DALYs system for 'measuring' disability
...ith functional status." He concludes: "We should develop a limited set of measures aimed at addressing different aspects of health, which coincide within the approach taken by the ICF. Health and indeed disability are too complex to be encapsulated with one measure."...Drinking farm milk reduces childhood asthma and allergies but raw consumption remains unsafe
...ous health risks and further research is needed to develop a safe product that still provides good protection...ption may have serious health risks. "We need to develop a deeper understanding of why farm milk offers children this higher level or protection and investig...Childhood obesity intervention shows promising results
...ol food service director to offer healthier foods, develop more healthful recipes, and promote consumption of...SUS also collaborated with 21 local restaurants to develop the SUS stamp of approval, which indicates that the restaurant offers healthy menu options. "If...Advances in brain research poised to dramatically change society
...ional Institute on Mental Health. What if we could develop new, more effective therapies for treating mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder" Thousands of American soldiers serving in Iraq have been injured or killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). These devices frequently targ...HPV infection linked to throat cancers
...f prior HPV infection were 32 times more likely to develop the cancer. This was much higher than the rate in...rs in their lifetime were 8.6 times more likely to develop the HPV-linked cancer. In a surprising twist, Gillison says their data show no added risk for HPV c...VA should revise its methods for evaluating and rating PTSD in veterans
... low, too high, or unmerited. The agency should develop new evaluation methods and rating criteria specifi...he committee found abundant evidence that PTSD can develop at any time after exposure to trauma. It also can manifest as a relapsing condition or flare up aft...$10M grant to VCU to develop new cancer treatments
...lth University Massey Cancer Center researchers to develop a new form of radiation therapy that will enable the safe administration of more aggressive cancer treatments. The NCI's Project Program Grant, titled "Image Guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy," or IGART, was awarded to Jeffrey F. Williamson, Ph.D., p...NIH funding UIC brain tumor research
...received a $1.7 million five-year federal grant to develop a new approach to treat brain tumors. A hydrogel-based delivery system, similar in consistency to gelatin, has been developed to control the release of chemotherapy drugs that will kill glioblastoma multiforme, the most advanced and invasive form o...Study implicates protein as a trigger of advanced prostate cancer recurrence
...arch, "raises the exciting possibility that we can develop a specific drug against this," said senior study co-author Dr. Young Whang, associate professor of medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill. The study appeared online May 7, 2007, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It is slated for print ...Double the death rate from cirrhosis for 'blue collar' men
...overall killer of men. Cirrhosis is believed to develop in about 15 percent of people who drink heavily for more than a decade three to four drinks a day for men and two to three drinks a day for women. "Lower socio-economic groups appear to have increased their harmful alcohol consumption relative to...Warts vaccine -- 1 of many in pipeline
... in Australia gives Australians the chance to help develop new treatments," Professor Frazer said. "Should the product under trial be effective, it also gives them the chance to be amongst the first to benefit." A vaccine would complement both the pap smear program and currently available vaccines to pr...Federal Budget boosts Australian health and medical research
...he National Health and Medical Research Council to develop a streamlined approach to eliminate the need for multiple ethics approvals of health and medical research conducted at multiple sites. Other measures welcomed in the package include the $5 billion Higher Education Endowment Fund to support universi...Health officials renew Indo-US Vaccine Action Program
...r of people who die. Efforts also are under way to develop collaboration on malaria vaccine research....UW study tests topical honey as a treatment for diabetic ulcers
...n the world with diabetes, 15 percent of whom will develop an ulcer, usually because of impaired sensation in their feet. Currently, every 30 seconds someone somewhere in the world undergoes amputation for a diabetic foot ulcer. In 2001, treating diabetic ulcers and amputations in U.S. patients cost $10.9...Cause of gender differences in blood pressure, kidney damage under study
...lar Biology Center. "It's known that men tend to develop hypertension earlier than women and the increase in blood pressure occurs more rapidly than it does in women, until they hit menopause. I look at our spontaneously hypertensive rats and see the same dichotomy in blood pressure," Dr. Sullivan says of ...Promising drug fails to improve COPD symptoms
...y than mice that had not be genetically altered to develop emphysema when exposed to chronic cigarette smoke. The latest study, however, did confirm a recently reported pilot study that found no improvement among the 14 COPD patients given infliximab. In attempting to explain the disappointing results, t...Urologic diseases cost Americans $11B a year
...rtance of studies to preempt disease processes and develop targeted treatments," said Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D....n are two to three times more likely than women to develop a stone, but more people of all ages and races are getting them: an estimated 5 percent of adults be...Racial disparities in treatment of patients with cirrhosis and complications of portal hypertension
...n the United States and as it progresses, patients develop portal hypertension-related complications, such as... a measure of good practice and quality of care to develop more standardized protocols in the management of portal hypertension to ensure equitable care regard...No link found between autism and celiac disease
...ere no more likely than children without autism to develop celiac disease. Anti-gliadin antibodies were found in four children with autism and two without autism. Biopsies on all six children came back negative for celiac disease. "This study shows food allergies often associated with autism may have no co...Serious illness among children with sickle cell disease reduced with vaccine
...th SCD are between 30 and 600 times more likely to develop pneumococcal meningitis, bloodstream infections, and other serious infections, compared to individuals of comparable age and race without SCD. The new study, by Natasha Halasa, MD, MPH, of Vanderbilt Universitys School of Medicine and colleagues, ...