Passengers, not just mobile phones, contribute to road accidents
...use and passenger carriage, questions remain about how these factors impact on driving behaviours. That each contribute to driver distraction is irrefutable, however, passenger carriage by young drivers may have additional effects, as recent studies have indicated. These studies suggest that teenage pass...Indoor smoking bans: Are they creating unhealthy outdoor zones for secondhand smoke?
...ea outside many establishments. In order to study how much secondhand smoke was being created in these a...t they are also found in car exhaust. To determine how much of these substances came from smoke, the researchers went downtown for four weekend afternoons ...More pounds equals worse asthma?
...erity in men, too." While it's not known for sure how asthma and obesity are linked, Dr. Taylor notes that one potential mechanism seems to be an association between the hormone leptin, which is produced by fat cells and plays a role in body weight regulation, and inflammation of airways seen in asthma....Diagnostic tests for malaria underused in Zambia
...rainees are provided with clear instructions about how to respond to a negative test result. Without taking these steps, we may rapidly be confronted with widespread resistance of P falciparum to artemisinin-based combination therapy, and the lifespan of these highly effective new therapies will be reduc...Number of insecticide-treated nets available to African households needs to be increased
...mbia, and colleagues conducted a study to estimate how many insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are available...African households that are at risk of malaria and how many ITNs are needed to reach targets for use by children younger than 5 years and pregnant women. T...System to pinpoint airline passengers who contaminate cabins
...ded to operate such a tracking system and learning how to precisely place several sensors to accurately t...e technique, called "inverse simulation," analyzes how a material disperses throughout the cabin and then runs the dispersion in reverse to find its origin...Data showed improved quality of life and patient satisfaction with SYMBICORT
...nnaire [AQLQ(S)] a validated survey that measures how asthma affects a person's daily activities, emotional functioning, and symptoms and using patient and physician global assessments. Results showed that SYMBICORT led to statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in AQLQ(S) scor...Some vitamin supplements don't protect against lung cancer
...tamin intake over the previous 10 years, including how much of each supplement they took. The researchers then checked to see how many of the people in the study had lung cancer, using a government cancer registry. They found 393 ...Studies show role of age, gender, race and weight on cancer risk and treatment
...k of cancer surgery among elderly individuals; and how race determines incidence as well as treatment dec...needed to confirm these findings and to understand how obesity contributes to the formation of polyps." Dr. Francois and his team will present this study...'Star Trek'-type scanning may reveal genetic activity of tumors, Stanford study shows
...r samples. They also could compare their data with how the cancer patient fared. What they found is that two very different aspects of cancer - how it looks by imaging and how it behaves on a molecular level - have a strong connection. Out of the 5...New study demonstrates that Lubiprostone may improve symptom relief rates in adults with IBS-C
...other IBS symptoms) over the past week compared to how you felt before you entered the study"" A 7-point balanced scale with a strict evaluation using the two highest scale points to qualify as a responder was used. Patients were considered monthly responders if they reported at least moderate relief f...Scavenger cells may have role blocking obesity, Stanford study shows
...ls called PPAR-gamma, which has been implicated in how cells detect fatty acids, the building blocks of d...rsuing further studies to nail down the details of how the cells flip-flop between the two modes, with the hope that someday drugs might be able to promote...Researchers investigate impact of lifestyle on GI health
... "The studies presented today further demonstrate how researchers are beginning to understand the links between digestive diseases and lifestyle most notably, diet." Life Long Vegetarian Diet Reduces the Risk of Colorectal Cancer (Abstract #155) The average person's lifetime risk of developing co...MIT reports key pathway in synaptic plasticity
Cambridge, Mass. -- Scientists are keenly studying how neurons form synapses--the physical and chemical c...visual pathway as an accessible model for studying how the signaling properties of synapses change during development and how those changes relate to struc...NYP/Weill Cornell Urologists present at 2007 AUA Conference
...rological erectile dysfunction. The study explores how lifestyle can affect the risk of other, previously unlinked, urological problems. Vasectomy Reversal More Effective Than Assisted Reproductive Techniques POD50, May 23, 10:00 a.m.12:00 p.m. Vasectomy reversal may be more successful than assiste...Yoga and elevated brain GABA levels
... "This study contributes to the understanding of how the GABA system is affected by both pharmacologic and behavioral interventions and will help to guide the development of new treatments for low GABA states," said co-author Domenic Ciraulo, MD, professor and chairman of the department of psychiatry a...Patient's own platelets may speed up skin wound healing
...ersity of Minnesota. Hom and his team looked at how quickly skin wounds treated with a gel of their own platelets (autologous platelet gel or APG) compared with a control antibiotic ointment. It is believed to be one of the earliest preliminary studies comparing the effectiveness of APG on skin wounds...Electronic nose may help diagnose asthma
... with asthma, but was less accurate in classifying how severe a persons asthma was. "The asthmatic patients in this study already had been diagnosed with asthma," Dr. Dragonieri says. "The next step is to see whether the nose can diagnose new patients with asthma. Its still a futuristic deviceone day dif...Retinol lotion reduces the fine wrinkles from natural aging of skin
... an important step forward in the understanding of how aging skin can be improved, researchers say. In the past, it was everyone believed that retinoids would treat only photoaging, or damage from exposure to sun. This is the first systematic, double-blind study showing that it improves any kind of agi...... zone," where the best choice differs depending on how patients weigh the benefits and risks of each treatment option. She discusses how patient decision aids differ from educational aids and how they help patients and express their pers...