NIH seeks strategies to preserve brain health
...ic example of what we can learn when scientists of diverse specialties work together on a complex health issue." Hendrie and colleagues cited demographic pressures to find ways to maintain cognitive and emotional health with age. Approximately 4.5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, and additional nu...Gender practices inhibit men from being better dads
...n the spouses. By conducting interviews with forty diverse married couples with children under the age of five, the authors measured father responsivity. The three levels of responsivity the study cites refer to the degree to which fathers recognize and attend to the emotional needs of their family; the hou...First disease-specific (breast cancer) protein library opens new drug paths
...so be involved in bone metastases, and reflect the diverse functional activities of proteins that contribute to migratory behavior. "The migration findings are particularly important, as historically the roles of genes in the process of invasion and metastasis--the most devastating aspects of cancer--have be...Asthmatic children in multi-family housing hit by indoor nitrogen dioxide
...ildren with asthma. The study population was quite diverse and included both white and non-white children living in single-family and multi-family homes, and children living in urban and suburban environments." According to the authors, a prior study in 2005 showed that 20 parts per billion was the average c...Scientists discover genetic profile of an often-misdiagnosed chronic allergic disease of children
...se. These individuals were selected to represent a diverse sample with respect to age, sex and disease state. Dr. Rothenberg and his colleagues found that a particular set of 574 genes were expressed differently in people with EE from people without the illness. This transcript signature, as they call it, yi...Mathematics and statistics combat epidemics & bioterror
...to analyze that health plan's large population and diverse range of data (for instance, radiology and laboratory data) so they can test complex detection algorithms. At the Harvard School of Public Health, biostatistics professor Louise Ryan brings complementary modeling skills. At the Argentine National Ins...UBC/CBS researcher invents device to boost world supply, quality of blood platelets
...ine example of how a community of researchers with diverse expertise can bring new solutions to transfusion science." Maurer will complete further testing of the instrument in the first quarter of this year and, once a commercial partner is secured, will work to make the equipment available within five year...Study reveals Maori and Pacific islanders have increasing incidence of stroke
...uckland's population is one of the most ethnically diverse in New Zealand and, until now, limited data has been available on ethnic differences in stroke risk and outcome. The study, led by Kristie Carter, Health Research Council of New Zealand Pacific health PhD scholar, assessed data accumulated over a 20 ...Race/ethnicity predict lipids, heart-disease risk in HIV-1 patients on protease inhibitors
...ists said the need for testing the medicines among diverse populations was particularly important as the drugs begin to roll out in developing countries in Asia and Africa, home to more than 95 percent of the estimated 25 million people around the world who are living with HIV-1 infection. If the findings ar...Penn State selected for DHS National Visualization Team
...s related to visual representation and analysis of diverse information. Researchers will develop methods for...ly representing, and analyzing enormous amounts of diverse data and information. Development of these visualization tools will enable analysts to more effecti...UCSD team unmasks family of immune system invaders
...ke bacterial pathogenesis requires the talents and diverse expertise of many scientists." Their insights into the mechanisms of bacterial pathogens could lead to novel treatments for diseases such as dysentery. These findings may prove to be especially helpful in fighting bacterial disease in Third-World co...Health seriously declines, disparities increase as youths become adults
...s become adults. A survey involving an ethnically diverse and nationally representative sample of 14,000 young people found diet, inactivity, obesity, health-care access, substance use and reproductive health to worsen with age. Only self-perceptions of personal health, including mental health, and exposure...Atherothrombosis patients world-wide often have undertreated, undercontrolled risk factors
...e data from the most geographically and ethnically diverse population yet surveyed. Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., of...ty and cardiovascular outcomes in a geographically diverse population."...Losing weight by controlling flavor variety
... specific satiety. "We stay hungry longer the more diverse the flavors in a meal or snack," said Katz, a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine. "If flavors are thoughtfully distributed, we fill up on fewer calories. This explains why, for instance, people ca...Risky sex in Miami, racial influence on children's care in latest Journal of Urban Health
...han 400 MSM who live in or were vacationing in ten diverse locations in Miami-Dade and Broward counties in winter of 2004. They were approached on weekends and asked to complete a questionnaire. One-third of the men surveyed reported using one or more "club drugs" in the past year, a habit highly associated ...New generation clinical trials could save time and money, improve patient care
...h century have taught researchers that cancer is a diverse disease, and what works to treat one person's disease may not work for another," he says. "In order to have the kind of personalized medicine the 21st century will demand, it will be necessary to be more flexible in how we evaluate potential new trea...Low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet not associated with weight gain in postmenopausal women
...In summary, the results of this long-term trial of diverse postmenopausal women demonstrate that long-term recommendations to achieve a diet lower in total and saturated fat with increased consumption of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and without focus on weight loss, do not cause weight gain. Long-te...Ethnic minority groups must be included in European health research
...d of research and the "real world" of increasingly diverse societies: most of the studies did not provide det...dies with participants that were representative of diverse populations usually were not large enough to answer the kind of questions necessary to determine dif...Parents' impressions of neighborhood safety linked to children's weight
...e and Youth Development, a study of families in 10 diverse regions of the United States. The parents completed questionnaires that assessed how safe they thought their neighborhoods were at the time their children were in first grade. The ratings were divided into quartiles, with the first quartile perceive...Insulin levels and resistance linked to risk of pancreatic cancer
... are consistent with previous studies conducted in diverse populations that have included women and nonsmokers," the authors write. "The associations for insulin and insulin resistance reported herein require confirmation and along with observations of other studies could potentially have important implicati...