Women's health research registry aims to improve women's health for future generations
...they are helping to find the answers for important questions in medicine," Dr. Bairey Merz adds. "By encouraging more women to participate in clinical trials, we're insuring that future research is available for both genders." To enroll in the Registry or for more information, contact Karen Nosakowski at the ...Promoting the brain image bank
...alyze previous findings or pursue related research questions that weren't considered originally. Using archived data for new studies provides new perspectives on data, the authors say, which contributes to the effort to better understand the fundamentals of human cognition. The Nature Neuroscience essay is pa...Who wants to talk about premature ejaculation?
...months) heterosexual relationships and answered 31 questions regarding overall and sexual health. These included questions about ejaculatory control that were primarily based on DSM-IV premature ejaculation criteria. Accor...Elevated rates of trauma may put urban American Indian women at increased risk for contracting HIV
...ng HIV-positive, while 1 percent refused to answer questions about HIV and 7 percent said they did not know their HIV status. According to latest available data from the Centers for Disease Control, only 388 American Indian women in the United States, or .0002 percent, are living with HIV/AIDS. Overall, 52 p...New strategy aims to halve malaria deaths by 2010
...nt aproaches. Journalists are invited to put their questions to the authors at a press briefing on Thursday 6 May, 10.30am, at the Science Media Centre, 21 Albermarle Street, London W1....Study: Many men take dietary supplements to prevent prostate cancer
... 420-item self-administered questionnaire included questions about the use of nutritional supplements and complementary therapies.Supplemental use was divided into eight categories including vitamins, minerals, and extracts from fruits/seeds, organic compounds, flowers/bulbs, leaves/bark, roots, or animal prod...Adult marijuana abuse, dependence increased during 1990s
...men and women. Both surveys included the same core questions to assess marijuana use, abuse, and dependence. "The value of well-designed and well-executed epidemiologic studies is that they point to where problems exist and where additional research and resources must be directed. In addition to the findings a...Co-occurring disorders increase risk of suicide attempt by adolescents
...dolescents and their parents answered standardized questions about age of onset for all diagnosed psychiatric disorders. Adolescents who attempted suicide and their parents estimated the age(s) at which the adolescent attempted suicide. Overall, 29 males and 56 females made one or more suicide attempts during ...Study finds HIV protein can drive immune cells away
...should destroy HIV-infected cells. One of the big questions in understanding HIV is why we can see immune responses that are effective in the test tube but do not eradicate the virus in the infected patient, says Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD, of the Partners AIDS Research Center (PARC) and the MGH Infectious Disea...FDA approves Enbrel to treat psoriasis
...infection occurs. Contact your doctor if you have questions about ENBREL or develop an infection. Tell your doctor if you have ever been treated for heart failure. Serious nervous system disorders such as multiple sclerosis, seizures, or inflammation of the nerves of the eyes Tell your doctor if you hav...Europe's legacy to its children - A healthier environment?
...hemical-free environments. However, the Editorial questions whether such wide-ranging goals are realistic given the specific action that could be taken now to improve environmental health for children in Europe: 'Laudable goals. But are they achievable? Or will we lament in 5 years' time the failure to progre...University of Colorado tissue engineer to receive NSF's coveted Waterman Award
...ma of major surgery. "We still have to answer some questions about how to make a scaffold structurally and mechanically able to produce functional cartilage, how to accelerate cartilage formation and control degradation of the scaffolds, and then fabricate the scaffolds in such a way as to minimize surgical in...New initiative to focus on growing problem of cardiovascular disease in diabetics
...ting stents be used? These are just a few of the questions to be addressed by the Future Revascularization Evaluation in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: Optimal Management of Multivessel Disease (FREEDOM) trial. This trial is being funded by a $25 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Insti...Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Girl Scouts partner to promote oncology nursing careers
...ty to provide patients with excellent care? These questions among many others surrounding the shortage will be addressed at the 29th annual Oncology Nursing Society Congress. Nursing career specialist, Maureen Mullin, RN, BSN, OCN, at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Pa., offers advice and expert sug...The NYU Child Study Center presents the inaugural State of the Science lecture
...her. Initially, his work focused on autism and on questions surrounding origins of the disorder. His research activities then went on to include resilience in relation to stress, developmental links between childhood and adult life, schools as social institutions, reading difficulties, psychiatric genetics, ...International hepatitis C study examines new approaches to treatment
...o answer one of the most challenging and important questions in hepatitis C therapy today: What is the best option for patients in whom one of the most widely prescribed treatments has failed? The study will evaluate different regimens of combination therapy in patients with hepatitis C who failed to generate...AAN develops neurology education series for patients and families
...hysicians may help headache sufferers answer their questions before they even arise," adds Sumner. Two dozen neurological topics will be covered through this quality-of-life series, including Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ("Lou Gehrig's disease"), back pain, cerebral palsy, chronic pain, e...Multiple factors affect psoriasis treatment compliance
...ed a brief medical and social history and answered questions about their treatment compliance and their quality of life as related to their psoriasis at the beginning of the study. Patients were reevaluated three months later, and their actual treatment use was compared with the expected use. The researchers ...Oral cancer survey from Case dental school shows dental hygienist's role in catching cancer
...sts nationwide, with 575 individuals responding to questions about their oral cancer knowledge and oral cancer screening practices. The survey findings were presented at the 2004 annual research meeting of the American Dental Education Association and were compared to an oral cancer survey of dentists present......drugs or brain-enhancing implants? These and other questions being raised by modern neuroscience were the topic of a meeting of neuroscientists, ethicists and psychologists funded by the National Science Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences. The group, led by Judy Illes, senior research scholar in b...