Female condoms overlooked in fight against spread of HIV/AIDS
...rrier control against pregnancy, and so are not as strongly promoted as they should be for protection against HIV/AIDS, Kaler said. The female condom is currently approved for one-time use only and at an average price of 56 cents each, they are proving too expensive for women in developing nations to p...Pharmacists want role in drug importation, study shows
...de patient monitoring and education. Pharmacists strongly favored regulatory actions that may decrease counterfeiting. Thirty-two percent felt consumers should be allowed to legally purchase medications from Canada; 44 percent felt pharmacies should be able to legally procure prescription drugs from Canada....What happens in the brain when we remember our own past?
...e and his team found that this form of memory more strongly engaged parts of the frontal lobes involved in self-awareness, as well as areas involved in visual memory. It's important to note that losing this ability to recall personal episodic memories as a result of serious brain injury can be tremendously de...Brain imaging study of drunk drivers pinpoints neurological changes
...of the cerebellum area of the brain, which related strongly to speeding, was clearly correlated with the alcohol dose. Changes in the frontal and parietal cortex, which govern alertness and attention, were correlated with weaving while driving. The highest blood alcohol level was 0.1 and the lowest was 0.05. ...Chemoprevention backgrounder: Working for a future of cancer chemoprevention
...s. She says that, so far, "COX-2 overexpression is strongly implicated in progression of breast precancer to malignancy." Retinoic acids also are being tested as a breast cancer chemopreventive. Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D., a professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Therapeutics, is examining the effe...Prevalence of human papillomavirus infection differs for men and women
...ies have also shown that cervical HPV infection is strongly related to age, peaking early and falling after age 30. Little, however, is known about the age-specific prevalence of anal HPV infection in men who have sex with men. Most research on the subject has involved men in a narrow age range who were HIV-i...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for November 2004 (second issue)
...und that death due to respiratory disease was more strongly associated with ozone exposure than was either the total or cardiovascular rate. The researchers found that ozone's effects on mortality took place almost exclusively during the warm months. (Ozone is toxic gas that irritates tissue. Found commonly...Prenatal alcohol exposure has effects far beyond fetal alcohol syndrome
...hildren, even when they do not have FAS, there are strongly negative effects of alcohol exposure on verbal IQ and working memory, both important for learning and school success." Both Jacobson and Singer noted that one very important implication of these findings is that a moderate-to-heavy drinking mother wh...Rare heart problem decreases in clot-busting era
...el said. "The time from symptom onset to treatment strongly predicts the development of tamponade, which underscores the need for continuing efforts to rapidly treat patients having an acute heart attack." For their analysis, the Duke pooled the clinical data from seven multi-center international trials desig...Study reveals link between cardiovascular risk and cognitive decline
...bolic syndrome as well. Together, these conditions strongly increase the risk of coronary heart disease, vascular disease, stroke, and type 2 II diabetes. "What's bad for the body turns out to be bad for the brain," says Kristine Yaffe, associate professor of psychiatry, neurology, and epidemiology at UCSF...Brookhaven Lab and BioSET develop a synthetic peptide that enhances the effect of BMP-2
...ded together in the same low doses, the cells were strongly triggered to develop into bone-forming cells. "First-generation BMP-impregnated medical devices are currently used clinically for spine repair and to accelerate the healing of long bones," Pea continued. "These devices show ef...Smoking triggers early onset of pancreatic cancer
...port say the findings underscore the importance of strongly counseling patients with a family history of pancr...with a family history of pancreatic cancer must be strongly counseled against smoking, and smokers with a family history of pancreatic cancer should be informed...Delays in test result reviewing common
...wished they had known about' these results earlier strongly suggests that many of these results might have changed patient management."...Good fats decrease multiple heart disease risk factors
...C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation strongly associated with heart disease. Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor of nutrition who led the study. says, "In a heart healthy diet, you need different unsaturated fatty acids that come from a variety of vegetable sources. Walnuts are a ...Overweight men spend more on prescription drugs than normal-weight men
... expect to see such significant health problems so strongly associated with weight, including degenerative joint disease, depression, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol and more," Allison said. "We began to think, 'How could we quantify it?'" One way to summarize the impact, the researc...Women's reproductive factors and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis
...p://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/arthritis), strongly support the lasting benefits of breastfeeding in protecting against the disease. What's more, the researchers identified a new risk factor for RA: irregular menstrual cycles. The study's subjects were all women enrolled in the Nurses' Heal...Churches nationwide issue plea for increased rates of African American organ donation
...ith participating churches urging congregations to strongly consider organ donation. "Seven years on dialysis took a serious toll on my life. I waited so long, I quit waiting," said recent kidney transplant recipient Joann C. DuBose, also of Mobile, Ala. "Today, I am alive and healthy with a new kidney, t...Study looks at events that lead to disability among the elderly
... either hospitalization or restricted activity are strongly associated with the development of disability for older persons living in the community, regardless of their physical condition, according to a study in the November 3 issue of JAMA. The authors provide as background information that while the pr...Socio-economic factors sway African-Americans
...ities in quitting rates between the two groups are strongly influenced by socioeconomic status and do not appear as fixed attributes reflecting biological or genetic differences between African Americans and whites," King adds. "Adjusted differences in quitting between Black and White women were not statistic...Dana-Farber receives CDC grants to develop health promotion/prevention programs in the work place
... to connect with fellow workers; overweight may be strongly tied to drivers' lack of physical activity and unhealthful food options available on the road. We will develop a program that responds to these concerns."The study will test a program that fits into their lives on the road, in terminals located in 10...