School Computer Posture Problems Found
... found nodifferences in how the children rated in three diverse public school settings: urban, suburban and rural, in upstate New York and southeastern Michigan. "The research suggests that ergonomic considerations for computer use amongelementary schoolchildren are frequently disregarded; this has impli...An Ergonomically Redesigned Analgesia Delivery Device Proves Safer And More Efficient
...rst session. Performance Measures During the test, three measures of performance were recorded: task comple...signed over the current interface. In summary, all three performance measures provided converging evidence that the redesigned interface facilitates PCA prog...Growing Younger By Keeping Up Regular Physical Activity
... muscle strength by 30 to 100 percent in the first three months, afterwhich point they reached a plateau and did not continue improving. A study in which people who exercised by walking several days a week decreasedtheir risk of disability and improved their ability to walk distances, climbstairs, stoop...Study Finds Clot-Busting Drug Ineffective Or Even Harmful If Not Used Soon After A Stroke
...he stroke will get worse if the drug is used after three hours, including a 3percent chance of early death." This study confirms that beyond three hours, tPAcan cause dangerous bleeding in the brain. The Oregon Stroke Center was theleading enrolli...Far Few Drugs Are Tested On Children
...ecruited. In particular, they lacked recruits aged three to four. But in the US, drugs companies will soon have an incentive to overcomethese difficulties. As part of the new Act, for 493 drugs that the FDA considersa priority, companies will be granted a six-month extension of their patents, inexc...Promising Bone Cancer Therapy Advances To Next Level
...tures. They cannot have had radiation therapy for three months, and cannothave taken Metastron or other radiopharmaceuticals in the three months beforereceiving the tin. Also, they may not have surgery planned. Prospective patien...Ablatherm: An Ultrasound Device For Prostate Cancer Therapy
...d prostate cancer. Only 13 patients have more than three years'follow-up since treatment, and the promising initial results must be confirmedin trials with larger numbers of patients. A European multicenter phase II trialis underway in Lyon (Edouard Herriot hospital), Paris (Montsouris Institute andSaint-L...Women Who Have Invasive Cervical Cancer Benefit From Addition Of Chemotherapy To Radiation Treatment
...e Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) is oneof three studies that will be reported in the April 15 issue of the New EnglandJournal of Medicine. Other investigators were in the RTOG study were at New YorkUniversity, the State University of New York Health Science Center and otherinstitutions. It was fun...Komen Foundation Announces Application Deadline For 1999 National Grants
... The program offers funding of $35,000 annuallyfor three years. Applicants must be sponsored by a principal investigator fromthe same institution. 1999 Brinker International Awards for Breast Cancer Research: Two awards will begiven to honor outstanding individuals for their achievement in the field ofbr...Improved Medications Can Nip Allergy Season In The Bud
...gh Dorit had no personalhistory of allergies until three years ago, she was aware of their disablingeffects because her husband, Jesse, had struggled with severe allergies foryears before finding effective treatment with Dr. Mosenifar's aid. "For several years, I'd suffered along with my allergies," said J......ll ascollaborators at two facilities in Israel and three in Europe, are testing theeffectiveness of the common antibiotic, Azithromycin, in preventing recurrentheart attacks. $5 MILLION DONATION WILL BENEFIT PATIENTS WITH BRAIN TUMORS, OTHER DEADLY BRAINDISORDERS (BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK IS MARCH 15-21): Wi...Infrared Thermometers A Good Alternative For Use On Newborns
... researchers took one axillary reading three hours aftera feeding. They found that axillary and rectaltemperatures were in close agreement, much like the full-term babies incribs. It's also common practice to take an infant's...Interleukin-2 Boosts Cancer Vaccine Effectiveness In Mice
...ts from the U-M study include: Mice injected with three times the lethal dose of tumor (sarcoma) cells andthen vaccinated with a sarcoma-specific dendritic cell vaccine showedsubstantial reduction in tumor size, while mice receiving the same vaccine withIL-2 remained disease free. Eighty percent of mice ......h younger people do not usually have colon cancer, three recentcases of physically fit patients in their mid-30s have focused attention on thedisease: Baseball players Eric Davis and Darryl Strawberry and model LeslieGlass. Glass, who was raised in Baltimore and has a successful career as amodel an...Flu Shots Keep Health Workers On The Job
... and work absence--the firstto be carried out over three successive epidemic seasons--researchers at theJohns Hopkins School of Public Health and School of Medicine cleared upcontradictory findings about whether flu shots really made a difference inkeeping health care workers on the job. Their study appear...Heart Valve Abnormalities Examined In Relation To Duration Of Diet Drug Use
...8.8 percent of 1,163 patientswho used fen/phen for three months or more. In comparison, they detected thesa... the 1,163 patients who used fen/phen for morethan three months was gathered from 33 different diet clinics around of thecountry. Among other conclusions, th...Study Highlights Flu Risks For Women With Chronic Illness
...ringinfluenza season are 65 years or older, nearly three quarters of pneumonia- andinfluenza-associated hospitalizations occur among people younger than 65. The study tracked non-pregnant women under the age of 64 who were enrolled inTennessee's Medicaid program from 1974-1993. It was discovered that for e...Stent Procedures May Be Unnecessary In Some Heart Cases
...t led to stent-like results that were studied,only three were statistically significant: gender, location o...whoachieved stent-like results, 45 percent had all three of the favorablecharacteristics: gender, size and location of blockage. This represents about42,000......pouches of hamsters. Hydrogen peroxide was applied three times a week for 12weeks. Boyd said many dental practitioners use 3-percent hydrogen peroxide as arinse or to debride oral wounds. Lesions in the hamsters' left cheek pouches, not subject to hydrogenperoxide, served as controls. ...T-Cell Memory Finding May Provide Key To Cancer, AIDS Vaccines
...r of memory T cells. Without strongstimulation for three to four days, few memory cells emerged. By finding theanswer to this fairly basic scientific question, "we have stumbled into theworld of clinical relevance," jokes Ashton-Rickardt. "No vaccine trial to date," he said, "has been able to produce signi...