NIAID seeks applicants to lead clinical trials units for revamped HIV/AIDS networks
...ent and one or more clinical research sites. NIAID strongly encourages the establishment of CTUs that reach populations most affected or threatened by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States and abroad, especially women, adolescents and people of color. "The success of the restructured HIV/AIDS clinical ne...Alcohol drinkers three times as likely to die from injury
...y authors found that the risk of drowning was most strongly related to current drinkers. The study will be published in the March 2005 issue of Accident Analysis and Prevention. "Previous studies have focused on the effect of acute alcohol use on the risk of injury. We looked at the relationship between a per...New study finds link between self-mutilation and risky sexual behavior
...hers controlled for abuse factors, self-cutting is strongly associated with sexual risk behaviors such as not using condoms. "Our first thought was that the subjects cut themselves because of previous sexual abuse, but there's much more than that there's some link between not being able to manage your feeli...Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective
...pital in Toronto, led another study in NEJM, which strongly supports Paltiel's findings. They developed a computer model to estimate the health benefits and expenditures of performing voluntary HIV screening programs in health care settings. They also found that screening for HIV infection is cost-effective r...Tiny superconductors withstand stronger magnetic fields
...he orbital and the spin pair-breaking effects were strongly suppressed in the nanowires. The orbital effect was weak because of the small dimensions of the wire (about 10 nanometers in diameter) and the spin effect was weakened by spin-orbit interactions. "One should not set a goal of reducing the wire's dia...Migraine-sparked vision loss may increase stroke risk in women; Migraine
...studies had shown that migraine with aura was more strongly associated with stroke, but ours is the first to examine the type of aura symptom and the likelihood of stroke," Giles said. These findings need independent confirmation from other investigators, but they indicate that women with migraine and aura s...Public interest advocates question NIH Enhanced Access policy
... example. What better step could they take than by strongly encouraging NIH intramural researchers to ensure that any paper which bears the name of an NIH employee is posted immediately in PubMed Central." Johnson and other members of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access have long argued that there is no legitima...Third of European cancer patients use complementary and alternative therapies
...Denmark, Italy, Spain, Greece and Iceland featured strongly where spiritual therapies were concerned. Patients spent, on average, 123 a month on CAM. The maximum monthly reported amount was 4,140. However, more than half paid nothing as most remedies were available free e.g. herbs collected themselves or supp...New treatment rivals chemotherapy for lymphoma, U-M study finds
...ier in the course of a patient's illness should be strongly considered instead of using it as a last resort or not at all. These results support the notion that there's a real possibility of putting chemotherapy on the back burner for this disease," says Kaminski, a professor of internal medicine at the U-M M...Cholesterol under-treated in high-risk women in managed care study
...lycerides with drug therapy in high-risk women was strongly recommended in the new guidelines. Evidence of poor management of these factors provides further evidence for a need to improve comprehensive lipid management in the highest-risk women, Mosca said. "These findings suggest that therapies should be ta...Women's heart risk underestimated by doctors, resulting in less preventive care than in men
...ercent of OBGyns, and 18 percent of cardiologists) strongly agreed or agreed that factors controlled by the patient were the greatest barrier to preventing heart disease. "This may reflect a perceived difficulty in influencing crucial lifestyle factors within the patient's control, not the physician," said...New test is first step in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...ll, soluble aggregated proteins. The clinical data strongly support a recent theory in which ADDLs accumulate at the beginning of Alzheimer's disease and block memory function by a process predicted to be reversible. William L. Klein, professor of neurobiology and physiology in Northwestern's Weinberg College...Drinking alcohol increases risk for cancer
... chronic pancreatitis, hypertension and stroke are strongly related to alcohol drinking. The analysis was ba... different studies, and heavy alcohol drinking was strongly linked to the diseases noted. The risks are shown to increase with the amount of alcohol consumed y...Views from space help oil prospectors see deep underground
...tifying underlying layers of basalt, which radiate strongly in thermal energy, so much so that we can interpret its presence indirectly from well below a half a metre. "Basalt is a massive reflector, functioning like a shield between the surface and the hydrocarbon reservoirs. We can't work on su...New research reinforces importance of aerobic health
...obesity, hypertension, and insulin resistance, are strongly influenced by our genes," said Steven Swoap, associate professor of biology at Williams Colleges, a member of the research team. "Coupled with our current environment of physical inactivity and over-abundance of food, this "metabolic syndrome" will ...Sildenafil effectively treats enlarged hearts, mouse study shows
...vergrowth in the heart. "We thought we could more strongly apply the brake on hypertrophy in the heart if we used sildenafil to prevent the breakdown of cyclic GMP," he says. The makers of the drug had no involvement in the design or support of the research. PDE5A is also the biological pathway blocked in ...Intellect linked to risk of suicide in young men
Intellectual capacity in early adulthood is strongly related to subsequent risk of suicide in men, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Few previous studies have assessed the association of measures of intelligence with suicide, and results have often conflicted. Researchers analysed the results of four i...Genes in the interferon system important in SLE
...s that two genes in the interferon system are very strongly associated with the disease SLE. One of the genes codes for a so-called thyrosinkinase enzyme, whose function is to convey signals from interferon outside the cells to the cell nucleus. "We found that genetic variants of thyrosinkase protect against ...Adding radiation therapy to chemotherapy improves survival in patients with high-risk breast cancer
...apy after mastectomy in moderate-risk patients, we strongly urge that a randomized controlled trial be mounted to resolve these uncertainties," they write....Happy home and social life makes living in a poor neighbourhood more bearable for adolescents
...egative perceptions of local amenities, were quite strongly and positively associated with psychological distress. "However, we cannot ascertain whether this was because poor perception of the neighbourhood contributed to their psychological distress, or that distressed children were more likely to view their...