Raising The Retirement Age In The United States Could Save Billions In Social Security Payments
...Manton and Tolley studied health and mortalitydata from several National Long Term Care Surveys -- longitu...vide enoughjobs. An increase in the retirement age from 65 to 70 would imply a needfor roughly 10 million new jobs, Tolley and Manton wrote. They point outt...Fertilization Protein Structure To AID in Leukemia Treatment
...e Structural Biology. The egg protein is from the California sea snail, Aplysia californica , a... secondary messenger is synthesized inside the egg from the building blocks of DNA. The synthesis reaction requires a specialized protein, known as ADP rib......parison of infants with acquired immune deficiency from HIV to infants with a type of congenital immune deficiency known as the DiGeorge syndrome. Children with DiGeorge syndrome have thymic defects and characteristically low CD4+ and CD8+ T cell counts, as well as low CD5+ B cells. These B cells compri...Rape Victims Find Relief From Posttraumatic Stress Using The Antidepressant Zoloft.
.... Rothbaum has begun to recruit patients with PTSD from any cause for acontrolled clinical trial of Zoloft treatment. Interested persons may call404-727-8968. For more general information on The Robert W. Woodruff Health SciencesCenter, call Health Sciences News and Information at 404-727-5686, or sende-m...Stents Work Well, But Are Costly: Will Hospitals Continue To Use Them?
...onset of managed careand diminishing reimbursement from all payers, hospitals need to be verycost conscious." In looking at medical records, Peterson found out that the extra costof stenting is not due to medication or length of hospital stay. It is inthe fixed price of the devices, which usually cost a...KUMC Researchers Announce Breakthrough Method For Predicting Epileptic Seizures
...io said. The research is sponsored by funding from the KU Research Development Fund; College of Arts ...for Undergraduate fund. Osorio and Mark Frei, PhD, from the Medical Center campus, along with John Ralston, professor of physics and astronomy; Josef Dorfme...UW, Siemens Unveil New Panoramic Ultrasound Imaging Application Using Programmable Technology
...tions was unveiled today by collaboratingengineers from Siemens Ultrasound and the University of Washingto...ly complex and historically weredesigned and built from single-purpose hardware components with limitedprogrammability. This meant that the development of n...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
... The detailed cost data used in the analysis came from a random sample of the 22,043 U.S. patients who were enrolled in GUSTO, a large international trial that tested two different clot-busting drugs. The sample represents "real world cardiology," Eisenstein said. Physicians in the GUSTO trial were not g...Postmature Infants Not As Easily Calmed As Other Newborns
...'s difficult to tell whetherthe fetus is suffering from postmaturity until it's born," shesaid. Research h...s calming." The research was funded through grants from the NationalInstitute of Child Health and Human Development and the March ofDimes Foundation....Benefits Of New Diet Drug Don't Outweigh Risks
...rug for a long time, Levitsky analyzed the studies from all the articles published in scientific, peer-rev...hough conclusive evidence of possible health risks from chronically taking fenfluramine or any other weight loss medication is not in, there is some evidenc...Johns Hopkins To Announce AIDS Capitated Care Program
...ation, Hopkins will receive a preset fee per month from itsmanaged care partners to cover all medical care... outpatienttreatment and research clnic at Hopkins from 1929 to 1954. The AIDS care program initially will be available through PriorityPartners, which is ...Hospital Noise Disrupts Sleep For Patients, In The Critical Care Setting
...an80-decibel sound. "During an eight-hour period, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., we found that loudnoises marked...ical care setting and find ways to screen patients from noise pollution.The sounds came from various sources, such as loud voices, televisions,equipment ala...Program Provides Treatment For Prison-Released HIV-Positive Women
...ical care and substance-abuse treatment on release from prison,resulting in a more than 50-percent decreas... with medical care, and 34 of 39 womenreceived aid from either general public assistance or Social Securitydisability. Twenty-one of 31 women entered into a...ACTG 315 Preliminary Results: Drug Cocktail Restores Partial Immune Function
...artially restored, accordingto preliminary results from AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG)315, supported by...weeks. Dr. Ledermanpresented the analysis of data from 33 patients after 12 weeksof treatment. <The data show that the dramatic risein CD4 counts and f...Childhood Sex Abuse Impacts Adult Relationships
... the primary caregiver," explained Feerick, who is from Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Haugaard and Feerick, who expects her Ph.D. in 1998, analyzed questionnaires from 313 undergraduate women at Cornell. The researchers looked at measures of childhood sexual abuse, c...Early Menopause Stress Related In Developing Countries
... of menses and breast-feeding for about 500 women from a survey of 3,000 Bangladeshi women who were asked if they were menopausal. These women supplied twice weekly questionnaires and morning urine samples for a year. "Some women who said they were menopausal, had actually experienced a menstrual p...NIAID Stops AIDS Study Prematurely Because Drug 'Cocktail' Boosts Survival
...se inhibitor, works by preventing protease enzymes from cutting up proteins needed to form viruses, Eron explained. The envelope, or outer coating, of the virus still develops, but the core cannot, and therefore the resulting virus is not infectious. Drugs such as ZDV and 3TC work by inhibiting an enzyme...Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
...ia and other side effects. Paclitaxel is derived from taxol, a chemical obtained from the bark of theyew tree. As a chemotherapy drug, paclitaxel is used for the treatment ofovarian, bre...Laser Shown Effective In Patients Who Are Not Candidates For Bypass Surgery Or Angioplasty
...balloon angioplasty. In a bypass procedure, veins from the legare used to redirect oxygen-rich blood arou...and the blood in the chamber keeps the laser burst from travelingany farther. Depending on the extent of the heart disease, the surgeons create 20to ...Study Shows Gum Disease Increases Risk Of Future Heart Disease
...lts of the study, conducted among Native Americans from the Gila River Indian community in Mesa, Ariz., 40... Participating in the research were scientists from the UB Periodontal Disease Research Center, the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and the d...