'Weekend' use matches daily drops for 'lazy eye'
... "The daily burden of administering drops usually falls on the parent, and if weekend eye drops are a good option, the regimen not only relieves some of this burden but may also encourage compliance with the treatment," Repka adds. "Compliance is very important, since timely and successful treatment for ...Study finds nearly 60% of American adults may have elevated blood pressure
...If either the systolic or diastolic blood pressure falls within this range, it indicates prehypertension. Hypertension remains defined as 140/90 or above in the JNC7 classifications. The Wangs used data collected from 4,805 adults age 18 or older. They analyzed the group by age, sex, body weight group, ...Growing epidemic of wet AMD ushers in new era in treatment of the disease
... than any other impairment, increasing the risk of falls and injuries, medication mix-ups, poor nutrition, social isolation and clinical depression," said presenter Lylas G. Mogk, M.D., founding director of the Visual Rehabilitation and Research Center at the Henry Ford Health System Eye Care Services. "Fo...Posssible link between diabetes and liver cancer found
...irect cellular-level effects. The association also falls in line with a much larger study, recently published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, which linked diabetes with higher liver cancer mortality rates. "As an epidemiologist, I'm always reluctant to make any definitive pronouncements about cau...Not all beers are created equal
...ith other countries. Most of the beer consumption falls within a relatively narrow range of alcoholic strengths; there are very few low- or middle-strength varieties with nearly all brands falling in the narrow range of 4.1 to 5.1 percent alcohol content. In other countries where tax incentives have been...Federal policy has failed to prepare nation for possibility of bioterrorism
...ith onset of a fever and ending when the last scab falls off. This assumes a smallpox patient survives." The second reason for alarm is the small number of emergency personnel who are vaccinated. As of July 31, 2004, only 39,379 of the 500,000 workers identified by the federal government as front-line re...Smallpox vaccine can be diluted and still be effective, expanding supply if needed
...people. However, the current supply of the vaccine falls short of the Department of Health and Human Services goal of having one dose for every U.S. citizen, and the effectiveness of diluted doses in unclear. Thomas R. Talbot, M.D., M.P.H., of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn., and...3D neutron-based medical imaging, 4D lung scans, and hitting a moving tumor
...years of prior research that by today's definition falls well within the core of the discipline of medical physics. Furthermore, medical physicists successfully refined MRI instrumentation and software, and integrated it into real-world medical environments such as hospitals. When commercial machines bec...Unexpected similarities between raindrops and proteins
...e are fewer, the drop cannot begin to grow, but it falls to pieces immediately. Using newly developed theory, Linda Hedberg and Mikael Oliveberg have shown that the inscrutable building blocks of the body, proteins, adopt their proper shape in a similar manner. Unlike water, proteins are made up of long ...St. Jude helps South American community achieve improved survival rates for leukemia
... for ALL in Recife, from 32 percent to 63 percent, falls short of the current 80 percent cure rate in the U.S. and Europe. However, the cure-rate increase occurred in a relatively short time span compared to the rate of improvement in the U.S. and Europe over the past 40 years. "This rapid rate of improvem...Average blood pressure levels on rise among American children/teenagers
... Overweight children and teenagers have a BMI that falls in the 95th percentile or higher on age- and gender-specific growth charts, compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The systolic and diastolic blood pressure increases between the two surveys were large and occurred for all age a......the immune response. If the number of CD4+ T cells falls below a certain level, the weakened immune system is less able to fight infections and the symptoms of AIDS develop. Rejecting the commonly accepted view that the CD4+ T cells are killed solely by the HIV virus, Jean-Marie Andrieu and Wei Lu of Unive...Study: Height loss screen ultimately could reduce hip fractures
...ycle of losing and adding minerals in healthy bone falls out of balance and the loss outpaces the gain, leading to low bone mass, structural deterioration of bone tissue, fragility and an increased susceptibility to fractures of the hip, spine and wrist. An estimated 30 million American women either have o...New medical research shows safer flooring could cut hip fractures
...ays is closer to 26.8%. The study focused on 6,641 falls and 222 fractures, which took place in 34 residential care homes for older people. They also developed equipment that could simulate and measure the peak impact force during a fall by a person of average height and weight. Researchers discovered that...Study reveals cause of loss of consciousness during seizures
...ses serious motor vehicle accidents, injuries, and falls in patients with epilepsy," he added. "The hope is that we can interrupt the process and prevent unconsciousness." Blumenfeld focused his study on patients with seizures in the temporal lobe, the most common form of epilepsy. He and his colleagues ...Study identifies predictors of Alzheimer's disease longevity
...d for a history of agitation, wandering, paranoia, falls and walking difficulties. Survival was measured from the time of initial diagnosis until death or when the study ended in 2001. When compared to the life expectancy of the general U.S. population, overall survival was lower for people with AD in all...Tai Chi has physical, psychological benefits
...and cardiovascular fitness and reduced the risk of falls in elders," the authors write. "Benefits were repo...ance, strength, and flexibility in older subjects; falls in frail elderly subjects; and pain, stress, and anxiety in healthy subjects." The authors also stat...Cedars-Sinai March medical tipsheet
...that can cause serious harm to children occur from falls and crashes while jumping on trampolines, bicycling, participating in roller sports such as rollerblading and/or scooter riding, and from accidents that occur on the playground. CEDARS-SINAI RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY A GENE THAT CAUSES INSULIN RESISTANCE...Preventive Medicine 2004 Annual Meeting
...e. The subject matter for Preventive Medicine 2004 falls into four major areas: public health practice; clinical preventive medicine; prevention policy issues; and healthcare quality improvement. The research findings that will be presented and the plenary session presentations are of broad public interest......n's probability of getting to the hospital in time falls by 1.25 percent. "With prompt medical attention, a person's blockage to the heart, which causes a heart attack, can often be dissolved. That reduces damage to the heart and greatly lowers morbidity and mortality," says Liam O'Neill, assistant profes...