A third of the world population faces water scarcity today
...needs, yet allocation choices have to be made. In closed basins, where all water has already been allocated, giving water to one group means taking water away from another. "The Assessment shows that while a third of the world population faces water scarcity, it is not because there is not enough water t...Demand for community nurses grows
...hservices, but because the work they do is 'behind closed doors', it'susually only people who receive the service who understand the realvalue of it," Dr Cioffi says. "Our research has shown that the standard of care people are receivingis good and they're grateful that the service enables them to stay in...Research reinforces findings that Chinese exercises benefit older adults
...time an individual can stand on one leg, with eyes closed and eyes open. "With eyes open, we saw an 83 percent improvement after two months," Yang said. "With eyes closed, we did not see results 29 percent improvement until the end of six months. Numbers alone don't tell the full story of the results...Women surviving cardiovascular disease treatment in hospitals at higher rates: Healthgrades study
...d Poorest-performing hospitals is real and has not closed in the three years we have been conducting this study." The study also found that: While overall women's cardiac and stroke risk-adjusted inhospital mortality rates improved by an average of 9.54 percent from 2002 to 2004, the greatest improvement ......ry cortex of monkeys, for comparison. "We have now closed that gap," he explains. Scientists have compared the results that various methods produce on the auditory cortex of macaques and these can now be linked to the human imaging using the same technique. They can also now investigate more thoroughly to w...Sticky surfaces turn slippery with the flip of a molecular light switch
...employed as a surface valve that can be opened and closed by applying light, offering the ability to control liquid flow in a chip's ultra-tiny channels. And in sensors designed to detect biological agents, the ability to control the polarity of the membrane could help reduce the attachment of unwanted pro...UT Southwestern allergist offers coping strategies for relief from summer allergens
...ioning filters out some allergens. Keeping windows closed lessens the amount of allergens that travel into the home. If you're out for long periods during the day, take a shower before bedtime to wash off some of the allergens and prevent them from being transferred to pillows. "Your hair can be like a pol...Clues help identify psychological seizures
...52 people with psychological nonepileptic seizures closed their eyes during seizures, while 152 out of 156 p...ely describe whether a patient's eyes were open or closed during a seizure." The second study compared 26 people whose psychological nonepileptic seizures beg...CT angiography 'highly accurate' for detection of high-grade artery stenosis
...rotid artery (ICA) stenoses in which the artery is closed between 70-90% when compared to color-coded Dopple... MD-CTA in all cases. Of the 43 stenoses, 28 were closed between 70-80%, 10 were closed between 80-90% and all were correctly identified with MD-CTA and vasc...Study finds novel vaccine curbs brain tumor growth, increases survival
...rence's most important findings. The trial is now closed at both institutions. Given its statistically significant findings, a pharmaceutical company has acquired the rights to the drug and a larger, multi-institutional, randomized study is being planned, Heimberger says. She describes the vaccine as an e...UCI researchers find that, even at rest, men's and women's brains behave differently
... subjects were instructed to relax with their eyes closed while being scanned. When the scans were later studied, researchers found that not only was there a difference between the men and women as to which hemisphere's amygdala was more active, but also that the regions of the brain that the amygdala "talk...Let patients use their own terms to describe ethnicity
... race were lower with the open-ended than with the closed questions. "The first step toward addressing disparities in health care for minority patients is to routinely collect data on patients' race, ethnicity and language and link these data to measures of quality, safety and utilization," the authors sai...Avantogen and Innovate merge key oncology program, RP101, RP101
... March 2006. On January 31, 2006 Innovate's shares closed at US$1.85. Patients undergoing repeated chemotherapy can develop resistance, and cancer cells continue to grow and spread during treatment. RP101 is intended as co-treatment with cytostatic drugs to prevent the development of resistance to chemother...Sexual health clinics will need to more than triple capacity to meet 48 hour access target
...ments are booked by phone or in person, known as a closed appointment system, shows that demand for services... apparent improvement in waiting times afforded by closed booking systems is superficial. Many callers are simply not able to book an appointment at all, they...Magnet lab researcher exploring science behind commercial applications of liquid helium
... becomes "superfluid," meaning that if placed in a closed loop it can flow endlessly without friction. "Superfluid helium has extraordinary properties," said Van Sciver. "Because of its unique viscosity and heat conductivity, its flow can be controlled to a degree you can't get with other fluids. It has lot...Diagnostic images show go-carts cause serious injuries to children
...Four of the children not wearing helmets sustained closed head injuries. Half of the children required surgery. Twenty-eight percent required two or more surgeries. Hospital stays averaged approximately five days at an average charge of $18,882 per patient. "Go-carts are dangerous when youngsters who lack s...Squinting while staring at a computer monitor can cause painful dry eye
...m 5 percent (barely squinting) to 50 percent (eyes closed about half-way.) Participants were also instructed to continuously look at a black dot in the center of a computer display. They listened to music while a changing pattern, which was driven by the music, moved around the black dot. At the end of th...Economic cost to hospitals from an avian flu pandemic likely to be huge, SLU professor says
...nt early in the epidemic, the hospital temporarily closed down its emergency room." Without national government reimbursement, the hospitals would have lost millions of dollars related to decreases in hospital utilization, he says. Romeis has studied the Taiwanese health care system for the last decade and ...Researchers shed light on anxiety and alcohol intake
...plus-maze, which consists of two open arms and two closed arms connected to a central platform. Anxiety is g...function of the amount of time a rat spends in the closed versus the open arms of the maze during a 5-minute testing period the greater an animal's level of ...At Johns Hopkins: Emphasis on improved care and faster access to services shortens hospital stays
...at its practices after a nearby community hospital closed in 2000. Hopkins physicians feared a spillover effect and influx of new patients that would strain its capacity. Any significant increases in demand for beds, they decided, could not be solved by expanding the number of beds and would have to be me...