Improving access to healthy food has little effect on diet
...le effect on diet and health, says an editorial in this week's BMJ. Ensuring communities have good access to healthy affordable food is one of the government's joined up strategies to improve public health and reduce health inequalities. However, evidence to inform how, when, and where to reduce these in...Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage
...ng in the liver have not been well understood, and this has hindered progress in finding ways to prevent and repair liver damage. Now that we have shown how the macrophages work, we aim to find out how to create, activate and de-activate these cells to make them repair, rather than damage, liver tissue." ...NIH state-of-the-science panel calls for 'demedicalization' of menopause
An independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health found th...he risks associated with estrogen use may rule out this treatment option for some groups of women. The panel cautioned women to carefully weigh their person...Oral bacteria may predict pregnancy outcomes
...lated to periodontal diseases to better understand this potential important link between periodontal statu...d Low Birth Weight: A Meta-Analysis. Findings from this study indicate that periodontal diseases in the pregnant mother significantly increase the risk of s...First mouse model for multiple system atrophy points to new treatment targets for brain diseases
... to be three separate diseases sheds new light on this little-studied brain disease, according to researc...aintaining learning and memory. "The uniqueness of this disease is that, unlike most of the neurodegenerative diseases, which affect neurons primarily and o...Treatment of cardiac lesions without anaesthesic
... from the right auricle to the left. In most cases this opening closes after the baby is born but, on occa...f which is suspected and shown to have arisen from this cause, that this opening or foramen be closed,otherwise the risk of another, more serious, embolism ...Understanding how vulnerabilities may keep women in abusive relationships
... in the latest issue of Family Relations discusses this model and the vulnerabilities that emerged from interviews with seven Black and twenty-one White women who suffered chronic abuse by male dating partners. "Rather than victim-blaming, studying women's vulnerabilities provides a theoretical basis for...Can you read my mind? W.M. Keck Foundation funds innovative brain research at Carnegie Mellon
...ction of the entire brain system. In addition to this Keck Foundation grant, Mitchell and Just have received funding from the National Science Foundation for related studies, for a total of $1 million. "If successful, our research will result in a significant advance in the scientific understanding of ...Risky surgery not always necessary to treat cervical disease
...e to date, other viral diseases are not treated in this way. More research is underway to review treatments and make further advancements in the way of nonsurgical options. Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a very common virus affecting millions of women. It can cause gential warts and if left untreated, ca...RIT takes eye-tracking research to next level
...d by the Sharp Research Laboratory of America. In this case, Pelz's team is exploring how people view rapid motion on the new class of large displays. Knowing how fast an object is moving across a viewer's retina-rather than on the screen-will help them write software algorithms to overcome hardware limi...Stanford patient is first to test new treatment for peripheral arterial disease
... favorite pastime. An ultrasound and CT scan early this year showed that an artery in Erickson's thigh was...e most common cause of such pain and the target of this clinical trial. Those interested in participating may contact the research coordinators of the Divis...Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
...t the Baker Institute. In a research paper posted this month on the Baker Institute Web site, Martin para...ve a clean needle for every used one they turn in; this limits careless and dangerous disposal of contaminated needles. A 2002 report from Australia estimat...New studies suggest airborne SARS transmission is possible
...rus transmission to health care workers. To answer this question, they collected patient information and environmental samples from the SARS units of four Toronto hospitals. SARS coronavirus was detected in the air in one of the four rooms tested. The researchers also detected virus in four of 85 surface ...Massive weight loss conference Dallas April 1-2
...n management and patient safety considerations for this patient population. In the United States, obesity has risen at an epidemic rate during the past 20 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Results of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 19992000 indicate that an...Yale technology translates to sonic golf training tool
...o the speed of the club," Grober said. "We convert this signal into an audio soundscape that is universally intuitive to golfers and instantly interpretable, providing realtime audio feedback on the tempo, timing and rhythm of the golf swing." A patent was filed through the Yale Office of Cooperative Res...NIAID initiates trial of experimental avian flu vaccine
...orted research on H5N1, the strain responsible for this deadly form of avian influenza, since 1997 when th...t cases in humans were reported. The initiation of this vaccine trial marks a key advance in our efforts to prepare to respond to an avian flu pandemic," ad...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
... amyloid burden even at a relatively late stage in this animal model. Pass the fish oil, please....Three-year cervical cancer screening recommendations may be applicable for certain women with HIV
...ence of SIL" between the two groups of women. "In this observational cohort study, HIV-seronegative and HIV-seropositive women who had normal cytology results with CD4 (cell) counts greater than 500/microlitre and who had negative test results for HPV at baseline had a similar low cumulative incidence of...Specific test key to determine whether or not allergy symptoms are really allergy-related
...t managed care guidelines generally don't call for this kind of test," Szeinbach said. "It needs to become...atient is considered allergic to that pollen. With this kind of test, a person often must wait up to two hours to see if there is a reaction. The skin test ......and sexual relationships than it is to worry about this small increase in risk," Steptoe says." Emotional...ield has become 'What should cardiologists do with this information?' given that there are no guidelines for integrating the management of psychological fac...