American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (first issue)
... those who were treated with tuberculosis drugs at home compared equally well with those treated at a sanitarium. Furthermore, they discovered that family members who were in contact with the tuberculosis case daily were no more liable to develop the disease than were relatives of those who were treated a...Many parents fail to set rules to limit children's exposure to tobacco smoke, according to new study
...ore likely to report having an entirely smoke-free home and to limit exposure outside the home. Exposure to all this secondhand smoke a Class A environmental carcinogen is especially harmful to children, according to the World Health Organization. Higher incidence of lower respiratory tract infection (...Urban neighborhoods affect how people think about health
...T LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The number of days people stay home ill is influenced by neighborhood poverty and whet...n less poor neighborhoods were more likely to stay home ill from work than those who lived in more impoverished neighborhoods," Barnes said. "And people who...Golf-related head injuries in children increasing along with sport's popularity
...onths old. The popularity of the sport (Augusta is home to the Masters Golf Tournament) and MCG's designation as an adult and pediatric trauma center likely account for the number of serious golf-related injuries treated at MCG, Dr. Rahimi says. An occasional golfer himself, Dr. Rahimi got the idea for th...Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs and Dan Haney receive public service awards
...h programs for cancer patients and research in her home state of Alabama. She created "Making Miracles," a program where high school students volunteer in the cancer unit at Children's Hospital in Birmingham. Later, she spearheaded an initiative to persuade the state of Alabama to offer a "Curing Childhoo...Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
...e study included more than 34,000 Michigan nursing home residents over age 65. Data were collected over si...s part of ongoing mandatory assessments by nursing home staff. Individuals who had untreated insomnia at the start of the study period were 90 percent more...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
... Assets in the HRS are measured by adding together home equity, savings, stocks, bonds and other assets, and subtracting debts. The median net worth in the study was $98,400, and 311 of the participants had assets below that level. The researchers then looked at how the participants had rated their overa...OHSU researchers demonstrate how Alzheimer's disease impacts important brain cell function
...uthor of the paper. "Because the frontal cortex is home to important brain functions such as reasoning, planning, and abstract thought all affected by Alzheimer's this finding appears to be significant. Furthermore, we noticed that synaptic protein levels were even lower in the brains of patients in th...Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive
...ho was harvesting mussels one day from their rocky home at the ocean's edge. Li observed mussels being pou...d veneer lumber products - all major components of home construction and many other uses. One of these patented adhesives is currently cost-competitive wit...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...nology now is just fantastic," Dyels said. He went home five days after his surgery, which was performed by Robert Robbins, MD, professor and chair of cardiothoracic surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine. "Anything I can do to help advance the technology is great." This new technique...Tops in technology: UH math professor honored for aneurysm work
...ate professor of biology and biochemistry, brought home this honor 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 Fields Fellow at the Fields...Combination vaccine produces lower immune response than vaccines administered separately
...fants aged 7 to 11 weeks from 2 U.K. centers, with home follow-up visits at ages 2, 3, 4, and 5 months. Infants received Pnc9-MenC (n = 120) or monovalent group C meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MenC) (n = 120) administered in addition to routine immunizations (diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and whole-ce...To boost efficiency, hospitals borrow principles from factory floor
...very center. Currently, Lin is working with home health-care provider McAuley-Seton Home Care, a division of the Catholic Health System in Buffalo, to streamline the scheduling of nurses' visits to patients' homes. In one proprietary study, he tracked the number of tests that each physician ...Being too clean could be hazardous to your health and the environment
...e FDA to closely monitor and possibly regulate the home use of antimicrobials such as triclosan. The increasing popularity of antimicrobial products has preceded the study of the possible harmful affects of the use of such products. Past research has shown that chloroform is produced when free chlorine r...Special physical therapy technique successful for chronic back pain
...d breathing techniques. Patients were also given a home exercise program. Of the 102 people, 92 had significant improvement in their pain and were able to return fully to their daily activities. For 85 percent, the improvement was noted after three weeks of treatment. After an average of almost two years,...NCI's Patient Navigator Research Program: Questions and answers
...ties. The "colonias" areas historically have been home to an extremely poor segment of the Hispanic population, whose unclean living conditions generally rival that of Third World nations. 6. Where can one obtain additional information about the Patient Navigator Program? Information is available at t...American Society of Travel Agents urges healthy travel for consumers
...hey take to prepare for vacations outside of their home country. More than 20 million people will travel abroad this year to places where they may contract a potentially serious disease. To increase awareness of the importance of taking travel health precautions, ASTA is launching a national campaign to e...Institute of Medicine news: Human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS
...EPFAR), which is directed at 15 countries that are home to half of the world's HIV-infected people. PEPFAR's "2-7-10" goals are to treat 2 million infected people with antiretroviral therapy, prevent 7 million new HIV infections, and care for 10 million people who are infected with HIV or affected by it....Paramedics need help to revive marriages: U of T study
...erally, they bring the workplace stress and trauma home with them. "The aftermath of the traumatic events ...ers tried to maintain an atmosphere of calm in the home and to avoid emotional interactions. "This study is a first step in identifying the needs of a popul......o-authors examined about 40 comparisons of nursing home care - only one of which was in Canada - published between 1990 and 2002. Their findings are reported in the April 2005 issue of Medical Care Research and Review. "It was striking to find that so few Canadian studies have been done so far on an impor...