New Book (And Web Site) Use 'Currency' Of Aging To Guide And Motivate Healthy Choices
...ic exercise, strength training,wearing a helmet to ride a bicycle or flossing your teeth, could reduce rates ofmortality, but by exactly how much? They came up with 125 behaviors that seemed to play a role, each supportedby at least four major studies in humans. Then they developed software tocalculatethe...Students Show Restraint Could Cut School Bus Injuries
...est to protect the morethan 23 millionchildren who ride school buses twice a day throughout the United States. Eachyear, these tripsinvolve about 440,000 public school buses, traveling roughly 4.3 billion miles,according to theNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is in the midst of aschoo...Myc's cancer-causing joy ride more reckless than previously believed
...efound. The result of the unfettered molecular joy ride is, oftentimes, cancer.Details of the research are in the October issue of the Journal of the EuropeanMolecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Scientists have long recognized that the protein produced by a geneknown as myc spurs a cell to grow....Parents benefit by accompanying children on ambulance trips between hospitals
...ulance transports, compared to parents who did not ride with their children. A companion study, surveying ...ver the parents perspective by allowing parents to ride with their children if the parent requested it. During the study period, the transport team did not ......s and other vehicles to provide a more comfortable ride for the occupants. Patent 6,115,658 for "No-jerk semi-active skyhook control method and apparatus" was issued Sept. 5. The invention identified a short coming in the 30-year-old control policy known as "skyhook" and provided a "no-jerk" improvement. ...Microbes and the dust they ride in on pose potential health risks
...entially hazardous bacteria and fungi catch a free ride across the Atlantic, courtesy of North African dust plumes. NASA-funded researchers who made the discovery believe the stowaway microbes might pose a health risk to people in the western Atlantic region. Dale Griffin, Virginia Garrison, and Eugene Sh...Brief exercise improves mental performance in people with chronic lung disease
... Each participant was asked to ride a stationary bicycle for 20 minutes during individual exercise sessions. The resistance on the bike was increased incrementally until the subject reached peak exercise performance - determin...Children riding in extended cab pickup trucks are at greater risk of injury
...pital of Philadelphia have found that children who ride inside compact extended cab pickup trucks are at a greater risk of injury than children riding in other vehicles. Findings of the study are published in the March 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The research is the...Sick or sleepy -- No option in outer space
... (Aug. 6, 2002) You've trained for years for the ride of a lifetime, been chosen to serve in an elite corps, trained even more right up until launch, and what happens during your first couple of days in orbit? You're sick! Space motion sickness symptoms are similar to motion sickness on Earth. About 7...Hospital costs much higher for motorcycle crash victims who dont wear helmets
...nter. "Until that happens, it shows that those who ride without helmets should pay higher insurance premiums, as smokers and other high-risk groups do." The U-M researchers' approach differs from that of previous studies that tallied health care costs for every victim of motorcycle crashes in a given stat...World Heart Day spotlights cardiovascular disease pandemic
...ho were forced by economic circumstance to walk or ride bicycles, enjoy the convenience of motor vehicles when they achieve a measure of prosperity." The prevention and control of hypertension (high blood pressure) is another important issue, according to Mensah. The editorial notes that, of the 690 mill...Kids' backpacks may not cause back pain after all
...oulder is minimal. It's even less for children who ride the bus to school, which the majority of the children in this study did. The middle school students involved in the study did not carry their backpacks between classes. "The spine may be able to handle heavy loads for short intervals without detrimen...Researchers fly away from gravity on the 35th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign
...s, but only on parabolic flights can experimenters ride alongside their experiments. The experiments on board are very diverse. They range from assessing how bubbles form in artificial blood and testing an exercise machine designed for astronauts to studying the behaviour of so-called 'complex plasmas' f...College students may be drinking more alcohol than even they realize
... likely to be dependent, who drive after drinking, ride with drinking drivers, or engage in other alcohol-related behaviors that pose risks to themselves and to others?" "We somehow need to teach students, health educators, administrators, and anyone else involved in dealing with college-drinking issues ...Study on toxic exposures in urban environments
...tion metals. "With the large number of people who ride in underground subways, we do think subway exposures are worth investigating further," comments Dr. Chillrud. Along these lines, the Columbia researchers are beginning a study to look at whether the elements in airborne steel dust are absorbed into ...The future of nursing; overcoming obstacles today for a better tomorrow
...NA) program and why the process is worth the bumpy ride for the future of nursing. "The average age of a hospital nurse is 45," explains Jadwin. "After years of providing care, this age group is starting to feel the physical stresses of the job. Adding the certified nursing assistant position is not a me...Parents overestimate children's bike, car safety habits
... wearing a helmet. Further, children who said they ride their bikes with their parents were more likely to report helmet use than children who do not ride with their parents, 70 percent compared to 40 percent. Seatbelt use followed a similar pattern, with...Status syndrome: How your social standing directly affects your health and life expectancy
...y rise by twenty years over the twelve-mile subway ride that divides poor black downtown Washington DC and rich white Montgomery County? Why does Japan have better health than other rich populations of the world and the province of Kerala in southern India have much better health than other poor populati...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...s, electrons in a plasma are accelerated when they ride the wake of an intense laser pulse, much like dolphins riding the wake of a ship on the ocean. Typically, the laser pulses in such machines spread out as they pass through a plasma, leading to diffuse beams with few energetic electrons. Researchers a......s, electrons in a plasma are accelerated when they ride the wake of an intense laser pulse, much like dolphins riding the wake of a ship on the ocean. Typically, the laser pulses in such machines spread out as they pass through a plasma, leading to diffuse beams with few energetic electrons. Researchers a...