Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
...ally prudent person wants to waste money simply to satisfy a sense of righteous indignation. No compassionate person wants to consign people unnecessarily to death or a living hell. Fortunately, providing IDUs with access to sterile syringes allows us to be responsible, prudent and compassionate admirable c...National Academies news: Academy honors 17 for major contributions to science
...ndamental science or its application, that clearly satisfy a societalneed - goes to MARVIN H. CARUTHERS, Distinguished Professor, departmentof chemistry and biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder.Caruthers was chosen "for his invention and development of chemicalreagents and methods currently used for...Frequent fast food meals increase weight, diabetes risk, NHLBI study says
...hese restaurants often contains enough calories to satisfy a person's caloric requirement for an entire day. Participants were asked during the physical examinations given as part of the study how often they ate breakfast, lunch or dinner at fast-food restaurants. Researchers found that the adverse impact o...ESA service makes customised maps available to African aid workers
...provide these organisations with a tool that could satisfy their needs. The tool should give aid workers fast, reliable access to geographical information. HUMAN has created a web portal that answers these needs by giving access to a complete mapping creation tool. The portal is available 24 hours a day and ...Brain regions activated by food craving overlap with areas implicated in drug craving
... sensory memory or template for the food that will satisfy the craving. The food we eat has to match that template for the craving to be satisfied. It's as if our brain is saying, 'It has to be chocolate ice cream, lemon pie just won't do.'" She continues, "Cravings are also like habits. We often reach fo...Smoking affects same 'feel good' brain chemical system as heroin
...hat lighting up a cigarette can calm their nerves, satisfy their craving and help them relax. Now, a team of University of Michigan scientists is reporting new evidence of why that might be: Smoking produces major changes in the flow of "feel good" chemicals between brain cells, both temporarily and long-te...New system translates improved diagnostic information to target radiation at tumors
...rage dose received by each voxel as it moves will satisfy the clinical constraints." An automated treatment planning system Lee and Zaider developed earlier for prostate brachytherapy improved local tumor control from 65 percent to 95 percent. The growing power of computer systems h...FDA approves Enbrel to treat psoriasis
...world treatment option for psoriasis that can help satisfy the needs of community dermatologists and their patients," explained Gary L. Stiles, M.D., executive vice president and chief medical officer of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. "Dermatologists have prescribed ENBREL because of its extensive clinical experien...Existing therapies applied to new use in broader spectrum of cancer care
...ncer cells have a greater need." To satisfy their cellular craving for the vitamin, tumor cells produce excessive amounts of the receptor that attaches to available blood-borne vitamin B12. The receptors import the vitamin inside of the cell membrane. Since tumor cells produce far more - ten t...Random drug testing in schools is unworkable
...in schools is unworkable because schools could not satisfy government criteria for introducing new screening ...l networks, I do not know of one school that could satisfy these criteria, especially the underpinning policy of promoting informed choice for children and fam...Dating, delinquent friends key reasons why early puberty linked to delinquency in girls
... who are involved in delinquency are ways they can satisfy their desire to me more like adults," she said. Girls who are undergoing early physical maturity may also feel they are ready for more adult roles and rebel against parental restrictions that they feel are too strict, she said. The problem, Haynie sa...Sex selection for social reasons: religious and moral perspectives
...thing intrinsically wrong with using technology to satisfy our desires for children of a particular sex. Perhaps it is one of the few places of 'wonder' left in our world and we are wise to resist controlling every aspect of human life." 2. Statement by Brent Waters, D.Phil., author of "Reproductive Technol...Blood dilution during bypass surgery associated with kidney damage
...ere enough red blood cells in the diluted blood to satisfy the tissue's reduced need for oxygen. Stafford-Smith said that the physicians want to minimize the use of donated human blood to prime the heart-lung machine pump. Other studies have suggested that the lowest hematocrit levels reached during surgerie...Purdue researchers design fishes' diets to make you healthier
...fatty acids could improve people's health and also satisfy different palates, according to Purdue University researchers who are concocting designer menus for aquatic creatures. Fatty acid feed supplements for fish may help people get government-recommended amounts of health-enhancing macronutrients, said P...Distortion and lack of openness - Information provision from the pharmaceutical industry
...or development of medicines, and is also needed to satisfy licensing requirements, protect patents, promote sales, and advise patients, prescribers, and dispensers. Such information is of great commercial value, and most of it is confidential, protected by regulations about intellectual property rights. Joe...UNC study uncovers increasing shortage of pharmacists with growing population
...tern of North Carolina, she said. It also hopes to satisfy concerns that establishing a new stand-alone pharmacy school would not be a near term solution to the shortage since it takes years to plan and construct facilities, hire faculty and admit and graduate students. Dr. Thomas C. Ricketts, deputy direc...Long-term avoidance of milk in children results in poor bone health
...arly life should increase their calcium intakes to satisfy the increased requirements for their growing skeletons. Parents of children who do not drink milk are advised to seek professional nutritional advice to help optimize their children's bone health....Satisfactory consultations do not have to be long
... general practitioners do not have to be longer to satisfy patients' needs, according to researchers in this week's BMJ. A total of 243 patients were asked about what they wanted from their visit to their general practitioner. They were subsequently asked what they felt they had got from the consultation. Pa...'Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day' -- Really?
...nient and embarrassing; (c) expense, for those who satisfy the 8 x 8 requirements with bottled water; and (d) feelings of guilt for not achieving 8 x 8. Other claims discredited by scientific evidence that Valtin discusses include: Thirst Is Too Late. It is often stated that by the time people are thirsty...Those involved in medical news invited to join an unprecedented gathering of experts
...epers about ways to create win-win situations that satisfy the publics thirst for health-related information," says Tom Johnson, past chairman/CEO of CNN News and one of the conferences three program chairs. "This event is designed to help everyone involved in the process more reliably communicate news of me...