Community-based care beats standard clinic in lowering heart
...e part of the community. It also was near bus and subway stops with free parking available nearby. The apartment living room held a reception area and a small play area for children and appointments were not necessary. It also had a treatment room and a small exercise room, where patients were instructe...Major review of subway systems suggests potential for significant health and safety hazards
...w York, February 24, 2005 Although information on subway safety is generally very limited, a new paper by s...d safety hazards that might affect both riders and subway workers. The report, published in the Journal of Urban Health in a special issue on mass transit, i...Status syndrome: How your social standing directly affects your health and life expectancy
...pectancy rise by twenty years over the twelve-mile subway ride that divides poor black downtown Washington DC and rich white Montgomery County? Why does Japan have better health than other rich populations of the world and the province of Kerala in southern India have much better health than other poor pop...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
... New York is planning to build a new Second Avenue subway line to ease congestion on the nearby Lexington Av...ng, along with practical ways to reduce the din of subway construction. (2pSA3) TRANSFORMING ORDINARY OBJECTS INTO TOUCH-SENSITIVE DEVICES Stefan Catheline ...Study on toxic exposures in urban environments
...und that steel dust generated in the New York City subway significantly increases the total amount of airbor...als associated with fine particulate matter in the subway environment were observed to be more than 100 times greater than levels observed in home indoor or o...Researchers discover target for new anxiety-reducing drugs
... environment. Some people find riding in a crowded subway car to be a stressful activity," said Raber. The research also helps explain the mechanisms involved in the body's creation of stress. With this information, physicians may use PKCe levels as a method of determining stress levels in their patients....Brain scans of Gulf War veterans show brain damage
... cells performed similarly to victims of the Tokyo subway sarin nerve gas attack. In previous studies, Haley and his colleagues have shown that Gulf War veterans who complain of being sick have genetically lower levels of a blood enzyme, PON-Q that fights off nerve gas making them more susceptible to illn...New drugs, diagnostic tests, software needed to prepare US cities for chemical, biological attacks
...port says. The 1995 nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subway by the religiouscult Aum Shinrikyo, and the arrests of U.S. citizens for obtaining biologicalagents that could have been used in an attack have heightened public awarenessof the threat. The study was funded by the Office of Emergency Preparedness of......ven inoffices, theaters and even the New York City subway system. The topic of classroom acoustics will be addressed in a workshopto take place in New York City this February. Entitled "Eliminating AcousticalBarriers to Learning in Classrooms," the workshop will be held on February26-27, ...