ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 31, 2007
...notes. At present, sponsors of the mission would face enormous per-kilogram costs for the solar cells and other gear that will have to be transported from Earth to the moon. Alternative approaches might avoid such sticker-shock, Morrissey notes. One proposal, for instance, calls for using the lunar rock...Novel Ames Lab composite may replace depleted uranium
...rmed it, I'd get a mushroom shape at the impacting face when the projectile hit the target because tungsten is notoriously resistant to forming shear bands," explained Sordelet. "It can be compared to taking a Tootsie Roll and pushing it against something flat and hard -- you get this mushroom-head effect...Predicting the risk of rheumatoid arthritis for early arthritis patients
...hile about one-third develop RA. Physicians often face the tough choice of whether to initiate DMARD therapy immediately or to wait and see. To guide individual treatment decisions, researchers with the Early Arthritis Clinic at Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands, have found a formula to ...New UWS study to shed light on women and recovery from alcoholism
...n is what we call the 'sandwich generation' - they face different pressures from different directions. These are women who may have childcare responsibilities, or look after elderly parents, on top of also experiencing their own relationship and career pressures," she says. "We hope to shed more light o...Regular acupressure can significantly reduce agitated behavior in dementia
.... "People are living longer and, as a result, we face increased numbers of people with dementia. It is very important that we find interventions that enable us to provide more effective care for them, both in their own home and in long-term care facilities." During the study, carried out with colle...Referral management schemes damage patients' interests
...e purpose of the schemes is to reduce costs in the face of the budget deficits so many of them are confronting, he says. Typically, such schemes require that 80% of GPs' referral letters be reviewed in primary care and that 60% of cases should be retained within the trust. In many cases GPs are being of...Cyclic vomiting syndrome: Recurring and unexplained episodes destroy teeth
...re still many of which people are unaware. Parents face even more concerns when it comes to protecting children. Some diseases and problems are more prevalent in children--like cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS). CVS mainly affects children, and is something of which parents should be aware. According to a r...Offenders unlikely to seek help when experiencing mental distress
...om Exeter undertook a qualitative study, involving face to face in-depth interviews with 35 male offenders, a quarter of whom had been identified as at risk of self...Study finds major variation in Medicare Rx drug costs
...he same drugs but living in different states could face costs that differed by thousands of dollars even if each had chosen the lowest-cost plan available to them. And within a state, the difference in a person's costs for the same drugs could top $10,000 a year or more, depending on which plan he or she...Health-care delivery contributes to racial disparity in colorectal cancer
African-Americans with health insurance still face worse outcomes in colorectal cancer than Caucasians, Hispanics, and Asians, according to a new study. Published in the February 1, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study reveals that differences in uti...The future of federally funded food programs -- Can they also fight obesity?
...-risk for weight gain. "Many low-income households face what is known as the 'double burden of disease,'" she explains, "meaning that those who are food-insecure are often overweight or obese. This creates an opportunity for federally-funded nutrition programs to restructure goals to address obesity, whic...Novel brain areas associated with the recognition of gender, ethnicity and the identity of faces
... area not previously thought to be associated with face processing. Led by researchers at the University o...ted to a series of male Asian and female Caucasian face images. The researchers then interposed occasional female Asian and male Caucasian face images and ...Malaria may fuel spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
...s to spread, it will aggravate the difficulties we face with these other diseases and may contribute to the emergence of more lethal or drug-resistant strains of these infections," Kublin added....Study highlights new and cheaper way to treat heroin addiction
... potentially fatal liver disease, Hepatitis C. We face an epidemic of Hepatitis C in Scotland, with 40% of young people who have been injecting drugs for more than two years being infected with this serious illness."...Measuring brain activity for emotional markers that may indicate risk for developing alcoholism
...vity may be involved in inhibiting behavior in the face of negative consequences and the anxiety we feel in those circumstances." This imbalance, she speculated, may be genetically based at least partially. Echoing Grekin's earlier remarks, Hayden noted that the pattern of asymmetry she found was sim...Mayo Clinic ranked first in 2006 National Health Care Quality and Accountability
...s, and a culture of collaboration. "Our members face unprecedented demands to demonstrate how they provide high-quality, safe, and effective care. We believe this scorecard enables academic medical center leaders to know where they stand when compared against peer organizations and, in the case of the ...ICON issues survey of nanotechnology practices
...e at the nanoscale, and nanotech workers typically face the greatest exposure risks from engineered nanoma...cts, and who handle the nanomaterials in raw form, face more risk of exposure. There remains little specific information about the potential harm workers ...Wide racial disparities found in coronary artery disease deaths
...en patients return to their home environment, they face many challenges and barriers to following their doctor's advice and maintaining a healthy lifestyle," he said. "Patients may not fill their prescriptions, or if they do, they may not take the medication over the long term. Often, patients may revert ...ESSP launches project on the effects of global environmental change on human health
...o 2 billion people living in mid to high latitudes face a higher risk of skin cancer and immune system depression due to depletion of stratospheric ozone. "Global environmental changes constitute a major new category of health hazard, arising predominantly from human-induced systemic changes to the nat...Individualized strategies needed for prevention of malaria in long-term travelers
...s. "Long-term travelers to malaria-endemic areas face risk of death, morbidity, and reduced productivity because of malaria. General guidelines are desirable, but recommendations for malaria prevention in long-term travelers must be individualized and should be provided by travel medicine specialists. P...