Raising The Retirement Age In The United States Could Save Billions In Social Security Payments
...irement age to 70, and Manton said he's even heard talk of raisingit to 72. He acknowledged that it's hard to predict how such changes would be receivedby the American public. "The trend actually has been in recent years that the proportion ofpeople retiring not just at age 65, but at 62 and 59, has inc...Stents Work Well, But Are Costly: Will Hospitals Continue To Use Them?
...est for patients," he said. In a plenary session talk on "The Financial Fallout From the StentExplosion" to be given Wednesday morning at the conference, Dr. DanielMark will review what is known about the benefits and costs of stentingversus balloon angioplasty. Mark, director of the Duke Outcomes Resea...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
...er and parent irritability and their reluctance to talk as much, use as many complete sentences and read aloud as often as other teachers and parents. Both researchers stress the need to reestablish an office of noise abatement within the Environmental Protection Agency; such an office was abolished duri...... of the problem is that it is harder for adults to talk about sex than substance abuse. Parents don't talk about sex with their children," says Diane Morrison, a University of Washington research associate p......owncardiovascular disease and diabetes may want to talk to their physicians aboutchoosing another type of high blood pressure drug, or to use the calciumantagonist in combination with other agents that are complementary." Izzo is amember of the American Heart Association's Continuing Education Committee....Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
... impervious mutants to gain a foothold. "You can't talk about multidrug resistance if you can't get the drugs into the tumor," says Jain. He believes there is another explanation for such disappointing results: chemotherapeutic agents may, by shrinking tumors, be shrinking blood vessel pores -- in effect,...Polish Dumpling-Like Particle Has Potential In Drug Delivery
... -- may be loaded for delivery. Huang presented a talk on the advance at the Spring Meeting of the American Chemical Society, March 29, in Dallas, TX. "They're like golf ball molecules in this form" says Wooley. "This advance moves us along in our goal of making knedels potential drug- and gene- carryin...Advisory: Nasal Spray Influenza Vaccine
...inter months,'' Maassab said. If you would like to talk with Maassab about his research, contact Amy Reyes atNews & Information Services at (734) 647-4411 or via E-mail at amelynr@umich.edu......ector of U.S. DrugDiscovery for Pfizer, Inc., will talk about Viagra and other new drugs as hedescribes Pfizer's look a the future of pharmaceuticals. Other presentersinclude Edward Teller describing his role in the invention of the hydrogen bomb;William Garzke, an analytical chemist currently analyzine ......tions of combinatorialprocesses in an after-dinner talk on Thursday, Oct. 22. Web site: http://www.udel.edu/engg/DeptsPrgms/EO/CombChem.html...... in Russia. White will present his findings in a talk entitled "The Female Image in UpperPaleolithic Art" at the University of Pennsylvania Museum's Birth of Artconference on November 21st, 1998. His research is also highlighted in anupcoming issue of Science magazine. White will present the following ...UCSF Study Shows Drug Reduces Risk Of Spine And Hip Fractures By Half In Women With Osteoporosis
... very high risk of suffering afracture, and should talk with their doctors about alendronate or other therapyfor osteoporosis." FIT, which included 6,000 patients, had two arms: the Vertebral Fracture Arm,which was previously reported at the 1997 American Society for Bone and MineralResearch Meeting and t...UF Researchers Cite Possible Link Between Autism, Schizophrenia And Diet
... that they seem at timesto be totally deaf -- they talk to their children and they just don't seemto hear them." Researchers suspect the process begins in the intestine, where the bodyabsorbs the protein when a person eats foods containing it. "We think this process is linked to the produ...Fifteenth Anniversary Of The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
...opkins School of PublicHealth if you would like to talk to study volunteers or researchers. Our phonenumber is 410-955-6878 or email to kwojciec@jhsph.edu ....UI Researcher Determines Vital Sign Norms For Cesarean Section Procedure
...to establishsurgery vital sign benchmarks. "People talk about normal blood pressure being 120/80 millimeters mercury, whichresults in an average blood pressure of 100 millimeters mercury," said Dexter,the principal investigator for the analysis. "But, in women with high bloodpressures who have regional an...Baby Talk: Parents Do Make A Difference, By Promoting Childhood Chatter, From Birth To Age 3
...ee decades, we've learned so much about how babies talk that acompletely different picture of them has eme...rn: "All you need to do," Hirsh-Pasek says, "is to talk and listen. Yourbaby wants to communicate with you. And, when toddlers are immersed in language,they...Teen Line Panel Of Six High School Students To Address The Issue Of Teens And Tolerance
...help.The one thing that they seem willing to do is talk to another teen." Workingwith Cedars-Sinai, she and the others developed the Teen Line program -- acurrent rotating staff of 90 trained volunteer teens to answer the telephones,and adult mental health professionals who volunteer to provide backup on ...NHLBI Urges Americans To Take Control Of Their Hypertension
...less than 85mm Hg. "We advise Americans to talk about their blood pressure with theirdoctor," said NHLBI Director Dr. Claude Lenfant. "They should have their bloodpressure checked and, if it's high, ask about adjusting their medication andwhether they've made the necessary lifestyle changes to br...Chronically Ill Teens Turn To Internet For Peer Support, Researchers Report
...d monitors messages. "OnHopkins Teen Central, they talk to one another about their common problems as CFpatients but also about everyday teen issues." The teens currently signed on to Hopkins Teen Central are patients atJohns Hopkins Children's Center and live in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delawar......s develop an infection while onENBREL, they should talk with their doctor immediately and be monitored closely. ENBREL should not be initiated in patients with active infections, includingchronic or localized infections. Physicians should exercise caution in patientswith a history of recurring infections...