UNC-CH Researchers Learning Ways To Help Black Women Cope With HIV
...ir children to motivate them." Information packets discuss diet and exercise; understanding, preventingand managing infections; preventing and managing female problems; and copingwith depression, thinking problems, apathy and skin conditions. Registerednurses visit mothers at home six times in three ...OHSU researchers capture cell transmissions on tape for first time
...ing structures called synapses. At these synapses, packets of information sent by one cell are received by other cells. Researchers at Oregon Health Sciences University's Vollum Institute report they have successfully captured on videotape how individual nerve cells send messages. The research is printed in ...Paracetamol restrictions reduce overdose severity
... and 1999 - before and after the change to smaller packets in September 1998. For each case, they estimated the amount of paracetamol ingested, recorded the numbers of patients transferred to a specialist liver unit and deaths related to paracetamol overdose. Although the amount of paracetamol ingested was s...... This initiative involves sending out information packets about pain treatment options to physicians, nurses and patients in a number of clinics and hospitals. "Essentially the message is that you have a right to have your pain treated and the staff caring for you have an obligation to treat your pain." S...FINAL ALERT: RPB Science Writers Seminar in Eye Research to be held in Washington, DC Sept. 22-25
...from Dulles, $20; from BWI, $30). We'll have press packets with all papers available for you upon arrival. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call either of us....Study identifies genetic fingerprint of healthy sperm
...ermatogenesis, especially spermiogenesis, or vital packets essential to energise embryos? Such information is especially important for its prognostic value when evaluating each sperm's reproductive potential."...July/August 2003 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ding patients with written materials and discharge packets were not effective in prompting breastfeeding. In fact, discharge packets, especially those containing promotional materials with or without formula samples, were found to have a detrimental effect. The Effectiveness of Primary Care-Based Interven...Sandia nanolaser may help extend life-spans by rapidly analyzing possible neuroprotectant drugs
...d, and microliters of different drugs in different packets flowing in to join them on the right, we could rapidly run through hundreds of different compounds. Each mitochondrion scanned through the analyzer would show if there were a change in its lasing characteristics. That would determine the effectivenes...Tar measurements on cigarette packets are misleading
Labelling cigarette packets with tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide measurements is misleading and should be stopped, argue cancer experts in this week's BMJ. The tar delivery of cigarettes is routinely measured with a machine and, with the exception of the United States, stated...Immediate access to antibiotics stems spread of sexually transmitted diseases
... the study, treatment was accelerated by providing packets of antibiotics or mailing medication directly to p...dited treatment, the health care team offered free packets of medication, a written prescription or directly mailed medication for up to three partners. Patie...