Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
...veloping nations, where cancer rates are high, but little or no treatment for pain is available. "India produces 80 percent of the world's opiates, yet only a minuscule amount of oral morphine was prescribed to cancer patients last year," says Grossman. "Because of limited financial resources as well as wi...Postmature Infants Not As Easily Calmed As Other Newborns
...tion knownas Clifford's postmaturity syndrome, but little research has beendone to investigate the possible social and emotionalimplications. Clifford's syndrome babies generally, though notalways, are born sometime after 41 weeks of gestation. Becausetheenvironment in the uterus is no longer ideal to suppo...Premature Birth Sometimes Can Adversely Affect Infant's Ties To Mother
...d Margo Dicthellmiller. Previous studies had found little differencein the quality of parent-infant attachment between premature infants ofless risk and normal infants. The researchers observed infant-mother interaction in homes and in a laboratory.All of the infants had spent an average of three months in...Laser Shown Effective In Patients Who Are Not Candidates For Bypass Surgery Or Angioplasty
...e so incapacitated and in the past we could dovery little for them." Angina occurs when the heart's demand for oxygen-rich blood is not metby the coronary arteries, which are usually clogged with atheroscleroticplaques. Patients involved in the trial had not responded to the two standardtherapie...Routine Dental X-ray May Be A Valuable Tool In Stroke Prevention
...ervals thereafter as needed. The article prompted little follow-up outside of military veteran populations. The UB investigation involved reviewing the screening panoramic radiographs of 2,752 new patients at the UB dental clinics, obtained between August 1994 and July 1996. Calcifications in the c...UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
...cial information about operation of the plans, but little information about satisfaction, adequacy of carriers' processes for delivering care or health-care outcomes.” North Carolina does not require HMO plans to disclose information about financial risk-sharing arrangements, drugs that will be paid ...... also thinks that condoms should be distributed at little or no cost in schools or restroom vending machines. Many teenagers, she says, don't have a lot of spending money and many are embarrassed because it can be very intimidating for them to buy condoms at the drug store. The cost of condoms, she says, i...Antimicrobial "Bug Spray" Found In Human Lung Cells
... The bacteria infected many CF cells while making little progress in the normal cells. Ko then searched for an antimicrobial compound similar to the one found in cow throats, and found hTAP. Pedersen speculates that cells in other areas at high risk for infection, such as the eyes, the gut or the mouth, ma...Duke Obtains FDA Designation For Pompe Disease Therapy
..., Chen said, "After treating patientswho have very little hope and working on this therapy for so many years,I look forward to working with the FDA to bring this therapy into the clinic.This is a major milestone in our efforts to develop an effective treatmentof this fatal disease." Dr. Michael Frank, chai......" Cofield said. "I thought maybe it wouldbecome a little smaller, but not that it would all go away." Cofield originally was diagnosed with endometrial cancer in 1993. Shehad a hysterectomy to remove her cancerous uterus and then went throughchemotherapy. The cancer was gone for a year, but then ......and nurses practicing out in the communityreceived little exposure to the statistics and clinical evaluation side ofhealth care during their training," says David A. Blake, Ph.D., associate director of the Robert W. Woodruff HealthSciences Center of Emory University and vice president for Academic HealthAff...'Bathtub' Equation Aids Diabetes Research
...cked at how much we know about some things and how little weknow about certain simple things," she says. "We may not be close to findinga cure, but we're not that far off from improving prevention strategies."...Rats Receiving Ginkgo Biloba Learn Quicker, Live 20 Percent Longer Than Controls, UB Study Finds
...uman trials there have shown positive results, but little research has been done to replicate these findings in animals, Winter said. Winter's earlier research with rats showed that a set of tasks performed in an apparatus called the radial maze could reliably detect deficiencies in learning and memor...Researchers Study 'Natural' Screen For Cancer
...0-foot darkroom oncampus. Costs are cut by using a little imagination -- a modified theatre stage light provides the filtered blue light, for example. A highly sensitive camera capable of reading only the light produced by the hypericin transmits an imageback to a computer screen for closer scrutiny. ...Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic Threatens Developing Countries, Global Economy
...g countries during those same decades has received little attention,"says Reddy. People in developing countries die from cardiovascular disease at younger agesthan those in industrialized societies. In 1990 nearly 47 percent ofcardiovascular disease deaths in developing countries were people younger than7...Hollywood Increases Film Portrayals Of People With Disabilities
...en gives viewers a skewedperspective that may have little to do with reality." Safran examin...'but most film critics will tell you there is very little reality basis in thefilm," said Safran, who teaches a course on disabilities in the media. "But many...Chemist Turns To Self-Assembly To Create New Drugs
...ry. "We take areceptor we want to target, add many little molecules to it, andsee which ones are best at binding the receptor." The work is the latest development in the burgeoning fieldof combinatorial chemistry, which many pharmaceutical firms areusing to ferret out new compounds to take aim at disea...Exercise, Classroom Instruction Cut Kids' Cholesterol, Study Finds
...n. "I don't think most parents realize how little actual physical activitytheir children get at school nowadays," Harrell said. "Most middle-aged andolder people in this country were far more active when they were children than kids are now. Our study was to see if we could make a difference in one ...Optical Technology Projects Images Directly Into The Eye
...produce a colour image. Because the laser usesvery little light, RSD is economical, in the same way that a set of headphones uses far less energy than a loudspeaker...."TRAMAH" Model Seeks To Improve Emergency Response Paper Uses Maryland As Test Region
...erations researchers and management scientists are little known butindispensable experts who use science to improve decision-making, management,and operations. They work throughout business, government, and academia.Additional information on the conference, including a full list of workshops, isavailable at...