Paying Attention To High Blood Pressure Programs A Good Investment In Reducing Stroke Risk
...trol programson 4,687 people in two rural towns in northeastern Japan. The full interventionprogram included high blood pressure education classes, blood pressurescreenings, referrals of high-risk individuals for high blood pressuremedication, use of media to encourage participation in blood pressure screeningsa...Traditional values may curtail smoking among southern black women
...lack smoking rates of 25 percentor greater. In the northeastern states, the Black smoking rate was uniformlyabove 25 percent, except for New York (23.3 percent), the most populous statefor Blacks. The smaller percentage of Black smokers in New York may also be tracedto large numbers of foreign-born Black...Columbia presbyterian to participate in accord diabetes study
...hub and several recruiting sites. The hub for the northeastern network is on the Columbia University Health Scien...ians & Surgeons and principal investigator for the northeastern network. "The long-term benefits for study participants and people with Type 2 diabetes could be sub......f Environmental Health Sciences among women in the northeastern United States. None had shown a link between eit...y, the nationwide Nurses Health Study, live in the northeastern states, including Maryland. In each of the studies, blood was drawn from patients and controls al...Fresh hopes for treatment of malaria in Africa
...nzania tested two antimalarial drugs in a study in northeastern Tanzania, at Muheza, among 360 children less than five years old with falciparum malaria (the most severe form of the disease). The children were first given standard pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine treatment, and if their blood did not clear of parasites ...Community initiatives can lower adolescent pregnancy rates
...tween the ages of 14 and 17 in two target areas of northeastern Wichita between 1991 and 1993 and then again between 1994 to 1998. They also measured the number, intensity, duration and exposure rates of community changes. The birth rate decreased by about 15 percent in Target Area A versus an increase of approxi...Promising West Nile virus vaccine protects monkeys
...n 1999. Since then, it has spread rapidly from the northeastern United States throughout North America. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics show that West Nile cases this year are quickly outpacing those for the same period in 2002. The disease is most severe among the elderly and has sickened 4...MRI shows back trouble may begin before puberty
...) imaging studies of the spines of 154 children in northeastern Scotland found that 14 children (9 percent) had abnormalities in at least one of their intervertebral discs the backbone's "shock absorber." MR imaging was performed on the 10-year-olds as part of a larger study exploring causes of spinal stenosis...Rare disease endemic in South America is model for studying autoimmunity
...ng amid the gold mines and disappearing jungles of northeastern Colombia, is giving a Medical College of Georgia scientist unprecedented access to study how the wrong combination of genetics and environment cause the body to turn on itself. Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus are familiar autoimmune d...Few stroke patients get to the hospital in time for clot-dissolving therapy
... not receive IV tPA in our nine-hospital system in northeastern Ohio; only 15 percent of patients with stroke arrived within three hours of symptom onset," write the authors. "The percentage of patients with stroke arriving at the ED within three hours varies widely in published studies, ranging from 18 percent ...Assessing the season: LSU hurricane experts learned lessons during Hurricane Season 2004
...rtain barrier islands. Since 1995, Stone said, the northeastern Gulf of Mexico has taken several severe hurricane hits, most notable of which were Opal in 1995 and Ivan in September, 2004. "Remarkably, the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coasts experienced little to no beach erosion for a decade and a half prior to...Arsenic ingestion from well water associated with increased risk of lung cancer
... in the article. Residents of the southwestern and northeastern coasts of Taiwan had been drinking well water cont...luded 2,503 residents in southwestern and 8,088 in northeastern arsenic-endemic areas in Taiwan, who were followed up for an average period of 8 years. Information ...Yale opens Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) in India
...among highrisk groups in the four southern and two northeastern states of India with the highest HIV prevalence: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Manipur, and Nagaland. The project's goal is to reduce HIV prevalence among highrisk populations such as sex workers, truckers, and injection drug us...Cockroach allergens have greatest impact on childhood asthma in many US cities
... sensitivity in inner-city children. Most homes in northeastern cities had high levels of cockroach allergens, while those in the south and northwest had dust mite allergen levels in ranges known to exacerbate asthma symptoms. The study results are published in the March issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinic...