CAN hosts national conference on arthritis research
...ng arthritis researchers and practitioners will be speaking at the Canadian Arthritis Network's (CAN) Annual Conference in Toronto from Saturday, June 17, to Tuesday, June 20, at the Courtyard by the Marriott, 475 Yonge St. Media are welcome to attend the open sessions, which will include topics such as ...Patients with social phobia benefit from long-term treatment with sertraline HCl
...ituation. Common social phobic situations include speaking in public, meeting new people or eating in public. When put in these social situations, people with social phobia may experience symptoms including a rapid heartbeat, trembling, muscle tension or sweating, according to the American Psychiatric Assoc...Scientists: herb known as comfrey can ruin liver, other herbs appear helpful
...mage and should be banned, according to scientists speaking Thursday (March 2) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids present in the plant have been linked to poisoning after people consumed them in tea and contaminated cereals. "Therapeutic approaches include avoiding in...NHLBI funds asthma coalitions to improve care among high risk populations
...tients in a predominantly Hispanic and non-English speaking neighborhood in New York City. Asthma Community Development Coalition/Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, Indianapolis, IN This project will provide comprehensive asthma education to school staff and students in Indianapolis's elem...Personal story aims to improve 'connections' between hard of hearing and the hearing world
...l comfortable. She reminds the hearing public that speaking too loudly or shouting to be better understood creates a distortion of words and sounds -- not greater understanding. "It's more important to speak slowly and more distinctly to a partner or loved one who is hard of hearing," she says. "If one person...Pacemaker for larynx allows patients to breathe easier
...section, leaving the patientwith no chance of ever speaking normally again. The first patient to be implanted with the IPG is Helen Burns, a 65-year-oldGallatin, Mo., housewife. (A second patient has now been fitted with an IPGdevice, but still has a tracheotomy in place.)Burns developed bilateral paralysis o...... cartilage andskin, according to Dr Richard France speaking at the British Association'sFestival of Science in Sheffield today (17.9.99). These materials, beingdeveloped by Dr France and colleagues at the University of Sheffield, couldallow surgeons to grow and transfer a tailor made patch of skin onto a pat...Echinacea symposium presents new research on Chernobyl victims
... Echinacea Symposium June 3-5 in Kansas City. Also speaking at the press conference is Dr. Rudolf Bauer, the world's leadingEchinacea researcher. Dr. Bauer, professor at the Institute of PharmaceuticalBiology, University of Dusseldorf, has published more than 100 research papersand has edited a book on Echin...Children Of Smokers Suffer Negative Health Effects Later In Life
...also while being videotaped. If the studentstopped speaking before three minutes had passed, the researchers prompted himto continue. Students were allowed to rest between tests and let their blood pressure fallback to near-baseline level. The researchers measured the students' bloodpressure, mean arterial pr...Wake Up To Stroke -- Night Strokes Linked To Long Delays In Care
.... Other symptoms include sudden confusion,trouble speaking or understanding, sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss ofbalance or coordination, and sudden severe headache with no known cause. "This study underscores the importance of seeking help when symptoms firststart," he says. "We need to educate peopl...Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Leads To Lower Child IQ Scores, Language Skills
...ressive language. Receptive language tests measure speaking abilityand involve asking a child to identify what is in a picture. Expressivelanguage tests measure comprehension by asking a child to answer questions. Children in the cocaine-exposed group, on average, had IQ scores 3.26lower ...New Short-Acting Anesthetics Cut Recovery Time
...l care at the University of Chicago MedicalCenter, speaking at the American Society of Anesthesiologists <AHREF="http://www.asahq.org/AnnMtg/homepage.html">annual meeting . At the University of Chicago Hospitals, more than 50 percent of patientshaving outpatient surgery recover quickly enough to leave......tting out HMOsis not the answer. The advent of the speaking patient and the general acceptancethat health can be maintained have helped to shift medical practice. "No longer will a patient sit quietly while a doctor treats them," saysSamuel. "The patients want to know what is wrong with them, what will ...Repairing Cranio-Facial Deformities From The Inside Out
...upper jaw. This misalignment makes eating andeven speaking difficult since her teeth do not meet and her tongue is in anawkward position. Howmedica Leibinger, the company that manufactures DynaForm, has chosenTemple as one of only three sites in the U.S. to be the first to offer thedevice to patien......ng Systems: A 21st Century Task for Science." Also speaking will be Donald Boesch, President of the University of MarylandCenter for Environmental and Estuarine Studies. His speech is titled"Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem: A Challenge for Science and Society." ESA Plenary Session (August 4, 1998) R...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
...f children receiving subsidized school lunches and speaking English as a second language, was in the same urban area but in a quiet neighborhood. Only children for whom English was their first language were included in the study. Each child was first given an auditory screening test. They were subsequently......used digitized speech collected fromseveral people speaking in 11 of the most common non-normal styles ofspeech. She then spent several years analyzing the signals produced bythe sounds, looking specifically at the glottal excitation waveform. During speech production, air passes from the lungs through thegl...