Study shows faceguards, safety balls cut number of Little League injuries
...ttle League Baseball, which was highly supportive, shared with us extensive data they had on injuries compensated by insurance. We found that one type of 'safety ball,' known as a reduced-impact ball, cut the number of ball-related injuries by some 29 percent, and faceguards reduced the risk of facial injur...Newly approved psoriasis drug invented and tested at Univ. of Michigan
...hase II or III studies were treated at UMHS. Ellis shared leadership of the study with Gerald G. Krueger, M.D., a professor of dermatology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Biogen, which funded the study, compensates Ellis and Krueger for consulting on the development and testing of the alefacep...HHS announces research plan to fight autoimmune diseases
...th a conceptual focus on the underlying mechanisms shared among many autoimmune diseases," said Elias Zerhouni, M.D., director of the National Institutes of Health. "This strategy should ultimately allow the translation of new knowledge into more effective treatments and prevention strategies." Autoimmune d...Brain images from patients with schizophrenia will be shared in first nationwide imaging network
...izophrenia at 10 research sites nationwide will be shared in a first-of-its-kind research project funded wit...tion. The brain images will be standardized and shared among the research centers around the country. Each center will conduct its own unique studies and ...UCLA geneticists find location of major gene in ADHD; targeted region also linked to autism
...h multiple ADHD children. Their initial search for shared DNA markers suggested regions on chromosomes 16, 1...6, researchers found a series of molecular markers shared among sibling pairs at a rate higher than the 50 percent sharing expected due to their degree of rel...Bridge Medical white paper examines evidence of barcoding success in medical error prevention
...gy exists that is proven to reduceerror, it is our shared responsibility to communicate its efficacy. Atechnology has begun to take center stage demonstrating impressiveresults and demanding our attention. Barcode enabled point-of-care(BPOC) systems provide a safeguard against error at the mostvulnerable st...'Glutaid' on the horizon? Study may someday spell relief for people on gluten-free diets
...autoimmune reaction to gluten is related to a gene shared by 90 percent of celiacs, called HLA-DQ2. The gene plays a role in one of the immune system's strategies for recognizing and destroying foreign peptides, or "antigens." Specifically, the gene encodes a key receptor on the surface of certain immune c...Kin of people with heart disease have tangled clots
...s, but no one had studied whether relatives' blood shared the characteristic. "If relatives share this same problem, they could also be at risk for premature heart disease," says Arins. Researchers analyzed blood from 100 healthy male first-degree relatives of patients with severe heart disease and 100 ...Married couples at risk of same disease
...the environment within which the couple live, with shared environmental factors putting cohabiting partners ...ame diseases. The finding for asthma may be due to shared diet or shared exposure to allergens, whilst findings for hypertension and hyperlipidaemia suggest t...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives SPORE grant for lymphoma cancer research from NCI
...ations as lymphoma physicians. This combination of shared and individual strengths between the two Comprehensive Cancer Centers is a powerful one, as demonstrated by our receipt of the NCI lymphoma SPORE grant." According to Dr. Witzig, "Our collaborative research will concentrate on advancing patient treat...Dont think about it too much - Psychological healing in Angola
...gth can be drawn from the fact that suffering is a shared experience: "It is not only you, it is all people. Stay calm and don't think anymore about it . . . Because tomorrow or the day after tomorrow you will also die and will accompany the child [who has died]. Because this doesn't only happen with you bu...Cat exposure increases asthma risk for children of asthmatic mothers
...er, or it may result from environmental influences shared by mother and child, Dr. Celedn says. The researchers plan to continue following this group of children and to test them for allergies to cats as well as other potential asthma triggers such as cockroaches and dust mites. "We are very grateful to the...Similar pathways may be involved in hereditary and sporadic ovarian cancers
...n between BRCA1 and BRCA2 ovarian cancers that are shared by sporadic cancers, she says. "Increased knowledge of changes in gene expression in ovarian carcinogenesis may lead to improvements in detection and therapeutic strategies, potentially improving the management of ovarian cancer patients," Hedenfalk...HIV/AIDS education for women in jail could reduce epidemic nationally
...g injected drugs, and 9 percent said that they had shared needles. Women with severe mental illness have the most extreme sexual risk behaviors. Severe mental disorder also was associated with higher injection drug-use risk behaviors. The study also found that Hispanic women were least likely to report ev...NIH-funded UCSD rheumatic diseases center to facilitate collaboration, speed discoveries
...added that the RDCC will also provide centralized, shared facilities: A Molecular Biology Core, which provides specialized services such as DNA sequencing and antibody production; A Biomarker Core, which offers specialized support in RNA and protein analyses for biomarkers, which are endpoints used to e...Researchers uncover brain patterns that differentiate humans from chimpanzees
...s are so genetically similar (nearly 99 percent of shared DNA sequences), and yet so mentally different. In a study published in the April 12, 2002 issue of the journal Science, the scientists noted that the striking difference between these primate cousins is most evident in their brains. The disparity ap...Accountability in Clinical Research: Balancing Risk and Benefit
... board of directors. "The insight and experiences shared at this conference will be invaluable to health-care professionals, researchers, consumers and government entities - all essential in moving patient safety messages to a new level." Today's health care consumers, payers, providers and professiona...First multimedia resource to give patients their own voice
...nces that should improve communication and lead to shared decision-making." Future plans will also include reaching out to disadvantaged groups and ethnic minority communities, and the organisers believe that making DIPEx available in settings such as public libraries and information centres where help is a...More Americans facing blindness than ever before
...ial in preventing vision loss. Healthy vision is a shared responsibility among the government, health care providers, community leaders, and the public. The director of the National Eye Institute, Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., called for an increase in public attention to eye disease. About one in eight Ame...... socially insured health care, market forces and a shared responsibility between federal and cantonal level. There is no tradition on public health. Each canton may decide how it organises its public health services, so the statement in the New York Times may be valid for one canton but cannot be generalise...