UF Researchers Cite Possible Link Between Autism, Schizophrenia And Diet
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... would take the fastest PC currently on the market three months tocomplete will take just a few minutes on the Origin 2000. "We will use the Origin 2000 initially for research in two key areas: searchingfor similarities in gene sequences and developing three-dimensional models ofhuman proteins, the product...Study Of Women And Hearing Reveals Need For Routine Hearing Tests
...h Foundation, the researchers studied 200 women in three age groups(35-45, 55-65 and 75-80 years). In "Wom...n in the 75-80 age group --women who have a one in three chance of hearing loss -- reported having ahearing test within the last five years. The Northwestern...Higher Doses Of Methadone May Do The Trick, New Study Says
... says, was in the high-dose group, which wastwo to three timeslower than in patients given moderate doses. Both groups, he adds, had arelatively low dropoutrate. "Some patients may need dosages higher than 100 mg for optimal benefit,though moretesting's needed on that, " says Strain. Federal law dis...Dental Researchers Retract Statement Indicating Hydrogen Peroxide May Be Cancer Promoter
... of one week, the right cheek pouches were treated three timesweekly with 3 percent hydrogen peroxide only for a period of 12 weeks. "Using a parenterally-administered fluorescence-producing substance anda photodetection device, fluorescence readings were obtained from the left cheekpouches and com...MIT Touch Lab Research Explores The Hand
...LAB RESEARCH Touch Lab research falls into three broad categories: human haptics (thelatter term describes all aspects of hands and how they work), machine haptics(robotic devices), and computer haptics (the generation of virtual "objects"that the user can touch and feel). "Think of these areas as ...Tobacco Control Is Global Challenge, WHO Director Says
...g world. "By 2020, smoking willcause about one in three of all adult deaths, up from one in six adult deaths in1990,"she said. "The tobacco epidemic is a communicated disease. It is communicated throughadvertising, through the example of smokers and through the smoke to whichnon-smokers -- especially chi...Lo-Cal Diet Slows Prostate Cancer In Animals, New Research Finds
...urnal of the NationalCancer Institute. It involved three sets of experiments, twousing rats and one using ...strated rats that were allowed to eat at will,plus three other groups fed 30 percent fewer calories. The groups ...UW-Madison Center One Of Two Sites Nationwide Selected For Clinical Trial Of Cancer Drug
...nts can tolerate without undue toxicity.Initially, three to six patients will receive small doses of the drug and willbe carefully monitored for toxic effects. Additional patients will then receivegraduated doses of the drug. All patients will be carefully monitored through avariety of complex tests. "The...Managed-Care Systems Could Save By Eliminating Restricted Access To Dermatologists
... "For skin problems the medication costs are often three times the costof the office visit, so the total cost before the referral is much higher thanour conservative estimate," he said. The results are based on data about office visits to doctors as recordedin the National Ambulatory Medical Care surveys f...Exercise Is The Best Means Of Weight Control In Teenagers
...le and female students aged 14-15 over a period of three years, Professor George Patton and colleagues from the University of Melbourne and the Royal Children's Hospital Research Institute, found that female adolescents who undertook heavy dieting were 18 times more likely to develop an eating disorder tha...Improved Ritalin™ Offers Smaller Doses And Fewer Side Effects
...entific literature indicatethatpossibly as many as three percent of the country's elementary and secondarystudents, about 1.5 million, are prescribed Ritalin. Using a new synthesis developed in his lab, University of Pennsylvaniachemist Jeffrey Winkler, Ph.D., and his research group were able to makea...Should Doctors Urge Patients To Take Breaks From Their Drugs?
...ibed a patient in Berlin whostarted treatment with three types of anti-HIV drug soon after becominginfected...nlikely there should be resistance if you stop all three drugsat once," says Paul Johnson of the New England Primate Center in Southborough,Massachusetts. ...Improved Fitness Lowers Mortality Risk Of Male Heart-Attack Survivors
...ohad suffered a heart attack within eight weeks to three years of the trial'sstart in 1976. Before being e...ter the trial'scompletion. Results showed that at three years, exercisers had approximately a30 percent lower risk of death than non-exercisers, but the ben...National Study Suggests Heart Attack Severity May Be Declining
...the course of the study. During the study, two of three indicators that were based on the electrocardiograms showed an increase in severity. However, a different kind of measure based on enzymes in the blood that confirm heart attacks showed declining severity, despite the development of more sensi...Penn Researchers Find Chemoembolization Effective For Liver Tumors
...X-Ray, thearteries to the liver are identified and three chemotherapy drugsare delivered directly to the he... The chemoembolization procedure is approximately three hours inlength, and involves an overnight hospital stay. It is performedrepeatedly on a monthly basi...Debilitating Body Image Disorder Often Begins In Teens; Likely To Be Missed
...atry. The study consisted of 30 females and three males, aged 6 to 17. It isestimated that BDD begin...omalies. Most participants spent more than three hours a day thinking about theirperceived defects; some said it was all they thought about. Ma...Wake Up To Stroke -- Night Strokes Linked To Long Delays In Care
...hospital. "Clot-busting drugs must be given within three hours of the onset of symptoms tobe effective at all," says Rosamond. "Fifty percent don't even get to thehospital within four hours. Then you must add in the time it takes forevaluation and diagnostic tests, like a computer tomography scan, to all...