New study finds women in Philadelphia region still face significant inequality at work and at home
...adamant that their public officials take action to remedy them. "Women are in the work force in record numbers; increasingly their wages are crucial to supporting families," Barron said. "And yet women are still the ones who provide most caring labor. They maintain households and provide care for our chil...Dont ask, dont tell: Medical students shifting attitudes about permission to examine
...onsent in the first place. "Medical educators can remedy this decline in students' attitudes toward pelvic examinations under anesthesia by making sure that students perform such examinations only on patients who have explicitly given their consent. Students will still have a good learning experience, and ...Arsenic remedy for arsenic poisoning?
A homeopathic remedy made from arsenic oxide could ease the suffering o...f Kalyani, West Bengal, discovered the homeopathic remedy Arsenicum Album yielded positive effects in mice. They now believe the homeopathic treatment can red...School clinics best way to get birth control to students
...that many students were not using the vouchers. To remedy this, Minneapolis school-based clinics began distributing birth control directly to students in May 1998. By 2000, 99 percent of the students received all of the contraceptives they requested, according to Abbey Sidebottom, M.P.H., of the Minneapoli...Report gives NIH-sponsored clinical research a good report card
...e eligibility requirements were stringent. To help remedy the problem, eligibility requirements this year were relaxed for some applicants. To help young scientists develop clinical research, a number of different programs have been instituted nationally and at UT Southwestern. The Training Curriculum in Pa...Race affects older Americans' likelihood of getting flu shot
... elderly as a whole are still under-vaccinated. To remedy the under-vaccination of such groups, the researchers recommend clinical interventions and public health campaigns that are culturally appropriate and will encourage vaccination against influenza. "The elderly are at most risk from influenza, and it ...East meets West with a traditional herbal cure for jaundice
...cine, Texas, demonstrate that a Chinese herbal tea remedy for jaundice called Yin Zhi Huang (YZH) activates a liver receptor that enhances the clearance of bilirubin. YZH was "boiled down" to one component: 6,7-dimethylesculetin, which binds to and activates the hepatic nuclear receptor CAR and its target g...Evidence that memories are consolidated during sleep
... said. According to Nicolelis, the new experiments remedy shortcomings of previous studies. "I think that this is another demonstration of the power of the capability of looking at multiple areas of the brain simultaneously," he said. "Previously, investigators have reported the possibility that memories ar...Northwestern Memorial researchers study role of botanicals in management of menopausal symptoms
... of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a patented remedy for "female complaints" that was popular in the early 1900s. It has been used for a variety of other purposes as well - for example, to treat snakebites. Recent studies in Europe suggest that the herb can be used to treat menopausal symptoms, but non...Reprogrammable cells from fat are true adult stem cells
...artilage. "We don't currently have a satisfactory remedy for people who suffer a cartilage-damaging injury," Guilak said. "There is a real need for a new approach to treating these injuries. We envision being able to remove a little bit of fat, and then grow customized, three-dimensional pieces of cartilag...Online IV nutrition calculator reduces medical errors, saves time
...ram, "Safe and Sound," to proactively identify and remedy processes most vulnerable to human mistakes. The program is a collaboration of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and allied health professionals and staff of the Children's Center, united with families in safeguarding the well-being of children and ad...Merging hearing technologies sounds good to researcher
... population ages. Hearing aids are the most common remedy for people with hearing impairments, Chung says. Hearing aids have microphones to pick up sounds, then processors send the signals to the ear canal and through the auditory nerve to the brain for interpretation. People with severe hearing loss may ch...Trials launched to test treatment of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia
..., the medications currently available do little to remedy this aspect of the illness. Consequently, many patients have serious residual symptoms and only one in five are able to recover sufficiently to work," said Thomas R. Insel, M.D., director of NIMH. The NIMH approach is built on the assumption that pro...Women who early in life care for elderly parents are at higher risk of poverty later
...servation in the current study and suggest ways to remedy a situation that is likely to increase public expenses in the long run as women assume the responsibility of elder care and increase their risk of poverty and reliance on public assistance. "What is needed is a system that shares the burden of elder ...New compounds show promise in fighting malaria and cancer
Using an ancient Chinese folk remedy as a model, researchers at The Johns Hopkins Unive...a plant, which has been used in China as an herbal remedy for malaria and other fevers for thousands of years. Posner's research and that of other laborator...Proinflammatory mononuclear cells in obese found to contribute to diabetes, heart disease
...that of the normal subjects, findings showed. To remedy the inflammation, persons must either change their diet or take medication or both, Dandona said. His laboratory currently is conducting studies with obese subjects to determine how much these remedies are able to reduce cellular inflammation....Can cabbage help prevent cervical cancer?
...sule containing DIM, already available as a herbal remedy in the United States. The makers of this capsule in America also claim that it may help with pre-menstrual syndrome but side effects include aggravation of migraines and an increase in intestinal gas (!) The trial is sponsored by Cancer Research UK ...Testosterone patch will test FDA's decision making
...rs' lack of interest in journalism than the latest remedy for a lack of interest in sex," he concludes....ESA service makes customised maps available to African aid workers
...rship with Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) Belgium to remedy this. The result is the Medical Humanitarian Disaster Mapping Service (HUMAN). Since last year the service has been using satellite imagery to prepare on-demand maps of remote areas for humanitarian organisations. Now HUMAN has gone one better, enabl...Employees bring bad moods home, but they disappear by morning
...NESVILLE, Fla. --- A good night's sleep may be the remedy for a bad day at work, suggests a new University of Florida study on the unexplored relationship between job satisfaction and the shifting moods of employees. Employees who have stressful days bring their negative moods home with them at night, but ...