Air pollutants in low-income housing, child-care centers
...iveness of teaching low-income household members practical management strategies to minimize their risks of exposure to indoor air pollutants....New scanner holds promise of better breast cancer detection
...w type of camera ultimately may offer physicians a practical way to include scintimammography, with its superior ability to detect cancer, in their clinical practice as an adjunct to mammography," stated study author Rachel Brem, MD. A commentary that accompanied the article noted that while current mammograp...The future of research into Parkinsons disease and tissue banking
... medicine, engineering and management and delivers practical solutions that enhance the quality of life and the environment - underpinned by a dynamic enterprise culture. Website: www.ic.ac.uk ....Eficiency, feasibility of antiretroviral therapy in Africa demonstrated in IRD-coordinated surveys
...e to continue. This research has helped define the practical arrangements necessary in African health and hygiene situations for setting up a public health programme to take charge of Aids control using antiretroviral drugs. They also reveal that there is little circulation of these medicines in the informal m...Dog collars could prevent parasitic disease in children
...als, such as jackals and foxes, they would offer a practical and effective way to reduce the burden of this disease....Mayo Clinic study finds optimists report a higher quality of life than pessimists
... Maruta said. "However, questions remain about the practical significance of these findings for health care practitioners." Further study of explanatory style, which is a measured assessment, is warranted to make those determinations, Dr. Maruta said. Also, Dr. Maruta says the results might begin to help healt...Pennsylvania chemist wins national award for pharmaceutical research
... wanted to do something very fundamental, yet very practical -- something that could impact society in a beneficial way." Zhang received his undergraduate degree from China's Wuhan University in 1982 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1992. He is a member of the ACS organic chemistry division. The ACS Boa...Tissue engineers steering stem cells to produce bone, cartilage
...hydrogel, we think we've come up with a clinically practical way to deliver the cells to the site of an injury, where they can grow to replace injured bone or cartilage. Some difficulties still exist in smoothly joining new cells to the recipient's own tissue, but we're working on these problems." Elisseeff's ...Testing earlier for gestational diabetes a smarter way to screen pregnant women
...n women who are at greatest risk. It's also a more practical screening technique because blood samples drawn during early pregnancy for other tests can also be used for this purpose." Nahum and colleagues from the University of Hawaii School of Medicine and California State University studied 255 pregnant wome...Foundation funds UCSF research to test diaphragms as HIV prevention tool
...s research is used to design and rapidly implement practical and effective prevention and treatment strategies for women at risk for or living with HIV. ARI houses hundreds of scientists and dozens of programs throughout UCSF and affiliated labs and institutions, making ARI one of the largest AIDS research ent...9/11 one year on: Bridging the worlds divisions
...who have been traumatised; offers of emotional and practical support to victims are thought to be appropriate and caring human responses. However, conflicting evidence surrounds the effectiveness of single-session psychological debriefing, a commonly used approach to help people who have recently experienced t...Dont think about it too much - Psychological healing in Angola
...to everyone." Filomena, 35 years, Chipopia. Third, practical help must be given to people who are distressed: "So she [a widow] needs conselho first of all. This is not enough. This person needs a community of relatives or friends who will play the role of her husband. And then she will forget these kinds of t...Waist circumference as a predictor of cardiovascular risk
...ciated editorial by Lean and Han considers certain practical problems involved in the measurement of WC in a clinical setting. In the future, similar studies should be directed at developing the same type of WC-disease risk correlations for other races and for chronic diseases other than CVD....Researchers devise ways to reduce noise, improve sleep in nursing homes
...id. Ross is hopeful the studies will provide some practical insight for nursing homes. "We're looking forward to the data from the study so we can make better decisions about dealing with noise," he said. For nursing homes, which operate under tight budgets, the cost of the interventions will have to be weigh...Should people with dementia be electronically tagged?
...ple who wander into danger is a complex dilemma of practical benefits versus ethical considerations. Some argue that for the sake of safety, a slight loss of liberty is a price worth paying, but two experts in this week's BMJ suggest that the need to protect the right to privacy, especially in mild dementia, s...Better care and better communication urgently needed
...eir treatment but also the emotional, personal and practical aspects of their illness. "The ESMO Congress is leading the field by organising - for the first time - a special Patient Seminar where people with cancer and oncologists from around the world have the chance to exchange knowledge and opinions on cop...New drug stops stroke damage to brain
...nctions of these receptors, making this a possible practical stroke therapy," said Dr. Michael Salter, co-principal investigator of this study, a senior scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children, and a professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto. The drug was developed by Dr. Tymianski in collabora...New approach required for obtaining informed consent in less-developed countries
...re about to participate in medical research. Few practical guidelines exist on how to ensure that research participants in less-developed countries understand the consent form before enrolment. Daniel W Fitzgerald from Cornell University Medical College, New York, USA, and colleagues compared the understandi...Brains of elderly can compensate to remain sharp, study indicates
... elderly, he said. "Although we are still far from practical applications, if we can understand the differences between those elderly who show little or no cognitive decline, versus those who are clearly impaired, then we could try to find methods to help control age-related memory decline," said Cabeza. Such ......y 60 percent compared to peers who provide neither practical help nor emotional support to relatives, neighbors...eries of questions about whether they provided any practical support to friends, neighbors or relatives, including help with housework, childcare, errands or tra...