Study shows soy is well accepted in school lunches
... fat, cholesterol, and calorie in the lunches, and still be acceptable to the children." A major focus of the pilot program was demonstrating consumer acceptability of soy and soy-enhanced foods and showing how they can be easily incorporated into the school lunch programs. "Asking whether a product is lik...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... compared to patients at control clinics. Although still apparent, intervention effects on screening at 24 months had clearly diminished relative to effects observed at 12 months. Long-term Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial to Increase Cancer Screening Among Attendees of Community Health Centers...Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
...seen before with Herceptin treatment, "the jury is still out on the long-term safety and outcome. As in all such studies, we will need to wait years to follow the progress of our patient participants," Buzdar says. Details of the trial result, slated for the June issue of the journal, were posted online Fe...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...ars who've forsaken their communist homeland, Cuba still touts its state-run baseball system as a superior way to structure the game. Cuba not only reigns as the world's Olympic baseball champion, its citizens enjoy superlative professional play at bargain prices in ballparks largely free of commercial gi...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...usly reported postmortem studies," says Jang. "We still need to gather more data to confirm these characteristics, and our group will carry out further studies of how plaques develop and rupture. Someday OCT may provide information that will guide treatments to prevent plaque rupture and its disastrous c...Some brain cells 'change channels' to fine-tune the message
...ade of GluR2 and GluR3. After the swap, sodium can still get in, but calcium is kept out. To learn more abo...ynapse. Exactly how they help the channels move is still unknown, as is why the cells change their channels. Part of the answer is likely to be self-preserva...Researchers search for first sign of congestive heart failure
...d increase in blood pressure, the pump function is still good, sometimes even exaggerated, but at that time, you can already figure out the heart is starting to depend more on the atrial contribution than the early filling. So how do you reverse that? By lowering blood pressure," says Dr. Kapuku. That may ...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...ethal over the patient's lifetime. "While there is still reason to hope that early detection of lung cancer with CT may save lives, our results lead us to be very cautious, because there's a chance that we may be doing more harm than good," Dr. Swensen said. No professional health organizations currently r...Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors
... their inclusion would narrow the between-site gap still further." In a recent interview, Foster noted that system-of-care approach communities may be spending roughly the same amount of tax dollars as non-system-of care communities but getting more out of them. Foster is continuing his analysis of the 6...Yale technology translates to sonic golf training tool
...thought possible. Eight weeks later, the effect is still contributing to their improved play." The clubs have a wireless data link both to headphones and to a computer. As the golfer swings, an audio soundscape is generated for the golfer that represents the speed of the club--a soft, low pitch when the cl...Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
...seholds had access to food and nonfood items, many still lacked access to safe water and sanitation. "Additional efforts from humanitarian and governmental actors are urgently needed to guarantee acceptable living standards for these populations," the authors conclude....Extreme exertion, emotion can spark repeat heart attacks
...xercise. "Patients need to realize that they would still benefit greatly from regular physical activity." Evidence linking various psychosocial factors with coronary artery disease has grown so strong that the Journal of the American College of Cardiology recently featured an article on the emerging field ...ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...ent stage: even if successful, thrombolysis should still be followed by invasive diagnosis and treatment, i...t there is significant evidence that he/she should still undergo cardiac catheterisation, optimally within 24 hours after successful thrombolysis. Due to th...Why asthma sufferers struggle with the common cold
...ferers, although unable to produce IFN-beta, could still secrete pro-inflammatory molecules, that can recruit asthma-inducing cells into the lungs. Future experiments are planned to identify the causes the IFN-beta defect. Although several genetic mutations have been linked to asthma in the past, so far ...New studies show mixed results on epilepsy drugs and birth defects
...this study was large, the number of pregnancies is still too small to give us absolute answers," said neurologist Patricia Penovich, MD, of the Minnesota Epilepsy Group PA, who wrote an editorial accompanying the studies. "But the results can be somewhat reassuring to women. They also emphasize the importa...WISE study starts in Toulouse: 60 days of bed-rest for terrestrial female astronauts
...econd campaign starts in September. Volunteers can still apply. The data collected by WISE will be used to draw conclusions about such aspects as muscle condition, blood parameters, cardiovascular condition, coordination of movements, changes in immune system, bone formation and psychological wellbeing. Ex...Mailman School of Public Health receives Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Center grant
.... and New York City, yet a large number of smokers still do not get the help they need to quit. The Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Network grant will link smokers to proven treatments. "The network's primary goal is to promote systematic screening and counseling of all tobacco users. Through partnerships w...Cavity prevention tips for pre-school age children
...eth 20 minutes after consumption. If the teeth are still filled with food, the snack should be discontinued...cay is a low risk for an individual child they can still develop gingivitis or other problems if home care is inadequate."...Boston University team finds link between high cholesterol and better cognitive performance
...s work in adults. High blood cholesterol level is still considered a risk factor for stroke and heart disease, however, and physicians may decide that those risks outweigh any modest benefits for cognitive function. Scientists have not yet determined whether lowering cholesterol with medication will infl...Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
...particular importance for emission monitoring are still very uncertain. Natural sources of methane are particularly uncertain, and anthropogenic emission estimates rely mostly on socio-economic figures." SCIAMACHY: sifting through sunlight SCIAMACHY is a spectrometer that maps the air over a very wide...