Study shows unique garlic product works like the real thing
...her, and which was published as a seminal research article in 2005 in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. This method employs a highly sensitive method of analyzing the breath after ingestion of garlic and unequivocally can determine if garlic was both delivered to the body for absorption, and it...Prescribe exercise for older adults for better health
...as a how-to manual for health care providers." The article provides sample prescriptions, as well as instructive tables and figures for clinicians to follow in creating individualized exercise prescriptions for their patients. The authors explain, "There are four ways to improve physical fitness: aerobic ...People should be paid for donating an organ
...s and prevent exploitation of poor people, says an article in this week's BMJ. The author an organ transplant surgeon has written an opinion piece arguing for payments to be made for live organ donation, saying it does not go against current ethical practice in healthcare and would help with the "despera...Tongue scrapers only slightly reduce bad breath
...ing malodor. The authors of the General Dentistry article feel that future research is necessary to determine what role undetected odorants may play in oral malodor, as well as more well designed, randomized clinical trials to compare the effectiveness of tongue scrapers, toothbrushes, and mouth rinses on r...Study identifies factors correlated with cerebral palsy
...initiated by the Little Foundation. Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc. Editorial: Complexity of the Cerebral Palsy Syndromes In an accompanying editorial, Michael E. Msall, M.D....Screening program yields decline in sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes
... di Padova e Rovigo, Padova, Italy. Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc. Editorial: Protecting Athletes From Sudden Cardiac Death In an accompanying editorial, Paul D. Thompson,...Repealing 'Blue Laws' on Sunday alcohol sales increased alcohol-related crashes and crash fatalities
...ed traffic crashes and fatalities, according to an article published today in the online version of the American Journal of Public Health. According to the study, since New Mexico lifted its ban on Sunday sales of packaged alcohol, there has been a 29 percent increase in alcohol-related crashes and a 42 pe...Friends have greater sway on college students' beliefs on drinking behavior
...irro Center, all at Penn State, are authors of the article "Evaluating the Believability and Effectiveness of the Social Norms Message" in the current issue of journal Health Communication. Of the students who drink 0-4 drinks, 42 percent said they believed "most other students" drink the same amount and 58...Physicians slow to integrate information technology into patient practice
...hese tools into clinical practice." The current article is the first of several reports from the Institute on Medicine as a Profession Study. This survey was sent to more than 3,000 physicians in six specialties internal medicine, family practice, pediatrics, anesthesiology, general surgery and cardiolo...New blood tests aid detection of latent tuberculosis
...QuantiFERON-TB Gold test. In an editorial on the article in the same issue of the journal, Peter F. Barnes, M.D., of the Center for Pulmonary and Infectious Disease Control at the University of Texas Health Center, wrote: "Current published data indicate that the T-SPOT.TB test yields more evaluable result...Second-generation antipsychotic medications appear to offer little advantage over older drugs
...jamamedia.org .) Editor's Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other author...w.jamamedia.org .) Editor's Note: Please see the article for additional information, including author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, ...Brief, high-dose steroid treatment offers extended relief to giant cell arteritis patients
...rednisone and improve patient recovery. As the article and an accompanying editorial report, the research showed extremely positive long-term results. Those patients who had been given the initial high dosage had fewer relapses of the disease (21, as compared to 37 relapses). Seventy-one percent were a...Impaired gene helps non-small cell lung cancer resist drug
...stern Medical Center at Dallas report in the cover article of the Oct. 1 edition of Cancer Research. The gene may provide a potential biomarker for selecting among chemotherapy choices for non-small-cell lung cancer as well as a therapeutic target for restoring the drug cisplatin's punch in treating resista...Mouse study reveals new clues about virulence of 1918 influenza virus
...r flu, report federally supported scientists in an article appearing online today in the journal Nature. Key among these insights, they found that the 1918 virus triggers a hyperactive immune response that may contribute to the lethality of the virus. Furthermore, their results suggest that it is the combin...Waiting for trial results sometimes unethical
...are implemented. But in 2003, the BMJ published an article about the lack of trials on parachutes to show that situations still exist where such trials are unnecessary. This week, US researchers use examples from poor countries to show how an overemphasis on randomised controlled trials poses important ethi...Blood transfusion-transmitted infections: A global perspective
...ajchman and Vamvakas was written in relation to an article in the same issue of the journal concerning the transfusion-transmission of HHV-8, a virus that has the potential to cause skin tumors (Kaposi's Sarcoma) in immunocompromised recipients....Mathematical tools for predicting facial surgery results
...look like after thesurgery is performed. In their article "Mathematics in Facial Surgery," Peter Deuflhard, ...al patient". The second step, whichis the one the article focuses on, uses the data to create a "virtuallab" in which various operative strategies can be test...Physicians often do not communicate important medication information
...e specific name of the medication, according to an article in the September 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Almost half of all Americans take at least one prescription drug, and half of older adults take three or more, according to background information in the ...Integrative Cancer Therapies journal accepted into prestigious ISI index
...mount of media attention. Findings reported in the article "Diagnostic Accuracy of Canine Scent Detection in Early and Late Stage Lung and Breast Cancers" published in the March 2006 issue were featured on NBC's Today Show, CNN's Paula Zahn Now, The New York Times, National Geographic, CBS News Online, New S...All intravascular devices pose risk of bloodstream infection to patients, study finds
...ctions occurring in hospitals. Authors of the IVD article in Mayo's medical journal extracted data from 200 prospective studies to examine the risk of IVD-related bloodstream infections associated with each type of IVD. Lead author Dennis Maki, M.D., a researcher and infectious disease and critical care spe...