Landmark study finds adult Delawareans with disabilities in only 'fair' to 'poor' health
...ncidence of secondary health conditions, including high cholesterol (47 percent), high blood pressure (45 percent), arthritis (40 percent) and diabetes (21 percent) than the general Delaw...Obese girls less likely to attend college
...even less likely to enter college if they attend a high school where obesity is relatively uncommon. The findings appear in the July issue of the journal Sociology of Education. The study tracked nearly 11,000 American adolescents, using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. ...U of M researchers discover new method to combat HIV
...escribed to HIV-infected patients is expensive and high in toxicity because many drugs are taken at one time. The researchers named the new concept Portmanteau Inhibitors, and the results were published in a July 4 issue of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. The principal researcher is Robert Vince, Ph...ESA's Earth Explorer gravity satellite on show
...local environment is required to acquire extremely high fidelity true gravity readings, so the spacecraft intentionally has no mechanical moving parts. The newly developed primary instrument - the gravity gradiometer - measures the terrestrial gravitational field thanks to a set of six ultra-sensitive ...Helicopter flight trials for EGNOS
...ance on the ground as the helicopter can remain at high altitude until it is closer to its destination before commencing its final descent. In addition, a steeper descent angle reduces the noise generated by the rotor blades as the craft nears the ground. The implementation of instrument approaches for...Stroke in nonvascular atrial fibrillation -- anti-coagulants better than anti-platelet therapy
...lants are often given to people with AF who are at high risk of strokes, while anti-platelet treatments are offered to people at lower risk. A team of Cochrane Researchers set out to compare the relative benefits of these two treatments. After searching the medical literature, they drew on data found in...Extreme weather monitoring boosted by space sensor
...soil moisture information in Africa because of the high costs of in-situ measurement networks. In addition...SAR) instruments can deliver soil moisture data of high spatial (one km) and temporal (less than one week) resolution. The SHARE project team combines ex...6 out of 10 doctors aren't frustrated that patients can't lower cholesterol
... between what family doctors do when a patient has high cholesterol and what they are advised to do by nat...ere much more likely to see smoking and obesity as high risk factors for cardiovascular disease than high cholesterol. Country by country statistic...First of its kind report on how children with brain tumors perform at school
...survivors were significantly less likely to finish high school compared to their siblings, said Lhteenmki. Brain tumors are the second most common form of cancer occurring in childhood, and the leading cause of cancer-related illness and death in this age group....Threats to hope -- Desperation affects reasoning about product information
...t fit into the gorgeous outfit you bought for your high school reunion" Trying to get pregnant" Want a bigger house but afraid you cant afford it" A new study by researchers from University of Southern California argues that in situations like these, consumers are susceptible to motivated reasoning. We be...Organic farming can feed the world, U-M study shows
...armers use in developed countries to produce those high yields, she said. After comparing yields of organic and convention farms, the researchers looked at nitrogen availability. To do so, they multiplied the current farm land area by the average amount of nitrogen available for production crops if so-...European Space Agency's Envisat captures breath of volcano
...leasing smoke and ash on Saturday and spewed it as high as 4000m on Monday. Mount Gamkonora is the highest peak on Halmahera Island. Indonesia is located within the Pacific Ring of Fire, a continuous line (40 000 km long) of volcanoes and fault lines circling the edges of the Pacific Ocean, and has mor...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...y 26 at 5:30 PM. Scientific abstracts that scored high during the review process were identified as "Revi...hat tissue. This is potentially important because high amounts of dense breast tissue are associated with increased breast cancer risk. Using ultrasound av...Patients with soft tissue sarcomas should be treated at high volume centers
...erformed 1504 cases (32.2%) and were classified as high volume centres. The remaining two thirds of instit... institutions, reported the authors. Patients at high volume centres were generally younger, with a higher proportion of women, were more likely to have h...Environmental inequality study finds no direct links to segregation, income
.... He then examined whether metropolitan areas with high levels of residential segregation and racial income inequality also had high levels of environmental racial inequality. For example, if residential segregation was the key fa...New heart disease risk score will help minimize health inequalities
...2 million adults under the age of 75 in Britain at high risk of developing heart disease. This is lower th...predicted 9% of patients aged 35-74 years to be at high risk compared with 13% for the Framingham equation and 14% for ASSIGN. Using this more focused too...Cancer on the agenda of the Portuguese EU Council Presidency
...d global issues under discussion, will guarantee a high value contribution to the global debate on cancer and health in Europe. ESMO will continue to support the Portuguese efforts to make this initiative a turning point in the fight against cancer in Europe and the first step towards the hoped for rec...Holograms make for better vision tests
...raphy offers many advantages including simplicity, high speed and low cost and could open new doors in our understanding of human vision. This approach still needs to be tested on young astigmatic individuals, whose nature of vision is not fully known. The same method has also been found to work well in...SAGE to publish British Journal of Infection Control
...s. We see much potential to increase the number of high quality submissions to BJIC, and to raise the profile of the journal with health professionals internationally. Tracey Cooper, ICNA Editor adds, I am delighted to report to our readers that the British Journal of Infection Control moves into a new ...Hib vaccine: A critical ally in Asia's effort to reduce child deaths
... of the region. Although countries in Asia with high mortality rates have long known that pneumonia and meningitis are a significant concern, many assumed that Hib was not a major cause. This vaccine study builds the evidence of the real burden of Hib pneumonia and meningitis as has been shown in othe...