Uninsured face higher death risk from aorta problems
... if their primary care or emergency room physician suspects a problem, uninsured people may not be able to get a referral to a surgeon who can repair an aneurysm electively. Third, hospitals and the health care system may present other barriers to diagnosis and surgery. Because of all these factors, uninsured......ffects the fertility of female rats. The scientist suspects that her research will provide insights into fertility problems of women over the age of 30. Franke studied relatively young subfertile rats. Although the pituitary gland and ovaries of these rats still functioned normally, their brains had already s......ave enough data yet to know its impact." Gilbert suspects that a combination of different targeted therapies - including several that block EGF receptor - may be necessary to treat stubborn, entrenched brain tumors. To that end, the Brain Tumor Program, one of the largest in the country, is testing an alpha...Genomics research: New genetic 'hit list' may underlie susceptibility to sudden cardiac death
... compendium of channel variants is a 'hit list' of suspects for investigators aiming at the larger issue of sudden cardiac death," says Dr. Ackerman. "We don't know if any of these variants cause increased susceptibility to external causes, such as medications, but the new data provides an exciting opportunit...Study: Carbon dioxide may find new use in producing medical implants
...enly, but form clumps instead -- an effect Tomasko suspects is due to the tightly packed polymer chains that make up the plastic. "We think the CO2 lubricates the polymer chains so the protein molecules can slip in-between," he said. For the next step in this research, the engineers will be working with biode...Iressa news backgrounder: Testing of smart drug expands at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
...enough data yet to know its impact." Gilbert suspects that a combination of different targeted therapies - including several that block EGF receptor - may be necessary to treat stubborn, entrenched brain tumors. To that end, the Brain Tumor Program, one of the largest in the country, is testing an alpha...Antipsychotic drug prescriptions nearly double for kids with ADHD
... mental illness like psychosis or autism. The team suspects the concerns extend to the entire population and have started working with CDC records in a new study to determine the problem's extent. Cooper and Catherine Fuchs, M.D., associate professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt, began noticing an increasing n...Increase in childhood leukaemia may be part due to increased light at night
...the five days of the conference. Many of the usual suspects will be covered including radiation, viruses, parental smoking and air pollution. But other concepts that have so far received little attention will also be highlighted. These include, for example, diet in early life, medicines in pregnancy as well ...African-American heart attack patients fare worse long term
...asons for these differences, behind, Mehta said he suspects a combination of socio-economic factors, including compliance with long-term drug therapy, mistrust of the medical system, and lack of medical insurance. According to Mehta, health professionals have assumed African-Americans with coronary artery dis...Chemoprevention backgrounder: Working for a future of cancer chemoprevention
...ntinuous usage over many years," says Levin. Lotan suspects that for long-term cancer control, people may benefit from combining an NSAID with a safe synthetic retinoid known as fenretinide, which has been shown in an Italian clinical trial to help premenopausal women control their risk of breast cancer. Rese...Dec. 7 tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine
...illions of Americans are overweight, and the usual suspects are fast food, high-fat food, too much food, and too little exercise (Editorial, p. 885). It might be possible that a 24/7 lifestyle and lack of sleep also leads to overeating and weight gain, they say. But they point out that this study does not fin...Jefferson virologists coax HIV out of hiding
...mmune cytokine, or OKT3, a monoclonal antibody. He suspects such strains may be from an unknown viral reservoir in the blood. "IL-7 may teach us something," he says. "We're not sure why only these certain strains are affected. We think we've found a new population, a new reservoir of HIV that has not been s...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
...al Center would qualify for the study, although he suspects the monitor may one day be used in most labor processes. "What we are looking at here is translatability of a system that has already been tested and proven in other countries," Dr. Devoe says....Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
... be used in an attempt to explain behavior or link suspects to crimes can be highly inaccurate and will not necessarily lead to an increase in public safety....Brain synapse formation linked to proteins, Stanford study finds
...eliminate all five thrombospondins in mice, but he suspects what few synapses the mice eked out were thanks to the remaining thrombospondins or perhaps other glial proteins. "Had we been able to knock out all five we might have seen even more synapse loss," Barres said. Figuring out how and why new synapses f...Murder, eyewitness identification and the limits of human vision
...the 1997 beating of one man by four suspects. The suspects were tied to a separate fatal beating of second ma...nce of about 450 feet, later identified two of the suspects from police photographic lineups. He also identified the two in a subsequent trial. Loftus also te...New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
...as soil type and food particles, that help track a suspects movements. Even partial prints that cannot be used to identify a person might contain chemical artifacts that reveal useful crime clues, he says. The technique does have limitations, Worley says. Some fingerprints will not contain enough detectable m...