10 years before malaria vaccine is ready for widespread use
...cine research has progressed rapidly over the past few years, helped by the availability more funds and by improved organisation mediated through organisations such as the Malaria Vaccine Initiative. However, it is likely to be at least a decade before an efficacious vaccine is available for widespread u...Adolescents not receiving health counseling, Stanford study shows
...chers said the low teen visit rates translate into few opportunities for counseling. So while checkup visits are usually the best for giving advice, doctors may need to look for "teachable moments" during illness-related visits as well. Ma said that system-related factors likely have a greater influence ...Breakthrough for kids with epilepsy
...aged 3-7 years old developed intellectually in the few years following epilepsy surgery. While those with severe epilepsy are at high risk for significant mental handicap, data showed that those who became seizure free after surgery were able to develop better and may actually gain some abilities that th...Nanoparticles offer new hope for detection and treatment
...lf to two years. The spherical nanoparticles are a few thousand times smaller than the dot above this "i," yet each can carry about 100,000 molecules of the metal used to provide contrast in MRI images. This creates a high density of contrast agent, and when the particles bind to a specific area, that si...Rare surgery performed to remove pancreas, prevent diabetes
... Minnesota, and the patient still survives. Only a few other cases were attempted, and results were not uniformly good, so the procedure fell out of favor until recently, when new advances in cadaveric islet cell transplantation made outcomes more favorable....Lessons to be learnt from life at the very limit
...ed with physiological and environmental extremes a few remarkable people are somehow able to adapt and find the will to climb this mountain. But how in this seemingly lethal hypoxic environment is it possible? For a molecule upon which all human life depends our understanding of oxygen and its physiolog...Day care in infancy protects against childhood leukaemia
...d day care centres on a regular basis in the first few months of life are less likely to develop leukaemi...y with other infants and children during the first few months of life protects against subsequent risk of ALL," say the authors. The most plausible interp...Relatively few US adults report having a healthy lifestyle
...GO Despite clear evidence of the health benefits, few U.S. adults conform to four common healthy behavio...of illness, diminished quality of life, and death, few Americans undertake the modifications that would result in a healthy lifestyle, the researchers foun...Age is not a limiting factor in combined therapy for lung cancer
...pidly despite initial chemotherapy sensitivity and few patients survive three years. New treatment modalities have provided encouraging results. Studies have found chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy improves survival over chemotherapy alone. Since that finding, researchers have developed new protoco...High risk of second cancers in survivors of childhood soft tissue sarcomas
...r, due to the small size of many previous studies, few have evaluated risk by type of soft tissue sarcoma or have estimated risks for specific second cancers. Randi J. Cohen, M.S. and a team of researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) evaluated data from 1499 children included in one of the l...Jefferson Lab scientists build small-animal imager for German Cancer Research Center
...ernational collaborations such as this one began a few years ago when Detector Group leader Stan Majewski tasked Mark Smith with finding potential scientific partners in Europe, to provide additional, crucial evaluations of Jefferson Lab designed imagers by implementing them in real biomedical projects. ...The power of drug advertising: Patients often get what they ask for
...Health funded the project. The researchers noted a few drawbacks to the study, however. Chiefly, they cannot determine whether DTC advertising actually produces the kinds of behaviors in real patients that were portrayed by the actors. Yet, they write, the results "sound a cautionary note for DTC adverti...Substituting nurses for doctors results in high quality care, few savings
...unclear. In addition, most studies included only a few nurses, so the findings may reflect personal variations rather than broad trends....Children do well with shorter fast before surgery
...ow whether these children can safely drink up to a few hours before surgery. "Nurses and anesthesiologist...y and colleagues write. The researchers found very few studies on milk drinking before surgery, which was "especially surprising given the reliance of youn...Institute of Medicine news: Changes needed in WIC program
...eferences among WIC participants. There should be few restrictions on participants' choices among fresh produce, the report says. Yogurt should be permitted as a substitute for some of the milk for both women and children, and tofu and soy beverages should be allowed as alternatives to milk for women. ...New guidelines recommend screening HIV-infected patients for kidney disease
...ss the issue. He expects they will be updated in a few years as research evolves....Large-scale study identifies key stress factors facing new mums
... and new demands" says Professor Hung. "Until now, few studies have attempted to measure these stresses." The responses given by the new mothers to the 85 questions have enabled Professor Hung to develop an improved 61-item Hung Postpartum Stress Scale. "This up-dated and improved stress scale can ...Lower vaccination rates put children at risk
... a growing phenomenon CAM has become over the past few years. Nor do parents necessarily understand the importance of sharing information about their child's alternative therapy, said Dr. Vohra, who is also director of the CARE program (Complementary and Alternative Research and Education) at the Stoller...Little evidence found for IVF as most effective infertility treatment
...tment for unexplained infertility even though very few high quality studies comparing infertility treatments exist, according to Pandian. "IVF is becoming popular when there is no specific explanation for infertility as it may be able to overcome a variety of problems," she says. "However, it is expensiv......omen were not included in this analysis because so few women veterans were in the study population, Johnson said. In the future, the ongoing LCSES study will investigate the relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and morbidity and mortality....