Policy Methods For Eliminating Child Labor
...ing, the Cornell researchers say. Here's how their model works: Imagine a stable economy in which wages are very low. To escape hunger and deprivation, parents find work for their children. But if the government decrees that children cannot work, the demand for adult labor should rise, assuming that adults...Drug Reduces Heart Attack, Death Rates In Patients With Unstable Angina
...large and diverse populations. "Our trial model offers the most realistic sense of what kind oftreatment effect you would see in the clinical setting, where each doctor has adifferent approach to patient care," Harrington said. "It has all the blemishesand benefits of a large, simple trial in whic...Sunlight Poses Universal Cataract Risk
...ching their eyes. Then,using a "correction factor" model developed by the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration, the researchers estimated exposure to UV-B theparticipants got when they traveled to areas outside the Eastern Shore. The results of the study are especially important for childre......esbetween neurons -- can reverse symptoms of a rat model of schizophrenia withoutapparent side effects, according to a Yale University School of Medicine study. The research, published in the Aug. 28 issue of the journal Science,suggests a possible new class of medications that could be effective i...Schizophrenia-Like Behavior In Rats Blocked Via Glutamate
An unexpected clue from a rat model of psychosis has led National Institute ofMental Health grantees to propose a new strategy for treating schizophrenia. Scientists have known for some time that the psychosis-inducing drug PCP(phencyclidine) blocks activation of receptors for the brai...The Visible Humans: Coming Of Age
...estroying the original structure of the anatomical model or surrounding tissue and organ relationships--an impossible feat with a cadaver. "Instead of cutting through a cadaver's muscles to view the bones, a student can remove muscles one at a time by moving the cursor, revealing a real human skeleton with......in a virtual,"patientless" setting. "This teaching model allows the students and residents to gain knowledg...video eye-hand skills can be learned in a training model over a briefperiod of time, and acquisition of basic skills correlate with improvedsurgeon performan...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...e next generation of human capability to generate, model and represent more complex and cross-disciplinary ...ary research team will use computers to explicitly model defect dynamics at each scale. The team will exploit novel software techniques to link supercompute...Doctors And Patients Should Co-Sign Prescriptions
... They say that, "The adoption of this concordance model for the relationship between patient and prescriber should ensure that decisions on prescribing are made jointly, with both parties in agreement and with responsibility shared." Contact: Dr Joe Collier, Reader and Consultant in Clinical Pharmacology ...AIDS Prevention: Does It Work? Paper Suggests New Way To Assess Prevention Programs
LINTHICUM, MD, October 20 - A new simulation model that gauges the potentialsuccess of HIV prevention...c Given the complexity of HIV, the UBC simulation model hypothetically recreatesthe epidemic and, more significantly, possible interventions, including how ...UCSF Recruting Breast Cancer Patients For Herbal Therapy Study
...aid. "Ultimately, we would like to develop a model in which we integrate theparts of herbal therapies that are safe and effective with those that we knoware effective in standard conventional therapy, such as chemotherapy," said DebuTripathy, MD, UCSF associate professor of medicine, director of clin...Now Is Time To Design Brain-Saving Drugs Specifically For Children, UCSF Neurologist Says
...n. Herresearch group also is working on an animal model for hypoxia-ischemia that willallow them to test not only whether infant rats survive an incident of asphyxiabut whether they grow up with the ability to learn and remember. "It is notenough to save brain cells," Ferriero says. "We have to make sure ......luated the efficacy of its novel SERMs in a rodent model ofpost-menopausal osteoporosis. Left untreated, t...al also developed a proprietaryin vitro human bone model system that mimics the actual physiologicalenvironments of bone formation and bone resorption. The ......ratracheal) administration of ISS-DNA in an animal model ofallergic asthma inhibited disease symptoms as ef...er, CO. In the study, the researchers used a mouse model of allergen-induced airwayhyperresponsiveness to investigate whether ISS-DNA could inhibit the gener......ed an "integer programming model" - a mathematical model - that moreefficiently compares prices and manufac...and delivery problem" required the developmentof a model to determine the most economically sound package of existing vaccinetypes (single-disease and in com...Magnetic Surgery System Tested Successfully On First Patient
...step in demonstrating the effectiveness of thisnew model of interventional medicine." Following the first clinical trial of the magnetic surgery system, Stereotaxiswill submit the results to the FDA. The company will then seek the agency'sapproval to conduct a second clinical trial involving frontal lobe ...Visual Environment Can Affect Even Healthy Eyes --- Nature Works With Nuture For Good Vision
...re of the mechanism? Monkeys make the best model for answering these questions about human vision because, like us, their visual system is designed for the two eyes to act as one: both eyes face the front and work together in a complex binocular visual system to create a "cyclopean" view of the wor......rated controversy. Some researchsuggests that the model is associated with lower costs and with comparable...es. In addition, an evaluation of the hospitalist model requires an adequateresearch design, Showstack said, which includes the following components: A pr......eball players Eric Davis and Darryl Strawberry and model LeslieGlass. Glass, who was raised in Baltimore and has a successful career as amodel and actress, was the first patient Dr. Van Echo treated with thisapproach. She became his patient in September 1998, and without it she probablywould have d...T-Cell Memory Finding May Provide Key To Cancer, AIDS Vaccines
...ete antibodies, follow this pattern. The competing model involves just one initial population of cell-killing Tcells. Most of these cells die off after defeating the invader, but some cellssurvive and develop into memory cells which remain eternally vigilant for anysubsequent attack. The research team conf...