Nutrition education helps stretch meager food budgets
...n New York state, 80 percent of EFNEP participants live at or below the poverty line. "However, in one of the few studies to evaluate the effects of nutrition and resource education, we find that EFNEP participants who complete six or more lessons experience significantly less food insecurity that those ...Studies highlight impact of Sept. 11, Iraq war on adolescents
... Augusta, the high school for most adolescents who live on base at nearby Fort Gordon. Studies were conducted when the war began last March and again last May when President Bush announced the end of major hostilities. Based on self-report, 34 of the adolescents had parents or other family members deploy...Mayo Clinic study helps patients with pancreatic cancer experience significantly less pain
...w some patients with advanced pancreatic cancer to live more comfortably for the duration of their lives. ...y to further reduce the pain and thereby help them live their remaining time more comfortably. "We found that patients who also received the NCPB reported a...Homeless children have high rates of asthma
...the United States, children of color, children who live in urban medically underserved communities, and children whose families have limited economic resources have excessively high rates of asthma," according to background information in the article. Identifying high-risk groups of children is important...Protein helps immune system mount 'instant strike' against deadly flu viruses
...The researchers believe that a vaccine made with a live but weakened strain of flu virus such as the inha... developers should switch to a vaccine made with a live but weakened flu virus. Such vaccines are thought to more closely mimic a natural encounter with th...UF professor: Living choices need new terms for aging baby boomers
..., have a different vision about where they want to live as they approach retirement age in huge numbers, s...o have to deal with declines in their abilities to live independently and who sometimes require group housing options, such as congregate living, assisted l...Study provides new insights about brain organization
... "It should come as no surprise when I say that we live in a multisensory world, being constantly bombarded with information from many senses. What is a bit of a surprise is that although we now know a great deal about how the brain processes information from the individual senses to form our perceptions,...Clinical trial of new TB vaccine begins
...nced they have begun the first clinical trial of a live recombinant tuberculosis vaccine in the U.S. Six ...t the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The live vaccine, which uses the current vaccine called BCG (Bacille Calmette-Gurin) as a delivery vehicle, o...Rare disease endemic in South America is model for studying autoimmunity
... perpetuates in an area where many blood relatives live in close association. Every time she travels to El Bagre, there are five to nine new patients and just about that many have died. "If it were an epidemic, like the flu, the levels would change over time," she says....New flu vaccine provides insight into immunity development
...of the hurdles encountered in the development of a live vaccine and the lessons that might apply to develo...irector of a large study at Stanford comparing the live attenuated vaccine delivered in the nose against its injected, inactivated counterpart. Researchers ...Jefferson researchers find immune response, dosing keys to vaccine's success against melanoma
...chievement, considering that only about 20 percent live that long with surgery alone, according to David Berd, M.D., professor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center. "Although additional, controlled trials will be nec...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2004 class of inventors
...to an outpatient procedure. Kelman and his family live in Boca Raton, Florida. Bernard Oliver (1916-1995), Claude Shannon (1916-2001) Pulse Code Modulation Oliver and Shannon developed Pulse Code Modulation, the first high-speed digital transmission system based on coded electronic pulses. Digital telep...Nevirapine plus zidovudine to prevent perinatal HIV in Thailand
...fants get HIV from their mothers every day and 95% live in developing countries. In countries currently using a short course AZT regimen to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV, many more infants' lives will be saved with the addition of a single dose of NVP to the mother and to the baby. The cos...Risperdal(R) Consta(R) significantly reduces the need for institutional psychiatric care
...ation, and less interference with their ability to live a fuller life." Schizophrenia takes up more hospital beds than any other mental illness. In Europe, an estimated 4,292,000 people are diagnosed with schizophrenia, with a direct cost in the EU of 10 to 52 billion2. In the UK alone, estimates sugg...Innovation attracts new research funding
...tely help more people with solid organ transplants live a longer and healthier life." Transplantation is today a lifesaving option for many people facing organ failure. Worldwide, around 50,000 organs are transplanted each year with kidney or kidney/pancreas transplants representing 50-60% of all procedur...UC San Diego scientists unveil pilot project for automated monitoring of animal behavior
...tration and careful monitoring of large numbers of live mice and other animals, usually in cages located in a vivarium," said Belongie. "But it is an entirely manual process, so there are limitations on how often observations can be made, and how thoroughly those observations can be analyzed." Belongie pu...Gene therapy technique could aid islet transplants for diabetes, says Pittsburgh study
...0 mg/dl lower than the control animals. Since rats live for approximately two years, this could equate to a decade or more in a human. Surprisingly, however, in control studies, completely normal rats treated with the triple-drug regimen developed markedly increased blood glucose levels, reaching 250 mg/...Distance to hospital affects heart attack survival
...ho do not get to a hospital promptly. Patients who live farther from medical facilities have been under-sampled, he says, because data on their MIs and deaths are usually unavailable, underreported or incomplete. O'Neill developed an estimation model of out-of-hospital heart attack deaths using a databas...Probiotics beneficial even when inactive, according to UCSD study
...as effective when inactivated, as when consumed as live microorganisms in dairy products such as yogurt. R...d that inactivated probiotics were as effective as live probiotics. The team reasoned that the beneficial, anti-inflammatory activities seen with the inacti...Scientists identify a human antibody that blocks SARS virus infection
...bodies (labeled the 80R antibody) potently blocked live SARS viruses from entering cultured human cells. "It was one of those Eureka experiences," says Marasco. 'It was pretty dramatic." The scientists determined that the antibody prevented infection through high-affinity binding to the S1 protein's rece...