Blood pressure variability increases risk for stroke death
...iffers from the infarcted tissue, which is damaged beyond repair. Since death due to stroke increases among older patients and those who have more severe strokes, the data collected was adjusted for both factors. Just over half the 71 patients were male. Ages ranged from 26 to 98, with the mean at 75 yea......for all kids in the state. However, the paper goes beyond the debate over preschool for 4-year-olds and emphasizes the importance of early experiences on the development of basic brain architecture from birth. The paper, written under the auspices of the National Scientific Council, aims to help guide pol...More effort needed to prevent human rights abuses
...itly on active engagement with human rights, going beyond simply considering health to be a human right and ensuring abstention from participating in any behaviour which demeans human rights. He suggests a proposal put forward 10 years ago for an international court to judge the behaviour of physicians and ......nvironment. In the new fMRI study, scientists went beyond identifying individual auditory cortex fields (ACFs); earlier studies had predicted those findings. The researchers also created frequency maps for most of these fields. At first, they mapped several ACFs, then a total of eleven, organised like a mos...Mechanism identified for promising neurological drug
...ARP-1." Swanson says the results have implications beyond the general principle that "it helps to know how a drug is working." One is potentially negative. "In blocking PARP-1, you block DNA repair," he cautions. "That will likely be true of minocycline. And in blocking DNA repair you conceivably increase t...New test detects prostate cancer spread at the earliest time
...s will do very well and will not require treatment beyond surgery or radiation therapy to cure their disease." But a proportion of these patients have metastases of the prostate cancer appear later, even when the lymph nodes removed at the time of the cancer surgery appeared negative for cancer, he says. Co...REM sleep behavior disorder found to be precursor of brain-degenerating diseases later in life
...tients in this study were an average of 11.2 years beyond their diagnoses of RBD. This study is the second long-term follow-up study following patients with idiopathic, or inexplicable, RBD, confirming previous findings by Carlos Schenck, M.D., and Mark Mahowald, M.D., of Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders...Delayed umbilical cord clamping boosts iron in infants
...e beneficial effects of delayed cord clamping last beyond the age of 3 months. This also was the first study to show that the impact of delayed clamping is enhanced in infants that have low birth weights, are born to iron-deficient mothers, or do not receive baby formula or iron-fortified milk. "The data sh...New x-ray delivery method could improve radiation therapy
...amage to the target volume but virtually no damage beyond the target range. "The dose of radiation delivered to the target volume would have been enough to ablate a malignant tumor," Dilmanian said. "These results show that thick microbeams generated by special x-ray tubes in hospitals could eventually be u...ACTOS (pioglitazone HCl) to be studied in new trial
...of science suggesting that ACTOS may have benefits beyond glycemic control," said Robert Spanheimer, M.D., medical director for diabetes and metabolism at Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc. "CHICAGO will be viewed in the context of other large cardiovascular studies with ACTOS: the PROactive study...Under-diagnosed rage disorder more prevalent than previously thought
...ustment.' But Intermittent Explosive Disorder goes beyond that, having strong genetic and biomedical underpinnings," says coauthor Emil Coccaro, MD, the Ellen C. Manning professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. "If people think these explo...Daniel Zheng wins SIAM's first prize at INTEL-ISEF
...one of those rare students who pushes himself well beyond the assigned material to satisfy his own curiosity," says Tom Fones, Zheng's teacher and debate coach of Saint Paul Academy. "Daniel is really capable of pursuing virtually any profession that he's interested in. I could very easily see him as a rese...Rice wins $2.2M for undergrad global health program
...tional Borders, is designed to help students reach beyond traditional geographic and disciplinary boundaries in addressing these challenges. "Rice students are extremely dedicated and focused, and this program is designed to tap their enthusiasm and encourage them to solve problems that affect the health an......number of students, particularly males, drink well beyond the "standard" binge-drinking threshold. Results ...icant number of students that drink at levels well beyond the binge threshold. My hope is that we could recruit the help of students themselves in this pursu...Young adults are fastest growing group of uninsured
... and the State Children's Health Insurance Program beyond the current age limit for children of 18. Allowin...to be eligible for their parents' health insurance beyond age 18 or 19, regardless of student status. Having states ensure that colleges and universities req...Many cleaners, air fresheners may pose health risks when used indoors
...said. "Their results indicate that we need to look beyond the directly emitted compounds."...Report issued on US-Indo collaboration to advance vision research
...oject would require the involvement of specialists beyond the eye research community, such as human geneticists, bioinformaticists, and genomics and proteomics experts. The report The report describes the steps that led to the workshops, the resources of the two nations, various regulatory and funding i...Low carbohydrate diet did not increase bone loss, study finds
...ularly if the low carbohydrate diet was maintained beyond three months....Study: Super-sizing your food takes a hidden toll on your pocketbook
...ere's a hidden cost to those larger portions, even beyond the health consequences of gaining weight. A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison nutritional scientists has calculated how much money a single bout of overeating can cost over the following year, according to a study to be published in June 2006 ...Worsening anemia signals poorer outcomes in men treated for advanced prostate cancer
...dard treatment for prostate cancer that has spread beyond the gland. It blocks the production of male hormon...ncluded a number of other traditional risk factors beyond hemoglobin, including performance status, Gleason score and disease extent. The median pretreatm...