Major study finds effects of child care quality linger into the second grade
...nt. The same investigators reported on the initial stage of thestudy in 1995. That work, which cost $1 million, indicated that one ineight U.S. day care centers puts children's health and safety at riskand more than seven in 10 fail to maximize youngsters' learningpotential.. Others involved ...Study finds predictors for youth violence and drugs
... or property in their first interview. In a set of initial questionnaires, researchers asked questions about ...ut their experience with violent episodessince the initial interview. The student's original responses were thentabulated to see which were associated, within ...Patient complaints may be harmful to GPs' health and practice
...general practice. Jain and Ogden conclude that the initial impact of a complaint and the conflicts arising are distressing for GPs, with the resolution often being unsatisfactory. They say that research indicates that many GPs experience psychological problems such as burnout, depression and marital breakdo......ationships Project, in the journal article,reports initial findings from a three-year study of approximately 200 workingparents and the two oldest children in the family. The older children wereeither in the fourth or fifth grade. Middle childhood -- after preschool and before adolescence -- is ac...Lowering 'bad' cholesterol as good or better than angioplasty for mild coronary artery disease
...ction who are notseverely symptomatic, choosing an initial strategy of aggressive lipid loweringwith atorvast...ularization without any apparent penalty for their initial decision. Theadoption of this strategy should result in long-term patient benefit without anyappare...New strategy recommended to combat hepatitis
...easurement of viral markers inthe blood during the initial phase of therapy. The EUROHEP group research, which started in 1990, involved 19 hospitals in nineEuropean countries. They recently implemented a new long-term study whichcombines both alpha-interferon and lamivudine, a new agent with a stronginhib...Children CATCH on to heart-health messages
...d health indicators among 3,714 (73percent) of the initial CATCH participants. The researchers found that thestudents who received the health promotion intervention in grades 3 through 5 maintained a diet significantly lower intotal fat and saturated fat and continued to pursue more vigorous physicalactivity...Immunology experiment aboard historic shuttle mission
...essel walls like they do on earth, and withoutthat initial adhesion the cells can't maneuver against enemy agents. "We want to know what the effect of microgravity is on the immuneresponse," he said. "We think adhesion may be the key." The idea for the space experiment came after Bargatze's ...Keck Foundation funds research to repair the injured spinal cord
... of biochemistry and biophysics, haveconducted the initial studies that led to the current project. The pioneeringwork showed that cultured rodent embryonic stem cells can be chemicallyinstructed to develop into nerve cell precursors suitable for transplantationinto the injured spinal cord. Embryonic stem ce......s: 75 to 91 percent of patients preferred to seek initial care from their primarycare physicians rather than a specialist. 85 percent of patients reported trusting their primary care physician to dotheir best all or most of the time. 23 percent of patients felt their primary care physician or medical groupi......ical giant has designated Vanderbilt as one of the initial threeGenetic Epidemiology Centers in the world. The designation is part of a large-scale plan by Glaxo Wellcome to harness thepower of genetics for drug development and discovery. "Knowing the genes involved in a specific disease will mean that newph...Double-edged effect of inflammatory response discovered after brain injury
...undergoes enormous changes for monthsfollowing the initial damage. In the latest development in this ongoing work,the team found that tumor necrosis factor (TNF) -- a cytokine molecule that isnormally released during inflammation -- may be damaging and then protective tobrain-injured tissue, depending on the...Wake Forest first to apply innovative brain cancer treatment
...tumors. Nearly all experience tumor regrowthafter initial treatment. Studies indicate survival for patients with recurrent malignant braintumors is approximately three months without therapeutic measures, five monthswith surgery alone, eight months with surgery and chemotherapy and 15 monthswith sur...When it comes to food, do your children want what they can't have?
...rtions, and ate more than normal ascompared to the initial study period when the food was freely offered. Most adults know that foods that are high in fat or sugar and low in vitamins and minerals should be consumed inmoderation, but most children do not. Restricting access to these types of foods may work ...UK researchers examine personality and social behavior changes in patients following stroke
...Ph.D., and Lee X. Blonder, Ph.D., examined others' initial impressions of strokepatients - as a function of brain damage location. When individuals sustain damage to the left cerebral hemisphere, theytypically develop aphasia - the loss or impairment of language. When theysuffer damage to the right ......reating and researching pituitary disorders - from initial triagethrough surgical intervention and post-op follow-up." ENHANCED MULTI-DISCIPLINARY INTERACTION While enhanced patient convenience is certainly an advantage offered by thePituitary Center, it is by no means the only one. The very fact that thee...Reacting well to heart disease can help avoid future attacks
...rt-related complicationin the six months after the initial angioplasty procedure. Helgeson and Fritz found that patients with higher cognitive adaptation scoreswere less likely to experience a new heart attack or other coronary event sixmonths after their angioplasty compared with patients with lower score......rather than fade away after the tumor repels their initial attack. Toaccomplish this, the investigators raised a monoclonal antibody against CTLA-4and administered it to mice with various types of cancer. "CTLA-4 blockade using this monoclonal antibody worked, but notparticularly well in anything but the le...