Major review of subway systems suggests potential for significant health and safety hazards
...w York City alone, the weekday ridership is over 7 million passengers. "While this comprehensive review of the data gives us the first big picture into the health of our transportation system, without further appropriate risk assessment studies, we cannot adequately determine the factors and health effects o...Infectious microorganism linked to kidney stones and other diseases
...uts and would also be of benefit to the nearly one million Americans who are treated for kidney stones each year....Pioneering nanosystems degree wins approval
...archers are at work in nanotechnology today, and 2 million workers will be needed within 15 years to support ...y research and development has increased from $116 million in 1997 to $961 million in 2004, according to the NNI, which also estimates that worldwide, governme...Adverse drug events in nursing homes are far more common than previously identified
...ng homes in this country." There are currently 1.6 million people residing in long-term care facilities in th...pulation, then one can estimate there are some 1.9 million adverse drug events a year, some 40% of which are preventable, and approximately 86,000 life-threate...Columbia study finds hemophilia therapy dramatically improves outcomes for bleeding stroke
... researchers recently won a highly competitive $12 million stroke center grant from the NIH. Columbia is the first site in the eastern United States to receive this Specialized Programs of Translational Research in Acute Stroke (SPOTRIAS) grant. Extending over five years, the funding will support three new ...Potential drug target for treating cocaine abuse found
...y it does not have a stimulating effect. Between 2 million and 3.2 million people in the United States about 1 percent of the population - use cocaine, according to estimates...Scientific evidence for diets: don't believe everything you read
...mpossible to interpret accurately. In the USA, 97 million adults are overweight or obese. Extensive studies on the role of diet, exercise and genes are being carried out in a general effort to better understand and prevent obesity. The researchers analysed 231 articles reporting studies of the effects of d...World's biggest study of multi-million pound health problem launched
...patients, changes that. In Britain, nearly half a million GP consultations each year concern patients with constipation, and doctors prescribe more drugs for the condition than they do for patients with diabetes or high blood pressure. Constipation affects one in five older people and the burden on healthc...When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
...he center is currently funded by a five-year, $6.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health....Scientists replicate hepatitis C virus in laboratory
...d-stage liver disease, and liver cancer. Almost 4 million Americans, or 1.8 percent of the U.S. population, have antibodies to HCV indicating ongoing or previous infection with the virus. Approximately 10,000 to 12,000 deaths each year in the United States are due to HCV....Failing to aid Africa will lead to more terrorism
...olicy at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Some 800 million people in the world don't have enough to eat, says Pinstrup-Andersen. The consequences of such destitution are malnutrition, environmental degradation and worldwide instability. These circumstances also leave millions of people with nothing to lose, ...Lack of specific collagen type leads to osteoarthritis
...reatments for a disease that afflicts more than 40 million Americans, said the researchers. The researchers found that mice lacking the gene that controls the production of type VI collagen developed osteoarthritis at a rate more than five times greater than mice with a functioning gene. Collagen is a ubiqui...The history and controversy behind post-menopausal hormone therapy
...menopausal women with no end in sight. Roughly 45 million women in the US are post-menopausal and HT has been the predominant form of treatment for most of the twentieth century. But the history of these drugs (estrogen and estrogen plus progestin) illustrates a complex drama where different stakeholders w...Folic acid recommendations have had little impact on birth defects
... not known. Researchers examined data from over 13 million births in Europe and Israel from 1988 to 1998. For each country, cases of neural tube defects were identified, and policies and recommendations regarding folic acid were ascertained. Recommendations alone did not seem to influence trends in neural tu...Medication helps alcoholics control drinking
... total abstinence, Volpicelli argues that about 20 million Americans suffer from alcohol abuse disorders, yet only about 2 million are in any kind of treatment program. "We should be flexible enough to get at that 90 percent of peo...New study tests amitriptyline for painful bladder syndrome
.... Estimates for PBS vary widely, but as many as 10 million people may suffer from this condition. The 270 participants will be randomly assigned to take up to 75 milligrams of amitriptyline or a placebo each day for 14 to 26 weeks. All will practice suppressing the urge to urinate for increasingly longer str...New European cancer figures for 2004 major efforts needed against the big four killers
There were nearly 2.9 million new cases of cancer and more than 1.7 million cancer deaths in Europe last year, according to new estimates in a report published (Thursday 17 Feb...Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
...year prior to the WHI study and sales fell to $266 million in the first quarter of 2004. Drug companies work to identify and promote drugs that offer the most promise to patients, but also must consider benefits to their stockholders. Naughton said the HT controversy, as well as recent controversy surroundin...Prestigious 2004 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Maxine Singer
...d societies and academies of science, including 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of one million. The non-profit AAAS ( www.aaas.org ) is open to all and fulfills its mission to "adv...Studies examine coffee drinking and risk of liver and colorectal cancers
...the incidence of colorectal cancer during almost 2 million person-years of follow-up. They found no association between consumption of caffeinated coffee or tea and the incidence of colon or rectal cancer in either group. Participants who regularly drank two or more cups per day of decaffeinated coffee, howe...