Time is right for vets and doctors to debate food policy
...'s drive to lower food prices has resulted in many hidden costs for consumers, animals, and society, write Caroline Hewson and Tim Lang. Doctors and vets have an important opportunity to guide the public about these costs and to encourage the relevant policymakers to make changes. Historically, a good publi...Groundbreaking guidelines promote early detection
...mended questions and observations that can uncover hidden signs of peripheral arterial disease; Clinical clues that a patient may have renal artery stenosis, a narrowing of the arteries that supply blood to the kidney--and a possible cause of poorly controlled high blood pressure or kidney failure; Recomm...Patient safety monitoring at Hopkins Hospital finds law of unintended consequences at work
...logy designed to improve health care may also have hidden risks to patients that can only be identified by paying close attention to what happens after the technology is put into practice." In a case study reported in the latest edition of the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology online Jan. ...Visual research seeks to cut through clutter
... more effectively identify distinct items, such as hidden weapons. "Weapons can come in any form," says Mary Bravo, an assistant professor of psychology at Rutgers University-Camden. "Baggage checkers don't know exactly what they're looking for." Funded by the National Science Foundation and published in th...Infant transplant patients resist infections that kill adult AIDS patients
...ne system is deficient. This discovery indicates a hidden safety net that might have far-reaching consequences for treating diseases of the immune system such as AIDS. The Mayo Clinic-led study was conducted with colleagues in Toronto and Baltimore, and is reported in the early online edition of the Feb. 1 ...European Union's 169 billion bill for cardiovascular disease
...the economic burden. The report also revealed the hidden costs of informal care for the first time an estimated 29 billion with 2.98 million CVD sufferers receiving 2.95 billion hours help from unpaid carers. Around 1.375 million people were involved in providing unpaid care to patients with coronary hear...Concern over institutional care for children in Europe
...n this week's BMJ express concern over the largely hidden extent of institutional care for children in Europe. Institutional care for young children is common throughout the WHO European region of 52 countries. Although institutional care for children in need is generally seen as most prevalent in eastern E...Anti-inflammatory drug's potentially deadly side effect found to be rare
...experience also reminds us that there are a lot of hidden icebergs in the ocean we're navigating, and we're going to bump up against those icebergs and have to work out ways to navigate around them."...UCI researchers identify first compound to block progression of Alzheimer's disease
...a water tank and encouraged repeatedly to locate a hidden platform in the tank by making spatial association in the room to facilitate their search. After the platform was removed, the researchers monitored in subsequent trials how many times the mice would cross over the space where the platform used to be...Single dose of azithromycin prevents recurrence of inturned eyelashes
...in a given community. The disease usually remains hidden in rural areas of developing countries where people live in overcrowded conditions with limited access to water and health care. Trichiasis can be corrected by appropriate lid surgery, which returns the inturned eyelashes to their normal position. H...Gold nanorods may make safer cancer treatment
...al gold nanorods, they can detect malignant tumors hidden deeper under the skin, like breast cancer, and selectively destroy them with lasers only half as powerful as before without harming the healthy cells. The method, which allows for a safer, deeper penetrating noninvasive cancer treatment, has just ...Ethnic groups need specialist services to tackle alcohol misuse
...iatrist in this week's BMJ. He believes that these hidden populations need specific services and more research. In the United Kingdom, several ethnic minorities have higher levels of alcohol use and resulting health problems than the general population, writes Rahul Rao of the South London and Maudsley NH...Finding a better way to quiet noisy environments
... destroy unwanted sounds. "Noise cancellation is a hidden technology that most consumers aren't aware of, but vehicles made by BMW, Mercedes, Honda, and other companies are now using it," said Raymond de Callafon, co-author of the paper and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCSD's Jacob...Near 100 percent mammagraphy recall compliance costs less than a quarter per patient
The hidden costs of achieving a 99.5% mammography recall compliance rate is 16 cents per screening patient, according to a recent study administered by the radiology department at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. From 2002-2004, 4,025 of 30,286 scre...M. D. Anderson: Setting the benchmark in brain tumor treatment
...barrier. Lang and Fueyo believe the virus could be hidden as if in a Trojan horse inside the stem cells. Once in the tumor, it would break out from the stem cell and destroy the tumor. This strategy also may reduce any immune reaction that a naked virus might otherwise provoke. "Thinking outside of t...Carbon-based quantum dots could mean 'greener,' safer technology in medicine and biology
...ists say. Cheap disposable sensors that can detect hidden explosives and biological warfare agents such as anthrax also are among the possibilities envisioned by the researchers. "Carbon is hardly considered to be a semiconductor, so luminescent carbon nanoparticles are very interesting both fundamentally ...Study: Super-sizing your food takes a hidden toll on your pocketbook
...pennies -- seemingly a great value. But there's a hidden cost to those larger portions, even beyond the hea...es for only an additional 17 percent in price, the hidden financial costs drive the price of that meal up between 191 and 123 percent. "While there's an im...Include Indigenous communities in MDGs or watch them die a slow death, experts warn
... MDGs, and that these communities could become the hidden victims of the global effort to tackle poverty. The Lancet series has been written in the first year of the Second Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, initiated after a First Decade which even according to the High Commissioner for Human Right...New test detects prostate cancer spread at the earliest time
...SC. Current trials are also using the test to find hidden metastases in lymph nodes and bone marrow for brea...recurrence and survival in those patients with the hidden tumor cells versus those without the cells. The presence of occult tumor cells was associated with i...Novel gene therapy may lead to cure in hemophilia A patients
...t FVIII is produced and stored in blood platelets, hidden from view and attack, ready to release when a blood vessel is damaged, quickly enabling normal clotting before the antibodies can begin their attack. Our approach was very effective even in mice treated with five to ten thousand times the amount of a...