Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
...On the surface, it looked like black babies didn't get as muchsurfactant, and therefore didn't have a reduction in mortality," Hamvassaid. "But, actually, we found the differences in surfactant administrationand the changes in the death rate were purely due to the differences in theincidence and severity...Chemists Develop Probe To Detect Changes In Imaging Agents Inside Body
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..., so that patients requiring more pain control can get polymers that release more drug, and those with very stable requirements for pain medications can get one that lasts longer," says Stuart Grossman, M.D., associate professor of oncology and director of ...Maternal Exposure To Crack Cocaine Produces Stressed Newborns
...er can trigger negative parenting. The trick is to get the mothersback on track, with parenting, psychiatric and addiction counseling."...Alzheimer's disease center seeks patients for new drug studies
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... other factors to reduce theemployment rate and to get workers who aren't currently trained for thecurren...l retirement age but also the age at which you can get partialpayments." With baby boomers approaching retirement age, the federal government mustact to m...A Surgical Semiconductor Laser With More Precision And Power
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...ink localized tumors," Safran said."The idea is to get an effective treatment for these local cancers beforesurgery is attempted. Once the tumors shrink, they can be removed surgically." In previous research, the Brown University Oncology Group had developed aone-two punch of paclitaxel and radiation th...Common Carbohydrates May Prove To Be Substitute For Dietary Fiber
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- What if a person could get the benefits of dietaryfiber without eating bowlsf...obacilli, whichare good bacteria in the bowel. You get the same preventable substrate tothe large bowel. The foods with oligosaccharides also are more plea...Duke Study Uses Tiny Temperature Changes To Probe Water-Exclusion At Protein Binding Sites
...binding site.That means it really, really wants to get its water out." Under their hypothesis, "water leaving would make a much largercontribution to ligand binding than scientists had previously imagined,"he added. To prove their conjecture, Toone and his graduate students would haveto analy...UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
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... lot of lumps and nodules in the spot where people get vaccinated, but there are very few reports of such nodules at the site of vaccination." Though these questions nagged him for years, Hem said he didn't have a way of testing the theory until a few years ago, when Purdue established a laboratory for a...Ultrasound Helps Pediatric Heart Surgeons After Open Heart Surgery
...the house, butwith two or three other windows, you get a better picture." Rodriguez received the Popham Clinical Research Fellowship Award fromChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in 1996 to continue his clinicalinvestigations of brain function during cardiac surgery in children. His co...Scientists Track Effectiveness Of Migraine Drugs With Ultrasound
...r determining the success of treating patients who get migraines, evenduring the periods when the patient does not have a headache. Chung will present his findings August 15th at the meeting of InternationalNeurosonology '97 sponsored by the World Federation of Neurology and the BowmanGray Sch...Ultrasound Detects Pathology In Patients With Whiplash
...nother benefit to the ultrasound is its ability to get aroundobstacles, such as surgical hardware, which can severely degrade image qualitywith conventional MRI and CT studies of the spine. In a separate presentation, the investigators will report on the ultrasoundobservation of muscular fascicu...Cancer Protection Compound Abundant In Broccoli Sprouts
... extracts developed fewertumors, and thosethat did get tumors had smaller growths that took longer to dev... to eat unreasonablylarge quantitiesof broccoli to get any significant promotion of Phase 2 enzymes," Talalay says. Clinical studies are currently und...Unique Interactive Health Kiosks Distributed In Michigan
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...n. "By understandingthe function of testis ACE, we get a real insight into the basic makeup of whatwe are, which is a creature of many different tissues, each of which isresponsible for a functionality." Bernstein's current research focuses on three areas: the intracellularsignals initiated when ...Benefits Of Annual Mammography Outweigh Radiation Risks Of Cancer
...n I can think of as to why women shouldn’t get this lifesaving screening," Dr. Feig concludes. Earlier this year, the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute both recommended that women 40 and older have regular mammograms....