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...r environments. These applications have potential significant environmental and economic impact on the availability of fossil fuels and clean water for drinking and manufacturing.Underground reservoirs may be miles long, while their oil or water percolates through microscopic pores in the rock. Modeling the fl...Botox Treats Excessive Sweating, According To UCSF Study
..."The finding offers patients with this condition a significant alternative tosurgery," said Richard Glogau, MD, UCSF clinical professor of dermatology. "This treatment can be completed in an office visit, requires no anesthesia, andabsence of sweating is long lasting." Findings of the study were reported in thi...University Of Florida Researchers Hope To Ease Asthma Pains And Provide A Sigh Of Relief
...f Nowicki's efforts," Richards said,"it requires a significant amount of time to ensure that it is safe enoughto test on people." Richards said such a process may take 10 years. The sooner the betterforNowicki. "When I compete in races," he said, "it [asthma] does affect me to somedegree psychologi...Reduced Heart Disease Risk In Middle Age Lowers Eventual Medicare Costs
...seases and all causes. While there was no significant difference in rate of use of servicesbetween those at low risk and those not at low risk, average number of hospitaldays per year was lower for the low-risk group, possibly because they had lesssevere illness, different types of illness, fewer medica...Human Patient Simulator Assists Training Physicians In New Drug
...23 percentof those surveyed. "There was a significant difference in comfort level after the trainingsession. Eighty-one percent said clinical simulation experience was an excellentway to learn about new drugs like remifentanil, " says Murray. The Penn State researcher, who coordinates a simula...Physicians Slow To Adopt Newer Drugs For Atrial Fibrillation
... IA drugs were themost frequently prescribed. The significant dip in usage of sinus rhythm drugsin 1992-93 was probably due to a 1989 report of serious side effects from somesinus rhythm medications. New sinus rhythm medications with fewer side effects"class III drugs" have been introduced in recent years. Ho...Ovarian Hormone Could Play Key Role In Easier, Safer Childbirth
...induced, says a researcher who reports a series of significant findings onrelaxin's effects on the cervix in humans andrats. In the October issue of the journal Biology of Reproduction, a team led by O.David Sherwood of the College ofMedicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign documented thatrelax...Medication Offers Hope For Relief From Burning Mouth Pain
...yndrome, low doses of the drugclonazepam may offer significant relief, according to a study by a Case Western ReserveUniversity professor in the November issue of Oral Surgery. About 1.3 million American adults, mostly postmenopausal women, are afflicted with burningmouth syndrome (BMS), a chronic, often debilit...Study Reveals Possible Link Between Osteoarthritis, Diet
...oarthritis." Proving that diet can make a significant difference in arthritis wouldbe important since most risk factors for the condition either cannot bemodified, such as aging and heredity, or are changed only with difficulty, suchas losing weight. Future plans involve re-examining study part......ologies in a novel way, we were able todemonstrate significant cost savings," Eisenstein said. "At the same time, theuse of these technologies should help give emergency room physicians greaterconfidence in the course of action they choose for their patients." Eisenstein prepared the results of his econ...Lifetime Risks And Costs Of Heart Disease Much Higher For Obese
...ese. "Our findings indicate that obesity imposes a significant health and economicburden on individuals who are obese," says Thompson. "Clearly, efforts toreduce the prevalence of obesity can have important benefits in terms ofreduction in the risks and costs of coronary heart disease." The American Heart Assoc...Setbacks To Health Progress In Central America
...thecontinent with high levels of poverty, had made significant progress in health,although its needs will be much greater after the devastating effects of theHurricane Mitch, she said. The result of Hurricane Mitch, she said, is that "All the diseases thatafflicted people in Central America are going to continu...Researchers Splice Severed Spinal Cords
...hen removed. The polymer "fused" the membranesof a significant number of nerve cells together, making them continuous onceagain. Using an apparatus and procedure that Shi designed, the researchers thenapplied a small electrical current to one end of the cord to stimulate nerveimpulses to travel towards the o...... trial wasmedian time to alleviation of clinically significant symptoms of influenza,measured by the patient's ow...dayssooner than placebo treated patients, a highly significant difference in theotherwise healthy group (p<0.001).1 Dr. Douglas Fleming, Birmingham Research Un......likely to report engaging in riskysex. There were significant differences, however, by sexual preference. Within the study group, men who had sex with men (MSM) and were being treatedwith protease inhibitors were 3.8 times more likely to report condom use lessthan half the times they engaged in sexual interco...New Drug Boosts The Power Of Traditional Cancer Therapies, UF Animal Studies Show
...se found in normal tissues. "Tumor vessels contain significant numbers of dividing blood vessel cells, and we and others have shown that these dividing cells can be selectively damaged by combretastatin. This approach leads to rapid and catastrophic shutdown in the vessels that serve the tumor, resulting in exte...Discarded Treatment For Heart Attacks May Yet Prove To Be A Life-Saver
...0s and now largely abandoned -- appears nowto have significant life-saving powers, according to a new study. A tr...igh-dose or low-doseGIK, or no GIK. There were no significant differences in results or adverseeffects between the two GIK groups. Some people in all three group......ure of depression. The researchers noted significant clinical improvement by patients whoreceived either antidepressants or psychotherapy. Treatment type was unrelatedto rate of clinical improvement in those with a higher level of majordepression, since both samples had identical scores on the depress...A Trip To The Dentist Could Cause Symptoms In Asthmatic Kids
...d about 15 percent of the kids had a clinically significant decrease in lung function. “Dental treat...atment. “The spirometer reading showed a significant decrease in lung function in about 15 percent of the patients,” Casamassimo said. A 10 t......tate employeesand their dependents in 1993 shows a significant decrease in spending perepisode of care in both inpatient and outpatient facilities. According to astudy in the December issue of Psychiatric Services, the decrease was largestfor inpatient care, 54 percent. Costs for episodes involving both inpatien...