Smoking rate has plummeted in New York City
...20% In spite of great progress, we have much farther to go, said Dr. Frieden. More than 1 million New Yorkers are still smoking, and nearly 9,000 are dying from smoking-related disease every year. Because of inflation, the real price of cigarettes has declined by more than 60 cents since the last incre...Researchers discover gene crucial for nerve cell insulation
...impulses from dissipating, allowing them to travel farther and faster along the length of the nerve cell. The researchers discovered how a defect in just one copy of the gene, known as early growth response gene 2 (EGR2) affects the normal copy of the gene as well as the functioning of other genes, resulti...Study details catastrophic impact of nuclear attack on US cities
... be bleak there," Dallas said. "But in urban areas farther from the detonation, there actually is quite a bit that we can do. In certain areas, it may be possible to turn the death rate from 90 percent in some burn populations to probably 20 or 30 percent and those are very big differences simply by being ...JRRD releases single-topic issue focused on vision rehabilitation
...nted light source information (animated eyes) from farther away than either the WALK icon with augmented light source information or the DON'T WALK icon. This result suggests that changes to the pedestrian display must be evaluated for various types of eye conditions that cause low vision. We wanted to provi...Hospital performance measures may not make much difference when it comes to mortality
...en less helpful if the better hospital is 50 miles farther and you are having a heart attack. But evaluating hospitals is clearly a good idea and Hospital Compare is an important start. With time, the system will get better. In the meantime, though, effort should be focused on developing new measures that ar...Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring
...act that excites Rosero. "We don't have to venture farther than our own back yard to find what we need to make this chip a reality," he said. The University of Rochester Medical Center's Office of Technology Transfer, which assists University researchers in developing new inventions, immediately saw the pr...Idursulfase is effective treatment for Hunter syndrome, clinical trial concludes
...sing group was able to walk, on average, 37 meters farther within 6 minutes than the placebo group. In addition, the weekly dosing group experienced an increase in forced vital capacity compared to the placebo group, and the weekly dosing group experienced more improvement on most measures than the every oth...Multiple Sclerosis in genetically susceptible twins is augmented by the northern environment
A new study of twins suggests that living farther north of the equator significantly increases risk ...ans for diagnosis slightly earlier than those born farther south, and that the tendency for identical twins to both be diagnosed was greater in those born in t...Physical activity extends life of patients with peripheral artery disease
...e physical activity to a daily routine are parking farther away at the grocery store or taking the stairs," McDermott said. ...Step by step, cancer patients use exercise to feel better
...iation treatments, greater strength and could walk farther and faster in only four weeks, researchers discovered in a pilot study. "At the end of the study, the patients in the exercise program were averaging more than 12,000 steps a day which is above the American College of Sports Medicine and Centers for...Should heart attack care be more like trauma care? Study suggests regional system could be feasible
...em, though many patients in rural areas would have farther to go. The research will be published March 8 in the journal Circulation, and will also be presented March 13 at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology. "There are many more issues involved in regionalizing heart attack care, with ...Humans ignore motion and other cues in favor of a fictional stable world
...if all the objects around you simultaneously moved farther away? In a virtual-reality laboratory in Oxford, researchers have obtained the puzzling finding that humans can be "blind" to changes like this. Computer-generated vision has shown that viewing a scene with two eyes, or walking around it, provides en...Candy on the desk is candy in the mouth, study finds
...restimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away," said Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and of Applied Economics at Cornell. The study -- one of the few experiments to quantify the "temptation factor" -- was presented at the Obesity Society meeting of the North American...The Valentine's Day candy dish
...restimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away," said Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and of Applied Economics at Cornell. The study -- one of the few experiments to quantify the "temptation factor" -- was presented at the Obesity Society meeting of the North American...Palliative radiation actually a cure for some lung cancer patients
...rvival can reach 60 percent. Five year survival in farther advanced disease is approximately 15 percent. Patients who are diagnosed with disease that is too advanced for curative treatment remain eligible for palliative therapies intended to provide symptom relief, including comparatively low doses of local...Distance from radiation therapy facility impacts breast cancer treatment
The farther away a woman lives from a radiation therapy facility, the less likely she is to get lumpectomy with adjuvant radiation therapy for early stage breast cancer, and may instead get mastectomy, according to a new study. Published in the January 1, 2006 i...New class of drug reduces post-operative vomiting
...he CTZ, it can also effectively block the impulses farther downstream." Gan said that future studies will explore combining the NK-1 receptor antagonist with other anti-nausea medications to see if the overall rate of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) can be reduced even more. According to Gan, patien...Psychologists find more sensitive tests for predicting Alzheimer's as well as changes in cognition
...dvantage increased with dementia severity. People farther along in the disease relied even more on the dominant left-side channel; in other words, they found it even harder to override the usual path to process what went through the left ear to the right brain.The study confirms that attentional processing,...OHSU researchers help develop portable device to assist those combating balance disorders
...gh-pitched tone that becomes higher and louder the farther they lean forward. If subjects lean backward, they hear a low-pitched tone that drops and gets louder as they lean back. In addition, the tone becomes louder in the left ear when a subject leans too far to the left. The tone becomes louder in the rig...Increase in heart surgery mortality from SSRIs or depression?
...he same," Xiong said. "It's only when patients get farther out from surgery that the mortality rates begin to increase among patients who were taking SSRIs prior to the heart surgery. We believe that this increase is due more to the underlying depression itself than medication use. It appears that for our st...