Many parents, teens unaware of an 'optional' but valuable vaccine
...putation. The contagious disease is most likely to strike infants under the age of one--for whom the current vaccine is, unfortunately, not effective. The infection may also affect older children and adults in close proximity to one another. Outbreaks that occur in college dormitories, schools and child-car...Epilepsy in the elderly media briefing
...ily younger people, epilepsy is twice as likely to strike those 65 and older. Symptoms of epilepsy can be difficult to recognize in the elderly and can include unusual sounds, blurred vision, or sudden anxiety. Treating epilepsy in the elderly population can be difficult, due to age-related is...UCLA researchers to test experimental pill
... ways to treat the disease. Colorectal cancer will strike about 150,000 Americans this year alone and kill more than 58,000 people. It is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, after lung cancer. "The treatments we have now for advanced colorectal cancer prolong life, but unfortunat...Nicotine metabolite may improve memory, protect against disease
...yroid hormone in the blood. The condition can also strike infants and children, where its effects can be very serious. One in 4,000 babies are born with hypothyroidism. In infants, the condition often results in severe developmental problems, including mental retardation, and is referred to as cretinism. To...Academy launches eBriefings Web site to help scientists
...million people in the U.S.? Why does autism often strike children at 2-3 years of age? Why are boys four times as likely to develop the disease than girls? What are some of the possible factors that trigger autism, and how can drug treatments be beneficial? Read what experts have to say about this condit...Injuries cost China over $12 billion a year
...ally is equivalent to having 12 million workers on strike every year. This is greater than the 9.7 million new workers entering China's labor force each year. Injury prevention should be a top priority for Chinese health officials," explained Dr. Baker. According to the study, motor vehicle crashes, suicide...Internet porn-blocking software neednt block health information, study finds
...ols and families in the ongoing debate over how to strike a balance between access to the Internet's wealth ...for health and sexuality information. "Filters can strike a good balance between protecting kids from pornography while still giving them access to online hea...Sepsis vaccine proves protective in preliminary studies at The Scripps Research Institute
...cute and often deadly disease that is estimated to strike 700,000 Americans a year and millions more worldwide. Though the new vaccine has not yet been applied to clinical trials in humans, it has worked well in preclinical studies, the results of which the team reports in the latest issue of the journal An...How HIV outmaneuvers the immune system
...ck re-mobilization should the sametype of attacker strike again. T cells consist of two major groups: CD4-positive T helper cells (who helpother immune cells in mounting an effective response) and CD8-positivekiller T cells. HIV infects and destroys CD4-positive cells, leavingpatients with a crippled immune...JCI table of contents, November 4, 2002
...ck re-mobilization should the sametype of attacker strike again. T cells consist of two major groups: CD4-positive T helper cells (who helpother immune cells in mounting an effective response) and CD8-positivekiller T cells. HIV infects and destroys CD4-positive cells, leavingpatients with a crippled immune...NIH supports ice slurry at Argonne
...nergy Technology Division, "sudden cardiac arrests strike about 1,000 people a day, and the survival rate is at best 2 percent to 4 percent. If we can improve survival rate by just 1 percent, we will save the lives of 10 people every day." People who suffer cardiac arrests outside of the hospital have a low...Preparations for terrorist attacks and natural disasters linked, says University of Colorado prof
... wildfires, floods and hurricanes will continue to strike the United States and there also will be more terrorist attacks, he said. The level of readiness for such events varies, depending on the type of threat and its location. In general, "the larger the community, the better the planning," he said. "W...UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center researchers study ways to prevent tobacco-related bladder cancer
...ed cancers," Figlin said. "Together, these cancers strike more than 225,000 Americans every year, taking more than 167,000 lives." No one yet knows the causes of bladder cancer. Risk factors besides tobacco smoking include age, being a man (men are two to three times more likely to get bladder cancer than w......toe or an infected tooth but sometimes it can just strike out of the blue. A harmless breeze on the face can send some people into fits of excruciating pain. Others can even be irritated by the clothes on their back. This kind of unexpected and seemingly inexplicable pain is labelled "neuropathic" and oc...Mild kidney disease doubles risk of death after angioplasty or bypass
.... Perhaps it is that while renal dysfunction is a strike against a person in and of itself, when it is caused by a multi-organ disease such as diabetes, it not only contributes to its risk but acts as a marker for the amount of damage done to organs other than the kidney....Though rare, victims of lightning strike may suffer
...symptoms may even be coincidental to the lightning strike event. Further study will help elucidate the role of lightning strike in IMD, and also identify potential treatment options....Document destruction practices obliterate tobacco company defenses in critical Australian decision
... a motion on January 25, 2002, asking the judge to strike BAT's legal defenses to liability and leave the ju...points and, on March 22, 2002, issued the order to strike BAT's defenses. The judge took particular note of the conduct of BAT's primary Australian law firm, ...Computational innovation predicts how patients will respond to drug treatments
...oward a target in the hopes that one or more might strike the center, this approach can be likened to an arrow headed directly toward a bulls-eye. Now, for the first time, this work and that of other researchers raises the prospect of individualizing cancer treatment; what will succeed and what will fail, K...Researchers demonstrate direct, real-time brain control of cursor
... wayward cursor movements "on the fly" in order to strike the target, the researchers said. This entire processing took place nearly as fast as the hand responds to the brain's movement commands. The research suggests that subjects can use visual and other feedback to compensate for inaccuracies in the math...'Use it or lose it?' study suggests mentally stimulating activities may reduce Alzheimer's risk
...h and Human Services. The findings are likely to strike a chord among middle-aged and older people interested in preserving cognitive health. We are asked constantly about this use-it-or-lose-it approach to maintaining memory, says Elisabeth Koss, Ph.D., Assistant Director of the NIAs Alzheimers Disease C...