The silent time bomb: divorce, health care and the baby boom generation
...as so high, the burden of taking care of them will fall even more heavily on the public sector, already strapped to meet demand.Family structures have changed, according to Liliana Pezzin, a Ph.D., economist and assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Center for Demography of Aging. In short, som...Map makers can avoid confusing the color blind
... problems with an unlimited pairing of colors that fall on the confusion line. For example problems can oc...reen, red-orange and yellow, the last three colors fall on the same confusion line and would cause problems. A solution would be to choose blue, light green...Purdue 'stealth compounds' attack cancer cells
...ing nucleotides into cells, those existing methods fall short in several ways, Borch says. "With current technologies, the activation process takes place in the bloodstream, rather than inside the cell. This means that you lose a lot of the drug, making it difficult to deliver adequate amounts of the dr...Taking public health to the streets works
...ged caution in interpreting these results. "The fall in case fatality coincident with the program was encouraging," said Bullen. "However, because of the small numbers involved, no firm conclusions can be drawn from these data." The study results do suggest that door-to-door visits by lay educators ...Treatment helps dyslexics significantly improve reading, shows brain changes as children learn
...p developed by Berninger -- will be published next fall in the journal Learning Disability Quarterly. The intervention draws on elements of existing treatments, putting them together in a novel way. In the workshop the boys were taught to analyze sound in spoken words, to attach sounds to letters automa...... chronic condition occurring during the spring and fall allergy seasons that is caused by the body's reaction to allergens that enter through the respiratory tract. Allergies affect as many as 40 million people in the United States -- 10 percent of children and 20-30 percent of adolescents suffer from al......ir biological activity and often leading to a free fall in blood pressure. Together, dopamine, norepineph...n of antibiotic therapy and in addition, any rapid fall in blood pressure is addressed by the administration of fluids intravenously and of catecholamines s...Supplements that target fat loss … metals that protect themselves …
...e backfiring, causing the polymers in old paint to fall apart. Chemistry has come to the rescue and transformed preservation from an unpredictable craft into a science. (POLY 452, 2:35 p.m.) Put a polymer in your tank- A new polymer-based gasoline additive could dramatically decrease polluting emissions...BU receives Knight Foundation grant
..." The Knight-funded center, which will open in the fall of 2001, will add the following components to Boston University's existing science and medical journalism curriculum: A visiting scholar program. Each year the center will enable one distinguished journalist to take a semester's leave from reporting...Hartford Institute/AACN award honors nursing schools for innovative gerontology education
...e and presented in ceremonies October 22 at AACN's fall semiannual meeting in Washington, D.C., nationally recognize schools and programs of nursing that exhibit exceptional, substantive, and innovative baccalaureate curricula in gerontological nursing education. As older adults comprise a rapidly expan...... children under 6, and in almost half of these the fall was from an upper bunk. Twenty seven of the children sustained a head injury, seven of whom were either knocked unconscious, or suffered concussion. Other injuries included lacerations and bruising. Fourteen of the children had to be admitted to hosp...Measles and pertussis risk higher for children with personal exemptions from immunization
...s), the consequences of forgoing vaccination would fall only on the child whose parents made the decision. Most vaccine-preventable diseases, however, are spread from person to person. Therefore, the health of any individual in the community is intricately dependent on the health of the rest of that com...Sleepyheads, snorers face risk of stroke
...leeping for more than eight hours, the tendency to fall asleep during the day and the tendency to snore influence the likelihood of having a stroke, says Qureshi. Individuals who snore severely or have trouble staying awake during the day should see a doctor to find out why. These may be signs of certain...Smoking restrictions in restaurants are not bad for business
...taurant owners without a smoking policy expected a fall in revenue, but none of those who had already complied expected this. And 80 per cent of those who had already complied to some degree did not expect to see a drop in profits either. "The results show that even in a high smoking prevalence area such...Researchers build on discovery of potent potential antibiotic
...student, David Howe, confirmed that they do indeed fall into two classes---one that requires a metal and one that does not. To determine whether these enzymes, like the A. aeolicus enzyme, are resistant to the prospective antibiotic PD 404182, Birck tested the compound on metal-requiring KDO 8-P synthas...Blood medicine may ease cocaine withdrawal
...caine. Participants in the study, conducted in the fall of 1999, received counseling twice weekly along with regular doses of propranolol or a placebo. Scientists concluded that subjects with more severe cocaine withdrawal symptoms responded better to propranolol in comparison to those given the placebo....One more visit could close demographic gaps in infant immunization efforts
...ey. Those data also reveal that many infants fall just one doctors visit short of receiving all of their scheduled vaccines. If these infants had received their final shots, America would have exceeded the goal of 90 percent immunization in 1999. The actual immunization rate that year was just more ......how that midodrine not only effectively blunts the fall in blood pressure during and after dialysis, but it is also well-tolerated and easy to administer," said Mark Perazella, M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Acute Dialysis Services at Yale School of Medicine. About 250,000 pati...... about 125,000 to 150,000 cases a year worldwide - fall into that category. The new study will test standard chemotherapy combinations for early-stage breast cancer with and without Herceptin. Slamon emphasized that no study participant will receive less than the best available standard therapies for earl...... The results showed that there was a significant fall in ROS generation by 40 percent from baseline level. There also was a fall in serum CRP by 30 percent and MCP-1 by 15 percent. Brachial arterial reactivity (dilation of the ar...