Major study finds effects of child care quality linger into the second grade
... work full-time to make endsmeet, the children can spend as many waking hours in child care as theydo with their parents," Riley said in a prepared statement. "This studyunderscores the importance of high-quality child care in laying thedevelopmental foundation for every child to enter school ready to lear......her lightning is attracted to testosterone, or men spend an inordinate amountof time outdoors swinging metal objects about. Men are struck by lightning fourtimes more often than women. According to a study entitled "Demographics of U.S. Lightning Casualties andDamages from 1959 - 1994," by Ronald L. Holle ...Wake Forest researchers develop new technique to diagnose narrowed heart arteries
...here is no exposure toionizing radiation. Patients spend less than an hour in a scanner and can thengo home. Cardiac catheterization, a procedure to thread a small, flexible tubecalled a catheter through the blood vessels into the heart, requires a six- toeight-hour wait afterwards and can have complicatio...Database technology threatens liberty
...r." (And bid theydo. Drug companies and hospitals spend $15 billion a year on technology used tomine medical data.) The medical records provisions of H.R. 10 undermine patient privacy and quality health care and should be deleted from the bill. As the bill stands now,the medical records provisions of H.R....... not in aparticularly stressed situation, boys may spend more time with the family in amore relaxed atmosphere, making it easier for parents to find out what's goingon." In any event, the gender association is disconcerting, the researchersagree, especially considering research evidence that su......reast-health benefits from exercise, women need to spend at least fourhours a week in vigorous exercise and do this for at least 12 years of theirlives. "That's a pretty big commitment," notes Bernstein. "For women maintainingan exercise program at this level, exercise is an important component of theirliv...Doctors find muscle-builder cream caused sex development in toddler
...ggest child in the class but then stop growing and spend his life as avery short adult, the physician said. When growth plates - the parts of bonesthat lengthen - evolve from cartilage to bone, no more skeletal growth occurs. "We want to make it clear that we believe the father was not treatingh...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...citizens surveyed respondedthat the state does not spend enough on social services for the elderly, and 57percent say not enough is spent on public schools (K-12). In fact, 41 percentagree that state taxes should be increased to support public schools -- down from49 percent in 1996. Regarding spending on c...Women find physician guidelines on estrogen replacement therapy are lacking
...inking may help clinicians structure the time they spend and the materialsthey provide to patients. It is our hope that future recommendationsincorporate the patients' perspective." The study was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, HarvardPilgrim Health Care and Consumer Value Stores, Inc...Research finds U.S. adolescents inactive; blacks, Hispanics, Asians at biggest risk
... kids are highly active. Overall, U.S. adolescents spend very littletime being physically active and spend a substantial amount of time in inactivepursuits, such as watching TV."...Follow-up phone calls by nurses benefit cancer patients
... decreased the amount of time health careproviders spend with patients. A premium is placed on seeing more patients inless time," says Dr. Merle Mishel, UNC-CH Kenan Distinguished Professor ofNursing and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. "Beingunable to get questions answered is a c...MRI breakthroughs could lead to new tests for heart disease
...ultrasound at diagnosing blockedarteries. Patients spend about 35 minutes in the MRI scanner. Craig Hamilton, Ph.D., assistant professor of radiology, developed thesoftware that allows the researchers to see the heart's action almostimmediately. "This faster imaging and visualization is wha...Federal institutes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation create Tobacco Use Research Centers
...asadolescent smoking. Together, NCI and NIDA will spend about $70 million for theeffort over five years. With each center organized around a special theme, researchers willtackle a wide range of studies that include culture, genetics, animal models ofbehavior, and innovative treatments. Investiga...Sleep debt affects metabolic functions
...s century, the average number of hours that people spend asleep pernight in more-developed countries has decreased from nine hours to 7.5 hours. The change has been made to accommodate increased demands of work, witharound-the-clock production, shift work, etc, as well as more leisureactivities. The conse...Home exercise equipment increased weight-loss success in study
... of daily caloric and fatintake, and instructed to spend the same total amount of time exercising each day. Of the three groups, only one was given home exercise equipment.Different groups were instructed to complete the exercise within different schedules: atleast thre...Chronic disease: the overlooked & understudied epidemic
...n provoke anxiety -- not because physicians do not spend sufficient time with their patients, but because they need to communicate differently. Compared to pre-determined appointment schedules, flexible follow-up treatment of inflammatory bowel disease does not increase costs but does increase patient and ...Biomedical informatics research group develops teaching/diagnostic software
...first-year students enrolled in the DVM curriculum spend much of their time learning facts, second year students are challenged to begin developing "higher order thinking skills" by applying their knowledge in "case-based" problems. "This can be a very painful process," explains Bender, an associate profes...Study: crime, lack of PE, recreation programs lead U.S. adolescents to couch-potato lifestyles
... U.S. adolescents get little vigorous exercise and spend much time in TV and video viewing and computer/video games. Being female and Hispanic or black meant even less vigorous exercise. the percentage of adolescents who fell into the highest activity category increased from 30 percent among those repo...The gender effect: fatherhood spurs men to work longer hours -- especially if it's a boy!
...a girl. If fathers value their sons so much, why spend more time at work? The increase in fathers' wor...re pursuits. Other studies have shown that fathers spend more time at home with sons than with daughters. The UW economists initially did not focus, howeve...NIAID public-private partnerships seek to develop HIV/AIDS vaccine
...ry and into human testing. NIAID has committed to spend approximately $70 million over the next five years on the four HVDDT contracts that have been awarded. The HVDDT program responds directly to President Clinton's call to increase public-private cooperation in developing vaccines against globally impo...