National trial shows older children benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
Surprising results from a nationwide clinical trial show that many childre...hrough 17 with lazy eye, or amblyopia, may benefit from treatments that are more commonly used on younger children. Amblyopia is a leading cause of vision...News briefs from the journal CHEST, April 2005
...ospitals in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, researchers from the University of Alberta found that patients in a...nd refreshments, and travel honoraria for speakers from other institutions. An educational program that includes equipment training can greatly reduce repa...Hopkins study shows older children also benefit from 'lazy eye' treatment
... and 17 with amblyopia, or "lazy eye," may benefit from treatments usually prescribed for younger children. "Previously, many eye specialists thought treating amblyopia in older children would be ineffective, but we found that many teenagers responded to treatment," says Michael Repka, M.D., a pediatric ...Study finds no link between cell phone use and brain tumors
...t brain tumors, researchers obtained phone records from cell phone companies to document the amount and length of calls and compare the actual calls to what participants reported. Those results found that people accurately remembered the number of calls they made, but did not accurately remember the lengt...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...ood pressure in older people. Current guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine recommend ...s. However, hypertension in mature adults results from changes in the walls of the large arteries that carry blood throughout the body. These blood vessel...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...utionary products and processes currently emerging from nanotechnology research with the potential to tran...lean water, and two million children die each year from water-related diseases, such as diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, and schistosomiasis, which result from a...Older children can benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
Surprising results from a nationwide clinical trial show that many childre...n through 17 with amblyopia (lazy eye) may benefit from treatments that are more commonly used on younger children. Treatment improved the vision of many...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
...e increasingly likely to quit and remain abstinent from smoking over three years. Because up to 70 perce...mokers who had three abnormal scans were abstinent from smoking, compared to 28 percent who had two abnormal scans and 24 percent and 20 percent who had one...Few women at risk for breast cancer willing to use drug to prevent the disease
...and benefits, according to a new study. The study, from the May 15, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http://www.inte...significant reasons for not using tamoxifen. Women from low economic backgrounds or confident in its benefits to reduce breast cancer risk and prevent osteo...Little answers to world's biggest problems
...utionary products and processes currently emerging from nanotechnology research with the potential to transform the lives of billions of the world's most vulnerable inhabitants. In a new study by researchers at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB), published in PLoS Medicine , the o...Grandmothers' smoking linked to grandchildren's asthma decades later
...randmother did not smoke, according to researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of S... the lungs can be passed down through generations, from grandmother to grandchild, even when the child's mother appears unaffected. "This is the first study...Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
...al trials to determine whether women would benefit from treatment. "Some small studies do indicate that wo...al randomized trials have shown that women benefit from treatment. The most common treatments for DCIS are either breast-conserving surgery with radiation o...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...t Stanford - and in the United States - to benefit from a new imaging system that lets doctors see the blo...tery open. The procedure involves grafting vessels from other parts of the body to create alternative conduits of blood flow to the heart. Traditionally the...University of Kentucky physician publishes fibromyalgia study in Arthritis & Rheumatism journal
... these side effects. About 80 percent of patients from all treatment groups entered the open-label extension. LYRICA Background The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Lyrica in December 2004 for the management of two of the most common forms of neuropathic (nerve) pain, diabetic periphe...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...down the range of affinities they want to identify from the library. Between the modeling and future expe...a Biomateriali. The work was supported by a grant from the Whitaker Foundation. Sakiyama-Elbert said lots of researchers are adopting the concept of affini...Tops in technology: UH math professor honored for aneurysm work
...nor for UH. Canic received her bachelor's degree from the University of Zagreb in Croatia and her doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Before joining the UH faculty in 1998, Canic was a...NIST to host public forum on robot standards
... (DHS) will host a public forum on robot standards from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 13, at NIST's Gaithersburg, Md., campus. The meeting will explore ideas and timelines for standards related to urban rescue robot development, testing and certification. Penrose Albright, DHS Assistant Secretary for Homeland Se...7th Annual AIDS Science Day at Yale April 22
... at Yale, 155 Temple St. CIRAaffiliated scientists from Yale, the Hispanic Health Council and The Institute for Community Research, will present their findings to scientific and community members. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required for lunch. Attendees will have the opp...Obesity and insomnia linked by excitability of brain cells
...eople with weight and sleep problems could benefit from cutting back on stressful aspects of their lives, rather than trying to specifically medicate either insomnia or obesity." Obesity and metabolic disorders are a major cause of death and illness in the United States, with one of the highest financi......ion of more than 11,200 eye and vision researchers from over 70 countries. The Association encourages and assists its members and others in research, training, publication and dissemination of knowledge in vision and ophthalmology. ARVO's headquarters are located in Rockville, Md. For more information,...