UCSF study shows breast cancer screening programs that interpret the most mammograms
...ura Esserman, MD, MBA, UCSF assistant professor in residence and director of the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center at UCSF. Overall, high volume readers were shown to have better accuracy they found more cancers and more often were correct in identifying non-malignant abnormalities. Low volume U.S. readers ...Childhood stroke deaths drop, but still higher among blacks
...f, and geographic factors, such as urban and rural residence on childhood stroke deaths.......ligible children include a lower family income and residence in the areas of the U.S. that have lower population density and per-capita income. "Nearly one fourth of SCHIP-eligible children were not enrolled in any health insurance program at the time of our study," said Dr. Lin. "When the SCHIP program is ev......be analogous with military recruits, but on-campus residence halls typically are not as crowded as military barracks," says Dr. Arditi. "There may be other risk factors involved with living on campus, such as alcohol-related behavior, exposure to tobacco smoke and other activites that may weaken the immune sys...UCSF researchers report new risk factors for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...ed to patients in the case group by sex, county of residence and age.The current study includes information on 580 women and 701 heterosexual menfrom the case group with lymphoma, and 838 women and 1,257 heterosexual men fromthe control group without lymphoma. The remaining individuals in both the caseand cont...Temples Virtual Lab Helps Disabled Students
...teer work Butz does at Inglis House, aPhiladelphia residence for people with disabilities. There, while observing afriend with muscular dystrophy using voice-recognition technology to "talk" to acomputer, he thought of IMITS. "I just put the two together," Butz recalls. "I had all the software to put avirtua...Researchers Finding May Boost Effectiveness Of Anti-HIV Drugs
...ood/brain barrier. Because HIV is known to take up residence in the brain,the researchers were interested in whether Pgp prevents protease inhibitors fromcrossing that barrier. They found that when they injected protease inhibitors into mice thathad been genetically engineered not to express Pgp, brain...