Patients with cancer have highly increased risk for blood clots
...mbers needed to screen: 700-2,700), which does not make screening a useful strategy. Rather than screening for factor V Leiden or the prothrombin 20210A mutation, it may be more cost-effective to consider prophylactic anticoagulant therapy for patients with cancer who have an increased risk to develop ven...Carrot component reduces cancer risk
...ese special properties. "Our research allows us to make a more qualitative assessment of the vegetables we are eating, rather than quantitative. We now need to take it a step further by finding out how much falcarinol isneeded to prevent the development of cancer and if certain types of carrot are better...New stroke-prevention drug unlikely to be cost-effective except in patients at high risk of bleeding
...anges," Gage says. "We needed a common currency to make the comparison, so we accounted for quality of lif...atients: the small gain in quality of life did not make up for the higher price in patients at low risk of bleeding. On the other hand, the study showed th...Emergency department study supports giving dehydrated children fluids by mouth
...ny benefits to oral rehydration therapy (ORT) that make it more desirable than intravenous fluid therapy (IVF). Patients treated with ORT do not require intravenous access, a potentially painful and difficult procedure in young children. Also, parents who learn to administer ORT correctly have acquired a ...Study explores risks of obesity in children with kidney transplants
...tent and specific agents such as cyclosporine, can make children ravenous, she says. Other possible side e...mize risks, she suggests parents and pediatricians make good nutrition a part of the ongoing care of children with kidney disease and all children. "Adol...Rice's CNST awards Smalley/Curl funds for innovation
...ers at room temperature. Wong's lab has learned to make these hollow capsules with "patchy" surfaces, and ...t to do so on a curved surface. Wong's method will make it easier to pattern molecular coatings on the capsule material. Ultimately, he hopes to engineer th...Why North America is not a rhythm nation
... same four tunes, in which beats had been added to make the simple meters complex and the complex meters simple. The North American participants were able to recognize when simple rhythms were changed to more complex ones, but they could not tell when the reverse happened. The Eastern European immigrants,...UCLA brain scientists crack mystery of how alcohol causes intoxication
...oping alcohol dependency, so these individuals can make an informed decision about whether to drink. The study results may also speed the development of new drugs that target alcohol-sensitive GABA receptors, leading to better treatments for alcohol poisoning and addiction. AUTHORS: UCLA Brain Research ...New brochure helps explain treatment for gynecologic cancers
...nt types of treatments available and allow them to make the best, most informed decision about which treatment to receive." According to the American Cancer Society, nearly 83,000 women per year are diagnosed with some form of gynecologic cancer and more than 28,000 will succumb to the disease. The most ...Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
... effective is a complex challenge, and training to make it work must be planned and funded, warns importan...ons, is a central tenet of the Government's aim to make services more efficient and effective. But, says the study led by Professor Angela Anning, of Leeds ...Effects of autism reach beyond language, new research suggests
...mind before that next major exam: Pre-test jitters make it easier to recall memorized facts, but that stre...combined with each of the three given words, would make compound words or a short phrase. For example, students were given way, ground and weather, for whic...New survey finds red dress symbol prompts women to take action to care for their hearts
...reness levels have risen, most women still fail to make the connection between risk factors, such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and their personal risk of developing heart disease. In the American Heart Association survey, only 20 percent of women identify heart disease as the greatest hea...Methamphtetamine's ruinous effects on children documented in Midwest study
...ns about what is going on in a child's family will make allowances for them staying after school, or providing for basic necessities, and the children often are eligible for free breakfast and lunch programs. "All of that may be completely up for grabs when they get home," Haight said. Haight and her res...Yale opens Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) in India
...in which individuals engage in health behaviors or make healthrelated decisions. The Yale team, led by principal investigator Kim M. Blankenship, CIRA's associate director and associate research scientist in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health in the Yale School of Medicine, will collaborate ...Migraine-sparked vision loss may increase stroke risk in women; Migraine
...taly. The study was large enough statistically to make assertions regarding stroke in young adults, but it was not large enough to extend those results to all people with migraine. "The role of migraine in precipitating a stroke in young adults appears to be independent from the usual risk factors and f...States find alternate routes to health coverage
...re finding alternate routes to expand coverage and make existing programs work most effectively in this changing environment," says Burton. Most states endured another bad budget year without making deep cuts to their Medicaid programs. This reflects Medicaid's essential role as a source of health cov...Anti-depressants used during pregnancy linked to neonatal withdrawal syndrome
...hers replicate or refute these findings, we should make better use of empirically grounded non-pharmacological interventions, question and perhaps recalibrate our personal prescription thresholds, especially during pregnancy, lactation, or early childhood, and hope that the next wave of revolutionary new ...HIV/AIDS conspiracy theories may hamper efforts to halt the disease
...at black community leaders and black media outlets make challenging these conspiracy theories a priority."...Older people get the big picture faster, and they are less inhibited
...le find an object hidden among clutter, but it can make it hard to tune into the clutter itself. When the young brain sees big, high-contrast bars, it effectively tunes out because there is no object hidden in the bars. But older brains do not inhibit information in the same way, so they do not tune out t...Public interest advocates question NIH Enhanced Access policy
... leaving the decision up to each author whether to make their research results available. The policy lacks any definitive time frame or deadline by which NIH-funded research must be available for public use. The policy puts grant recipients in the untenable position of trying to meet the contradictory...