Researchers say breast cancer in Africa may provide clues to the disease in African-Americans
... most often between 35 and 45 years, and more than fifteen years earlier than women in Europe and North America. The mortality rate seen among women in sub-Saharan Africa is disproportionately high compared to the incident rate, as in African American women. Their tumors tend to be very aggressive with short...15 minutes training enough to save lives with an automated external defibrillator
Just fifteen minutes of training could make it possible for anyone to use a defibrillator to stop sudden cardiac arrest. A study published today in the journal Critical Care shows that a brief training session is all that is needed for safe and efficient use of a...RelayHealth selected by Columbia University to link doctors and patients online
...esenting more than 10,000 affiliated physicians in fifteen U.S. cities have selected and licensed the RelayHealth service....Surgery without the scapel: U. Va. Health System marks fifteenth anniversary of Gamma knife
...e U.S. and only the fifth in the world. Now, fifteen years later, U.Va. neurosurgeons have treated nearly 5,000 patients from around the nation with the Gamma Knife for a variety of brain diseases without making a single large incision in the skull. U.Va. is also on its second Gamma Knife instrument. ...U.Va. Health System adds new cancer treatment center
...degrees) to the tumor. Each procedure takes about fifteen to twenty-five minutes. U.Va. has renovated a new suite for the TomoTherapy system, and patients and clinicians, on the first floor of the Medical Center's West Complex. U.Va. has also been named one of twenty-four Centers of Clinical Excellen...Latest Public Policy & Aging Report forecasts possible US labor shortage
...s of 50% for workers aged 55-64, with only four of fifteen nations having attained this goal as of 2003....Synbiotic modulation of gut flora improves minimal hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhotic patients
...n. Twenty took fermentable fibers for 30 days, and fifteen received a placebo treatment for 30 days. At 30 days, all patients were re-screened for MHE. The researchers also assessed gut flora in fecal samples at day 1, day 30, and day 44. They compared their findings with the gut flora of 20 normal healthy v...March/April 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...pening in Family Physician Offices In a survey of fifteen practicing family physicians without electronic medical record systems, Elder and colleagues found that family physicians identified medical errors and preventable adverse events in almost one quarter (23.6 percent) of their patient encounters. The r...2003 winners of Collegiate Inventors Competition announced in NYC
...ners, and one grand prizewinner were selected from fifteen finalist teams. Advisors for each winning team we...ogram of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. All fifteen finalist teams made presentations before a final panel of eight judges on Wednesday, including repre...Arsenic remedy for arsenic poisoning?
...lem for people from India, Bangladesh and at least fifteen other countries. Drinking arsenic contaminated well water has caused the rapid spread of skin diseases and liver damage. Although chemical treatment can remove arsenic contamination, such efforts to provide safe drinking water have not been widely im...Scientists develop greater accuracy in recording babys heart rates in the womb
...tudied more than 600 pregnant women so far between fifteen and forty weeks pregnancy including those with twin and triplet pregnancies. Dr Helena Gardiner, from Imperial College London and the Hammersmith and Royal Brompton Hospitals, adds: "This new technique will be particularly useful in gathering more i...Good news on cancer for most EU countries but tobacco still a big problem
..." However, he warned against complacency. Over the fifteen year period the number of deaths from cancer rose by 12% in men and 9% in women, which meant that the there were over 90,000 more in 2000 than in 1985. The good news was that this rise was only about half the projected increased based on demographic ...LOral USA launches new science fellowship program
...ch year in Paris in partnership with UNESCO, where fifteen young scientists are selected to receive fellowship grants, in addition to the selection of five Laureates, representing five different regions of the globe, who are honored for their leadership role in the scientific community. The application for f...New data suggests chemotherapy patients benefit from heart failure treatment
...udy, investigators reviewed the medical records of fifteen cancer inpatients with class IV heart failure evaluated in M. D. Anderson's cardiomyopathy clinic. Cancer diagnosis, ejection fraction, recorded symptoms and hemodynamic data were examined before and after the use of intravenous inotropic agents, be...New research sets out to help children suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
...t. ADHD is a behavioural condition affecting up to fifteen percent of children in the UK. Symptoms include poor attention span, weak impulse control and hyperactivity Lead researcher, Professor John Gruzelier from Imperial College London at the Charing Cross hospital says: "Research from America has shown ...Two thirds of adolescent Zimbabwean girls in study involved with older men
...espread, according to researchers from UCSF. "As a fifteen year-old girl from one of the focus groups said: 'It is girls with no money like me. Big Dharas (sugar daddies) buy you clothes, send you to high school. If you refuse, you stay poor. If you take his money and refuse sex, he will rape you. He will sa...Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy (TM) more effective in epilepsy patients when used earlier
... after three months of treatment with VNS Therapy, fifteen percent of the study participants reported no seizures, a three-fold statistically significant improvement over the control group. Additionally, and equally as important, patients quality of life after three months of VNS Therapy was better or much...FDA awards grant to metaphore pharmaceuticals to study septic shock in humans
...t half-life, lasting intact in the body only about fifteen minutes. Numerous animal studies over the last few years have confirmed the disease fighting potential of MetaPhores SOD mimetics. The October 1999 issue of Science published research documenting that MetaPhores SOD mimetic substantially reduced t...NIH awards grant to MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals to study novel pain treatments
...t half-life, lasting intact in the body only about fifteen minutes. Numerous animal studies over the last few years have confirmed the disease fighting potential of MetaPhore's SOD mimetics. The October 1999 issue of Science published research documenting that MetaPhore's SOD mimetic substantially reduced t...California labor market is strong, but workers in poor health don't benefit, UCSF study reports
... People available to work have an average of over fifteen years of labor market experience, and 95 percent have at least one year of experience. The researchers report that one in six Californians who have worked in the past three years report having lost a job during this time, and about one in thirteen r...