? Condom failure? Forced sexual intercourse? Brown's poster presentation, "Retrospective Chart Review of Emergency Contraception Pill Clients," will be 7-8:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Washington Hilton. The session (23...Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Leads To Lower Child IQ Scores, Language Skills
...researchers. Up to 80,550 new children will fail in school and need special education services each year at a cost of up to $352 million because they wereexposed to cocaine in the womb, said Barry M. Lester, professor of psychiatry andhuman behavior in the Brown University School ...DNA-Based Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise To Successfully Treat Melanoma In Mice
... trigger immunity where othertypes of vaccines can fail to stimulate an immune response," added Dr. Houghton,noting that they are easy to make, handle and store. The mice were immunized with human DNA via a novel delivery system called a genegun, in which microscopic gold particles were coated with the ...Schizophrenia-Like Behavior In Rats Blocked Via Glutamate
...aminereceptors, albeit more selectively, and often fail to have much effect on the"negative" cognitive and emotional symptoms of the disorder. Hence, there is aneed to develop medications, such the novel glutamate compound, with differentmechanisms of action. Moghaddam and Adams report their results in ...New Survey Finds Physicians Seek More Clarity In MS Diagnosis And Management
...MS patients -- fromthe least to the most severe -- fail to adequately address the diagnosis andmanagement of patients in each of the disease categories. Results of the national survey, conducted by Louis Harris & Associates,werepresented at a recent University of Maryland-sponsored consensus conference o...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
...instead is damaging someone else's entirefuture, I fail to understand why there aren't articles, headlines, magazinecovers, or presidential statements targeting cigarette smoking in pregnancy. It's something that we stand a reasonable chance of influencing with publicity,whereas cocaine abuse is not." ...Synthetic Detergent Found To Fight Multi-Drug Resistance
...umors that contain a high content ofP-glycoprotein fail to respond to chemotherapy because the pump rapidly removesthese drugs from cells, preventing their killing action. The pump is also foundnormally in the intestine and liver although its role in these tissues is notknown. In the kidney it functions b......h Center researchers. "When you look at people who fail in the treatment of asthma you find a highernumber of families and kids with psychological problems" said Bruce Bender,Ph.D., head of Neuropsychology at National Jewish Medical and Research Center. But, he adds, "a child who doesn't take his or her m...Dying To Quit: Why We Smoke And How We Stop
...age. Why can some smokers quit easily while others fail over and over again? Here, Brigham details the myriad behavioral factors at work and discusses not only the symptoms most quitters experience, but the length of those symptoms and the extent to which they disrupt smokers' lives. Sympathetic to the p...Chemical Society's Highest Award Goes To Ronald Breslow
.... Cancer cells, simply put, are cells that fail to differentiate. "Theyjust go around and around the cell cycle, and keep multiplying," explainedBreslow. His chemotherapy candidates turn on the chemical signal that directsthe cells' DNA toward differentiation instead of reproduction. Once the canc...Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
...eir targets. In addition, first-time therapies may fail becausetherapeutic drug molecules are too bulky to...anticancer agents that work well in the petri dish fail to kill cancer cells inthe body. The new findings suggest that such candidate drugsmay never get a c...Drug Is First In Decade To Show Promise Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder
...medical conditionto treat because physicians often fail to correctly diagnose it and have limitedtreatment options," Davidson said. "The new findings are important because theydemonstrate the potential for expanded treatment options for this chronicdisorder." In the eight-week, multi-center study ...Setting Prescribing Budgets In General Practice
...he contrary Greenhalgh argues that Majeed and Head fail to take into account the reality of the variability of prescribing costs between practices, even when local factors are accounted for. She concludes that it is theoretically possible for health authorities to identify a range of bands within which a...ACTG 315 Preliminary Results: Drug Cocktail Restores Partial Immune Function
...,and after changes in therapy for participants who fail to respond. Data are being analyzed to ascertain the mechanism underlyingrestoration of circulating T cells in patients receiving HAART. "ACTG 315 is the first of aseries of studies developed by the new ACTG Immunology/Immune-BasedTherapies Research...Study Shows Major Savings In Supervising TB Care
...ng medicine without supervision are more likely to fail therapy," says Chaisson. The findings also support a 1978 Baltimore city decision to set up a DOT program in which health care workers regularly visit patients at home or work to ensure compliance with drug treatment. From 1981 through 1992, while T...Maternal Exposure To Crack Cocaine Produces Stressed Newborns
...ility and lethargy,appear to be more stressed, and fail to follow certain stimuli, such as arattle or bell, compared to non-exposed infants. The Brown researchers think the findings result from the combined action ofcocaine with alcohol and marijuana. Alcohol can boost the effects of cocaine,and most of ...