It's time to look at health risks in a new light, authors say
How solid is the link between high cholesterol and heart disease" Do regular screening tests for breast and prostate cancer lead to far fewer deaths from these diseases" How safe is the water we drink and the air we breathe" How should we interpret the daily flood of news reports on s...U of M report says early-childhood intervention improves well-being through young adulthood
...d in preschool programs were more likely to finish high school, attend four-year colleges and have health ...r example, the preschool group had higher rates of high school completion with 71.4 percent finishing high school compared with a 63.7 percent finish rate a...Statin drugs may delay progressive artery damage in children
...diet and lifestyle modifications for children with high cholesterol. If needed, a statin, started at the lowest dose, is recommended as the first line of treatment for children who meet criteria for starting lipid-lowering drug therapy. Currently, lovastatin, simvastatin, pravastatin and atorvastatin ha...Scientists train nano-'building blocks' to take on new shapes, as reported in Science
... train them to get something very useful as far as high technology goes, he said. It's funny how research comes back in style, and we find new uses for 'old tools.'......example, not a single autistic child scored in the high intelligence range of the WISC, yet fully a third did on the Ravens. Similarly, a third of the autistics had WISC scores in the mentally retarded range, whereas only one in 20 scored that low on the Ravens test. The normal kids had basically the same...To be or not to be a scientist
WHAT: Some of the Bay Areas brightest high school and college science students will gather at... (NIH). Now in its 17th year, the program matches high school and college students with scientists to conduct real life lab experiments. All 45 students d...Electric fields have potential as a cancer treatment
...icrotubules in turn contain components that have a high electric dipole moment, in which there is a large separation of opposite electric charges. Therefore, parts of the mitotic spindle are greatly influenced, and apparently disrupted, by an electric field. The second effect of the 200 kHz fields is th...Heat-related deaths in middle, high school football players spikes in 2006
...ing football, kids whose body temperatures rose so high and so fast under the summer sun that their brains...iences. With summer practice about to swing into high gear, Mueller said its time to remember these kids, and to keep in mind how heat-related deaths can ...Study shows radiofrequency ablation highly effective in treating kidney tumors
...gery, and lead author on the study. The results a high cure rate and low complication rate establish that at institutions with experience doing this procedure, this is an alternative method for treating small renal malignancies in patients who are not good surgical candidates. RFA uses a needle-l...Mapping mountains from space with GOCE
How high is Mount Everest exactly? Recent surveys have come up with heights that differ by more than five metres. An expedition called the Geodetic Journey is making its way through China and Tibet to highlight the importance of geodesy and how an accurate mo...Medical residents score poorly in diagnosing and managing tuberculosis
...e cases of TB because of social factors, including high rates of homelessness, drug use, incarceration and immigration, as well as HIV infection. He points out that the survey results were not all bad, with most medical residents understanding the main facts about how Mycobacterium tuberculosis is trans...Medical residents unclear about TB guidelines
...ion, as well as HIV infection, have contributed to high TB prevalence in urban areas in the US. ...Study says normal but out-of-control enzyme may be culprit that signals some cells to become cancer
...performed several experiments to determine whether high TOPK activity could lead to cancer. When they engineered mouse skin cells to produce excessive amounts of the enzyme and then injected the cells into other mice, those mice developed tumors. Control mice had none. After they had silenced t...National quality agenda, payment reform, care integration keys to improving quality, patient safety
...incentives for physicians and hospitals to provide high quality care; 59% of respondents support publi...States health care system isnt designed to provide high quality health care and changes must be made at the highest levels. A report released by The Commonw...Floods and fires across Europe captured from space
...ing across Greece, where temperatures have been as high as 45 C, with more than a dozen burning out of control. Peloponnese and the island of Cephalonia in the Adriatic off the peninsula's northwest coast are among the worst hit areas. Major fires are visible from space satellites detect not only the ...Health reform bills could improve quality and efficiency, but fall short of national plan
...e-based care and reducing the differential between high payment for procedures and relatively low payment ...tion technology may not be sufficient to achieve a high performance health system. In the case of health information technology, proposals would put in plac...Trials underway for 'essential' new TB vaccine
...cine. "This vaccine is safe and stimulates very high levels of the type of immune response we think we need to protect against TB. It is important for us to test whether or not this vaccine does work to stop people getting TB," says Dr McShane. Following successful safety trials in The Gambia, the dr...Asia Pacific Family Medicine moves to BioMed Central's open access platform
...a), is an academic society journal which publishes high quality, regionally-focused research aimed to enhance the standards of family medicine by focusing on best practices. Family medicine is one of the fastest growing medical fields in the Asia Pacific region. By moving to BioMed Centrals open acces...The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation invests in gastroenterology's future
...li and Edythe Broad Foundation, which will benefit high school students who demonstrate high potential for careers in digestive disease research. The Student Research Fellowship Awards program ......of older Americans living alone will either remain high or continue to grow: About half of women and nearly a quarter of men aged 75 and older currently live alone. But the UF-IBM technology may also prove useful in many other medical settings. For example, Helal said, it could help emergency rooms oper...