Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant
...interest: mercury in artisanal (i.e., small-scale) gold mining: environment, health, policy and solutions; bioaccumulation and trophic transfer; and global-scale transport and deposition patterns of atmospheric mercury. Friday, Aug. 11: Press conference at 10 a.m. An advance copy of the declaration wi...Gabapentin cools hot flashes as well as estrogen
... is as effective as estrogen, which used to be the gold standard treatment for menopause symptoms. Estrogen is no longer the preferred therapy because recent, large studies have shown that the hormone increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, breast cancer and Alzheimer's disease for some women. Given...Boost radiotherapy effective for very early breast cancer
...with a boost. So far, no randomised trials, the gold standard of assessment, have been done to assess the effects of boost radiotherapy in young women with DCIS. Dr Gruber therefore suggests that their results might mean that this technique will now be considered as a part of the armamentarium of breas...Johns Hopkins Children's Center to lead largest-ever study on kidney disease in children
...t agent from the blood, promises to become the new gold standard for kidney function estimates in clinical trials and will also help researchers refine existing GFR-estimate formulas that doctors use for children. The current methods for estimating GFR yield faulty results in children 25 percent of the ti...Mercury pollution threatens health worldwide, scientists say
...ethylmercury. The use of mercury in small-scale gold mining is polluting thousands of sites around the world, posing long-term health risks to up to 50 million inhabitants of mining regions and contributing more than 10 percent of the mercury in Earth's atmosphere resulting from human activities....St. Jude first to describe new statistical method
...e in the study while still adhering closely to the gold standard of clinical study designs--the prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT), according to Xiaoping Xiong, Ph.D., associate member of the St. Jude Department of Biostatistics and the paper's first author. In an RCT, participants are randomly...Radical surgery for kidney cancer is risk factor for chronic kidney disease
...EW YORK, September 5, 2006 -- For forty years, the gold standard for treating a single, small tumor in the kidney has been to remove the entire kidney. A retrospective study, which appears in the September issue of The Lancet Oncology, by urologists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and th...Electric jolt triggers release of biomolecules, nanoparticles
...release biomolecules and nanoparticles from a tiny gold launch pad. The technique could someday be used to...gy. For their experiments, the researchers used gold electrodes, each as thin as a single strand of human hair, fabricated through the same photolithogra...Tulane researcher reports on origin of deadly fever outbreak
...982000 outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever among gold miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to an article in the Aug. 31, 2006, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Daniel G. Bausch, associate professor of Tropical Medicine at Tulane University School of Public Health and T...A potential new affordable diagnostic test for TB
... for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is the diagnostic gold standard as it is sensitive and specific in cases of smear positive tuberculosis but it takes 2-6 weeks to give a result and is not routinely used in countries with high prevalence of TB because of cost. Sanjeev Krishna (St George's Hospital Medical...Use of helical MDCT better at detecting abnormal airways
...millimeters] has been regarded as the radiological gold standard in the diagnosis of bronchiectasis, we knew from previous studies that it had significant limitations," said Nestor Muller, MD, lead author of the study. "The main limitation is that the traditional high-resolution CT technique, consisting o...Read my lips: Not all fillers are safe for lip augmentation, rejuvenation
...ients with a poor result for several months. The gold standard for augmenting the inner lip is hyaluronic acid fillers, which last three to six months. Hyaluronic acids carry little risk because of their short-term results. Collagen can be used, but due to collagen's high cost, hyaluronic acids are con...Faster, more accurate tuberculosis test developed
... parallel MODS testing, as well as for two current gold standard TB tests-- the Lowenstein-Jensen culture and automated mycobacterial culture (using the MBBacT system). In order to test the samples using MODS, the researchers observed the cultures under an inverted light microscope for 40 days. The sensit...Fast test for low blood flow in dogs detects early heart trouble
...with an existing test that is considered to be the gold standard and relies on muscle absorption of microscopic beads in the heart muscle. Six dogs had surgery to place a clamp around a main artery, cutting in half the blood flow to the heart. After surgery, the dogs were injected with the drug adenos......e, and blood serum. "Our method is based on tiny gold spheres and aptamers," reports Lu. Aptamers are si...of these clumps: they are aggregates of nanoscopic gold spheres coupled to short DNA strands, some containing the biomolecule biotin. The DNA sequences are ...Radiologists attempt to solve mystery of Tut's demise
... Hamdy and their team tried to remove and free the gold mask, which was tightly glued and quite adherent to the body, by using some metal instruments that broke the thin, fragile piece of bone that lies immediately underneath the bone defect in the skull base through which the spinal cord emerges," Dr. Se...Swishing once a day with mouthrinse poses no harm to dental work
...used for fillings), glass ionomers (used to cement gold and ceramic crowns to teeth), and composite resins...illings Glass ionomers material used to cement gold and ceramic crowns to teeth Composite resins fillers that are tooth-colored...Repeat bone mineral density scans do not appear helpful for predicting fractures in most older women
...ps physicians predict fractures and has become the gold standard for osteoporosis screening, according to background information in the article. Current guidelines recommend screening all women for osteoporosis using BMD measurements at age 65. However, there is little evidence supporting the use of rep...MR angiography highly accurate in detecting blocked arteries
..."MR angiography produced results comparable to the gold standard of digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and multidetector computed tomography (CT) angiography. In addition, this technology produced images with higher resolution over a larger field of view in a shorter amount of time than previous contra...Mercury contamination of fish warrants worldwide public warning
...s. The uncontrolled use of mercury in small-scale gold mining is contaminating thousands of sites around the world, posing long-term health risks to an estimated 50 million inhabitants of mining regions. These activities alone contribute more than 10 percent of the mercury in Earth's atmosphere attributa...