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...shows that a brief training session is all that is needed for safe and efficient use of an automated external defibrillator. Sudden cardiac deaths affect nearly 400,000 people per year in Europe, and every day in the U.S. more than 1,200 people die from cardiac arrest before they reach hospital. In most cas...Wisconsin scientists grow critical nerve cells
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...n biology, physics or chemistry, and the resources needed to study them effectively are considerable. That is the view of the man leading a ground-breaking ESRC-funded investigation of new ways to design survey questions which come as close as possible to how we actually weigh the pros and cons of issues af...Early surgical treatment not always necessary for patients with brain haemorrhage
...ients randomised to initial conservative treatment needed surgery a few days after randomisation. Dr Nakano concludes: "Besides appropriate selection of subgroups of patients for surgery, it is important to improve operative techniques to obtain good surgical results. The results of STICH show that there i...Telemedicine is healthcare's new frontier
... of telemedicine, advanced ICT infrastructures are needed that would guarantee access, availability and quality of service in the required locations. Satellite communications, accessible from virtually any location and capable of instantly activating communication channels adapted to specific needs, could p...Climate change and the future of air travel
...-haul flights because of the high quantity of fuel needed for take-off and landing. In a short haul, this is not balanced by a long, fuel-efficient cruise. However, contrail effects are not taken into account in current environmental risk assessments of air travel. The team are investigating whether the ...Rice scientist recognized as pioneer in tissue engineering
...ffolds break down naturally, no further surgery is needed to remove them once they are implanted. Mikos lab has also developed techniques for growing new bone and cartilage tissue by seeding the scaffolds with cells. Because the Mikos group's scaffolds are highly porous and contain a large surface area, the...Generation gap found in chronic pain
...pectations may be at play, though more research is needed to find out, say Green and her colleague Tamara Baker, Ph.D., of USF's School of Aging Studies. Baker formerly was a postdoctoral fellow at the U-M School of Public Health's Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health. "Older people may feel...Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood may increase HIV risk
...herapy or medication, preventive interventions are needed to address impoverished neighborhood residents' physical and social disorder," said Dr. Latkin. Co-authors of the study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health include Chyvette T. Williams, Jian Wang and Aaron D. Curry....Counseling encourages exercise; environment changes may help
... reach a specific exercise goal. "More research is needed to establish which methods of exercise promotion work best in the long term to encourage different types of people to be more physically active," Hillsdon says, noting that most of the studies included in the review lasted less than a year. The revie...Many of George Bush's health policies likely to be controversial
...fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria by diverting needed resources. "Like other second term presidents George W Bush will have one eye on his place in history," say the authors. "The greatest epitaph for a politician is that they leave the world in a better state than they found it. History will be the ju...Cord blood transplantation now a viable option for adult leukemia patients
...tion of this approach in larger clinical trials is needed to determine the full impact of this transplant procedure for adults and larger adolescents," said George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director of the Stem Cell/Developmental Biology research program at Children's Hospital Boston....Diet, exercise, stimulating environment helps old dogs learn
...ng problems, including a task in which the animals needed to learn whether a treat was hidden under a black or white block (black/white discrimination). Later, the treat was hidden under the opposite block so the dogs had to relearn the task (reversal learning). Overall, older dogs in the combined interven...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for January 2005 (second issue)
...bud/form) twice a day plus the same combination as needed for relief of symptoms; bud/form twice a day plus terbutaline, a short-acting beta2-agonist, as needed; and budesonide, an inhaled corticosteroid twice a day, plus terbutaline, as needed. The investigators said that their study was the first to show...2005: A critical year for action towards millennium development goals
...se in progress.' They conclude: 'Urgent action is needed if we are to usher in a decade of high ambition to implement the goals. Developing countries need to make every effort to mobilise around the goals. Developed countries need to ask themselves if they should be more concerned with pointing the finger ...Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
...x gene-environment interactions, knowledge that is needed to understand disease etiology and address racial ...hieve a breakthrough in producing the kind of data needed to begin to solve the health disparities problem in the United States. The interdisciplinary George...The Lancet calls for the creation of a world institute for risk evaluation
...ical evidence is consistently undervalued. What is needed is a World Institute for Risk Evaluation-- WIRE. This new institute would be an independent research-based agency, mandated to assess and adjudicate global risks. Evidence would be systematically gathered and peer-reviewed, risks would be quantified ...USC/Norris oncologists test new front-line therapy for pancreatic cancer
...the cells), while also attacking the blood vessels needed to nourish the tumor, Lenz says. BAY 43-9006's first strategy is to disrupt cell signaling in what scientists call the Ras gene pathway. The Ras oncogene drives cell division and is critical to many cancers' development; moreover, mutations in the R...... asthma care provider to adjust her medications if needed to keep her asthma under control and to lower the ...a pregnant woman can reduce how much medication is needed by identifying and avoiding the factors that make her asthma worse, such as tobacco smoke or allerge...