Alcohol drinkers three times as likely to die from injury
...nt Analysis and Prevention. "Previous studies have focused on the effect of acute alcohol use on the risk of injury. We looked at the relationship between a person's usual drinking behavior and the major categories of fatal injury," said Li-Hui Chen, PhD, lead author of the study and an assistant scientist i...New study finds link between self-mutilation and risky sexual behavior
...rsonality disorders or substance abuse." The study focused on a group of adolescents in intensive psychiatric treatment, and almost half (47%) of the subjects admitted to cutting themselves at least once. Surveys of a more general community have reported the number of self-cutters in adolescents and college ...Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective
...s, yet current approaches to HIV testing are still focused on these sub-populations. The result is that 280,000 Americans with HIV remain unaware of their infection. Efforts to promote and finance routine, population-based HIV screening should be pursued aggressively." Douglas K. Owens, M.D., of the VA Palo...PCBs, fungicide open brain cells to Parkinson's assault
...nson's, the group led by Lisa Opanashuk, Ph.D., is focused on environmental exposures. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is funding the work. "If we can identify the mechanisms by which PCBs or pesticides perturb dopamine neuron function, it may lead to the development of therapies tha...Risk factors affect parents' attitudes about STD vaccinations
...liminary research indicating that most parents are focused on protecting their children's health and not as concerned with the source of infection, he said. Only 6 percent of the parents expressed an aversion toward STD vaccines in general. Dr. Zimet said future studies will focus more specifically o...Parents comfortable with vaccination for sexually transmitted infections for adolescent children
...behavioral prevention available. "Most parents are focused on protecting their children's health and not so concerned about the source of infection," the authors concluded. "Clearly, the severity of disease and the efficacy of the vaccine were much more salient dimensions to these parents than were sexual tr...Mailman School of Public Health researchers develop infectious disease diagnostic tool
... the time needed for differential diagnosis. "We focused first on respiratory diseases because differential diagnosis is a common clinical problem with implications for outbreak control and individual case management," stated W. Ian Lipkin, MD, Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Professor of Epidemiology and profes...Children's Hospital Oakland opens new $5.6 million infectious disease lab
...will bring together a variety of research programs focused on understanding the immunobiology of infectious diseases, both existing and emerging, and developing vaccines to prevent them. "This new facility will allow us to conduct research that we could not otherwise perform," said Bertram Lubin, M.D., seni...Optimal treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome
... The research effort focused on the results of 163 wrists belonging to 101 patients 93 women, 8 men who were referred by their primary care physician to a CTS unit specifically created for this study. All the patients had experienced CTS symptoms most notably, nightly attack...States find alternate routes to health coverage
...n of private health insurance coverage. Strategies focused on making insurance affordable, whether through legislation to allow insurers to sell scaled-back benefit plans, or by revisiting the concept of state-sponsored reinsurance. ...Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
...uality improvement organization for Massachusetts, focused on a broad range of patients with ischemic stroke or TIAs and reported the use of and improvement in eight secondary preventive measures. In terms of prevention, they monitored the percentage of discharged patients who received anticoagulation for ...Promise of 'bladder pacemaker' for people with spinal cord injury
...lace. Until now, most bladder control research has focused on treating incontinence, a major cause of health problems such as urinary tract and kidney infections, and of skin degradation. Other research teams have reported that electrical pulses with low frequencies, about 2 to 20 cycles per second, help con...Computer memory, MRI technology benefit from student research at UH
...er engineering department, presented research that focused on improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio in parallel imaging obtained by implementation of high-temperature superconductors in the design of MRI receiving probes. While it is known that this application has great potential, her research holds pro...Disaster management: Better management of hospital resources and staff is the answer
... date, disaster medical response has predominantly focused on pre-hospitalissues such as triage, evacuation, and transport of casualties, and haslargelyassumed that hospital management would occur as planned. The intensive care unit (ICU) is an essential link in the chain of eventsthatfollow a disaster, writ...New research reinforces importance of aerobic health
... where he has taught since 1996. His research has focused on the molecular bases of changes in muscle physiology, and how muscle fibers change as a result of exercise. In addition to courses on physiology, Swoap teaches the popular "Biology of Exercise and Nutrition" class, which attracted over 10 percent o...Stem cells given in minimally invasive procedure improve heart function
...nter will encompass clinical and research programs focused on the use of stem cells as an adjuvant treatment for a wide array of heart failure patients and for those with peripheral vascular disease. In addition to Dr. Patel, co-authors of the current research include Federico Benetti, M.D., and Luis Geffne...Rice scientist recognized as pioneer in tissue engineering
...loping its scaffolding materials, Mikos' group has focused on chemical modifications that control material properties like stiffness as well as the function of seeded cells. They've accumulated strong experimental evidence that show their methods can be used to tailor implanted materials to attract certain c...New leukemia drug shows promise in overriding all Gleevec resistance
...ations and therefore all forms of resistance. They focused on other possible avenues to inhibit the actions of BCR-ABL. To do so, they targeted parts of the BCR-ABL protein that didn't appear to be mutating and adapting to Gleevec. "We developed ON012380, a compound that specifically inhibits BCR-ABL by bl...Baked or broiled fish may help reduce the risk of stroke
...on and stroke risk are inconsistent, and none have focused on the elderly, in whom disease burden may be high. In addition, the effect of fish consumption on cardiovascular disease may depend on the type of fish consumed--broiled or baked fish as compared to fried fish or fish sandwiches. Dariush Mozaffarian...Study shows strengths, gaps in quality of care for kids in California's public mental health clinics
...nt team in the mental health clinic. The study focused on care for ADHD, major depression, and conduct disorder because they are the most common disorders encountered by clinicians, and effective treatments are available. Among specific findings: Children receiving care in mental health clinics have...