Widespread knowledge of CPR, defibrillation vital for saving lives
...r CPR without dispatcher assistance (from citizens previously trained in CPR). Preliminary results of this study were recently presented at the American Heart Associations Scientific Sessions 2001. Using survival-to-hospital discharge data among a group of 7,265 people who experienced cardiac arrest, re...UNC researchers awarded $2.25 million to study link between arthritis, emotions
...dies have shown to be more common and harmful than previously thought, said principal investigator Dr. Brenda M. DeVellis. "Failure to consider the co-occurrence of either anxiety or depression with a medical illness like osteoarthritis can compromise diagnosis and treatment of patients as well as the health o...Children's Cancer Fund brings world-class pediatric cancer specialist to Dallas
... Childrens Cancer Fund grant of $525,000, added to previously donated funds, will provide four years of start-up research support for Dr. Scott Cameron. A board-certified pediatric oncologist, Cameron comes to Dallas from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard. His research probes the fundamental mechanism...Scientists succeed in blocking transmission of cell-associated AIDS virus
...epleting agent, beta-cyclodextrin (beta-CD), shown previously in the laboratory of co-author Dr. James Hildreth, an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, to interfere with the ability of cell-free virus to establish infection. The authors found that application...Researchers find better way to predict childhood brain tumor outcomes
... provide a more reliable diagnosis. It may uncover previously unrecognized kinds of cancer and provide new discovery tools to explore and ultimately to interfere with the basic machinery of cancer. Some of the studies are so preliminary that biological meaning is still largely conjecture; others serve up good p...Vibrating computer games should carry health warnings
...d use of vibrating hand held computer devices have previously been reported, they add. "We believe that, with increasing numbers of children playing these devices, there should be consideration for statutory health warnings to advise users and parents. We encourage paediatricians encountering health related eff...Air pollution may trigger asthma in young athletes
...ing. That means the children probably did not have previously undiagnosed asthma, which might have been made worse by ozone to the point it was diagnosed. Rather, these children developed new cases of asthma. Children doing several team sports are more likely to be serious athletes. "Team sports are an indicato...Mammography screening-the debate continues
...er, New York, USA. They reviewed the Swedish trial previously reviewed by Gotzsche and Olsen, and conclude that reduction in breast-cancer mortality is apparent after sufficient time has elapsed-around seven years-for the influence of successful screening and treatment to take effect. They state that the reduct...Computerized tool predicts sarcoma outcome and improves ability to make better treatment decisions
...new prognostic tool that is more accurate than any previously available for this disease. Thetool, called a nomogram, is a computerized statistical program that may enable doctors to more accurately predict patient outcome, allowing doctors and patients to better design treatment and ensure that patients at gre...Researchers identify for the first time proteins vital to maintaining nervous system architecture
... "Our findings point to the importance of factors, previously unidentified, involved in keeping the anatomy of the nervous system intact. More research will elucidate the proteins functions." Dr. Hobert named the proteins ZIG for two reasons: Each protein has two immunoglobulin-like, or ig, regions. The "z" com...Tanning lamps may increase risks of skin cancers
... malignancy in humans. Karagas and colleagues have previously reported an increasing trend in the incidence rates of these cancers. "We know that ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure that comes from the sun is a major cause of skin cancer. Tanning lamps mimic sunlight and provide such an intense, concentrated ...Elderly lung cancer patients tolerate aggressive chemotherapy as well as younger patients
...ger patients treated with the same agents. It was previously reported that most patients did better on the paclitaxel and cisplatin regimen. Of the 574 patients, 86 of them were 70 years or older and 488 patients were under 70 years of age. Of the 488 patients under 70 years of age, 22 percent had either ...Dartmouth research examines the value of cancer screening
...ppery linkage" has been hinted at before but never previously defined, notes Black, who says he and his colleagues are among the first to investigate the impact of this bias. Integrating both types of mortality classification can help avoid flaws in screening assessment, according to the researchers. They conc...Duke researchers identify the mechanisms by which drug combinations kill fungal infections
...g fluconazole with either cyclosporin or FK506 was previously found by other researchers to potently kill fungal cells in the test tube, and had been proposed as an approach to combat difficult to treat fungal infections. The multi-drug antifungal treatment concept was tested in mice in 2000 by a research team ...Endurance athletes could benefit from surgical release of kinked leg arteries
...er limbs) during exercise; these restrictions have previously been ascribed to intravascular lesions, with implications for invasive interventions such as iliac-artery-bypass surgery. Goof Schep and colleagues from St Joseph Hospital, Veldhoven, Netherlands, proposed that blood flow could also be restricted by ...Researchers find correlation between older adults' use of speech and the ability to gesture
...they were to make gestural errors. Clinicians have previously observed that subjects with a gestural disorder ("apraxia") may speak instead of gesturing when their ability to pantomime is tested. The researchers wished to learn if the amount of speech normal elderly subjects generated when asked to pantomime a...Mecca pilgrims a priority for meningococcal vaccination
... this weeks issue of THE LANCET. An outbreak of a previously rare strain (W135) meningococcal disease was seen in 2000 and 2001 among pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia and their contacts. The Public Health Laboratory Service (covering England and Wales) set up enhanced surveillance to monitor spread and vir...Intensive exercise improves body's ability to process blood sugars
...r exercise; however, the Duke researchers say, the previously reported short-term effect disappears within 24 hours. "It now appears that there is also a long-term beneficial effect from regular exercise, most likely due to the fact that a significant amount of fat is lost," said exercise physiologist Cris Sle...