Measles and pertussis risk higher for children with personal exemptions from immunization
...nce the total number of exemptor children was much smaller than the total number of vaccinated children, their risks of these infections were much greater. Exemptors were 22.2 times more likely to acquire measles and 5.9 times more likely to acquire pertussis than vaccinated children, they write. In children...Researchers image language recovery after stroke
... their role, as was found in the two patients with smaller lesions. This could indicate a second mechanism of recovery. Corbetta and his colleagues plan to examine additional patients immediately after a stroke and again after six months, when spontaneous recovery is fairly complete. These long-term data sho...Breast cancer risk reduced by 50 percent by breastfeeding for two or more years
...ducted a study in four large hospitals and several smaller hospitals in the Shandong Province of China to investigate the relationship between lactation and breast cancer risk. This study, unlike the earlier studies, included detailed information on menstrual and reproductive factors, number of children b...Dual sensor could provide more information, earlier warning for diabetics
...illi-molar range, while insulin is tracked on even smaller nano-molar levels - a fivefold difference in magnitude. In addition, each must send an electrical signal without interference to a minicomputer that, ideally, can calculate, store and display information, he added. "The nice thing is that this is two...Medical imaging with Swiss Rolls
...periodic array of structures each of which is much smaller than the wavelength of the radio-frequency fields it operates with. (see notes to editors 1). To demonstrate the potential of the new material, the team from Imperial College, the Medical Research Council and Marconi Caswell Ltd., placed their Swiss ...Hand size counts in safe handgun use
...ons was the expected one: Smaller people preferred smaller handles. Similar to Atkins (1992), however, Radwin...if one selects a handgun whose TGLH is equal to or smaller than the user's TGLU. The user should then be able to properly place his or her hand on the handle a...Partner's presence associated with lower blood pressure
...ise in blood pressure, although the increases were smaller when the subjects were with their partner than when talking with someone else. Talking was also largely responsible for the difference in blood pressure between interaction with someone other than a partner and alone time. Surprisingly, the lower b...Human brain has unsuspected oxygen reserve, challenging previous theories
...n now is determining whether animals brains have a smaller capillary content than the human brain compared to their use of oxygen. Such a finding might make animal models less useful for exploring the relationship between blood flow and cognition. The team also is looking for alternative explanations for t......d have no lymph node involvement or women who have smaller tumors with at least one positive lymph node involved will be considered for the study. To test for the genetic alteration that gives rise to overproduction of the HER-2/neu protein, researchers will use the newest and most accurate diagnostic testin...UNC physicians seeking patients for blood clot, medication studies
...ll follow the six months' regular treatment with a smaller maintenance dose of the drug. Both groups will be monitored for four years. "We want to know if the lower dose, which we think decreases the risk of bleeding, actually prevents the recurrence of clots," Moll said. "If so, that dose should be the sta...Providing a bigger view: New imaging device offers better conditions for cancer treatment planning
... patients, who sometimes have trouble entering the smaller openings. It also enables oncologists to get a more accurate view of a patient's body dimensions which helps them to calculate more accurately the appropriate radiation for cancer treatment. The cost of the large-bore CT scanner is about $900,000, c...Tourettes, other tic disorders far more common than once thought
...ness. His results back the findings of two recent smaller studies which estimated Tourettes in about 1 percent of people, significantly higher than previous estimates. Every day in airports, at the office, and in the hospital Kurlan sees people who likely have Tourettes, just like anyone with a trained e......dicts the apparent adverse trends in some previous smaller studies of vitamin E and of beta-carotene. We shall continue to follow the health of the study volunteers for years to come, so should know if some benefit emerges later, said Professor Collins....Tissue engineering could become new coronary bypass
...increase in vessel formation, but the vessels were smaller than normal and were missing some of the cell types they needed to function well. PDGF by itself did not lead to any appreciable difference in the formation of blood vessels, though the existing vessels around the polymer did appear to grow larger i...Smaller hospitals OK for heart bypass surgery - if your risk is small
...such operations a year, versus patients treated at smaller local hospitals. But, the U-M researchers report ...m they can, those low risk can rest assured that a smaller hospital closer to home can care for them very well, with similar costs and time in the hospital." T...Antibiotic prescription patterns violate guidelines, increase costs
...ing on drugs increased by 17.3 percent, a slightly smaller increase than the 19.2 percent jump seen in 1999 but still the fastest growing category of health spending, according to a recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services. Spending on prescription drugs topped $120 billion in 2000, th...UNC expands national clinical trials of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's drugs
...at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. "Unlike smaller studies of the past, the CATIE trials embrace a broader public health model of intervention," said NIMH Acting Director Richard K. Nakamura, Ph.D. "We hope to gain important information on cost effectiveness and patient adherence to the treatment."Un...HIV/AIDS impact on education intensifies economic downfall
... economy will be between 16 percent and 23 percent smaller than it would be if not affected by AIDS, and the per capita Gross Domestic Product growth will be between 0.3 percent and 1 percent lower. The slowdown is due to reduced productivity growth, reduced population growth, reduced human capital accumulat...Nutrition education with a food label focus helps diabetics over 65 meet treatment goals
... specifically for older adults and offered data in smaller chunks to prevent "information overload." There were 10 weekly sessions lasting one to two hours in which participants were taught how to evaluate the nutrition information on food labels for food purchasing, meal planning and diabetes management. ...Young women at greater risk of death than men after bypass surgery
...e patients, 15,178 (or 29.7 percent) were women. A smaller percentage of women than men were white, and the w...cal, but thats what the data show. In addition, a smaller percentage of women had suffered a heart attack before their bypass. We initially anticipated that t...