The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners hosts 20th Annual National Conference
...and equipment companies, recruiters and publishing houses will showcase the latest in goods and services to support the nurse practitioner....University of Nevada, Reno professor showcases 'mini' ion accelerator
...ximately 65 at the Nevada Terawatt Facility, which houses a 2 trillion watt Z-pinch. The Terawatt team is bringing the Z-pinch together with a one-tenth-scale petawatt laser to create the only facility in the world with this capacity. The facility also boasts strong in-house theory and simulation capabiliti......ed in November 2001 and indicated that they wanted houses in less dense neighborhoods, with fewer houses and more space, and a nearby park. All other factors such as school quality, commuting time to work...Study shows Philip Morris pursued tobacco regulation to enhance its image
...ves in 2004 was reintroduced in March 2005 in both houses of Congress....New model may better predict outcomes for children with autism and autistic spectrum disorders
... The Regional Autism Center at Children's Hospital houses a large interdisciplinary program for the diagnosis and treatment of children with ASD....Parasite genome sequences offer hope for new drugs and vaccines, Science studies say
...," live in the cracks and crevices of poor-quality houses in Central and South America and transmit the parasites to humans. People infected with T. cruzi often suffer cardiac, gastrointestinal or neurological damage after decades of persistent infection without disease symptoms. Leishmania species caus...Researchers model avian flu outbreak, impact of interventions
...tched to the strain that emerges, quarantining the houses or neighborhoods of infected people, and combinations of these approaches. Giving a low-efficacy vaccine to just half the population before the start of a pandemic would greatly enhance the success of other containment strategies, according to the...Tsunami raises questions about disaster mental health, Science reports
... withdrawn since the tsunami and won't leave their houses or take part in their normal activities. This is a...th. These women were expected to stay inside their houses for a grieving period of four months. But since many of them lost other family members, too, they ha...Researchers develop portable 'vein finder' for faster, more accurate injections
... finder is composed of two parts: A reusable unit houses the electronics and signal processing components, while a disposable coupler box holds a reflector and needle guide. The needle guide is positioned parallel to the sound beam being transmitted by a transducer in the device's reusable section. As med...St. Jude conducts first large-scale bird flu genome study
...ely positioned to conduct these studies because it houses Webster's large collection of bird flu viruses collected over several decades. The hospital is also home to St. Jude's Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, which provided the necessary expertise and biotechnology resources; and its s...Light-based device probes for early cancer signs
...terized by an enlarged nucleus, the structure that houses the cell's genetic material. It is such cellular changes that pathologists rely on to identify cancer in biopsied tissue, Wax said. The a/LCI device emits light that scatters when it hits the cell nucleus. To enable a/LCI to be used as a diagnostic t...Many cleaners, air fresheners may pose health risks when used indoors
...ner. Under this scenario, a person who cleans four houses a day, five days per week, 50 weeks per year, would take in about 80 micrograms per day of formaldehyde, double the guideline value set by California's Proposition 65. In addition, the person's intake of fine particulate matter during the hours spent...Concentrated animal feeding operations near schools may pose asthma risk
...(generally classified as a livestock facility that houses more than 3,500 animals). Sixty-one participants responded from the study school, and 248 participants responded from the control school. Study results indicated a significant difference in the prevalence of physician-diagnosed asthma between the two...The Lancet calls on research community to address neglected disease that causes heart failure
...ve usually in cracks in the walls of mud and straw houses common to poor communities. The most common cause of death in infected people is heart failure. The Editorial highlights the many problems facing Chagas' disease. Prevention of the disease by insect control is hugely expensive. The disease has no ...Hopkins scientists link immune response to 'ghost' parasites and severely congested sinuses
...cal breakdown of the tough, protective casing that houses insects and worms to the severe congestion and polyp formation typical of chronic sinusitis. A team of Hopkins sinus experts has found that the gene for the enzyme, acidic mammalian chitinase (AMCase), is up to 250 times more active in people wit...Living close to heavy industry may increase risk of lung cancer
...ngle chemical production complex in the world, and houses for the workforce were built as close as possible to the industrial sites. All the study participants were interviewed at length about their lives, including full histories of where they had lived, their employment, as well as their smoking habits,...U of MN earns $7.9 million NIH grant to expand neuroscience research
...R is an interdisciplinary research laboratory that houses state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) equipment for use in biomedical research. The central aim of the research conducted in CMRR is to develop non-invasive MR methods and technology for the acqui...High levels of blindness in southern Sudan following years of war
... people in this house were examined and then other houses were chosen, also at random. Around 2500 people were examined. Children under five years were not included in survey. A very high rate of blindness was found4%. This is more than twice the level that would be expected, given what is known about the p...Insulating houses improves health and well-being
Insulating houses can significantly improve health and reduce days o...state of housing has a real impact on health; cold houses place more physiological stress on people, and are more likely to be damp - leading to respiratory p...Residents in disaster areas face medication adherence dilemmas
...for age, gender and race, those who reported their houses destroyed were nearly twice (1.97 times) more likely to report failing to completely follow their medicine regimen, researchers said. Krousel-Woods group was uniquely positioned to conduct the study because Ochsners 473-bed hospital in New Orleans an...