Raising The Retirement Age In The United States Could Save Billions In Social Security Payments
.... Increasing the normal retirement age would be a plausible move because Americansare enjoying longer, healthier lives, said demographer Kenneth G. Mantonof Duke University and actuary H. Dennis Tolley of Brigham Young University.They said the Social Security trust fund could save roughly $50 billionto $60 bi......rences, the authors of thestudy stress that "it is plausible that the findings resulted from a protectiveeffect of enalapril and not a deleterious effect of nisoldipine." Other calcium antagonists include: nimodipine (Nimotop); verapamil(Calen, Isoptin, Verelan); nicardipine (Cardene); diltiazem (Cardi...Controversy Over The Effects Of Passive Smoking
...o, said an increased risk of such magnitudewas not plausible given how dilute second-hand smoke becomes in air.... ETS is lacking," he says.Doll agrees: "It makes a plausible story, but not a wholly convincing one." A host of other mechanisms has also been suggested,...Duke/Novalon researchers identify potential mechanism behind tamoxifen resistance in breast cancers
...roperties of tamoxifen," said McDonnell. "Both are plausible next steps in thefight against estrogen-sensitive breast cancers." The field of hormone replacement therapy is a hot one, McDonnell said,because estrogen plays such an important role in the health and well-being ofall women. The presence of ...Magnet therapy: what's the attraction?
...nd physics professor Robert Park has also found no plausible explanation for how magnets could relieve pain. Park, who is also a consultant to the American Physical Society, says that explanations currently being offered are false. Here are some highlights from the article: Some literature on magnet ther...Study: Productivity can be increased even as baby boomers retire
... force longer and raising productivity is a highly plausible solution to a much-feared problem. As the baby boomers retire, "What happens to social security, employer-sponsored pension assets and individual savings when everyone wants to liquidate and consume but not produce?" One possibility is "the price of...UB researcher observes strong statistical correlation between prevalence of diabetes, air pollution
...mains to be determined, but there is a potentially plausible link," he said. "What may happen is that some pollutants, such as dioxins, are being concentrated in the fat of obese people and these then may contribute to the development of diabetes. That is the hypothesis." Lockwood became interested in a pos...Caesarean rates unaffected by level of nursing care
...ns are more common. According to Hodnett, the most plausible explanation for the 2002 study results is that the benefits of continuous labour support are overpowered in North American, high-intervention labour wards. Caesareans, considered major surgery, are associated with longer recovery times and a greater ...How acrylamide might be formed in starch-rich foods
...on dioxide might be released, I recognized another plausible reaction pathway -- not involving the Maillard reaction -- that could account for the formation of acrylamide. My idea was based on how some biological systems achieve decarboxylation, which means the loss of carbon dioxide. That connection provided...Newborn screening is cost-effective in detecting rare but treatable genetic disease
...he additional costs of screening for MCADD. "It is plausible thatnewborn screening might even provide net savings to society, compared to the costs of not screening," said Dr. Venditti. "For instance, some studies suggest that people with asymptomatic MCADD, who have less severe forms of the disease than we fi...Diets high in fat and animal protein linked to increased risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...ion between dietary intake and NHL is biologically plausible because diets high in protein and fat may lead to altered immunity, resulting in increased risk of NHL," said principal investigator Tongzhang Zheng, M.D., associate professor of epidemiology and environmental health at Yale School of Medicine. "The ...Twin study finds possible connection between depression, heart disease
...c dysfunction, as reflected by decreased HRV, is a plausible mechanism linking depression to CHD because it can raise the risk of arrhythmias and sudden death," Dr. Vaccarino says. She adds that the results of the twin study are important not only because they provide an explanation for how depression...Making the case for a dental caries vaccine
...aged populations especially, a vaccine is the most plausible and desirable method of preventing disease. Indeed, vaccination is a very significant method of combating an infectious disease whose importance has been recognized in a recent report by the Institute of Medicine. The moral and social imperative of a...Place of death influences hospital league tables
...in the provision of facilities for the dying are a plausible explanation for some of the differences between hospitals in their death rates, say the authors. Calculation of in-hospital death rates, aggregated across a wide clinical spectrum, including a mixture of admissions for treatment, cure, and palliative...Dental X-rays of pregnant women associated with low-weight babies
...isms in the head and neck region was notconsidered plausible by most researchers. The findings are also surprisingbecause the amount of radiation pregnant women were exposed to was very lowand generally thought to be incapable of inducing observable health effects.The highest dose observed in our study was abo...Health care treatment differs by race
...d racial stereotyping among physicians is the most plausible explanation for racial differences in pain treatment. It notes that there was no significant difference among the races in the numbers of referrals for X-rays, MRI tests and CT scans. Early studies have explained the variations in pain treatment acr...Long Island Breast Cancer Study data: Aspirin helps protect some women against breast cancer
...ol of Public Health. The discovery is biologically plausible because aspirin is thought to work through a chemical pathway in the body called Cox-2, and estrogen appears to interact with that pathway. "ER-positive breast cancer is the predominant type of breast cancer among postmenopausal women, and postmenopa...First proof that cutting Rx drugs due to cost harms health
...ps within subgroups of patients and see clinically plausible outcomes." At the start of the study, those who later reported they had cut back on their medications because of cost were more likely to be uninsured or to have health insurance that didn't cover prescription drugs. They were also younger, less edu...TV ads during sports depict unsafe behavior and violence
...to warn parents about commercials. Moreover, it is plausible that parents might consider sporting events aired before 9 p.m. to be safe and free of such content. "Our findings suggest that children's exposure to televised sports should be limited and directly supervised by parents, as recommended by the Ame......me. Among the other requirements, there must be a plausible biological explanation for the relationship. None of the compounds evaluated in this report met these criteria. Evidence that establishes a link between exposures and a health outcome with reasonable certainty, but fails to meet the higher standar...