Restaurant Meats Higher In Suspected Carcinogens
...teaks and pork ribs, purchasedfrom three different national restaurant chains in the Beltsville, Md., areanear Washington, D.C. The study from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the NationalCancer Institute and the U.S. Department of Agriculture is reported in the Oct.31 Web edition of the Journa......en, says Luepker, chairperson of the REACT study's national steeringcommittee and head of the division of epidemiology at the University ofMinnesota School of Public Health. "This was an important finding because, as we saw in our public telephonesurveys, most people don't think of women as vulnerable to hear...Study Reveals Possible Link Between Osteoarthritis, Diet
...enerative condition that will become an increasing national health problem asbaby boomers age, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School ofMedicine study shows. The study, presented Monday (Nov. 9) at the American College ofRheumatology annual meeting in San Diego, suggests that middle-...PAHO Working With Affected Communities In Central America
... pose serious logistic and management problems for national authorities, while remaining transparent and accou...missing, and 228 are injured, PAHO is working with national officials to coordinate disaster response, assess damages, and prepare reconstruction plans. Nicara...Study Shows Foreign-Trained Doctors Can Ease Rural Physician Shortages
...physician shortages with concerns about reducing a national oversupply. "This study suggests that international medical graduates are animportant safety net in rural America," said Baer. "Their role in alleviatingunderserviceshould not be easily dismissed." The Federal Office of Rural Healt...National Clinical Trial To Test Effectiveness Of Antibiotic Treatment For Coronary Artery Disease
...iller -- be effectivelytreated with antibiotics? A national clinical trial directed by the Universityof Washington and funded through an $11 million grant from the NationalInstitutes of Health (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute) and PfizerCorporation will examine the effectiveness of antibiotic treatme...New drugs, diagnostic tests, software needed to prepare US cities for chemical, biological attacks
...ffective system for distributing them. A vigorous national effort shouldbe mounted to develop, manufacture, and stockpile improved vaccines for anthraxand smallpox, the committee recommended. And an aggressive program should bedeveloped to locate substances to repair or limit the damage caused by vesicantss......ter between Jacobson and a CDC representative at a national meetingof the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) twoyears ago. Jacobson is a member of INFORMS. Vaccines being wasted Jacobson notes that with new vaccine brands and types rapidly being introduced,often with diffe...Radically New Type Of Surgery Tested On First Patient
...elopment for more than adecade at universities and national laboratories throughout the United States. ASt. Louis-based company called Stereotaxis Inc. is spearheading its commercialdevelopment. "We expect the system to have a wide range of applications because it puts threecomponents - visualization, localiz...JAMA Study Shows Jefferson Medical College Program Brings Family Physicians To Small Town America
... Pennsylvania coming fromthose schools. Among all national and international medical school graduates,PSAP graduates represented 12 percent of all family physicians in ruralPennsylvania. Results were similar for PSAP graduates practicing in otherunderserved areas. Overall, PSAP graduates were eigh...Nurse Practitioners Reducing Costs, Expanding Care
...erontology or neonatal health. The most recent national figures available show the average salary for anadvanced practice nurse is $52,532 compared to $36,400 for an RN. The field isexpected to grow right along with the demand for primary health care providers. Wilkerson says the field has a number of......stitute for Biomolecular Structure and Function, a national center for generesearch based at Hunter. Filbin, who teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses, received more than$670,000 in research grants in the past fiscal year. Her primary funders werethe National Institutes for Health/National Institut...Society Of Actuaries Issues Proceedings From Symposium, 'Managed Care In A Time Of Transition'
... plans, Sara LeeCorporation James Murphy, F.S.A., national leader, health and welfare actuarialservices. Howard Johnson & Company Copies of the monograph are available for $35 from the Society ofActuaries' Books Department (phone: 847-706-3526; fax: 847-706-3599; e-mail: bhaynes@soa.org ). ......award was given by National ResearchCorporation, a national leader in the healthcare performance measurementindustry, and reflects the opinions expressed by Los Angeles area residents whoparticipated in a survey about comprehensive healthcare services. NationalResearch Corporation surveys nearly 170,000 homes...Far Few Drugs Are Tested On Children
... practice of paediatric drugs isnothing short of a national disgrace," says Al Aynsley-Green, the director ofclinical research and development at Great Ormond Street. In the US, an estimated 80 per cent of prescription drugs are notlicensed for use in children, according to a 1996 report in Pediatrics...Promising Bone Cancer Therapy Advances To Next Level
...nitial results, clinical trial report presented at national meeting UPTON, NY -- More than 400,000 Americans with advanced-stage bone cancer may oneday find non-sedating relief for their excruciating bone pain -- and possibletreatment for their cancer -- in a promising therapy now being tested in anationwid...Women Who Have Invasive Cervical Cancer Benefit From Addition Of Chemotherapy To Radiation Treatment
...with other physicians in the division. The national study by the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTO...tch and Grigsby also participated in the other two national trialswhose results will be reported in the New England Journal on April 15. The twostudies compared...Komen Foundation Announces Application Deadline For 1999 National Grants
...ght against breast cancer, todayannounced that all national grant applications are due by April 1, 1999. For 1...ast cancer. Applications and instructions for 1999 national grants from the Komen Foundationare available to download from the Foundation's Web site, www.komen...Evidence For A Heart Failure Epidemic Released
...lace by health systems along with local, state and national public healthofficials."...National Pilot Study To Test Whether Soy Can Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk
...fMedicine will provide scientific leadership for a national pilot study to testwhether soy will reduce the ris...e study will be conducted through one of the major national cancerclinical trials cooperative groups, Cancer and Leukemia Group B, which iscomposed of 200 insti...