Child health must become UNICEF's priority over next decade
...des: "Children remain one of the most marginalised groups in our world today. The predicament of children is the predicament of our futures and the future of our predicaments. UNICEF needs a visionary leader, a person of profound ability to make the next ten years the Decade of Child Survival and Developme...Voluntary health organizations, publishers announce major information initiative
... to include a vast array of research articles. The groups will be able to search the most current American, European, and other international research to help them identify relevant advances on specific diseases and treatments which they will then be able to pass on to patients. About the American Cancer ...Transplanted bone marrow cells reduce liver fibrosis in mice
...or four weeks. They then divided the mice into two groups and treated one with green fluorescent protein-positive blood marrow cells. They treated the control group with saline. All mice continued to be treated with carbon tetrachloride. After 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks, the researchers assessed the extent of liver...Prevalence of overweight increasing in young children from low-income families
... of overweight in all sex, age, and race/ethnicity groups between 1989 and 2000. Of the 30 states included in the study, 28 had an overweight prevalence of more than 10 percent, compared to 11 states in 1989. Also in 2000, three states had overweight prevalences of more than 15 to 20 percent, while two had ...Immigration & psychiatric disorders
...s examined relationships among the four comparison groups and each psychiatric disorder. They determined that, with few exceptions, risk for all the psychiatric disorders assessed was significantly greater among U.S.-born than foreign-born non-Hispanic Whites and among U.S.-born than foreign-born Mexican Am...More than half of relapsed CLL patients respond to two biologics with chemotherapy
... This complete remission rate was much higher than groups treated with either chemotherapy alone, or in combination. Wierda and his group thought about adding alemtuzumab to the combination because of the synergistic activity of FCR and report that fludarabine combined with alemtuzumab had activity in patie...Month of birth linked to risk of MS
...story, were collected and analysed. The comparison groups were both from the general population and from the unaffected brothers and sisters of those with MS. In Canada, significantly fewer people with MS were born in November compared with controls. Similarly in Britain, fewer people with MS had been born ...New marrow transplant method developed at Stanford may eliminate fatal side effects
...cells. For years immunologists were polarized into groups who believed in the cells, once known as suppressor T cells, and those who doubted their existence. But with the development of more advanced techniques for distinguishing between the different types of immune system cells, the existence of the regul...Two-fisted assault on dopamine transport system may be foundation of Parkinson's disease
... Earlier research by several groups has shown that rotenone destroys only neurons that produce dopamine, while largely sparing neurons that produce other neurotransmitters. Feng's laboratory set out to answer the questions "Why?" and "How?" By studying the effects of rote...No long-term harm from repeated prenatal ultrasound examination
... Physical sizes of infants were similar in the two groups from one year of age onwards. There were no significant differences indicating deleterious effects of multiple ultrasound studies at any age as measured by standard tests of childhood speech, language, behaviour, and neurological development. Lead in...Good results with only one egg in in-vitro fertilization
...demy in Gothenburg have compared deliveries in two groups of women who underwent IVF. Half of the women first had one embryo transferred. If it did not develop, they received a second embryo that had been kept frozen until it was reintroduced. The other half of the women received two embryos from the be...Endocrine Society calls for clinical guidelines on androgens for women
...e therapy has been studied previously in different groups of women, including women with adrenal insufficiency and premenopausal women with decreased libido, but not with low androgen levels....Adults taking eplileptic medications more likely to be unemployed
...sults similar to those of the control group. Both groups had lower rates of marriage and having had children than the control. The study notes that differences in employment and socioeconomic status are not attributable to differences in educational status. "Maybe the most important feature [of this study...Dairy Council of California program receives high marks from teachers & students
... grade students classifying foods into the correct groups improving between pre and post test. In addition,...e survey, the consumption of each of the five food groups increased. Results from the second grade evaluations showed that after completing the Healthy Choic...Student nurses need better understanding of poverty-stricken patients
...adians live in poverty, with much higher rates for groups like single parent mothers, older women, immigrants and Aboriginals. In addition, poverty is now considered by the World Health Organization to be the most influential determinant of health, the study noted. ...Higher incidence of rejection following early steroid withdrawal
... 2001. The patients were randomly divided into two groups seven days following transplant: 90 of them contin...ugh there was no statistical difference in the two groups for high cholesterol and hypertension, 22.2 percent of patients in the steroid group developed diabe...NIAID seeks applicants to lead revamped HIV/AIDS clinical trials networks
...of funds. Between three and six network leadership groups will be funded; the number will be determined by the scope and quality of the clinical programs proposed by the group of applicants. The earliest anticipated award date is March 2006. Copies of the Leadership RFA and information on the pre-applicatio...Study finds continued reduction in breast cancer incidence associated with longer use of raloxifene
...pectively. There was no difference between the two groups in incidence of either ER-negative invasive breast cancer or noninvasive breast cancer. In both the MORE and CORE trials, there was a twofold increase in venous thromboembolic events, such as pulmonary embolism, among women taking raloxifene. "[T]hes...Tamoxifen's risks similar in African American and white women
...more than 20,000 women. In women from both ethnic groups who had estrogen-receptor (ER)-positive tumors, tamoxifen use was associated with a similar reduction in contralateral breast cancer. Tamoxifen use was also associated with a similar risk of thromboembolic events in both groups, and the risk of throm...Hebrew University researcher finds 'sweet' way to help prevent heart disease
...nged in age from 43 to 71, were divided into three groups of 24 each. One group received a daily supplement ...lood antioxidant activity in patients from the two groups who drank the juice as opposed to those who did not. The patients who consumed the highest daily sup...