Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Leads To Lower Child IQ Scores, Language Skills
... for IQ. For many people, the difference of three IQ points would be negligible;the average IQ is 100 points. However, that subtle difference must beunderstood in the context in which cocaine use often occurs, Lester said. Because those children are also likely to live in poverty a...Hormone Therapy Increases Survival Of High Risk Prostate Cancer Patients
...a low risk of dying of prostate cancer, and groups three and four wereconsidered to be at a high risk. Roa... of two to six;group two GS of six to seven; group three GS of seven to ten; and group four GSof eight to ten. "These four groups provide an effective...Study Shows Three-Drug "Cocktail" Needed To Keep AIDS Virus Curbed
...ti-AIDS drugs would work as well as a"cocktail" of three drugs in keeping down HIV virus levels among infec...appeared temporarily because a new study shows the three drugs togetherfight the virus more effectively. The study, published Thursday (Oct. 29) in the New ...Serious Crime Victims Risk PTSD, Multiple Disorders
...of Traumatic Stress (Vol.11, No. 4). About three quarters of the women had experienced at least one crime; 23 percent had been the victim of a rape, 10 percent had been physicallyassaulted, about 6 percent had been robbed, and 13 percent had experienced aburglary while at home. Crime victim...Cure Rate Soars For Some AML Patients Receiving High-Dose Drug
...These groups of patients were then subdivided into three categories according to their cytogenetics; that is, according to the type of chromosome damage present in their malignant cells. Patients showing damage to chromosome 16 or to chromosomes 8 and 21 were assigned to the “core binding...Restaurant Meats Higher In Suspected Carcinogens
...ef hamburgers, steaks and pork ribs, purchasedfrom three different national restaurant chains in the Beltsville, Md., areanear Washington, D.C. The study from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the NationalCancer Institute and the U.S. Department of Agriculture is reported in the Oct.31 Web ed...... can be visualized by ultrasonography in the first three months ofintrauterine life. Research suggests that screening by maternal age and thickness of skinat the neck now identifies more than 80 percent of affected fetuses. When thematernal blood proteins free b hCG and PAPP-A at 10- to 14-weeks'...Hypertension: Getting Pharmacists Involved Can Help
...en whose blood pressure remaineduncontrolled after three physician visits in the previous six months,researchers found that those who received diet and exercise counseling andmedication advice from a pharmacist were more likely to achieve blood pressurecontrol than were patients who received medical care a...Perceived Risks Of Breast Cancer Are Vastly Overestimated
... for instance, the risk of dying of lung cancer is three times as great as dying of breast cancer. Contact: Dr John Bunker, Visiting Professor, Cancer Research Campaign and UCL Cancer Trials Centre, University College London Medical School, London...Changing Drug Delivery For Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Increases Effectiveness, Lowers Costs
.... Patientswere on the oral medication for at least three months and then switched andstarted receiving the methotrexate for at least three months by injection. Partially because of side effects, such as nausea, 31 percent chose tos...Cedars-Sinai Surgeons Present TeleSurgery
...llbe able to discuss the procedure with two of the three surgeons in the countrywho have accumulated the mo...make one incision that's about two inches long and three other incisions thatare usually about half an inch to three-quarters of an inch," said Dr. McKenna."......" During the 1990s, median delays had been between three and four hours -- halfthe individuals delay longer and half delayed less than three to four hours.The REACT study examined the influence of media campaigns in educating thepublic about...This Week's Forecast May Be A Heart Attack
...sed risk of recurrent heart attack, which is about three timeshigher than a person's risk of having a first attack. The study was not designed to determine the reason that changes in temperatureand atmospheric pressure might affect the risk of heart attack. Previousstudies have linked cold weather with hi...Hospital Stays Longer Than Three Days For 'Simple' Heart Attacks May Not Be Cost Effective
...edical Center have found thathospital stays beyond three days for people being treated for uncomplicatedhea... the necessary procedures totreat such patients in three days. "The point is not to kick patients out of the hospital early," said thestudy's lead a...Setbacks To Health Progress In Central America
...tuation more urgent." Today, Central America faces three distinct and separate problems, Dr. Rosessaid. Th...minimum primary care equipment to take care of the three types of populationmentioned." "We are engaged in the repair of the most critical hospital services...First Drug Shown Effective For Treating Chronic Forms Of Major Depression
...cepisodes of major depression. About three percent of the population suffers from chronic for... Medicine. The findings complement those in three new articles, of which Keller isthe lead or co-author, reporting on the initial 12 weeks of ch...Tobacco Will Kill One Third Of Chinese Men
...ently causes 13 per cent of deaths in men but only three per cent of deaths in women. This, explain the authors, is because the proportion of young women who smoke is currently small. The study concludes that if current smoking patterns persist in China, then such projections cannot be substantially wrong....Discarded Treatment For Heart Attacks May Yet Prove To Be A Life-Saver
...ve GIK. Patients were randomized to one of three groups: high-dose or low-doseGIK, or no GIK. Ther...ts between the two GIK groups. Some people in all three groups receivedreperfusion therapy and some did not. According to the researchers, almost ev...Differences In Brain Function Found For Attention Deficit Disorder
...ey also reported that they tried the experiment on three other boys who hadnot been diagnosed with ADD but who had siblings with the diagnosis. Two of thethree siblings of ADD boys showed some Ritalin enhancement of the striatum, asdid their affected brothers. "This would lend some support to the idea that......s a human cell, reverse transcriptase (RT), one of three enzymes used by HIV, reads the retrovirus's genetic material, RNA, and synthesizes DNA, which codes for viral proteins that commandeer the infected cell's protein-making machinery. In an article published in the November 27, 1998, issue of the journ...