Use of inhaled corticosteroid led to fewer hospitalizations for young children with asthma
...ter, and principal investigator in the study. The study assessed whether early controller medications, suc...e or more ED visits or hospitalizations during the study period. Parents who recognize the symptoms of asthma in their children coughing, wheezing, chest ti...Pushy parents can be bad for their children's health
... bad for their children's health, suggests a small study in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Clinical researchers from the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, analysed the health outcomes of 23 children, who had been referred between 1997 and 2001. The children...Aloe vera: Natural, home remedy treats canker and cold sores
...ticle, written by Richard L. Wynn, PhD, mentions a study done on a patient with lichen planus, a disease af... complete success was achieved. Dr. Wynn cited the study as showing that oral health problems can be treated with aloe vera. "Aloe vera can be taken both as ...New generation contact lenses cut risk of severe eye infection
...hthalmology. The findings are based on a year long study of patients attending the Royal Eye Hospital in Manchester, UK, with acute eye problems. All those wearing contact lenses were asked to supply details of lens hygiene, type, and pattern of wear, including whether they slept in them. Specialists scor...Traffic fumes damage DNA, finds a small study in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. To gauge the levels of exposure to traffic fumes, the research team assessed the amount of a chemical called 1-OHPG in the urine of 47 female motorway toll-booth operators and 27 female office workers. The ...Hospitals may now be more willing to partner up with former adversaries
A study publishing in the latest issue of Health Services Research is one the few published evaluations of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO). Focusing on patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarc...Energy and sports drinks attack enamel
... irreversible damage to teeth than soft drinks. A study of the effects some of these beverages had on enam... more harm to tooth enamel than soft drinks. "This study revealed that the enamel damage caused by non-cola and sports beverages was three to 11 times greate...Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
A new study on how alcohol relapse affects survival rates afte...ther alcohol-related diseases. The results of this study appear in the April 2005 issue of Liver Transplantation, the official journal of the American Associ...Boston University team finds link between high cholesterol and better cognitive performance
...sease and stroke. However, the results of the new study showed that the higher the natural level of choles... have. We can't yet generalize the results of our study to people treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs." The authors emphasize that these findings do n...Donor age has no affect on long-term liver transplant survival
A new study on the effect of donor age on survival and recurre..., but had no long-term effect. The results of this study appear in the April 2005 issue of Liver Transplantation, the official journal of the American Associ...NJIT taps into solar energy to power new campus center
...ffers co-ops and scholarships to NJIT students who study electrical engineering or telecommunications. Baptiste, of Roxbury, mounted 144 of the framed panels onto the roof. He added 16 upright solar trackers, which rotate in line with the path of the sun to absorb maximum sunlight. The panels, framed wi...College alcohol problems exceed previous estimates
...nderscores what we had learned from another recent study that excessive alcohol use by college-aged indivi...te has proven invaluable to researchers seeking to study the effects of state-level legislative interventions to reduce alcohol-related traffic deaths," they...Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
...unless extra resources are made available, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. The 1998 Data Protection Act strengthened controls on the use of personal data, but the Health and Social Care Act 2001 allows patient identifiable information to be made available in certain circumstances, includin...Chemical decoy shows promise for slowing Alzheimer's by acting as decoy
...g a biomimetic polymer to fight Alzheimer's," says study leader Theresa Good, Ph.D., a chemist with the Uni...dy. In addition to Good, other researchers in this study include Dhara Patel, also of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and James E. Henry, of Tex...Men with severe sleep breathing disorder have higher risk of heart problems
...l and non-fatal cardiovascular events, concludes a study published in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Obst...s of this large, long-term, prospective controlled study suggest that in untreated men with severe obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea, the risk of fatal and ...Acupuncture relieves pelvic pain during pregnancy
...fective complements to standard treatment, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. Pelvic girdle pain is a common complaint among pregnant women worldwide, but no cure exists. Researchers in Sweden identified 386 pregnant women with pelvic girdle pain. Women were randomly divided into three groups...Costs of antidepressants could have funded effective alternatives
...ogical treatments of proven effectiveness, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. Prescribing of antidepressant drugs has risen dramatically in the United Kingdom since the early 1990s. Cognitive behaviour therapy is an effective alternative to drugs, but has not been developed for widespread use...Medically supervised drug injection facilities safer for users
... syringe sharing among users, concludes a Canadian study published online by THE LANCET. Public-health offi... December 2003 and June 2004 as part of a separate study on injection drug users in Vancouver. 90 reported that all, most, or some of their injections were a...NHS stop-smoking services are insufficient to deliver national smoking targets
...s insufficient for the poorest communities, says a study published online by the BMJ today. The study examined the effectiveness of NHS smoking cessation services in Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. Th......be influenced by our genes, scientists reveal in a study published today [March 17 2005]. Researchers from ...ntal Psychology, University of Bristol, said: "Our study suggests that there's a genetic basis to certain kinds of behaviour, including alcohol consumption, ...