Parents and schools, major factors in China obesity boom
...eas, due to increased passive transport to school, easy access to fast food and also students in these areas are more likely to spend more time doing homework and have less physical activity." Dr Li added. Parental control of "snacking" was reported to be strongly associated with adolescent obesity, esp...Blood transfusions from precancerous blood donors do not increase risk of cancer
...most infectious complications have been relatively easy to identify, possible transmission of chronic diseases with unknown causes and long induction or latency periods has been far more difficult to address." They conclude: "Our data provide no evidence that blood transfusions from precancerous blood d...Scientists develop method to track immune system enzyme in live animals
...lated or deregulated is that there has not been an easy way to visualize the enzymes action in a living animal until now. To address this issue, Dr. Casellas and his colleagues created transgenic mice that had a green fluorescent protein derived from jellyfish fused to the AID enzyme. In these transgen...Students devise oral quick-dissolve strips for rotavirus vaccine
...eveloped a thin film delivery system that would be easy to store and transport and would not require refrigeration. Although further refinement is needed to maintain the viability of the vaccine, the delivery system itself appears sound, and the Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer staff has applied for a pr...Heart-failure patients benefit from pharmacist care
... A corresponding information sheet, designed to be easy to read and understand, was also marked with the ace-of-hearts....Vertical work-stations could help obese shed 30 Kilos a year
...dd that the study participants found the equipment easy to use and were able to work normally, to the extent that they wanted to continue using it after the study had finished. And they suggest that devices, such as the vertical work-station, could help to reverse the rising tide of obesity....$2.6M grant awarded to New York University College of Nursing
...tices in the care of older adults in a way that is easy to understand and implement by all direct-care nurses. Using actual nurses, patients and their families, the new video materials will demonstrate how geriatric assessments should be conducted, interpreted and communicated to plan the care for an old...Employers who recognize the impact of migraine may help to improve workplace productivity
...agnosed for migraine in an employer setting and is easy to administer. Researchers from the Center for Health Economics and Policy, United BioSource Corporation, developed an online tool based on a validated screener (Lainez et al.), to help determine the prevalence of migraine in the workplace. Three ...Gel-based handrub improves hospital hygiene
Giving health care workers easy access to alcohol-based handrubs can improve hygiene in hospitals, a study published today in the Online Open Access journal Critical Care suggests. Good hand hygiene among health care workers can help minimise the spread of infections within hosp...Exercise science principles strengthen swallowing rehabilitation
...throat muscles. Because swallowing muscles are not easy to access, applying the usual principles of exercise is more difficult. "Physical therapists can put a weight in someone's hand and exercise them or they can give patients external assistance and get them to complete a movement," says Dr. Burkhead. "...Review finds ways of helping children of drug and alcohol misusers
...l misuse and antisocial behaviour. "Whilst it is easy to become pessimistic about the future of children brought up in these kinds on environments, we find in practice that some children are resilient; they develop no significant problems related to their parents substance misuse. "We have looked thro...How plastic is your brain? UH engineer seeks answers
HOUSTON, April 27, 2007 It may seem easy to change your mind, but if it's your brain we're talking about, maybe it's harder than we think. A University of Houston professor is looking into this with research into something called 'brain plasticity.' Valery Kalatsky, assistant professor...Syphilis rate on rise in US gay, bisexual men
...large increase among another group." It is still easy to cure syphilis, but it can cause serious medical problems, including death if untreated. In addition, officials worry that gay men will get syphilis and become more susceptible to HIV infection, although statistics have not made it clear if that is...A revolution in the monitoring of unborn babies
...art for signs of potential danger. It is small and easy to use so that mothers-to-be can keep a regular check on their babys heart beat without having to go into hospital and be attached to a machine. No other technology allows them to do this. It took 15 years of pioneering work and enterprise, with fu...Speeding 'fingertip' discovery -- 20 years of protein info in 1 place
...lready was published, and there was just no clean, easy way of doing that because there were reports all over the place. Thats when we decided to go through and consolidate just about everything on phosphorylation that was out there. Working with human kidney cells, the researchers fished out the tho...NIST's stretching exercises shed new light on nanotubes
...anotubes absorb and scatter light.For example, how easy is it for the incident light to deform an exciton to create positive and negative poles? Theory says it should be significantly harder to do in a nearly one-dimensional nanotube than in a bulk semiconductor, where nearby electrons and holes reduce th...Rapid oral HIV test shows great promise according to MUHC-led research
A convenient, easy to use, and rapid alternative to blood-based HIV testing may become the new standard for field testing according to a new MUHC study. The study shows that the oral fluid-based OraQuick HIV1/2 test is 100 per cent accurate and patients preferred choi...Study finds drug helps PTSD nightmares
... relatively small size of the study was due to the easy availability of this generic drug, Raskind said. "If you are doing a study with a new drug, the only way people can get it is to be in the study. With prazosin, we have approximately 5,000 veterans with a PTSD diagnosis taking it already in the North...Bypassing eggs, flu vaccine grown in insect cells shows promise
...iruses can be temperamental, and its not always an easy matter to get the virus to grow as you want in eggs. The use of cell culture systems to grow vaccines using viruses as tiny factories to churn out mass amounts of vaccines is a growing business. A similar technology using human cell lines is used......MRI, and in early stages it can be quite small and easy to miss," says Stoianovici. The new Johns Hopkins motor, dubbed PneuStep, consists of three pistons connected to a series of gears. The gears are turned by air flow, which is in turn controlled by a computer located in a room adjacent to the MRI m...