The Public Library of Science launches the new open access journal PLoS Clinical Trials
...ontents of PLoS Clinical Trials are available to anyone to read and re-use for free, not only to researchers and practitioners but also to patients and trial participants. "The results of clinical trials belong in the public domain", says Steve Nissen, The Cleveland Clinic (Ohio, USA) and a member of the ...Fraternity/sorority members who get drunk weekly at higher risk of injuries
...tudents is don't get drunk and don't hang out with anyone who gets drunk. Drunk isn't funny. Drunk puts you at risk for burns, falling out of windows, sexual assault, and car crashes. If you feel dizzy, you've already had too much." The researchers have previously shown that the single question about drink...Stress, alcoholics, and post-traumatic stress disorder
...sm and PTSD so severely disrupts the HPA axis that anyone with both disorders who experiences stress does not have an appropriately robust hormone stress response," said Adinoff. "In other words, the combination of PTSD and alcoholism may have more profound, long-term effects on the HPA axis than just havi...New long-distance wireless networking developed at UC Berkeley brings eye care to India
...mes as far as regular Wi-Fi. The technology allows anyone with about $800 for a pair of small computers with...etwork of five eye hospitals that provide care for anyone with eye problems. In an effort to reach the 70 percent of its target population that lives in rura...The 'roulette wheel': A new tool to help patients make difficult treatment decisions
...eople have trouble understanding. "It is hard for anyone to comprehend the difference between a 7% chance and an 8% chance," they say, "and this is exacerbated when we try to deal in more extreme probabilities, such as 3 in 10,000." The researchers believe that the roulette wheel could be an important adva...Study reveals biochemical signature of cocaine craving in humans
UPTON, NY -- Ask anyone who has been addicted to drugs and they'll tell you that the mere sight of someone using their drug of choice -- or even people, places, or objects associated with drug use -- can trigger an intense desire for the drug. Using sophisticated brain-imag...International Association for Dental Research presents awards & fellowships
...cash prize and a plaque. The Gies Award is open to anyone who publishes in the Journal of Dental Research, the official publication of the IADR/AADR. The awards in the Biological and Clinical categories were presented at the AADR Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL, USA (March, 2006; see AADR Reports at http://w...Radon testing as a campus community service
...ersity staff, faculty, students, and retirees, but anyone in the local area was welcome to participate. Sure enough, university employees shared information about the program with their friends, families and neighbors. Some ordered radon detectors for their loved ones, and "we encouraged that," Mohaupt says...New treatment model for bipolar disorder shows promise
...laborative approach works," Bauer said. "Just like anyone with a chronic illness, people with bipolar disorder can work with medical professionals to manage their symptoms and manage their lives." ...American College of Physicians to release 'How To Report Statistics in Medicine'
...dly index, it should also be a valuable adjunct to anyone learning biostatistics and medical research in traditional academic classes. The new edition features thoroughly revised and expanded text with eight new chapters, including two new chapters on preparing tables and figures and four new chapters for...One in 10 teenage girls have self-harmed, study shows
...eported thinking about self-harm had not talked to anyone about it or tried to get help. The vast majority of pupils said that their friends were the people they felt that they could talk to about things that bothered them and those who had self-harmed most often turned to their friends. "This responsi...Why are so many people dying on Everest?
...out one death for every 10 successful ascents. For anyone who reaches the summit, they have about a 1 in 20 chance of not making it down again. So why are there so many people dying on Mount Everest? And more importantly, can we reduce this number? The main reasons for people dying while climbing Mount ...Human rights abuses frequent in Haiti's capital
... area of Haiti. Participants were asked if they or anyone in their household had suffered any human rights violations such as murders, rapes, extra-judiciary arrests, larceny, or physical assaults in the 22-month period from February 2004 to December 2005. They were asked the date and location of incidents,...Rising health expenses are a good value, researchers say
...ttling in the media and the public square, without anyone seriously analyzing and discussing the benefits gained," says Cutler. "But the dramatic increase in life expectancy that we've seen over the last decades shows that rising medical costs have been largely justified." Conservatively adjusting for no...Depressed patients experience excessive inflammation during stressful situations
...xist in the literature, but this is the first time anyone has shown evidence to suggest that the inflammatory response to stress may be greater in depressed people," says Dr. Miller. The study included 28 medically healthy male participants, half of whom were diagnosed with major depression and half of w...BC catalyst discovery promises faster, cheaper drug production
...be harmful. Because of this, it is important for anyone who wants to prepare drugs, especially in large quantities, to be able to synthesize single-handed compounds with high selectivity; ideally, none of the opposite hand should be around. This way, the unfavorable properties of one enantiomer are elimin...Molecular medicine comes to the rescue
...for mild case of type 2," said Philipson, "a trade anyone would make. It's comparable to swapping influenza for the sniffles." Lilly's journey began at a routine check-up one month after birth. A standard test showed glucose in her urine. Follow-up blood tests indicated diabetes. "In a single day we pl...Doctors cut repeat LASIK visits dramatically
...sighted. "Though those results were among the best anyone had gotten to date, we thought we could do better,...s used in LASIK procedures. "This is not something anyone would have predicted," said MacRae, who is a professor of Ophthalmology and of Visual Science. "When...MRIs made safe for people with modern defibrillators and pacemakers
...see fit to review current restrictions on scanning anyone with a device," says lead author Saman Nazarian, M.D., a cardiac electrophysiology, clinical and research fellow at Hopkins. "These images are critical to early diagnosis of certain cancers of the brain, head and neck, and to guide invasive procedu......with the tricky application of sunless tanners (as anyone who has ever left the house with orange knees and elbows can attest) and either give up entirely, or turn to the sun and tanning beds. Getting a tan either by sitting out in the sun or in a tanning bed currently comes with the bad side effects of ul...