More evidence of cannabis-induced psychosis
... designing THC-based medications has boomed in the last few years, due to the many therapeutic effects of ...n the UK, cannabis was downgraded to class C early last year, but government officials have called for a review of the decision following a series of studie...Study shows promise in identifying kidney failure
...lts with kidney failure, little has changed in the last four decades to diagnose kidney failure early enough before it progresses into a chronic or deadly condition," according to Prasad Devarajan, M.D., director of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Cent...Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
...h an average of 54 lives lost for each year of the last half century. However a new service based on satellite imagery can provide early warning of areas susceptible to landslides, by highlighting tiny millimetre-scale slope motion that occurs ahead of larger-scale movement. The ESA-funded Service for La...Geodon effective in psychiatric emergencies; Sharply reduces time in restraints
...t Stony Brook University Hospital. "Using it is a last resort. We want to minimize the exposure to it as much as possible," he said, adding that reducing the time in restraints, and the time patients are agitated, might also reduce time spent in the emergency room and thus reduce costs." Dr. Francis add...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...d than the National and American leagues. Over the last quarter-century, she found, the Cuban League teams...eball's balance score averaged around 1.7 over the last quarter century, Baird found Cuba's indicator to be a less-balanced 2.08. In both countries, teams'...Hopkins begins human trials with donor adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged from heart attack
...until the Phase I study ends, six months after the last patient has enrolled. After injecting stem cells taken from the bone marrow of an adult, human donor, into subjects' bloodstream, the researchers will monitor the patient's progress for two years to ensure that patients safely tolerated the infusion,...NHS target driven culture is failing patients
...ent's NHS improvement plan unveiled by Nigel Crisp last week?"...Massive weight loss conference Dallas April 1-2
...res were performed in 2004, up 77 percent over the last five years according to the ASPS. Massive weight loss patients, who accounted for nearly 56,000 procedures, continue to drive the growth in body contouring. In 2004, more than 98,000 breast lifts, 5,900 buttock lifts, 15,000 lower body lifts, 13,000 ...NIAID initiates trial of experimental avian flu vaccine
...o immunity. H5N1 is one such flu virus strain. The last influenza pandemic swept the globe in 1968; many public health officials believe the world is overdue for another one. The VTEUs now enrolling adult volunteers are University of California at Los Angeles (Joel Ward, M.D., Principal Investigator) U...Depression linked to insomnia in HIV patients
... sleep disturbance in this group." Patients in the last stages of HIV infection with full-blown AIDS and t...important risk factors for insomnia until the very last stage of the disease, when AIDS-related illnesses may have been a contributing factor to sleep distu...Flu pandemic coming, US not prepared
...ecommendations should be applied immediately. The last three are longer-term: Secure vaccine and antiviral supplies. Enough vaccine and antivirals need to be in place before a pandemic strikes, as well as a plan to distribute them. IDSA is calling for a stockpile of antiviral drugs that is adequate to t...WISE study starts in Toulouse: 60 days of bed-rest for terrestrial female astronauts
...er which the first two volunteers went to bed; the last two, who arrived on 27 February, did so on 19 March. More than 1600 women responded to the ESA call for candidates, which closed in January. As planned, twelve women were selected for this first campaign. They come from France, Great Britain, German...Scientist works on innovative treatments for brain tumors
...amaging healthy cells, came to Wake Forest Baptist last year to direct the Brain Tumor Center of Excellence. The treatment Debinski developed is based on the discovery of an unusual feature of the cells of glioblastomas the least curable of all human cancers. The majority of the 17,500 brain tumors diagn...Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
...sed by the Kyoto Protocol that went into operation last month. Methane traps heat over 21 times more heat per molecule than CO2. The amount of methane in the atmosphere has more than doubled since pre-industrial times, an increase attributed to human activities including energy production and farming. T...NJIT taps into solar energy to power new campus center
...aved by the panels. Since the system was installed last August, the monitor shows that enough energy has been saved to "to power 510 houses in one day," or "enough energy to make 500,000 cups of coffee." The monitor also shows that the panels have prevented 68 pounds of nitrogen oxides and 20,000 pounds o...Costs of antidepressants could have funded effective alternatives
...costs of prescribing antidepressant drugs over the last decade could have been used to deliver psychological treatments of proven effectiveness, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. Prescribing of antidepressant drugs has risen dramatically in the United Kingdom since the early 1990s. Cognitiv...PillCam enables study of esophagus by swallowing a pill
... Approved by the Food and Drug Administration late last year, the PillCam ESO is a smooth plastic capsule about the size of a large vitamin pill with video cameras on each end, equipped with a battery and internal light source. After the patient lies down, the PillCam ESO is swallowed and glides through ...HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
...ew HIV infections in the United States was as high last year as it ever was. We are struggling to control this pandemic. We need to use every tool available to prevent new infections. Telling people to 'just say no' just doesn't work." "Ideology should not be driving our STI prevention strategy," adds ...Virginity pledges do not reduce STD risk: May encourage high risk sexual behavior
...the same rate as non-pledgers at the time of their last interview, the fact that they were less likely to use condoms earlier could be why their STD rates remain high since they are less likely to be diagnosed. "Putting a condom on after getting an infection does not make the infection go away," said Brck...Massive weight loss patients create mass appeal for body contouring procedures
...res were performed in 2004, up 77 percent over the last five years according to statistics released today by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Massive weight loss patients, who accounted for nearly 56,000 procedures, continue to drive the growth in body contouring; however, more patients are choos...