Dartmouth awarded $21.8 million NSF grant
...dents, parents, teachers and their counterparts in higher education. "Dartmouth is pleased to play a role in developing this critical NSF initiative," says Dartmouth President James Wright. "We salute the leadership of a committed group of faculty, led by Professor Michael Gazzaniga, in advancing this proj...$10-million study explores men's role in transmitting HPV
...f great interest in Latin America, where rates are higher than in the United States. Hispanic women in the United States have significantly elevated rates compared to other women, according to Giuilano. Why study men in regard to a cancer that hits women? "We need to know what the rates of new infecti...Feb. 1, 2005, Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet
...for myocardial infarction. The risk was greater at higher doses. They found that aspirin use offset the heart risk associated with low-dose but not high-dose rofecoxib. There was no evidence of increased heart risk with other NSAIDs. The researchers studied aspirin, naproxen, and meloxicam and the COX-2 inh...Middle ear infections: Prescribe antibiotics or not?
...ther amoxicillin or placebo. The authors report a higher rate of cure after 14 days in the group receiving amoxicillin. However, there was no statistical difference in the number of adverse events or in recurrence rates between the 2 groups....Stents and going with the flow
...r quality-adjusted life-year that is similar to or higher than that of other accepted medical forms of treatment and carries a high incremental cost. In a related commentary, Brophy calculates that sirolimus-eluting stents could consume $75 million of our health care budget. Given the inconclusive evidence...New test is first step in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...ined to have Alzheimer's disease were consistently higher than the levels from the control group of healthy individuals who were not demented; the two groups were easily differentiated. The researchers next would like to develop the technology so that the test could be done using a blood or urine sample ins...Background 'DWI' checks effective
...ed that pilots with a DWI history had a 43 percent higher crash risk than their counterparts without a DWI history. "If the crash risk for pilots with a DWI history could be reduced to the same level as their counterparts without a DWI history, then approximately 25 fewer aviation crashes would happen eac...Obesity and weight gain associated with poorer breast cancer survival
...rally related to both lower levels of weight and a higher risk of death overall," said Candyce Kroenke, ScD, of the Department of Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and lead author of the study. "Researchers have also speculated that obesity acts on cancer by raising the body's...Wine drinkers live longer than beer guzzlers
...ies that wine drinkers in many cultures are from a higher socio-economic status and have a better diet than non-wine drinkers," states Professor Morten Grnbk, author of the article. This may be an important factor adding to the beneficial results of wine intake. The French are noted to have a relatively lo...Women, drinking to their health
Women see a slightly higher health benefit over men from alcohol consumption according to twelve separate studies reviewed in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. However, more studies are needed to determine if there are more significant results from either wine, other ...New non-hormonal hot flash treatment set for clinical trial
... the diet. The UB researchers theorize that doses higher than can be achieved in a normal diet of certain amino acids will reduce hot flash activity. Amino acid therapy appears to act on the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that regulates temperature. Thomas Guttuso, Jr., M.D., UB assistant professor ...... states, "One of the most powerful determinants of higher perceived risk of cervical cancer was having had an abnormal test result. A self-fulfilling cycle ensues: more annual screening leads to more abnormal results, and more abnormal results lead to more women with increased risk perception who engage in ...Wisconsin scientists grow critical nerve cells
...ping changes may well be the developmental norm in higher vertebrates such as humans. "We cannot simply translate studies from animal to humans," says Zhang. The next step, Li says, will be to test if the newly generated neurons can communicate with other cells when transplanted into a living animal. The te...Preschoolers not getting enough fiber
...red them. The younger children had, on average, a higher fiber intake than the older children. The two and three year olds, whose fiber intake placed them in the top quarter of the sample, met the new National Academy of Sciences Dietary Reference Intake level. These guidelines propose that Americans of ...Good medicine, good economics: African-Americans need equal treatment for pain, SLU study finds
... them more dissatisfied, and more likely to report higher rates of disability later. That also held for poor...ith the Workers' Compensation process and reported higher levels of post-settlement disability." Higher disability carries a cost, he notes, which is disprop...Researchers discover genetic variant that may explain why women develop M.S. more than men
...wer frequency of a gene variant that is related to higher secretion of interferon gamma." To researchers loo...dence -- 1) women get MS more often, 2) women have higher levels of interferon gamma and 3) high levels of interferon gamma worsen MS -- suggested to the Mayo...Passive smoking in childhood may increase risk of lung cancer in later life
...ronmental tobacco smoke (passive smoking) are at a higher risk of developing lung cancer as adults, says a paper in this week's BMJ. Those children exposed to passive smoking on a daily basis and for many hours are the most vulnerable facing over treble (3.63) the risk of those who grew up in smoke-free en...Adults who had higher exposure to infant siblings have decreased risk for MS
Adults who report having had higher exposure to infant siblings during their first 6 y... of subsequent MS. The inverse association between higher infant contact and MS was independent of EBV IgG titer. "Further work is required to confirm [these ...Obesity and weight gain increase risk for kidney stones
... similar weight gain, older women had a 70 percent higher risk for the development of kidney stones; younger...nt increased risk. The researchers also found that higher BMIs and waist sizes were associated with a higher risk for kidney stones. "The positive association...Activity not out of the question for people with chronic pain
...in terms of the most intense activities that cause higher levels of pain. But what they don't report and po...ibromyalgia," Clauw says. "Our research shows that higher activity is not in fact leading people to increased pain, and it could be used to show patients that...