15 minutes training enough to save lives with an automated external defibrillator
...en cardiac deaths affect nearly 400,000 people per year in Europe, and every day in the U.S. more than 1,2...l in Aachen, Germany, asked over two hundred first year medical students with no prior experience to use a defibrillator on a mannequin on two occasions, wi...Lottery funding to aid research into superbugs
...ers with the same illness. We hope that this three year collaborative research programme, employing state-of-the-art microbiology, will bring major benefits to the CF community."...Preschoolers not getting enough fiber
...analyses on the 2 and 3 years olds and the 4 and 5 year olds and compared them. The younger children had,...intake than the older children. The two and three year olds, whose fiber intake placed them in the top quarter of the sample, met the new National Academy ...Researchers discover genetic variant that may explain why women develop M.S. more than men
.... MS is diagnosed in an estimated 400,000 people a year in the United States, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society ( http://www.nationalmssociety.org ). The hallmark of the disease is the emergence of multiple areas of inflammation and scarring of the protective myelin sheath that covers ...Early surgical treatment not always necessary for patients with brain haemorrhage
...ain haemorrhage affects 20 in 100,000 people every year and studies have suggested the death rate is around 40%. It causes 20% of stroke cases and most survivors are left disabled. There are two treatment options, surgery or medical treatment. In the International Surgical Trial in Intracerebral Haemorrh...Disaster funding needs radical reform
...t all meteorological in nature, is steadily rising year on year, from an average of 150 a year in 1980 to over 450 a year today. Although some of this increase may be due to better reporting, a s...Animal study shows link between nicotine and atrial flutter
...to 1999, an average of 442,398 Americans died each year of smoking-related illnesses; 33.5 percent of these deaths were cardiovascular-related. "We were surprised to find that nicotine induced a considerable increase in atrial interstitial fibrosis in the dogs with myocardial infarction but only a mild in...New research reinforces importance of aerobic health
...cted over 10 percent of the student body its first year offered. He earned his B.S. in biology from Trinity University in 1990 and his Ph.D. in physiology and biophysics from the University of California at Irvine in 1994. He did post-doctoral work at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in...National Academies news: Academy honors 17 for major contributions to science
...ed byE. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and given this year for contributionsmade in academia, has been presented since 1991. NAS AWARD FOR THE INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF SCIENCE - a prize of $25,000awarded every three years for original scientific work of intrinsicscientific importance and with significant,...Olson family donates $1 million to Arizona Cancer Center
...cancer on Jan. 1, 2001, following a two-and-a-half year battle, and is designed to support research for the prevention and cure of ovarian cancer. "This gift is something the family has been planning for some time," said Olson. "We feel it's so important that Bobbi's legacy stay alive and that we continue...Adults who had higher exposure to infant siblings have decreased risk for MS
...rols (average age, 43.6 years), matched on sex and year of birth. The researchers found that increasing duration of contact with a younger sibling aged less than 2 years in the first 6 years of life was associated with reduced MS risk: 1-3 years of infant contact, a 43 percent reduced risk; 3 to 5 years ...Climate change and the future of air travel
...ravel is currently growing at between 3 and 5% per year and cargo transportation by air is increasing by 7% per year. The researchers at Imperial College London are combining predictions from climate change models with air traffic simulations to predict contrail formation and identify ways of reducing it....Thinking of prepositions turns brain 'on' in different ways
...y," he said. In English, months of the year are treated as containers. People say "in January" or "in February." Other languages treat months as surfaces. For example, "on January" or "on February." Despite the difference, there is a metaphor at work, Kemmerer said. "The cross-ling...Vaccinating school children and high risk groups is best strategy for slowing flu transmission
...nd distribution of that many doses of vaccine each year in order to stabilize production. This strategy not only would be effective for normal yearly flu outbreaks, but also for years of pandemic influenza when supplies of vaccine are more limited. The Emory researchers cite several field studies by oth...Calcium boost to youths' bones could reduce osteoporosis risk
...lemented groups of girls occurred from between one year before and one year after the onset of menstruation. By young adulthood, significant effects remained at the metacarpals...Increased physical activity not linked to ALS risk
... physical activity: until the age of 25; until one year before the onset of the disease; and the last 10 years before the onset of the disease. "The results showed that there was no significant association between risk of developing ALS and increased occupational or leisure time physical activity," said s...More studies on risks and benefits of COX-2 inhibitors published in Archives of Internal Medicine
...rom multiple linked health care databases over one year from April 1, 2000 to March 31, 2001 to identify a group of patients who were older than 66 years of age and continuously prescribed warfarin. "During the study period, we identified 98,821 elderly patients continuously receiving warfarin," the resea...NIAID begins enrolling volunteers for novel HIV vaccine study
...anizers expect that it will take approximately one year to fully enroll volunteers into the study. NIAID and Merck expect the trial be completed in four-and-a-half years, with results anticipated in 2010. For more information on enrolling, visit HVTN's Web site at www.hvtn.org ....Vaginal hysterectomy leads to better outcomes than abdominal surgery
...e. About 600,000 hysterectomies are performed each year in the United States. More than 60 percent of hysterectomies performed between 1994 and 1999 were abdominal, according to the CDC report. Johnson says the percentage of hysterectomies performed by each of the surgical approaches "varies markedly acro......f the studies with information on survival rates a year after the treatment had started. The three studies included 426 patients. In one of the studies, patients took 500 milligrams of vitamin E twice a day. Patients in the second study received a 50-milligram, under-the-skin injection of the antioxidant ...