Irregular periods in young women could be warning sign for later osteoporosis
...ealing with osteoporosis an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."...Lasers light way to 3-D imaging in Purdue lab
...h a tumor," Nolte said. "If you see some structure worth looking at, you can back up, all in real time, and go section-by-section through the tumor." The new imaging technique is made possible by lasers and special "dynamic holographic films," the most sensitive such films in the world which have been de...Breast cancer under threat from the new ethics say top cancer specialists
...l researchers," he said. "They feel the game isnt worth the candle." The topic will be the subject of the final conference debate tomorrow. To set the scene for the delegates, Professor Baum has turned to George Orwells famous novel 1984 for inspiration for a short satirical drama entitled 2084, which wil...UNC expands national clinical trials of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's drugs
...termine if they are effective and whether they are worth the higher price. "The relative effectiveness of ziprasidone and other drugs in the study is undetermined," Dr. Lieberman said. "CATIE research will provide a definitive comparison so that health-care providers can make informed choices about treatm...Smaller hospitals OK for heart bypass surgery - if your risk is small
...es. "The question has been, would the drawbacks be worth the lives saved?," he explains. Based on the new results, the U-M team instead proposes "targeted regionalization", in which lower-volume hospitals take the lowest-risk cases and refer trickier ones to major centers that handle more - and more comple...Lack of trained staff and technical support exposes patients to increased risk of cancer progression
...ws of high-technology" in radiation therapy seemed worth the effort, he argued, but would have to be monitored carefully. Patients in the Netherlands were already waiting on average for three or four weeks for radiation therapy to begin....Virginia Tech students discoveries can help prevent water-borne diseases
...nt, and he recently won a highly competitive grant worth $150,000 from the American Water Works Association...ed air bubble eruptions. "We thought this path was worth investigating," he says. In addition to studying why bubbles form and how they punch holes in treat...Americans leading healthier lives, reducing risk of death from heart disease, UCSF study finds
... reductions in heart disease risk factors are well worth the cost, in part because of reductions achieved by the American publics positive changes in lifestyle and habits." In fact, UCSF researchers found that reductions in heart disease risk factors dramatically reduced the number of heart disease related...Rewards coupled with naltrexone effective in treating heroin and other opioid addictions
...ients who complied perfectly could earn up to $561 worth of items during the 12-week treatment. Most patients on average earned $200. The money was not given directly to the patients; instead they were able to redeem their vouchers for items consistent with a drug-free lifestyle, such as gift certificates ...Wolfgang Glasser receives ACS award for wood chemistry, bio-based composites research
...wo-billion pound (one million ton) global business worth $180 million for products used in construction, textile manufacture, oil production, and many other applications. The combination of abundant wood fibers and recycled plastics is the basis for a new industry manufacturing almost one billion pounds o......a for prostate cancer experienced up to a decade's worth of bone loss within the first year of therapy, said senior author Susan Greenspan, M.D., professor, divisions of endocrinology and geriatric medicine, department of medicine, University of Pittsburgh; and director, Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatme...Teenagers, drinking and driving: a quick trip to the grave
...ohol Misuse Prevention Study, in which five hour's worth of alcohol-education sessions were given to 10th-grade Michigan students during each of the 1988-1989 and 1989-1990 school years. For this study, Shope and her colleagues examined students' driving histories for roughly seven years following licensu...Eastman gives Clemson University $38 million fiber technology
...iber and Polymer Science a unique fiber technology worth an estimated $38 million in intellectual property and patent rights. Eastman's donation includes more than 100 U.S. and worldwide patents and intellectual properties related to capillary surface material (CSM) technology -- a major breakthrough in ...New book asks ethical questions about human subjects research
...otion of an ethics of relationships in research is worth pursuing because it might bring us closer to solving some of the peripheral problems crowding our field of vision," they say. The new book includes detailed case studies the editors hope will help a wide audience of researchers and students in all fi...Noveau neurons are better than no neurons at all
...Davis. The electronic neuron was built from $7.50 worth of circuit parts from Radio Shack. The team said the key finding was in the mathematical modeling that preceded the actual experiment. They discovered they only needed to control three variables that affect a neuron's overall function, rather than th......se III clinical trial was the only way to provethe worth of these two treatments, which had shown promise in pilot studies,according to Matthay. "Studies had been done of bone marrow transplant, and ofintensive chemotherapy. There were advocates of both treatments. But no one haddone a randomized study of ...UNC-CH wins $42.1 million federal contract to study drugs for schizophrenia and Alzheimer's
...ffectiveness in the real world and whether theyare worth the higher price. "The NIMH wants to get definitive and objective results in terms of theireffectiveness, results of significant magnitude in real world settings that caninform public health policy," said Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, professor ofpsychi......to create an array offering, say, 100 squaremeters worth of separation power." In addition, he says, if the results obtained with model systems provesuccessful, "We could potentially reduce the total number of steps required forpurification, which should, in turn, reduce the overall cost of the process." ...New nasal obstruction procedure offers cheaper, pain-free alternative to surgery
...rocedure on people whose septums aren't great.It's worth a try - it may save a trip to the operating room and there's no nosepacking and no hospital stay. If necessary, the patient can have a septoplastyafterwards." Yarbrough, whose 1998 paper on the study of tumor suppressors -- genetherapy that p...Conference on arthroplasty will highlight innovations in joint replacement treatment
... and orthopedic surgery at Rush. Twosuch sessions worth noting will be held on Thursday, September 23: 1) Robotic Surgery by Dr. Andre Buaer, Marbella High Care, Marbella, Spain, willbe held from 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Invented more than seven years ago by aveterinarian for use on hip replacements in dogs, ...