X-Rays: How Big A Risk To Kids? UF Researchers Seek Answers
...is trying tocome up with definitive predictions of the risks to children from differenttypes of X-ray exa...ch provide athree-dimensional picture of a part of the body; and fluoroscopy, used toobtain moving pictures of internal organs. Medical workers will be abl...Exercise, Classroom Instruction Cut Kids' Cholesterol, Study Finds
...a health and physicaleducation program designed by the scientists lowered total fat in their blood byan a...ed "bad" cholesterol, dropped by 10 percent during the program. Children who participated in either the exercise or the classroominstruction arms o...Diuretics And Beta-Blockers Are Best Drugs To Combat High Blood Pressure, Study Finds
...lpha-blockers -- to lower high blood pressure. But the results of a study published in the March issue of Hypertension show that two older, less expensive types of drugs, diuretics and beta-b...Optical Technology Projects Images Directly Into The Eye
...aser and a rapidly rotating reflective polygon are the main components in a new technique to project imag... Display Method (RSD) makes it possible to project the virtual reality simulated by a computerin a very realistic way. The picture quality is much better t...Effects Of 15% Oxygen On Breathing Patterns And Oxygenation In Infants
...Milner states that before widespread concern about the possible risk flying and altitude may pose to inf...engers, 750,000 infants have travelled safely over the last ten years, estimates Milner. He concludes by saying that so long as a child is healthy there i...ACS Industry Pavilion Features Chemistry's Cutting Edge
What do the man responsible for Tylenol®, the guys who designed thefastest car in the world and the brewmasters who make your favorite beer tastes...In the not-too-distant future, patients in pain may be be... fromthe University of California San Francisco in the March 26 issue of thescientific journal Nature. We may perceive pain as a continuum ranging...Radio Frequencies Used To Kill Inoperable Liver Tumors At Penn's Cancer Center
...ng radio signals into a surgical laser,surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center are using... frequency ablation -- is available exclusively in the Delaware Valley region at Penn's Cancer Center... and available at only a few select hospitals acros...Drug Is First In Decade To Show Promise Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder
...ist Dr. Jonathan Davidson. Davidson said the anti-depressant drug, venlafaxine extended release(XR), is the first new therapy in 10 years to be proven clearly effective intreating symptoms of GAD, a mental di......eaths and illnesses recently were reportedto be on the decline. This was presumed to be due to improved c...idespread use ofviral load testing to better gauge the effectiveness of these therapies.However, precise information as to the extent to which antiviral me...Is Ritalin As Effective--And As Harmless--As It Could Be?
DALLAS, March 29 -- Ritalin, the treatment of choice for an estimated 2 millionor m...d colleagues presented their findings heretoday at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society, world's largestscientific society. Methy......earchers at Yale University School of Medicine and the HowardHughes Medical Institute at Yale. "T...metformin and troglitazone-act indifferent ways in the human body and were equally effective in loweringpatients' blood glucose levels," explains Gerald I.......cer therapy. These results continue to strengthen the correlationbetween actual experimental observations and the computational simulationsprovided by BioNumerik's innovative supercomputer simulations and mechanism......cyrooms and cardiac intensive care wards to aid in the pumping of blood,according to a study presented at the recent American College of Cardiologymeeting in Atlanta. To obtain the findings, Hal Barron,...National Health Study Launched On The Internet
...r. PaulWilliams has launched what he hopes will be the first epidemiologicalmega-survey on the Internet. The National Health Survey can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.healthsurvey.o...Clinical Pharmacists Improve Outcomes Of Heart Failure Patients
...medications, see numerous physicians in and out of the hospital and oftensuffer from other disorders. A ...to a multi-disciplinary heart failure teamimproves the outcomes for these chronically ill patients. The Duke researchers said the broad use of clin...ATLANTA -- After reviewing the data from four of the largest multi-centerrandomized clinical trials of new heart disease drugs, Duke University MedicalCe...Poor Heart Disease Patients Pay More For Medications, Get Less Preventative Care
...prepared their findingsfor presentation Tuesday at the 47th scientific sessions of the American Collegeof Cardiology. The study is part of a National Institutes of Health-funded"Moderator...First Trimester Screening For Down Syndrome Possible, NICHD-Funded Study Finds
...tive screeningfor Down syndrome is possible before the 14th week of pregnancy--earlier thanprevious scree...y, screening for Downsyndrome is conducted between the 14th and 16th week of pregnancy. The study, led by James E. Haddow, MD, of the Foundation f...