Case finds dental patients agreeable to tobacco interventions
...ut tobacco use and to urge patients to give up and break their tobacco use by providing them with information on how to access programs that can offer interventions....Jefferson researchers find timing of post-epilepsy surgery seizures predicts outcome
...ds. They plan to further analyze the results, and break down the various types of seizures they found grand mal or general tonic-clonic and partial tonic seizures to see if the kind of seizure matters as well to how well patients do. The study involved seven medical centers participating in the Multicen...NSAIDS okay for tonsillectomy, new study finds
... of ultrasound, radiofrequency energy or lasers to break up and remove tissue, rather than conventional cutting or burning. Dray has relied exclusively on the new procedures for the past five years. Both Wei and Dray also note that it is now common to give a steroid such as dexamethasone during surgery to ...World-leading scientific databases now accessible via handhelds
...lleagues, attending a conference or while taking a break from the lab." The demonstration illustrated the ability to retrieve and analyze information from CAS' principal databases, CAplusSM and CAS RegistrySM. The Registry database contains records for more than 25 million organic and inorganic substances,...Stroke drug still meets resistance from doctors wary of its risks
...the first three hours of a stroke's onset, tPA can break up the blood clots that cause 80 percent of all strokes (known as ischemic). This can restore blood flow in the brain, and reduce or prevent the risk of permanent damage. But tPA also carries a 1-in-15 risk of causing intracranial hemorrhage (bleedin...Spinoff company receives $2.5 million NIH grant to build prototype scanner
...e newly formed vessels in place, cancer cells that break away from the tumor can circulate through the body to seed cancer elsewhere (metastasis). Conventional mammography, little different than technology developed in the 1950s, spots a tumor at 11 millimeters in diameter on average. The problem is that t...Richard A. Meyer, MD, receives the 2005 AIUM William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award
...ti, Ohio, from 1965 to 1967. He then took a 2-year break from Children's Hospital to serve in the US military before returning to complete his fellowship in pediatric cardiology in 1972, following which he was appointed to the faculty. Remaining active at Children's Hospital, Dr. Meyer continues to serve ...Bones don't pay a price when fat is lost through exercise
...kely reduce the risk of fractures. Bones commonly break after a fall, a major risk factor for fractures in older people. But exercise makes bodies stronger and improves balance, thus preventing falls. The Hopkins study's exercise program followed current guidelines from the American College of Sports M...New technique appears to stop abnormal blood vessel growth
...making his own drug, you need to get inside him to break that cycle; getting his dealer is not enough. We h...esearch on attacking VEGF within cells. We want to break that autocrine loop," he says of the cell's ability to supply itself with VEGF and a receptor. To k...Diabetes, hypertension and obesity negatively effect joint replacement outcomes
... muscles during extended periods of inactivity can break loose to cause heart attacks or stroke, be evaluated. The researchers plan to refine their analysis to include other complicating factors as well as additional complications. They also will investigate whether outcomes are influenced by health care d...European working time directive may put doctors' and patients' lives at risk
... to a shift of no more than 13 hours followed by a break of at least 11 hours. But a survey in December 2004 by the Royal College of Physicians found that most trainee doctors in NHS trusts were forced to work a 91 hour week as a series of night shifts. Recent studies from the United States have proved the...Only transplant center that developed comprehensive protocol for liver transplants in kids with MSUD
...ick with even a minor viral illness, the body will break down protein stored in muscle for energy. The amino acids released from the child's protein stores can be as deadly as those from the diet. A multi-disciplinary approach to treatment and surgery was utilized to plan for every conceivable situation to...Elevated CRP can foil diet's ability to lower cholesterol
...were drawn. The participants then took a two-week break and ate their usual diet before returning to eating only foods from the research kitchen. In the final 6 weeks of the study, the participants again ate the Step 1 diet with either soy or milk protein added. Those that had had soy protein in the e...Genetically modified cells migrate to brain and treat neurodegeneration in St. Jude model
...he enzyme released by the monocytes and used it to break down excess GM1, thus correcting the potentially f... linked to the ability of the corrected neurons to break down excess GM1 with the enzyme delivered by the monocytes. Overall, our findings suggest that if th...'Apollo Program' for hydrogen energy needed, Stanford researcher says
...s a $4,000 tax credit fordiesel vehicles--the same break hybrid vehicles get--because of theirperceived hig...spur ozoneproduction. Jacobson believes such a tax break may provide an unintentionalincentive to damage people's health. Computer simulations that model the...Poly/mono balance important to cholesterol-lowering diet
...eers ate each diet for four weeks, took a two-week break when they ate their usual diet and then moved on to the next diet. Blood samples were taken at the end of each diet period. Analysis of the participants' blood samples showed that the NuSun sunflower oil diet significantly reduced total and LDL c...The rich die differently from you and me, U-M study shows
...eside in settings with better quality of care." To break the connection between wealth and suffering at the end of life, the government might consider expanding Medicare to include medications, or expanding the criteria for hospice to include older adults with significant symptoms, regardless of their prog...Molecular ballet unravels, links proteins so cell can direct own movement
...ve purposefully also helps individual cancer cells break away from a tumor and spread to other parts of the body, a process called metastasis. Therefore, discovering how cells direct their movements could help researchers better understand how embryos develop and how some cancers spread. The cell's skelet...SCAI news: Drug-eluting stents prove mettle in heart attack patients
...ts and devices to protect against blood clots that break loose during vein-graft procedures. Surgeons are also finding ways to expand the use of arteries rather than veins for bypass surgery. More needs to be done, however. "We're treating more and more heart attack patients who have vein-graft blockages,"...Why were the HIV prevention trials in commercial sex workers abandoned?
... is felt to be the only tool that can definitively break the epidemic, Lange says that there is a pressing need to develop female-controlled prevention technologies that do not require the male partner's consent, and the protestors are getting in the way of such development. "Activist groups have now mana...