Survey Finds Increasing Popularity Of Acute Stroke Teams In U.S. Hospitals
...s," Alberts said. "However, the majority of teams tends to be in thenation's academic health centers. Since the majority of stroke patients usuallycome to community or rural hospitals first, one of our goals is to get the wordout that they can benefit from having these teams." One finding of the...X-Rays: How Big A Risk To Kids? UF Researchers Seek Answers
...d, theyare lifesaving in some cases -- so the risk tends to be small by comparison. But no one knows precisely how much radiation children absorb fromdifferent types of exams or if it increases their risk of developing canceror leukemia later in life. Hintenlang, who is researching the su...Study Reveals Possible Clue For Racial Differences In Prevalence Of High Blood Pressure
... an earlier age than whites and high bloodpressure tends to be more severe in blacks than in whites. According to theAmerican Heart Association, the death rate from high blood pressure for blackmen is about 356 percent higher than for white men. For black women, the deathrate was 344 percent higher than ...Millions Of Americans With Glaucoma Could Save Sight With Early Detection, Treatment
... to monitor for signs of open-angleglaucoma, which tends to develop after age 40. "Evaluating patients for signs of glaucoma can be compared to checking for highblood pressure, which also has few symptoms but can result in serious problemsif not controlled," Dr. Berlin stated. "If glaucoma is detected earl...Children Of The Great Depression By Glen H. Elder, Jr.
... in "AsYou Like It." Social psychological research tends to confirm the poet'sobservation, albeit with certain reservations. Untoward circumstances such asnatural disasters may often stimulate individual competence and group cohesion;adversity may also, of course, produce panic and demoralization. Glen El...Women Who Have Invasive Cervical Cancer Benefit From Addition Of Chemotherapy To Radiation Treatment
...hat reached the lymph nodes, where cervical cancer tends tospread. They underwent daily treatments with an external beam of radiation andseveral days of exposure to rod-shaped applicators containing radioactivepellets, which were placed within the vagina and uterus. Half of the women inthe study also recei...Office Stress, Large Family Responsibilities Put Women At Risk
...t, earlier research found thatmen's blood pressure tends to decrease in the evening after work. The studyresults are reported in the March issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. The research team selected a random stratified sample of 199 women from a groupof 2,183 of all ages employed full-time in white collar...New Drug For Recurrent Brain Tumors In Tests At UNC
...tiformae is about one year.It's very malignant and tends to come back at the same site," Ewend explains."Surgery won't cure it, nor will radiation, although both are of benefit.Chemotherapy to date has had limited success." Ewend, a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, says onestudy ...Slowing Excess Weight Gain In Childhood Appears To Reduce Adult Heart Disease Risk
... Sinaiko says that body weight in childhood tends to predict theprevalence of risk factors that crop up when people are in their early 20s, inparticular, the insulin resistance syndrome -- the condition in which insulin isassociated with obesity and the risk for cardiovascular disease. In th...Tiny Tools Give New Meaning To 'Cutting Edge'
...orce, and the pushing or pulling of tissue is what tends to cause pain. Anultrasonic needle will create similar needle-tissue interactions that reducepain. The immediate applications could be for people for whom needle usage is a factof life, such as diabetics who monitor their blood glucose daily. It coul...Magnet Therapy Eases Severe Depression, Double Blind Study Shows
...atment and as maintenance therapy, sincedepression tends to require ongoing treatment.......ate cancer, the most common cancer in elderly men, tends to be aslow growing disease men frequently die with, not from. Doctors often questionwhether surgery or radiation provide any real benefit for the older patient. The researchers retrospectively examined the results of 1560 patientswho had rec...DDW Studies Present Evidence That Thalomid (Thalidomide) Is Active In Treating Crohn's Disease
...lly. Researchers haveobserved that Crohn's disease tends to run in families, and that the disease ismost common in North America, Europe and Scandanavia, with a greater incidenceof the disease in urban and northern environments. Celgene Corporation provided the THALOMID (thalidomide) used in theCedar's-Sin...Study suggests a drug treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms
...m the heart to the abdomen.A weak area in the wall tends to enlarge and eventually to balloon out, like arupturing inner tube. Blood then courses into the abdomen, killing within hoursor even minutes. For the past seven years, Thompson's group has explored the relationship betweenenzymes called matrix meta...'Thick' blood may increase stroke risk
...merican HeartAssociation. Thick or viscous blood tends to coagulate and form unwanted blood clots that canblock blood flow to the heart or brain, causing a heart attack or stroke. Coagulation potential was assessed by measuring three 'factors,' which arecomponents in the blood that are involved in bloo...New studies of a liquid of life -- Lung surfactant
...in contact, a strong force known as surfacetension tends to compress the alveoli. The primary function of lung surfactant is to form amonolayer at the alveolar air/water interface capable of lowering the surface tension to nearzero values, said Ding. The physical and chemical properties of the monolayerdet...Scientists provide first detailed maps of wiring circuitry in the living human brain
...lel bundles like cables in a telephone line. Water tends tomove more easily along the length of these cables. Using an MRI method that hashigh sensitivity to water movements, the researchers traced these cables byfollowing the preferred direction of water movement. The research team studied four vo...Keep taking the medicine, diabetes research warns
...with diabetes have type 2 diabetes. This condition tends to develop later in life than the less common type 1, or 'insulin-dependent' diabetes, and initially can be associated with limited or no symptoms. Treatment begins with diet and exercise or oral medications and only in the later stages of the diseas...Protein predicts prognosis for breast cancer patients
... malignant tissue. The growth of new blood vessels tends to occur quite early for most cancers; even small tumors found via mammogram frequently have a high microvessel count (MVC). However, patients with high MVC combined with high protective levels of nm23 also do quite well, 90 percent surviving 14 year......a missile. As explained by Roger Hardy, "The adult tends to push the lap child's head into the forward seat." In 1994 a US Airways DC-9 crash-landed at Charlotte, North Carolina. A mother properly belted in her seat received only slight injuries but her unrestrained 9-month-old baby received massive fatal ...