Condoms and education dramatically reduce HIV spread in Thailand
...ing sex with a sex worker before joining the army, falling from 57 percent in 1991 to 8 percent in 1998. The most dramatic finding was the progressive increased association between a history of injection drug use and HIV prevalence. In 1991, less than 2 percent of the HIV-positive men had a history of inj...Study shows alcohol boosts death risk for boat passengers as well as operators
...ently died that way 20 years ago in November after falling off her stationary yacht in California. A report...alities result from drowning, the team found. Just falling out of the boat and drowning is surprisingly common, he said. That means prevention activities orien...Women & asthma: New survey reveals heavy toll on health, emotions and lifestyle
...hat truly gets their asthma under control." Women falling short of asthma treatment goals The survey reveals that many women with asthma are falling far short of treatment goals(1) established by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Accord...Tissue engineering could become new coronary bypass
...evelopment. The vessels may form, but they end up falling apart because they are not constructed properly. And if VEGF levels fall too low, vessels are even subject to "pruning and remodeling," the researchers report. The new polymer formulation combines proper doses of VEGF and PDGF in a way that encoura...Patent rights stimulate R&D, but fall short in helping poor countries obtain lifesaving drugs
...ologies in health, poor countries of the world are falling behind." Health disparities between populations of rich and poor countries are wide, according to the report. Average life expectancy at birth in the poorest countries is half that of the richest. In many countries, the mortality rate of children un......ignificantly increased risk of injuring themselves falling out of bed. Especially if they sleep in the upper ...five of the children had sustained an injury after falling out of a bunk or cot. Over three quarters of them were less than 6 years old. In one in two the inju...FDA awards grant to metaphore pharmaceuticals to study septic shock in humans
...ents to confirm the link between free radicals and falling blood pressure. Because free radicals convert catecholamines into a second class of compounds, known as adrenochromes, the researchers expect to find increased levels of adrenochromes alongside decreased levels of catecholamines. In the previous a...Virco first to introduce drug-specific biological cut-offs for its HIV resistance tests
...n. This statistical term means that a test result falling above the cut-off can be said to be above the normal susceptible range with 97.5% confidence. Since the susceptibility of untreated and unmutated virus varied considerably from drug to drug, the new cut-offs are different for each drug. All the cu...Hypnosis helps patients control stress and anxiety, UF researchers say
...ok into my eyes, you are getting sleepy and you're falling under my spell." But a team of University of Florida researchers is finding that learning self-hypnosis actually gives a patient greater control over the stress, anxiety and pain of medical operations and childbirth. A study directed by UF counseli...US AIDS cases, deaths, and HIV infections appear stable
...nce that time, incidence has dropped dramatically, falling to levels of less than 2 percent in recent years. Incidence rates varied greatly depending on location of the study and access to substance abuse treatment, with incidence highest in the Northeast and among out-of- treatment IDUs. According to Dr.......l varieties of long-term care. Bishop says that falling rates of disability among the elderly may account for some of the "missing elders." But more likely, she says, alternatives such as home-delivered care and assisted living -- apartment complexes with access to limited care -- have filled the gap left...Cigarette smoking among American teens
... of 10th-graders), reported accessibility has been falling since 1996, particularly among the eighth-graders. (Figure 5.) "This suggests that the efforts by federal and state governments are starting to have an effect," comments Johnston. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been assisting states in m...New approach to imaging separates thought from perception
...oss a busystreet, return a tennis serve or catch a falling child. "This pre-activation may tune the motion detection pathway, allowing usto respond more strongly and selectively when an anticipated object appears,"says Gordon L. Shulman, Ph.D., research scientist in neurology at WashingtonUniversity ...Engineering pits beneath London Underground tracks are helping to save lives
...ns greatly reduce the number of deaths from people falling or jumping in front of trains, claim Mr Tim Coats ...BMJ. Coats and Walter studied 58 cases of patients falling or jumping in front of trains during the 15 month period between January 1996 to March 1997. They f...Health plays a crucial role in California labor market, according to UCSF researchers
...antial proportion of the working age population is falling behind financially. Approximately 13 percent of Californians who are currently employed live in households making less than 125 percent of the federally-defined poverty level. One fifth of the working age population, according to researchers, lost ......dministration (i.e., atbedtime or after difficulty falling asleep, provided there are four or morehours remai... "Although millions of Americans have difficulty falling asleep, manypeople do not take sleep aids for fear of next-day grogginess," says Dr. Roth. "Now, we...Narcolepsy network issues national 'wake up' call
...often frightening dream-likeexperiences when first falling asleep or upon awakening disruptions of normal nighttime sleep "automatic behavior" - performing familiar or routine tasks without fullawareness or memory of doing it "The impact of narcolepsy on a person's life can be devastating, but thedisorder c......ial shock and lightning victims may beinjured from falling down or being thrown, and the leading cause of immediatedeath for both is cardiac or cardiopulmonary arrest. If you survive a shock, you still have to deal with the consequences of theelectrical burns. Industrial shock burns can lead to kidney failur...Follow-up care can reduce hospital readmission rate, cost
...ulnerable groups of patients like the elderly were falling through the cracks with managed care," Brooten said."The costs of rehospitalization were prohibitive, and the quality of patient care was a concern." Brooten's transitional care model provided continuity of care for vulnerable groups by matching adva...Brain Activity Differs In Introverts And Extroverts, UI Study Shows
...ties are two ends of a continuum, with most people falling somewhere inbetween." Johnson added, "The implication is that one personality trait -- introversion orextroversion -- isn't right or wrong. These variations in brain activity suggestthat a lot of our individual differences have an underlying biologic...