Raw food vegetarians have low bone mass
...s could begin soon. In the meantime, Fontana isn't telling people to follow such an extreme diet. "I think over the long term, a strict raw food vegan diet could pose some health problems," he says. "But it's not my role to tell them to eat differently. I'm simply interested in learning about the positive an...Flu pandemic coming, US not prepared
...e Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is telling policymakers. In meetings with congressional and administration leaders, IDSA has explained that the H5N1 "bird flu" spreading in Asia has the potential to develop into a pandemic like the one that claimed more than half a million American lives in 1...Study shows risk of cardiac death after radiation for breast cancer has dramatically decreased
... mortality. "For a while now, physicians have been telling women that receiving radiation for breast cancer is so much safer today than it was before. People believed it, but there really was very little scientific evidence or studies examining the relationship between advancements in radiation therapy to is...End AIDS drug waiting lists, HIV care providers tell policymakers
... the American Academy of HIV Medicine (AAHIVM) are telling policymakers to make access to medical care for low-income people with HIV/AIDS the top priority when reauthorizing the Ryan White CARE Act, the nation's primary federal program dedicated to providing care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS....Cellular porthole connects odors to brain
...s allow electrical signals to travel to the brain, telling you that home-made cookies are nearby. Bradley and co-author Johannes Reisert, Ph.D., suspected NKCC1 might be involved in this process precisely because of the transporter's known importance in regulating chloride in many other tissues. Since ...Researcher explores ways to make hypnosis a more effective therapeutic technique
...hich elements of the training do the trick. "Is it telling people they should make an active response? Is it the imagination part of it, when we ask people to vividly imagine what we've been suggesting? We don't know what components are responsible for the effectiveness." Lynn will also investigate the malle...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...ling high blood pressure, diabetes and weight; and telling them of the importance of quitting smoking and increasing exercise. This should lower the total burden of recurrent disease and disability, he said. Similar quality improvement strategies would be applied throughout the care system, including rehab...Beliefs may hinder HIV prevention among African-Americans
...poor. Only 37 percent felt that the government was telling the truth about AIDS.Among the other findings: 43.6 percent of African Americans surveyed felt that people who take new medicines for HIV are human guinea pigs for the government; 26.6 percent said AIDS was produced in a government laboratory; 48.2...Mayo Clinic researchers find PDAs okay with pacemakers
...agnetic interference and physicians need good data telling them which ones are or aren't. And as technology advances, we'll need continual testing to stay up to date." In the Mayo Clinic study, testing was conducted between March 6 and July 30, 2003, using devices outside of the body. The cardiac devices wer...Sleep loss boosts appetite, may encourage weight gain
... Leptin, produced by fat cells, connotes satiety, telling the brain when we have eaten enough. Van Cauter's team measured circulating levels of leptin and ghrelin before the study, after two nights of only four hours in bed (average sleep time 3 hours and 53 minutes) and after two nights of ten hours in b...2004 Science-in-Society Award winners announced
...ave before. But the judges also commended Hall for telling a good story with "compelling portraits of the ambitious, smart, and sometimes flawed people" involved. Merchants of Immortality is "the kind of book that creates an enduring interest in readers while also giving them the background to pursue the s...Researchers find ultrasound helps drug dissolve stroke-causing blood clots
...oke victims. However, emergency room nurses began telling him that patients who had been monitored in this way were recovering faster than those he had not monitored. Alexandrov began a pilot study to determine whether the ultrasound itself had therapeutic uses. "We had 126 patients enrolled in the study, ...PITT, OHSU: When early life stress occurs determines its impact later
...life stress exposure. What this work appears to be telling us is that children separated from their mothers at birth should be placed in nurturing stable care situation as soon as possible to reduce the chances of developing socioemotional problems, explained Cameron. This differs dramatically from the real-...Scientists reveal significant behavioral impacts of early life stress, study therapies
...ife stress exposure. "What this work appears to be telling us is that children separated from their mothers at birth should be placed in nurturing stable care situation as soon as possible to reduce the chances of developing socioemotional problems," explained Cameron. "This differs dramatically from the rea......nger, who led the focus group research. "Nobody is telling immigrant families that their traditional diets are good and should be maintained." Said Moon S. Chen, Jr., professor of public health sciences at UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center and principal investigator for AANCART: "We cannot...Dutch study highlights crying as risk factor for child abuse
...w to cope adequately with infant crying, including telling parents that the average 1-month-old baby cries 1.5 h per day, asking questions about crying during routine well-baby visits, and providing additional support services and follow-up for those at risk". In an accompanying commentary (p 1295), Clare Sh...Listening in on the whispering heart
... The computer can send a signal back to the device telling it to deliver a short burst of electrical pulses directly to the heart. The sensors measure the effect on the heartbeat and send the information straight back to the computer. "We hope that with this novel system, we can learn more about AF and subse...Full recovery after cell transplantation for treating leukemia or lymphoma can take 3-5 years
...he impetus for doing this study came from patients telling us that they wanted to know more about what life was like for people after transplant and our own interest in understanding which patients had difficulties in the long term and who did better," said Syrjala. "Now we can take what we learned and help ...New research suggests two brain areas critical for short-term memory
...re acting in accordance with what your 'memory' is telling you instead of what is actually going on in the real world around you, and you miss the turn." The researchers hope to continue the work to learn more about how the hippocampus and subiculum work together with other brain regions to establish more pe......l tract, data that have been useful but limited in telling researchers about the timing of speech. But, as anyone who has ever tried a tongue-twisting phrase like "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" knows, speaking is a moving art an elegant and complex orchestration of vocal parts to produce sou...