Pediatrician will work to cut sexually transmitted diseases
... in 1994and 1995. Results of the earlier work made national headlines in 1997 becausethey proved, among other things, that feeling connected with family, school andreligious organizations helped steer adolescents away from unhealthy acts. Subjects will be asked to provide a urine sample that will b...American Heart Association honors two volunteers with top award
...luence" on the organization at the local, stateand national levels. In his early years with the Texas Affiliate, Hoffman challenged theassociation's chapter structure, which was eventually eliminated nationwide. Hewas a leader in the 1970s for relocating the American Heart Association'sNational Center...Narcolepsy network issues national 'wake up' call
...t groups,publishes a quarterly newsletter, holds a national educational conference eachyear, facilitates professional research, and monitors state and federal lawsaffecting members' rights. "Wake Up to Narcolepsy" is being funded by an unrestricted grant from Cephalon,Inc. Headquartered in West Chester, PA,......ecific disease. Released in St. Louis today at a national conference of employers, managed careorganizations and other pharmacy benefit plan sponsors, the Express Scripts DrugTrend Report is a one-of-a-kind study based on large samples of 8.8 million planmembers in 1998 and 7.2 million in 1997. Express Scr...Medication prescribing patterns vary widely between, within states and therapy classes
... of Arizona researcher Brenda Motheral, Ph.D.,at a national conference of health plans and benefits managers. ...North Carolina, Ohio and Michigan --where previous national data on pharmaceutical use had shown variation. However, these national data were not adjusted for a......." Published in the May edition of the national Journal of Marriage andthe Family, the findings represent the first wave of data from an on-goingproject to examine how parents' work affects family life and, in turn, child andadolescent development, particularly the middle childhood years. ...Dental students help close care gap at Indian reservation
...e Lakota Oglala Sioux residents are four times the national average, according to the PHS,which is in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "There is a high rate of Baby Bottle Syndrome, untreateddecay, and periodontal disease," the PHS reports. The 21 students, including 12 from CWRU, are serving......ng this technology, and isparticipating in several national studies to evaluate the use of standardechocardiography versus the new 3-D technology to measure left ventricularfunction both at rest and with exercise. In the United States, over 14 million people a year undergoechocardiography. It is th...New nationwide study in six cities will look at the method & message for changing risky HIV behavior
...d Infectious Diseases, it is being coordinatedby a national team headed by AIDS researchers in San Francisco and New York. "HIV prevention counseling programs have been widespread since 1985. A fewstudies have evaluated their impact, but none has directly compared differentapproaches. Our goal is to determi...Hearts N' Parks - an innovative North Carolina program to prevent heart disease launched
...ionals and citizenadvocates. The primary areas for national programs focus are health, youthdevelopment, and the environment. The Mallard Park Recreation Center is located at 2530 Johnston OehlerRoad, Charlotte, NC. Telephone: 704-548-8234....Wake Forest first to apply innovative brain cancer treatment
...r of the clinical trials at the Medical Center and national chairmanfor the study. "Implanting radiation directly into the tumor, or brachytherapy, is themost promising technique to accomplish this," said Tatter. "Unfortunately,previous attempts at brachytherapy were extremely inconvenient for patien...For-profit hospital ownership means higher costs, Dartmouth-VA study finds
...ose served by non-profit hospitals, according to a national study byresearchers at Dartmouth and White River Junction (Vermont) Veterans AffairsMedical Center. The comprehensive analysis, reported in the August 5 New England Journal ofMedicine, is the first to examine the association between for-profit hospi...NSF award to five Georgia universities for new Science and Technology Center
... country, Atlanta is well positionedto address the national shortage of minorities in science. Morehouse MedicalSchool already has an excellent Neuroscience Institute and other AtlantaUniversity Center schools are developing neuroscience programs forundergraduates. The STC will vastly expand the research aren...Study shows benefit of pioneering U-M program for newborns at risk of hearing impairment
...g problems far better andless expensively than the national norm, according to a new report on thepioneering program. The successful early detection of immediate or delayed damage - found in 6.4percent of the infants studied - allowed babies to be fitted with hearing aidsbefore their development was affected...Study to test whether antibiotics can reduce heart disease risk
...ces, whowill head the Wake Forest component of the national clinical trial. "We thinkit is a really exciting...sease were treated with an antibiotic. The national clinical trial was the outgrowth of those pilot studies. Inthe trial, to be called the Azithromycin ...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...are BLACKSBURG, Aug. 11, 1999 -- While state and national elected officials debatetax cuts, Virginians favor...with the costof medical care. 74 percent say that national limits should be set on how much physicians cancharge, and 71 percent say that a national health pol...New Wake Forest study to pin down soy's active ingredient
...illfocus on adult male monkeys. A parallel national pilot study in people, headquartered at Wake Forest,also is testing whether soy will reduce the risk of prostate cancer. "In Asiancountries like Japan, where soy consumption is high, prostate cancer rates arelower than in Western countries with low...New studies of a liquid of life -- Lung surfactant
...unded by the National Institutes of Health, at the national meetingof the American Chemical Society in New Orleans, on Sunday, August 22. "An ideal replacement formulation would be a mixture of syntheticlipids, in a ratio based on a good understanding of their individual functionsin lung surfactant, c...Progress toward a vaccine to fight cocaine addiction is reported
... effects ofcocaine was described here today at the national meeting of the AmericanChemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Kim D. Janda, Ph.D., a scientist at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla,Calif., said he has induced the immune system to create specific antibodies thatattack the......at the end of the third grade, but data from a new national study createsworries that their future success may be tempered by their luke-warm attitudetoward school. Results of the study, which also looked at family factors that maycontribute to academic success of the children, will be presented toda...