Pediatricians must confront community-based threats to health
... at URMC to further the study of the unique health challenges for economically disadvantaged children and adolescents in the Rochester area and develop partnerships with community-based organizations to improve the delivery of care. The program has received national recognition and in 2001 received the Ambulato...Cognitive therapy works as well as antidepressants, but with lasting effect after therapy ends
...versity of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University, challenges the American Psychiatric Association's guidelines that antidepressant medications are the only effective treatment for moderately to severely depressed patients. Either form of treatment worked significantly better than a placebo, but the research...Antioxidant may have adverse effects in head and neck cancer patients
...ill remains an exciting area of research, yet many challenges are ahead," they write. "Risk stratification factors must become more specific and scientific. This, in turn, will allow us to treat the patient in a more biomarker-integrated approach. Only then will we be able to discover that elusive 'golden apple...50 years after Salk polio vaccine: Status of global eradication efforts
...uss status of global polio eradication efforts and challenges to achieving a polio-free world by 2008 WHEN: 12:40 p.m., Tuesday, April 12 WHERE: Room 701, University of Pittsburgh Alumni Hall, 4227 Fifth Ave. Reporters may participate via telephone conference call by dialing 800-860-2442 and referencing...Salk's legacy, current and future challenges to vaccine development topic of briefing
...and research agenda and discuss current and future challenges to developing vaccines for such viruses as HIV and...isease. But scientific, cultural and socioeconomic challenges must be addressed in order to develop effective and safe vaccines for such viruses as HIV, avian flu...Institute of Medicine news: Review of HIVNET 012 study
...ted individuals. Because of inconsistencies in and challenges to previous audits, the committee undertook its own assessment of the accuracy and completeness of the trial's reporting through a review of medical records and other primary source documents for a subset of 49 infants involved in the trial. In addi...UPenn receives 2005 Templeton Research Lectures Grant
... significance of the lectures, Grassie notes, "The challenges of the 21st century require new interdisciplinary collaborations, which place questions of meanings and values on the agenda. We need to put questions about the universe and the universal back at the heart of the university." Grassie, a sometime visi...Tissue engineering experts discuss orthopaedics applications
... the area is full of promise, there are still many challenges to face before new therapies will be widely available. "These technologies are expensive and for some of them, distribution is a challenge," said Atala....Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...ticides, and insect repellents. Addressing global challenges using nanotechnology The study team found that several developing countries have already launched nanotechnology initiatives. India's Department of Science and Technology will invest $20 million over the next four years, for example, and China ranks...Little answers to world's biggest problems
... these top nanotechnologies to address development challenges sustainably," said Dr Abdallah Daar, another of the study's authors.......h learning difficulties. "I am sure there are more challenges ahead before this issue can be said to be properly tackled."...New treatment 'roadmap' improves odds for unusual brain aneurysm
..., when this type does arise it presents particular challenges to a neurosurgeon, according to Lawton. "When confronted with a thrombotic aneurysm, the neurosurgeon's instinct to clip collides with the solid mass of the aneurysm forcing him or her to trap the aneurysm between temporary clips...," the researchers...NCI's Patient Navigator Research Program: Questions and answers
...re and treatment. For example, there are financial challenges (especially for the uninsured and underinsured); c...stem within their communities; travel and distance challenges that can lead to missed doctor appointments; and emotional barriers where irrational fears lead to c...Alternate view for pathology of AD
...Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine challenges the classic theory that the nerve tangles seen in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) victims are the cause of the disease, but rather proposes that they are a protective response to the disease. Their paper appears in the April issue of the journ...Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
...parents and the support they need to cope with the challenges posed by their child's illness. "Twelve months after diagnosis, many parents continued to be aware of their loss, which included the loss of a healthy child and loss of control, freedom and spontaneity. They still found some changes caused by the dia...New research reveals working mothers do not adversely impact on children's diets
...ternal work and 'unhealthy snacking'. The research challenges the stereotype of working mothers who regularly dish out ready made meals, to reveal that children of parents who work may be fed more healthily. Less healthy eating was reduced amongst mothers who worked part-time, full-time, or were unemployed, sic...New study shows simple actions wipe out huge higher heart risks for Asian diabetics
...ort attempted to overcome the health care delivery challenges posed by that community and tried to address the substantially increased health risks they faced in this case. They observed the results of this special pilot package of diabetes health care outreach to over 500 UK Asians in Coventry and Birmingham. ...Reducing malarial transmission in Africa
...ica, mostly in young children. One of the greatest challenges facing Africa in the fight against malaria is drug resistance; resistance to chloroquine (CQ), the cheapest and most widely used antimalarial, is common throughout Africa, and resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), the first-developed and leas...Institute of Medicine news: Changes needed in WIC program
...e the WIC program's inception, and the nutritional challenges facing families have altered significantly, it is definitely time for a change in the foods offered through WIC," said Suzanne P. Murphy, chair of the committee that wrote the report and research professor, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, Universit...Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century
... however, as the vaccine system now faces numerous challenges in manufacturing and development, according to a r...s of past decades, and the system faces additional challenges posed by the adult immunization program, the need for adequate research and development and the requ...