College students at no greater risk of alcohol-related problems than peers
... 600,000 assaults, and 70,000 sexual assaults each year on college campuses. Other studies have generally found that, compared to their same-age peers, college students are more likely to take part in heavy and/or binge drinking. Wendy S. Slutske, Ph.D., from the University of Missouri at Columbia, compar...University of Manchester awarded 826k for brain science and mental health research
...ntal illness Seven projects were also funded last year during the first round of the competition, totalling 1.25M. These included research into the way Alzheimer's disease develops, the prevention of relapse in people diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and ways of improving depression with modular treatmen...Portable system offers dialysis patients 'liberating' changes
...ndergoing rigorous dialysis for kidney failure. A year ago, researchers at IU and across the country began testing the NxStage System One, a portable unit that allows patients to conduct their own dialysis at home or on the road. And the preliminary results are promising, says Michael A. Kraus, M.D., the...Hopkins convenes 'consensus' conference to develop blueprint for nationwide matching program
... kidney exchange will save thousands of lives each year and drastically reduce the medical costs associated with kidney disease." The goal of the conference is to develop consensus among experts about criteria, operational standards, ethical issues and coordination of a national program. Several transplan...Three out of the four million newborn babies who die each year could be saved
...four million newborn babies who die worldwide each year could be saved by low-tech and low-cost interventi...entions at 90% coverage, an extra $4.1 billion per year is estimated to be needed on top of the $2.0 billion spent currently, giving a total of $6.1 billion...IADR & GSK announce 2005 Innovation in Oral Care Awards
...ashington School of Dentistry. "This is the second year of the IADR/GSK Oral Care Awards and we are encour...with the progress of the projects funded from last year and look forward to the progress of these new awards from such innovative scientists and clinicians ...Mayo Clinic develops first genomic-based test to predict stroke from ruptured brain aneurysm
...t this lightning-like, catastrophic disease, every year in the United States alone there are potentially 30,000 people who could be affected by this." Background Biology Physicians and researchers have long been puzzled by the discrepancy between the large numbers of people with brain aneurysms -- 10 to...Innovation prize finalists announced in 'Science of Better'
...rends in business and government. This is the 34th year of the prestigious competition, which has recognized techniques that have changed our technical and business landscape. These include dynamic pricing, which revolutionized pricing in the airlines and hospitality industries; Diagnostic Related Groups,...Men more likely to get screened for prostate cancer than colon cancer, U-M study finds
...esearchers will review the women's records up to a year later to see if they get checked for colon cancer or spoke to their physicians about it. If successful, Carlos says, the same approach could be taken for men during prostate cancer screenings. "Men are already paying attention to their cancer risk in...$4 million grant boosts University of Michigan campaign for a new children's hospital
...s in medical technology and treatment." In fiscal year 2004 alone, 11,519 children were admitted to or born at the facility, and there were about 350,000 outpatient visits by children and infants to U-M clinics. Plus, demand for Mott surgical services has increased an average of 5 percent to 10 percent e...New laparoscopic hysterectomy offers quicker recovery time than traditional surgery
...re than 600,000 hysterectomies are performed every year in the United States at a cost of $5 billion, which doesn't take into account the 144 million work hours lost to the average six-week recovery time. Billie Williams of Grapevine had been considering having one for years, but major surgery and a long ...Society of Hospital Medicine to launch new medical journal
...ed in 1997, the newsletter is produced six times a year and has been provided free to approximately 10,000 hospitalists in the U.S. Hospital Medicine is the nation's fastest growing medical specialty. Hospitalists are physicians whose primary focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. ...Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
... child's odds of becoming a smoker by their senior year of high school. "Taken together, these two studies suggest that parents who quit smoking by the time their children are 8 or 9 years old may help prevent their children from becoming adolescent smokers and, if they do start, may help them quit smokin...Genetic amplification (NAAT) test detects HIV more effectively than standard tests in urban study
...nfections and 56 hepatitis C virus infections each year since it was initiated for screening donor blood. "Adding NAAT-based screening to standard HIV testing for can identify people with acute HIV infection earlier when they may be most infectious and at risk for spreading the virus. Then they can be re...Inpatient smoking cessation counseling is associated with early differences in mortality
...of dying in the first 30 days, 60 days and up to 1 year after their attacks. The study, conducted by inves...ed to is the reduction in mortality over the first year of cessation. Our research suggests an even more immediate positive association within 30 days of qu...More training needed to care for growing geriatric population
...ecome their patients." It is estimated that by the year 2030, there will be more than 70 million people over the age of 65 in the United States. "We know there's a shortage of trained geriatric specialists in the United States," says co-author Gregg Warshaw, MD, professor of geriatric medicine and family...Unsafe water and poor sanitation causes 4000 children to die each day
...eme poverty, with quantitative targets set for the year 2015. Jamie Bartram (World Health Organisation) and colleagues write that poor sanitation and a lack of safe drinking water is a 'silent humanitarian crisis' that kills some 3900 children everyday and thwarts progress to the MDG's, especially in Afr...New radio-frequency technique for knee injuries
...gnetic resonance studies over a period of at least year after the retraction. From these studies, satisfactory results were obtained in 90% of the patients. The remaining patients were able to benefit from more traditional treatment techniques, but with longer recuperation periods. It would appear to be t...Penn study will compare heart failure management technologies
...o symptomatic heart failure events within the past year requiring a trip to an emergency room. A primary care physician or internist must be managing each volunteer's heart failure. Participants must also have the physical and cognitive ability to use the telephone, a scale (ability to stand unsupported ...Adverse drug events in nursing homes are far more common than previously identified
...life-threatening or fatal adverse drug events each year in the United States, of which nearly 70% may be preventable. "This seems to be a major safety issue for some of our most vulnerable patients," Dr. Gurwitz said. "We must develop new approaches for making the use of medications less prone to errors a...