When moms smoke, certain kids are more vulnerable
...more likely to have asthma, wheezing and emergency room visits due to breathing problems than other simila...ptoms: 3.7-fold risk increased risk for emergency room visits during the past year; 2.2-fold and 2.1-fold increased risks for wheezing with exercise and wh...NIDA experts to discuss drug abuse, treatment, and prevention at APA Convention in Chicago
...r more information, visit the APA convention press room in McCormick Place North Building-Level, Room NI36. For interviews with NIDA participants, call Michelle Person or Blair Gately at 301-443-6245....FINAL ALERT: RPB Science Writers Seminar in Eye Research to be held in Washington, DC Sept. 22-25
...oring reservations at our special rate ($169 + 14% room tax per night, single or double). So please do em...hat you would like to reserve a single or a double room and provide arrival and departure dates. If you plan to attend but do not need a hotel room, please...Cell transplants look promising for stroke recovery
...ize the symptoms of stroke and get to an emergency room quickly enough for treatment. If this new treatment is effective, it could expand the treatment window by several hours or even longer." Kent cautioned, however, that more studies are needed to determine the long-term effects of the transplants....Jefferson scientist links gene to alcoholic's vulnerability to heart failure
...were alcoholics and came into a hospital emergency room or clinic in Barcelona with congestive heart failure. The researchers used a questionnaire to find out how much alcohol they drank, in addition to other details about their lifestyle and background. He notes that the group they studied was mostly wor...Artificial liver trials show progress, as transplant candidates wait
... membrane, which is "stickier" because it has more room for molecules to attach. Then, the albumin on the membrane passes the toxins along to the albumin in the solution as it flows by. Meanwhile, smaller toxin molecules that don't stick to albumin flow through the membrane's tiny pores into the less-con...UT Southwestern researcher studies causes, treatment of bipolar disease coupled with drug abuse
... dual-diagnosis patients coming into the emergency room with severe anxiety have reached new levels since the events of Sept. 11. "This last year we have seen more dual-diagnosis patients coming into the psych ER than ever before," she said. "Also, we have seen more teen-agers with either psychiatric or ...Hospital costs much higher for motorcycle crash victims who dont wear helmets
...ersity of Michigan study finds. From the emergency room door to the trauma center to the rehabilitation unit, the authors report, care for unhelmeted crash victims cost substantially more and kept patients in the hospital longer than care for patients who wore helmets. At the same time, those injured whi...Anesthesiologists' substance abuse constant despite efforts
...HAM, N.C. -- Despite improved control of operating room medications and increased education, the rate of s...rolled substance occurred outside of the operating room setting during the doctors' personal time, and that there were no reports of patient harm occurring ...JAMA study looks at role of pharmacist in health care
...al care group had more breathing-related emergency room or hospital visits than members of other groups. This may be an indication that the pharmacist, using all the information made available to them, advised the patients that they needed urgent medical attention, says study co-author Michael D. Murray, ...UC Berkeley study indicates promise of Chinese herbal medicine in treatment of chronic hepatitis B
...o showed that the quality of the studies left much room for improvement. Many of the studies had incomplete information on how patients were randomized, and "blinding" of patients and doctors to the type of treatment administered did not occur in most of the studies. "We cannot make firm conclusions abou...NIH convenes workshop on menopausal hormone therapy
...//www4.od.nih.gov/orwh . There will be a separate room available for members of the press. The workshop will also be webcast at http://videocast.nih.gov/ ....American Thoracic Society journal news tips for October (first issue)
...s from each child and dust samples from the living room floor of each house were available for all participants. The research appears in the first issue for October 2002 of theAmerican Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. FEMALES MORE COUGH SENSITI...Emory researchers find more expensive heart treatment not so costly in long run
...ociated with all re-hospitalizations and emergency room visits, cardiac-related outpatient visits and procedures, visiting nurse visits, nursing home and rehabilitation stays, and cardiac-related medications), as well as costs associated with lost productivity (missed time from work and decreased work eff...Researchers discover 'doorways' into brain cells
... have found that the nerve cell is in a way like a room with only certain entry points or doorways into that room," said Ehlers. "Before, it had been thought that the cell membrane might be like one big curtain that substances could move through at any point." In their studies, Ehlers and his colleagues ...Womens stroke symptoms differ from mens, often arent 'traditional' signs, study finds
...ptoms. Because emergency responders and emergency room doctors often go by patients' descriptions and the...er delays than men in being evaluated by emergency room physicians. The study looked at interview transcripts and medical information from 1,124 men and wom...Chemical society convenes regional meeting in Lawrence, Kan., Oct. 23-25
...hca@lakenet.com ) Friday, Oct. 25 11:15 a.m. Pine room LC-NMR and LC-MS/MS for the structural elucidation of ciprofloxacin and its aquatic transformation products (Cynthia K. Larive, University of Kansas, Department of Chemistry, Lawrence, 785-864-4269, clarive@ku.edu ) The general chair of the me...New centers to research, reduce asthma disparities
...tribute to substantially higher rates of emergency room visits, hospital admissions, and deaths due to asthma among certain populations. African Americans, for example, have a slightly higher asthma prevalence rate than Caucasians (8.5 percent versus 7.1 percent), yet they are three times more likely to b...UT Southwestern, Children's Medical Center to test new rapid diagnostic equipment
...ys to find out if a child brought to the emergency room tests positive for meningitis or whooping cough, new rapid diagnostic testing equipment will provide doctors at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Children's Medical Center of Dallas with an answer in a few hours. A one-year, $435,000 grant...DALLAS, Nov. 1 Each trip to the emergency room could be a chance to squash a future stroke. Irre...s an example, a teenager who comes to an emergency room after an alcohol-related motor vehicle collision is likely to be more receptive to efforts to reduce...