Wolfowitz is the wrong choice for the World Bank
...ctiveness through sound, evidence informed, policy making not brazen ideology, says Abbasi. In the end, the Wolfowitz situation boils down to how the United States wants to be perceived by the world. His nomination, and that of John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations, has done little more than r...UMaine study looks at infants and chronic nighttime crying
...and toddlers all can get a better night's sleep by making bedtime arrangements as consistent as possible. Marie Hayes, professor of psychology, and Michio Fukumizu, a pediatric neurologist from Tokyo, Japan, and visiting scholar in the UMaine psychology department, with two Japanese co-researchers have iden...UNC study: Most N.C. family practitioners engage in unrecognized community service
...ans throughout the country, then the discipline is making a substantial contribution to society and their communities over and beyond the clinical care provided," Goldstein wrote....Public morally obliged to take part in scientific research, says leading ethicist
...at the University of Manchester, does not advocate making it a legal requirement for people to get involved. But he contends that compulsion is, in principle, justifiable, and in certain circumstances, may be justified. And he suggests that a change to the Declaration of Helsinki, which sets out the ethica...HIV testing should be routine part of primary health care for sexually active
...art of a larger community where prevalence is low, making accurate risk assessment more difficult. "Many people who engage in risky behaviors are reluctant to tell their healthcare providers and may not request HIV testing," says del Rio. "People infected through heterosexual transmission, particularly ad...Physicians may not be accurate in their confidence levels of their diagnoses, says Pitt study
... of outside resources in determining diagnoses and making other medical decisions. These resources include colleagues, medical books, journals and computer-based decision support systems (DSSs). "Decision support occurs in two modes: either clinicians must seek medical information to supplement what they a...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
...tunity to share their stories about their roles in making medical history with videographers as part of the University's effort to document that important time. Already, the University has heard from hundreds of people who have provided memories of that frightful time when polio lurked in every neighborhood...Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
...d be presented in ways that assisted the public in making good health decisions by providing balanced and objective information."...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...its them in a different way it prevents them from making money in foreign baseball leagues that are keen to hire Cuban talent. "In this sense," she said, "many Cuban players can be thought of as exploited by their government." The clampdown on foreign contracts led, of course, to a new round of defection...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
... few random days." Bullying includes name-calling, making fun of others, spreading nasty rumors and physical aggression. Verbal harassment was more than twice as common as physical in the study. Bullying occurs in one form or another across ethnic groups and income brackets, Juvonen said. "Our data show tha...New estimates for the causes of child deaths worldwide
...he world's children is not all that is involved in making the world's children count. It is important to look at the single most important determinant of childhood death which has to be poverty. Childhood mortality is strongly inversely correlated with per-capita health expenditure. In today's world, an Et...Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors
...improve their chances of finishing high school and making a successful transition to adulthood and becoming future taxpayers." The study is detailed in a paper, "Public Costs of Better Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents," in the current (Jan/Feb.) issue of Psychiatric Services, the journa...Use of inhaled corticosteroid led to fewer hospitalizations for young children with asthma
...a nebulizer to deliver the medication to children, making the delivery more consistent. It is the first and only inhaled nebulized corticosteroid approved for children with asthma 12 months to 4 years of age. Pulmicort Respules is a preventive type medicine. Pulmicort Respules is not a quick-relief medi...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
...ng, with an area exceeding 2500 square kilometres, making it about as large as the entire country of Luxembourg. Back in Janauary the iceberg appeared to be drifting towards the 70-kilometre-long Drygalski ice tongue in McMurdo Sound on the Ross Sea, and an unprecedented ice collision looked imminent. How...Liverpool to lead 20M Department of Health initiative to develop medicines for children
...ifference for children, parents and prescribers by making sure that existing and new medicines are tailored to the needs of children. Children have the right to the same standards of medicine as adults and this strategy is another step towards achieving this." The UK Medicines For Children Research Network...Doctor suggested cannabis for pain relief, says one in six medicinal users in the UKMUHC study
...Other methods included eating it (43 per cent) and making cannabis tea (28 per cent). 916 reported average usage levels, with the largest percentage (27 per cent) using one to two grams per day. Only two per cent used 10 or more grams a day and seven per cent used five to nine grams a day. 45 per cent o...Mechanism of RNA recoding: New twists in brain protein production
...ture. DNA sequences spell out the instructions for making protein but they aren't always followed to the let...it fly RNA to adopt a "mosquito-like" structure by making small changes in the molecule--a procedure he dubbed "guided evolution." Predictably, cells edited t...Brain imaging study may hold clues to onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk
...ecutive decision test - so-called because decision making and task-appropriate response selection are required - displayed on a computer screen. This test, developed by the study team, requires push-button responses to certain colored squares, circles and objects from everyday life. Each visual cue is prese...Community-based care beats standard clinic in lowering heart
...ural needs of the African-American community means making a major change in the way you deliver care. But in exchange, you can markedly reduce risk," said lead author Diane Becker, Sc.D., a health researcher in the division of general internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore. ...Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges
...'s apparent ability to suppress the immune system, making abusers more vulnerable to diseases such as HIV. The new study is the first to suggest that the drug can engage the body's defense system to attack methamphetamine in such a way that makes users inclined to use more of the drug, the researchers say. ...