More exhaust inhaled by kids inside school buses than by others in the area, says new UC study
... further up the system than the tailpipe, which is where the particle trap is located. Exactly how that exhaust is entering into the cabin is a subject of further study. "The broader message from this study is that there are many exposures to air pollution that are flying below the radar because they are ...Last call for Annual World of Children award nominations
...nce, Kenya , is the Regional Director of ANPPCAN, where she works to stop child labor in Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, Indian Ocean Islands, Southern Africa, and West Africa through 19 ANPPCAN Chapters. Makenzie Snyder, Maryland, USA , founded the Children to Children volunteer program ...Largest NIH grant for NYU will create research network in dental practices
...tate clinical research in medicine. "That is where the genius of a practice-based network comes in: the NYU project, known as the PEARL (Practitioners Engaged in Applied Research and Learning) Network, has an extremely large number of practitioners, and the largest and most diversified patient popula...Bone SPECT superior to FDG PET for detecting bone metastases in breast cancer
...eas PET cannot. In addition, bone SPECT can detect where bone is being regenerated after destruction by tumor cells. For the study, the researchers analyzed the findings in a total of 900 bones in 15 patients with breast cancer who underwent both SPECT and PET. They found that SPECT had a sensitivity of 85...Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research
...Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, where he and his team further explored the PI3K pathway. They postulated that the novel membrane lipid made by PI3K might act as an intracellular "messenger" by recruiting to the cell membrane the machinery (signaling proteins) needed to communicate a gro...Study shows that a kidney transplant can reverse heart failure
...side is prompting investigators to the laboratory, where they can systematically seek to understand why kidney transplantation successfully treats heart failure."......, but only allows the user to subjectively observe where an object is in relation to other observable structures. Therefore, it is operator-dependent. The HUTT system transmits an extremely short ultrasonic pulse (about 250 nanosecond) of 4-12 megahertz frequency (far above human hearing) and picks up the...Golf-related head injuries in children increasing along with sport's popularity
...MCG study also cited the depressed skull fracture where a portion of the skull is broken on impact and und... rather than a golf course. "But it doesn't matter where you get hurt. It's the same mechanism of injury." Much like a 1996 study in North Carolina that sho...Physicians, researchers to talk about new treatments for oral, head and neck cancers
...University, or to participate via conference call, where they will be able to listen as well as to ask questions. The toll-free number is: 1-866-483-1080. The meeting ID # is 1130 and the passcode # is 67862. If you would like to participate by conference call, please RSVP to Leesa Brown at brown-66@medc...Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs and Dan Haney receive public service awards
... Alabama. She created "Making Miracles," a program where high school students volunteer in the cancer unit at Children's Hospital in Birmingham. Later, she spearheaded an initiative to persuade the state of Alabama to offer a "Curing Childhood Cancer" automobile license plate, the purchase of which helps t...Young scientists awarded for achievements in cancer research
...ip at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was a member of the faculty until his retiremen... students also will attend a networking reception, where they can learn about job opportunities and summer internships in the Orange County area. The Specia...50 years after Salk polio vaccine: Status of global eradication efforts
... are 1,263 polio cases worldwide and six countries where the virus is endemic. These are Nigeria, Niger, Egypt, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Salk polio vaccine, Pitt is holding a two-day symposium, "Remembering Polio: The History and Future of Vaccine Developm...Vaccine against cervical cancer and genital warts shows promise
... of cervical cancer occur in the developing world, where organised cervical screening programmes have not been implemented, around 35, 000 women die from the disease every year in Europe and the USA. HPV infections are also responsible for genital warts in 1-2% of young adults. Genital warts can cause sex...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
...a rainy day, than to spend your savings on a house where it doesn't rain," he says. Ubel and Smith also note that their study does not demonstrate directly that having more money and more assets shields a person from a psychological downfall when disability strikes. There could be some psychological factor...Vigorously active adolescents are leaner, fitter
...encourages parents to put children in environments where they can be active and safe, such as after-school and weekend programs. "They can do their schoolwork when they get home; they will just not be able to watch as much television." Dr. Gutin noted that the findings regarding the need for vigorous acti...OHSU researchers demonstrate how Alzheimer's disease impacts important brain cell function
...dded Reddy. ""Moreover we now know much more about where these changes are taking place and what appear to be the proteins most severely impacted to the disease."...People with peanut allergy at risk of allergic reaction to lupin flour
...sed markedly in some countries, especially France, where in 1997 the addition of lupin flour was first permitted to wheat flour. Although the food use of lupin has been permitted in the UK since 1996, few lupin-containing foods are so far on sale; the main source appears to be imported bakery and catering ...Unchaperoned examinations risk misconduct allegations
...haperones at genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics, where intimate examinations are routine. A total of 252 patients took part in the survey during June and December 2003. Ninety two percent (232) were offered a chaperone before an intimate examination, 22% (52) accepted, 12% (27) expressed no preference, a...Lupus and the role of Epstein-Barr virus
...nto the cells of the immune system called B cells, where it remains for life, mostly dormant, with occasional bouts of reactivation and replication. Maintaining EBV infection in a latent or quiet state primarily depends on the power of another kind of immune cell, known as T cells. T cells play a major r......n the many places hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic where no other alternative is available," says obstetrician/gynecologist Susan Cu-Uvin, MD, member of the HIVMA Board of Directors and an AIDS researcher working in the Philippines, Cambodia, and India. "Now we all need to turn our attention to getting th...