Primary care office strategies may increase colon cancer screening
...ontact via telephone or in-person interaction. One hundred twenty-seven clinicians who were provided with resources, tools, and support to make possible positive changes also completed follow-up questionnaires. Medical records of 551 patients showed a significant increase in the number of patients who becam...Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
... subset of households (n= 210 in each site). "Two hundred seventeen deaths were reported over the previous 121 days in Kass; and in Kalma and Muhajiria, there were 30 and 36 deaths over the 30 days prior to the survey," the authors found. "The crude mortality (death) rates at all 3 sites were considerably ...Simple intervention encourages sun protection behaviors
...pearance in a small group of college students. One hundred forty six undergraduates (114 women and 32 men) were invited to participate in a study titled "Health Attitudes" for which they completed a questionnaire that assessed their sunbathing and sun protection practices. The intervention group (95 student...'Chemistry and Flavor of Hispanic Foods' one-day symposium, March 15
... found that each of its ingredients contains a few hundred flavor components, indicating that its simple flavor belies its chemical complexity. They hope to use this study to improve the taste of margaritas and produce new food products based on its flavor. ( AGFD 115 , Tuesday, March 15, 4:15 p.m.) The Amer...Genetics important in age-related macular degeneration
...ran Twin Registry born between 1917 and 1927. Two hundred and ten MZ and 181 DZ complete twin pairs and 58 singletons, whose twin were no longer living or were unavailable for the study, completed a survey and underwent an examination for AMD. The results were then statistically analyzed to determine the re...Alcohol intervention attempted for violent males
...tion, offending, and alcohol-related injuries. Two hundred sixty-nine males (ages 16 to 35) convicted of a violent offence while intoxicated were randomly allocated to treatment (motivational interviewing) or control conditions. At baseline, three months, and one year, the subjects were assessed for alcohol ...Laughter helps blood vessels function better
...ertain their levels of hostility and anger. Three hundred volunteers participated in the study. Half of them had suffered a heart attack or had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery; the other half did not have heart disease. People with heart disease responded with less humor to everyday life situations...Current daily smoking may be associated with increased risk for suicidal thoughts and attempts
... the past, and psychiatric disorders. Nearly nine hundred people completed all three investigations. During the ten-year follow-up, nineteen participants attempted suicide, while 130 reported having suicidal thoughts. The researchers found that current daily smoking, but not past smoking, as reported at the...Folic acid and vitamin B12 decrease risk of hip fracture in stroke patients
...d to keep track of falls on a daily calendar. Five hundred fifty-nine patients completed this two-year follow-up. The researchers recorded six hip fractures in patients who received folic acid and B12, and 27 hip fractures in the placebo group. The difference in total number of fractures over the two-year f...Training could remove racial bias from police reactions
... to thirty years of experience participated in one hundred and sixty test trials. The earlier trials revealed that the officers were more likely mistakenly shoot at an unarmed Black suspect than an unarmed White suspect. But in the later trails the officers were similarly conservative in their decision to ...Clinicians report missing patient information is common
... Patient Safety medical error reporting study. Two hundred fifty-three clinicians were surveyed about 1,614 patient visits between May and December 2003. For every visit during 1 half-day session, each clinician completed a questionnaire about patient and visit characteristics and stated whether important cl...Research guides medication choices for young Asthma patients
...eloping ways to individualize asthma therapy." One hundred and twenty six (126) mild to moderate asthma patients, 6 to 17 years of age, took the inhaled corticosteroid fluticasone (Flovent) and the leukotriene receptor antagonist montelukast (Singulair) separately for eight weeks each. The primary measure o...15 minutes training enough to save lives with an automated external defibrillator
...ersity Hospital in Aachen, Germany, asked over two hundred first year medical students with no prior experience to use a defibrillator on a mannequin on two occasions, with a one-week interval between the sessions. Before the second session, the students attended a 15-minute talk on the purpose of the defibr...A proverb a day may make you healthier
...ated by our great-grandparents," says Choi, "A few hundred years down the road, we will be the great-grandparents. Maybe we have the responsibility to create new health proverbs based on clinical trials, rather than observations that haven't been verified." Choi collaborated on the paper with his wife, Anita...Major step forwards for vaccine against cervical cancer
...rus responsible for cervical cancer. More than one hundred types of the virus are known. Some of these are high-risk types of HPV, which can convert healthy cells into cancer cells. Proteins E6 and E7 from the virus are responsible for this and are an ideal target for treatment because they only occur in mal...Assessing the season: LSU hurricane experts learned lessons during Hurricane Season 2004
... deposits protruding into adjacent bays by several hundred feet. Stone's research showed that while both hurricanes were major, actual sand loss from the barriers was minimal. According to Stone, National Geographic's television arm is producing a documentary on disasters around the world and representative...Study provides clues to alcohol's cancer connection
...tor (VEGF) in an experimental model. For almost a hundred years mounting epidemiological evidence has linked alcohol use to an increased risk of cancers of the stomach, esophagus, liver, breast, and colon. Researchers have never developed an adequate model to explain how ethanol or a metabolite of ethanol m...Nearsighted children may benefit from rigid contact lenses
...n. At the end of a three-year study of more than a hundred 8- to 11-year olds, researchers determined that wearing rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lenses slowed the progression of myopia by nearly 30 percent, compared to soft contact lens wear. Only recently did researchers find that young children could h...Book celebrates centenary of city's advances in public health
...smallpox and tuberculosis which plagued the city a hundred years ago, and the current battle against the 'new' challenges of HIV, herpes, and hepatitis C, cardiovascular disease and genetic diseases. The book sets the Edinburgh scene in the context of global health, and looks to the future. The Usher Institu......these different structures fire together for a few hundred milliseconds to create a synchronous pattern of firing that is a signature of the change from the previous state to the next," said Nicolelis. A millisecond is one thousandth of a second. "It's almost like two computers exchanging information ...