Alcohol may lower risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...found that the risk of NHL was about 27% lower for current drinkers than for non-drinkers, but the risk did not change with increasing alcohol consumption. The risk also did not change with the age individuals began drinking, total lifetime consumption, or beverage type. The risk did vary by NHL subtype, wit...UVa Health System doctors study surgery to stop epileptic seizures
...implanted in the brain's cortex uses an electrical current to arrest seizures when they begin. "It's clear that the modern goal of epilepsy treatment is to free patients from seizures without causing side effects," Fountain said....'Watch and wait' - a shift in approach to kids' ear infections
... pediatricians, and family physicians toassess the current use of watchful waiting and to determine theacceptability of this option to parents. A majority of physicians (63percent) reported at least occasionally using initial observation,but of those, a scant 6 percent use it frequently. The findings also in...Housing subsidies may help prevent children's undernutrition
...milies without subsidies, the authors suggest. The current study tested whether the nutritional status of low...m a public health perspective, the findings of the current study raise concerns about the impact on child well-being of these proposed reductions," the authors...Study recommends new guidelines for air bag safety in children
...ta System and encompasses one of the largest, most current and comprehensive databases on air bags. The study found that children 14 and younger were at high risk for serious injury from air bags when they sat in the front passenger seat during car crashes. In contrast, air bags had a protective effect for ...Animal model demonstrates course of epilepsy
...ubtle cortical malformation," said Carmant. In the current study, the researchers found that when these rats reach adulthood, almost all develop temporal lobe epilepsy. Furthermore, they have deficits in learning and memory, problems noted in some patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. The next step in this r...High school start times deprive teens of sleep, affect academic performance
...tha Hansen, advanced placement biology teacher and current science department chair at Evanston Township High School, headed the project in collaboration with Margarita L. Dubocovich, professor of molecular pharmacology and biological chemistry and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Feinberg; and Phyllis...Control of TB epidemic requires more effective drugs, better tests, and focus on latent infection
...y, June 7, clinician/researchers describe the most current effective treatments for both active TB and latent TB infection and the efforts underway to develop new drugs and more effective diagnostic tools. A stepped-up effort targeting programs to detect and treat the large number of people with latent TB ...JAMA editorial: Tuberculosis a global problem
...g, and treatment of TB and more initiatives to use current knowledge to improve access to appropriate and effective care and thereby successfully control TB. Clearly, it will take the will and resources of the entire world to eradicate this global problem."...Home care managers should implement strategies to reduce high nurse turnover
...ating these traits in their work environment." The current study is the third phase of a multi-faceted investigation funded by the American Nurses Foundation. Subsequent studies will investigate the effects of these traits on the outcomes of patient care in home health care services. From its headquarters at...US specialists call for heart patients to be screened for psychological distress
...on-Hispanic black people, the obese, non-drinkers, current smokers, the sedentary and individuals with hypertension or diabetes among heart disease patients with elevated distress levels. "It's hard to know why, but we typically see this in research," said Dr Ferketich. "It may be that there are additional s...Johns Hopkins study shows home test kits highly effective against sexually transmitted diseases
...sity School of Medicine. "The Internet is how the current generation does business -- from researching homework to shopping for clothes. Not surprisingly, they prefer using the Internet to also help take care of their health." The Hopkins findings, to be presented at the 105th general meeting of the Americ...Media violence linked to concentration, self-control
...order as they watched violent video games. In the current study, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to show activity in the brain when study participants performed a concentration test called a counting Stroop task. Participants were shown a number that is repeated and they are to respond...Johns Hopkins team finds 'ancestral' hepatitis-C virus at the root of evolution in infections
...hemselves of the virus during the acute phase, and current treatments are 90 percent effective at treating any remaining acute infections, these treatments are only 50 percent effective against chronic infections, which otherwise persist for life and can cause death." According to Cox, the hepatitis C virus ...Research results from the 'Era of Hope' Department of Defense breast cancer research program meeting
... that TC predicts outcome in prostate cancer. "Our current TC assay is great for research labs, but it takes two days. We're now trying to develop a lower-cost, faster, and easier assay that will be practical in a clinical setting, to help identify women at high risk for disease progression," Mr. Heaphy sai...New technology can boost bottom lines for US hospitals
..., which is the key to hospital revenues. Under the current system, hospitals review patient charts and charges, and submit their claims to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers for services rendered only after the patient has been discharged. The physician's diagnoses, tests, medications and other services...New strategy for protecting brain against Alzheimer's disease: Enhancing the innate immune system
...tion and MP Biomedicals LLC Company are supporting current studies involved in testing the effectiveness of insulin-like growth factor I. In addition, Fiala and MP Biomedicals LLC will also be exploring the development of an in-vitro diagnostic test for early detection of Alzheimer's disease. Other investig...Digital mammography does not improve breast cancer detection rates, study finds
...ent," says the ECRI report. According to ECRI, the current body of evidence that suggests that digital mammography may be able to reduce recall rates, and possibly necessary follow-up procedures, which could offset some of its higher initial costs. But more evidence is needed to confirm these potential benef...Large multinational general population study shows restless legs syndrome is common, under-diagnosed
... and face-to-face interviews, are published in the current issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Medical Association. Another arm of the R.E.S.T. study, called the R.E.S.T. Primary Care Study, was published in the May 2004 issue of the journal Sleep Medicine, an......ad never smoked, 369 were ex-smokers, and 203 were current smokers. The participants were asked to complete a questionnaire on smoking history. Their exposure to smoking was measured as pack-years (number of cigarette packs smoked per day x number of years smoking). The investigators measured the concentrati...