Study quantifies cost-benefit of family interventions to prevent teen alcohol use
... that the PDFY intervention yielded a benefit-cost ratio of $5.85 for each dollar invested. The premise behind each intervention was similar: to focus on intervention during the critical period of transition in early adolescence, to promote parent-child bonding, to encourage effective family functioning...Columbia study finds differences in PSA, PSA density test measurements for Caucasian, Hispanic men
...g./ml. For these patients, PSAD (that is, PSA as a ratio to the volume of the prostate) was calculated, and the data were broken down between the two ethnic groups and between the negative and positive biopsy groups. Thirty-five percent of the Hispanics, and 25.5% of the Caucasians, had cancer. There was n...American Thoracic Society news tips for June (first issue)
...g. The researchers developed a lung function test ratio to serve as anairway caliber index. "Normal" stud...o. According to the authors, failure to achieve a ratio within thenormal range despite the use of a bronchodilator suggested the presence of structuralabnor...New test identifies aggressive and less aggressive prostate cancers
...ment of the prostate, the researchers measured the ratio of CB to the inhibitor stefin A in prostate tissue...ogeneous under the microscope. They found that the ratio of CB to stefin A was significantly higher in patients whose cancer had spread to one or more pelvic...Lean ground beef fortified with soybean phytosterols lowers cholesterol
...esterol by 9.3%, LDL cholesterol by 14.6%, and the ratio of total to high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol by 9.1% in 4 weeks. The soybean-extracted phytosterols that were used to supplement lean ground beef in the study were similar to those used in fortified margarine spreads currently available on ...Teenage boys exposed to environmental pollutants
... not exposed to the pollutants. The male to female ratio for men exposed after 20 years of age was only 10%...significant difference in the male to female birth ratio among exposed women compared with women in the control population. Yueliang Leon Guo comments: "Th...... score for availability of medical technology. Its ratio of registered nurses to patients (2.89) was also a...s. UC Davis Medical Center's high nurse-to-patient ratio reflects its status as one of only 54 hospitals nationwide to receive Magnet Nursing Services Recogn...Socioeconomic factors affect blood pressure
...icators in the lowest category to calculate a risk ratio for that group. Whites in the lower socioeconomic categories had greater increases in systolic pressure (upper number) over time and greater decreases over time in diastolic pressure (lower number) after age 50. Overall, the five-year increase in s...Soy protein in the diet produces health benefits, regardless of isoflavone content
...diet. After each soy diet, total cholesterol, the ratio of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) to high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, homocysteine concentrations, and estimated overall cardiovascular risk were lower than they were after the control diet. Additionally, serum concentrations of LDL were lo...Almonds have cholesterol benefits
...uite impressed," says Jenkins. "If you look at the ratio of LDL to HDL (high-density lipoprotein, the good ...ercent for the full dose by the fourth week. That ratio is very important in assessing cardiovascular risk." The patients' cholesterol levels did not signi...Essential fatty acids in mothers diet affect infants sleep patterns
...re mature sleep patterns, characterized by a lower ratio of active to quiet sleep, significantly less sleep-wake transition time, and more wakefulness than infants whose mothers were in the low-DHA group.1 In previous studies, sleep patterns similar to those found in the high-DHA infant group were related ...Tamoxifen for prevention of breast cancer encouraging results but risks still unclear
...till too early to fully assess the risk to benefit ratio of tamoxifen as a preventative strategy for breast... and death, at present the overall risk to benefit ratio in the preventive setting is still unclear. Further long-term follow-up to study breast-cancer incid...Viagra for alleviation of pulmonary hypertension?
...on secondary to lung fibrosis. A reduction in the ratio of pulmonary to systemic blood resistance--an indication of reduced pulmonary hypertension--was only observed in patients who received sildenafil. Hossein Ghofrani comments: "Controlled randomised trials should be done to confirm our findings. Howev...Fred Hutchinson receives $12.7 million to lead prostate-cancer consortium
...e" and "hormone-insensitive" cells, and everyone's ratio of such cells is different. Eliminating the body's major source of androgens, such as testosterone, interrupts the pathway of hormone production that speeds the growth of hormone-sensitive cancer cells. While such therapy works for a while to increas...Supply of medical students may not meet future demand
...licants is the same as in 2000, then the selection ratio will be a mere 1.18, supply barely meeting demand, writes Chris McManus, Professor of Psychology and Medical Education at University College London. Over 40% of 17 year olds now apply to university. Although that large pool of university applicants m...UNC study uncovers increasing shortage of pharmacists with growing population
...he overall supply of pharmacists in the state, the ratio of pharmacists per 10,000 population working in retail settings has declined over the past decade, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows. The result is an imbalance between the growing demand for retail pharmacy services and the t...Pituitary tumor cells in Cushings syndrome found to express large amounts of protein receptor
...order is rare, it affects more women than men by a ratio of 5:1. Symptoms include weight gain with rounding of the face; increased fat in the neck; thinning skin; excess hair growth on the face neck, chest abdomen and thighs; muscle weakness and bone loss (osteoporosis); high blood sugar; diabetes; and hi...University of Pittsburgh reports effects of multiple concussions in high school athletes
...nd four times more likely to be confused. The odds ratio of retrograde amnesia between the two groups was not significant. Athletes who participated in the study were from high schools in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Oregon and Maine. Among the group with no prior concussion history, 92 percent were m...No significant rise in cancer deaths in 3-Mile Island residents over 20 years, says Pitt
...ta from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The ratio of the number of observed deaths in the TMI "exposed" population was compared with the expected number of deaths in the general population. The overall number of cancer deaths among men and women in the TMI population was not significantly different ...Treatment helped reduce dose of inhaled corticosteroids while maintaining asthma control
...r asthma control to help optimize the risk/benefit ratio for individual patients.1 The study compared Advair Diskus 100/50 -- which contains 100 mcg of fluticasone propionate (an inhaled corticosteroid) and 50 mcg of salmeterol (an inhaled long-acting bronchodilator) -- twice daily with fluticasone prop...