EPA Choosing Lab Science Over Epidemiology To Establish Drinking Water Guidelines
...ater exceeds 300 parts per billion, EPA has had to favor toxicologicaldata over conflicting epidemiological data. This issue is part of a largerdebate over how and to what extent to protect the American public fromdisinfectants and byproducts of drinking water disinfection. Ozonoff blames the proposal to e...American Heart Association Comment: Results Of Cardiac Insufficiency Bisoprolol Study II (CIBIS-II)
...ial was stopped prematurely becauseof a benefit in favor of bisoprolol. During an average follow-up period of 1.3years, 11.8 percent of patients on bisoprolol died, compared with 17.3 percentof those who received placebo.......spondents(14%) by a ratio of 6:1. Women, however, favor the use of chat rooms, whichoffer more interaction and the development of relationships (49% females to 23%males) to visual erotica (50% males to 23% females). Most individuals reportedthat they go on line for sexual pursuits from home (78.8%); 5.8 ...Advertising May Influence Physicians' Choice Of Blood Pressure Drugs
...ences. Atthis time, the available scientific data favor the use of the older medications-- beta blockers and diuretics -- for uncomplicated hypertension. That may changeas more studies are completed with these newer medications, but until that timeit is reasonable to consider the older medications as fir...Knife-Less Brain 'Surgery' Offers New Treatment Options
...very time (two to three days), it is also gaining favor as an alternative to surgery in cases where either can be used. Research studies to compare the two procedures are just beginning, but in some European counties, 80 percent of aneurysms are treated with coils or balloons. Interventional neuroradi...Showing pictures of admired blacks or elderly can lower levels of unconscious prejudice
...iefs andstatements by most Americans, who say they favor equal treatment on the basis ofrace, ethnicity, gender and age. In the new experiments, Dasgupta and Greenwald measured unconsciousattitudes with the IAT after exposing college students to pictures anddescriptions of famous and infamous ...Women, men view and judge childhood sexual abuses cases differently
...ed, or vice versa. Overall women tended to favor the plaintiff, while men favored thedefendant. Wom...liar with thesetopics the more likely they were to favor the plaintiff. Men's decisions,however, were not influenced by their knowledge of such cases. ...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...ional elected officials debatetax cuts, Virginians favor maintaining or even increasing spending on schools...ach of these statements. Virginians continue to favor three controversial issues: 77 percent of Virginians agree that physicians should be allowed to p...Magnet therapy: what's the attraction?
...eople who ignore conventional medical treatment in favor of it. "Magnet therapy may not seem like a big deal," Park writes. "Magnets generally cost less than a visit to the doctor and they certainly do no harm. But magnet therapy can be dangerous if it leads people to forego needed medical treatment."...'Revolutionary' treatment for birth defect improves survival of newborns
...orsen the lung conditionand should be abandoned in favor of a "revolutionary" treatment strategy thatdramatically increases the survival chances of affected newborns, University ofFlorida researchers report in the September issue of the Annals of Surgery. In a comparative study of new and conventional trea...New links found between an 'iron' gene mutation and increased risk for heart attack and stroke
...innish teampublished in 1992 the first evidence in favor of the role of iron accumulationin coronary disease. "Carriers of the gene have more than twice the risk for a heart attack comparedto non-carriers," says the study's senior author, Jukka T. Salonen, M.D., Ph.D.,of the University of Kuopio in Finlan......ikely abandoned government-regulated facilities in favor of less formal 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 -- apa...New cancer classification brings quicker treatment to some
...phomas are being phased out in favor of names that demonstrate the cell that gave rise to the malignancy. Previously, lymphomas were divided into two groups, either Hodgkin's lymphoma or nonHodgkin's lymphoma. The physicians ...Americans support FDA food biotech policies
...nt survey indicates most consumers still remain in favor of food biotechnology and the current U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policies for safety and labeling of these foods. A U.S. consumer attitude survey conducted by Wirthlin Worldwide for the International Food Information Council (IFIC) jus...Direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads get poor grades for educating consumers
...ry Care and a study author. "A leading argument in favor of allowing this advertising is that the ads are educational; however, our research shows that in practice this argument often falls short." Dr. Kravitz and his co-authors scrutinized 320 print ads promoting 101 drug brands. The ads appeared in 18 po......rily begin phasing out the compound in May 2000 in favor of a more benign alternative. The data from the study show higher PFOS concentrations among animals in urban-industrial areas, according to Giesy. Mammals had the highest doses, followed by birds and fish, he added. Further work is necessary to det...PET scan results change patient management for sixty percent of breast cancer patients
...icare Coverage Advisory Committees June 19 vote in favor of reimbursement for recurrent breast cancer, reinforces the role and the importance of PET in the disease management and treatment planning of women with breast cancer, Czernin stated. The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that there will be a...Dartmouth research examines the value of cancer screening
...ed misclassifications that biased study results in favor of screening, Dartmouth researchers demonstrated. ...on tilts the disease-specific mortality results in favor of screening. Both forms of bias affected the randomized screening trials, according to the ana...Misclassification of death may influence perceived value of cancer screening
...ause of death may have biased the trial results in favor of screening. The findings appear in the Feb. 6 is...n biases the disease-specific mortality results in favor of screening. The analysis by Black and his colleagues suggests that both forms of bias affected th...