NIMH expands national outreach partnership
...orities. Partners are required to submit progress reports to NIMH. Several national organizations have a prominent role in the structure of the NIMH Constituency Outreach and Education Program. They include the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the National Association of State Mental Health Program ...Scientists declare global warming and human impacts are combining destructive forces on coral reefs
... ecosystems. Perhaps the most comprehensive of the reports released at the conference was the Status of Coral Reefs of the World 2000 report of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, which found that one-fourth of the worlds reefs had been eliminated and another third were severely threatened. Those findi...New medical research shows protein jump signals who suffers arthritis before X-rays show damage
...ain, we found that COMP corresponded strongly with reports of pain." People with five or more years of hip or knee pain, for example, showed about 33 percent more of the protein in their blood than did people reporting no pain, Jordan said. Controlling statistically for age, sex and other variables...Encouraging one year results in vessel growth factor trial
...ients angina was also encouraging, Henry says. He reports that after one year, those in the high-dose group had less chest pain than the placebo group. The findings are encouraging, but certainly not conclusive, he says. On the other hand, its the best data we have so far in this field, and it is strong...Iowa project links rural areas cross-state to top-notch medical advice
...12 consultations. "The main advantage to Samuel," reports Dr. Kent Walker, Samuel's father, "has been that we can coordinate all of his care with his teachers, his physician, and his psychiatrist all at one time. When Samuel was seen by Dr. [David] Wacker [a nationally respected expert on developmental disa...New Zealand chemists present new research findings at Pacifichem 2000
...f-lamb, pay attention to this study: Responding to reports that long-term chilled storage ruins the flavor and odor of raw sheep meat, researchers investigated different meat-packaging systems and discovered that freezing is the best way to store the meat. Chilling, they found, apparently increases spoiling ...Widely used anti-bacterial inhibits parasites that cause malaria and toxoplasmosis
...nd toxoplasmosis, even at very low concentrations, reports a team of researchers from the United States and t...re has been a steady increase in U.S. and European reports of "airport malaria" cases involving people who come down with the disease without ever visiting the...Depression turns generation gap into a chasm
...es of 13 and 17 suffer from depression. But parent reports and adolescent reports produced different results. When adolescents themselves were surveyed, 12.1% of them claimed to suff...Bad habits, non-cholesterol risk factors in youth linked to fatty plaques
... generally appear until middle age. "Several reports have stressed to health care professionals that the prevention of cardiovascular disease should begin in childhood," McGill says. "Preventing heart disease is a pediatric problem, but we still have a long way to go in this approach." In an era......ia county welfare departments responded to 622,000 reports of child abuse and neglect, compared with 689,005 in 1995. The majority of abuse and neglect cases, about 60 percent, continue to involve children 10 years of age or younger. "However, there are a few new twists. For instance, five years ago, we didn...Methadone may cause potentially fatal arrhythmia, Georgetown researchers find
...es role in causing arrhythmias came from anecdotal reports to an international registry that Woosley and his colleagues established to collect cases of cardiac arrhythmias following administration of specific medication(s). The registry website, www.QTdrugs.org , is funded by the General Clinical Research ......a new research report. Although there have been no reports of adverse health effects from the compound, which can bioaccumulate in blood, the company began replacing the suspect chemical last year. The study, funded by 3M, is reported in the April 1 issue of Environmental Science & Technology, a peer-rev...NIDA and partners announce national initiative on prescription drug misuse and abuse
...ference in Washington, DC, Dr. Leshner said, " The reports of increasing misuse of prescription drugs in some segments of the population older adults, adolescents, and women are particularly worrisome because of their numbers and because those numbers appear to be increasing rapidly." Research suggests th......nd Austria, ban its use completely. While case reports of accidental poisonings and suicide attempts have clearly defined the toxic effects of acute exposure to paraquat, the health effects of chronic low-level exposure is not well understood. "At high doses and without immediate medical treatment, p...Training for doctors improves screening for risk-taking in teens
...his study is that we obtained adolescent patients' reports of their experiences during a visit with their pro...st research on physician behavior relies only upon reports from providers about their own practices. In this study, we obtain the patient perspective, which is......llection of a single optical scan of the image. He reports that the European Molecular Biology Laboratory is interested in developing the technology for the imaging of biological embryos at various stages. Anbo Wang, professor and director of Virginia Tech's Photonics Laboratory, and his students, recei...First effective treatment for gastrointestinal sarcoma seen with multi-center trial of STI-571
..., according to two New England Journal of Medicine reports published April 5. The journal reported on results of STI-571 treatment for a woman with a gastrointestinal stromal tumor that had recurred in her liver and abdomen with more than 28 tumors. Dramatically, after six months, the largest liver tumors h...... issued an alert for the NNRTI nevirapine based on reports of liver toxicity. This study found that 33 percent of patients who experienced toxicity while taking nevirapine had to discontinue their drug regimens. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease affects nearly 1 in 4 in the United States Current scientific ev...HRT pills, patches and heart disease risk factors
...st and under stress because there have been recent reports that HRT decreases cardiovascular reactivity to psychological stress. The stressors included describing a recent life experience which caused stress or anger, two challenging cognitive tests, and a physical stressor in which a bag of ice and cold...Study shows infliximab can maintain long-term remissions in Crohns disease
...re Crohn's disease , a multi-center research team reports today at the Digestive Disease Week meeting in Atl...nfections may be life threatening. There are also reports of serious infusion reactions with hives, difficulty breathing, and low blood pressure. In rare cas...