Vaccine against childhood pneumonia shows promise
... invasive pneumococcal disease are up to ten times higher than in industrialised countries. Pneumonia causes...ed in reading radiographs. The Gambian trial had a higher reduction of incidence of radiological pneumonia and is the first to show a reduction in hospital ad...Child care may affect entire community's risks of infection
...isk of pneumococcal carriage is two to three times higher for a child who attends child care than for a non-...ren in child care for a longer period of time have higher carriage rates of pneumococcus among both child care attendees and non-attendees. The study suggests...Oral bacteria may predict pregnancy outcomes
...ir third trimester of pregnancy. They found that a higher salivary level of the bacteria called Actinomyces ... with low birth weight and preterm delivery, while higher levels of the bacteria Lactobacillus casei (L. casei) during pregnancy positively affected the birth...Cardiac deaths peak in sleep hours for patients with sleep apnea
...s not only show that patients with OSA are at much higher risk of cardiac death during sleep; they also indi...f cardiac deaths in the general population is even higher for those who don't have sleep apnea. "Because so many people have sleep apnea and are more likely t...Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors
...ystem and inpatient mental health systems were all higher in the non-system-of-care community. Core mental health systems and special education costs were higher in the system-of-care community. The authors note in their paper, "Although we have captured servi...Stanford patient is first to test new treatment for peripheral arterial disease
...tion, the total dosage of the drug coating must be higher on the long leg stent than in a small stent in the heart." The stent used in Erickson's leg was made by Cook, Inc., a large medical-device manufacturer that is sponsoring the clinical trial. It is coated with an anti-cancer agent called paclitaxel, w...Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
...cases for every 100,000 Americans was dramatically higher than the rate of 1.1 new AIDS case for every 100,000 Australians. During the 1990s, a small number of U.S. cities experimented with NEPs. The most carefully studied program was in New Haven, Conn., where researchers estimated that the HIV and hepatit...New studies suggest airborne SARS transmission is possible
...ts in hospital bays near a SARS patient had a much higher infection rate than patients in distant bays, consistent with the possibility of airborne SARS transmission, according to an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Both articles are published in the journals' May 1 issues, and are now available onl...Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
...ity (death) rates at all 3 sites were considerably higher than the 1 per 10,000 per day that is recognized internationally as defining an emergency situation and 4 to 6 times the expected rate in sub-Saharan populations. In Kass and Kalma, the under 5-year mortality rates exceeded the 2 per 10,000 per day ......r pH means that a solution contains more acid. The higher the pH, the more alkaline (or non-acidic) the solution will be. When a solution is neither acid nor alkaline it has a pH of 7, which is neutral. When food or drink that is acidic is consumed the enamel will soften for a short amount of time. Typicall...New colorectal cancer screening recommendations for African Americans
... in African Americans as a group were 12.3 percent higher than those in Caucasians, 9.5 percent higher in African American men when compared to Caucasian men, and 17.5 percent higher in African American ......ut levels of urinary 8-OHdG were an average of 90% higher among the non-smoking toll booth operators than th... were strongly linked to the levels of 8-OHdG. The higher the 1-OHPG, the higher was the 8-OHdG. And this held true even after adjusting for smoking or mode o...Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
...only may improvement in liver function result, but higher rates of relapse have been reported in patients wh..."This unexpected finding could be explained by the higher mortality rate observed in the first group, mainly due to cancer and different cardiovascular events...Boston University team finds link between high cholesterol and better cognitive performance
...ever, the results of the new study showed that the higher the natural level of cholesterol, the better participants did on tests of mental ability. High cholesterol was defined as > 240 mg/dL as measured in blood samples. Less than two percent of the participants were being treated with anti-cholester...Storage time and temperature effects nutrients in spinach
... its folate after eight days. When it was kept at higher temperatures, the spinach lost its nutrients at an accelerated rate. At 50 degrees it took six days for the spinach to lose 47 percent of its folate and at 68 degrees it took four days. The same holds true for carotenoid loss. As temperatures were ...Chemical decoy shows promise for slowing Alzheimer's by acting as decoy
... use. "We are currently trying to make decoys with higher affinity and specificity for beta amyloid by modifying the chemistry. Eventually we think we'll be able to make better decoys using molecular design," Good says. Down the line, if the polymers show promise in human studies, they could be developed in...Men with severe sleep breathing disorder have higher risk of heart problems
...ears. Patients with untreated severe disease had a higher incidence of fatal cardiovascular events (1.06 per 100 person-years) and non-fatal cardiovascular events (2.13 per 100 person-years) than untreated patients with mild-moderate disease, simple snorers, patients treated with CPAP and healthy participan...Public policy should address the social factors behind ill health
... gross national product of US$10,000, which have a higher average life expectancy than others with a gross national product of over $30,000, and some social groups within the same country have a life-expectancy that is 20 years lower then the national average although their infant mortality rates are low. W...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...rimary cause of death in European women, killing a higher percentage of women (55%) even than men (43%) and more than all cancers combined. However, there still exists a disturbing gap in the knowledge, understanding, and general awareness of cardiovascular disease in women, not only in the women themselve...... using waist circumference and waist-hip ratio) or higher overall body fat (indicated by BMI) had a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The researchers grouped the study participants into five groups according to their waist size. Compared to those in the group with the smallest waists (29-34 inches...