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... tube placement, monitor the patient's respiratory patterns and assess the effect of life support measures. Wh...tive devices that record the binary "on" and "off" patterns of digital memory. The memory is written optically, but read and erased electronically. When resear...African-American heart attack patients fare worse long term
...ignificant difference in the clinical features and patterns of care between African-Americans and Caucasians," Mehta said. "These differences, coupled with poorly understood genetic, biologic and other socio-economic factors appear to result in higher mortality rates for African-Americans. "This data also sho...Taking pills, even if placebo, predicts better survival in heart failure
...a-Blockers in Heart Attack in 1982 showed similar patterns as the new Duke analysis, and according to Granger, researchers have attempted over the years without success to in explain the beneficial effects of adherence in those studies. Researchers have studied such non-medical variables as martial status, s...Study of Big Ten football injuries shows NCAA rule change did not reduce injury rates
...d but attempting to avoid contact led to different patterns of injury such as broken fingers or dislocated elbows or shoulders rather than the usual lower extremity injuries. The study results indicate that the way to reduce spring injury rates is to eliminate or reduce scrimmages and limited-contact practice...Perfect pitch, portable bone-health monitor
...rformed quantitative analysis of rhythm and melody patterns (speech "prosody") in spoken French and English, and compared them to the melody and rhythm patterns in the instrumental classical music of each nation. They have found evidence that English and Frenc...Genetic testing can identify ischemic and nonischemic heart failure
...e gaps in our understanding of the gene expression patterns underlying heart failure and treatments for the illness. Ultimately, we hope to be able to use genetic profiling to classify patients according to their risk of developing all kinds of heart disease." To create a gene expression profile, or test, th...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...ht in fluorescent bulbs. They are used to inscribe patterns in computer chips and other electronics, and are at the heart of the most promising nuclear fusion devices that may someday lead to an abundance of cheap, clean, and safe power sources. The APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting is the world's...Columbia Univ. Medical Center wins highly competitive stroke grant from NIH
...ist, is directing the fMRI study to see if altered patterns of brain activity shortly after the onset of stroke can predict recovery. Dr. Marshall's preliminary studies have demonstrated emergence of activity on the other side of the brain from where the stroke is. If these differences have functional signifi...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...ht in fluorescent bulbs. They are used to inscribe patterns in computer chips and other electronics, and are at the heart of the most promising nuclear fusion devices that may someday lead to an abundance of cheap, clean, and safe power sources. The APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting is the world'...CT with multiplanar reconstruction gives new perspective on complex ankle fractures
...es were seen, but they involved different fracture patterns than what has been previously described as most co...udy found that fully half of the triplane fracture patterns described in the literature some of which have been described as quite common - likely occur only v...Selling smaller packs of painkillers slashes suicide risk
...ylates - both covered by the new laws - decreased, patterns of overdosing from ibuprofen, which was not targeted in the legislation, remained roughly the same. Although smaller pack sizes do not prevent someone from buying multiple packs from various retailers, many of those who overdose do so impulsively - u...Blacks less likely to start smoking, less likely to quit
...proportion of women quit than men. These new patterns may foreshadow greater equality in rates of quitting smoking between the two racial groups, King says. "As a greater number of older African American smokers die, it is likely that the pool of future smokers will be smaller and younger," he spe...Physical inactivity costs millions in health care expenses
...l expenditures attributable to physical inactivity patterns among all 1.5 million adult members of Blue Cross ...n that gathers information about physical activity patterns in the states. The BRFSS results for Minnesota approximate the physical activity patterns of Blue Cr...Combination therapy, not medication alone, most effective for treating children with OCD
...hotherapy that helps patients change their thought patterns and behaviors related to obsessive thoughts and compulsions. OCD is characterized by recurrent obsessions and/or compulsions that are intense enough to cause severe discomfort. Obsessions are recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images ...Appendix rupture in children associated with race and health insurance status
...ter, Washington, D.C., and colleagues examined the patterns of diagnosis and care of children aged 5 to 17 years with appendicitis at 36 major children's hospitals to assess the contributions of race, health insurance status, age, sex, and hospital volume on the ruptured appendicitis rate. They also evaluated...Therapy, medication combination superior for children with obsessive-compulsive disorder
...tment designed to create and reinforce new thought patterns and behaviors in children and adolescents with the disorder, said the researchers. The drug sertraline is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) commonly used in the treatment of depression and OCD. "The results are so robust decision m...Ovarian cancer rates across Europe
...to improvements in diagnostic techniques. Changing patterns of ovariectomy (removal of ovaries) and hysterecto...efore, several reasons to believe that the diverse patterns of ovarian cancer incidence and mortality trends registered in Europe over the last four decades are...New understanding of neural circuits may help development of thought-controlled prosthetic devices
...from individual nerve cells, and then record their patterns of activity." This setup is ideal for examining animals, like songbirds, during their normal behaviors. "We were able to position the electrodes and find nerve cells in the songbird's brain without bothering the bird at all," says Fee.......al Asian and Pacific Islander dietary and activity patterns are urgently needed to stop the sharp increases we're seeing in overweight people, especially children." As a first step, Foerster and her colleagues at DHS, working with investigators at the UCLA School of Public Health, recently conducted 24 foc...Gastric bypass and stomach-stapling patients should recognize risk of nerve injury post-surgery
...his is the largest and most systematic identifying patterns of neuropathy in weight-reduction surgery patients. It also is the first to use a control group to look for an association between weight-loss surgery and nerve problems, and the first to identify risk factors for developing peripheral neuropathy....