STAMP system can help professionals to identify potentially violent individuals
...ll fresh in their minds. They were able to tell me how they perceived the event and how they tried to handle it. Many more episodes were observed during the study period and I was keen ...Damon Runyon renews its $2.25 million investment to support young clinical cancer investigators
...ent of a number of cancers. Little is known about how or why interferon kills cancer cells. Under the m...ess a growing health crisis in the United States - how obesity contributes to cancer. Using novel epidemiological analyses, he will investigate the associ...New survey uncovers how insomnia affects job performance and safety
... our knowledge, this is the first study looking at how insomnia in healthcare professionals affects their job performance. The findings revealed that insomnia is attributed to a significant increase in medication dispensing errors, charting deviations from standard practice and falling asleep unintentio...Paying taxes, according to the brain, can bring satisfaction
...a that there is true altruism where its all about how well the common good is doing. Ive heard people cl...riments, we can use this classification to predict how much people are willing to give when the choice is theirs. There remain a lot of unanswered questi...Hormone therapy offers new hope for ovarian cancer patients
...re have been few new leads in our understanding of how this disease operates. But this study suggests that the addition of hormone therapy to our treatment strategy could extend and improve the lives of women with cancer. Ovarian cancer is the most commonly fatal of gynaecological cancers, affecting 1 ...How to market diet pills: Prescription and over-the-counter pills may increase unhealthy behavior
...erang effect on a healthy lifestyle: regardless of how effective the supplement actually is, consumer perceptions of supplements are that they require supplementary behavior in order to work. People appear to choose supplements almost as a matter of faith rather than science, Bolton says. They perceiv...ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating sea ice
...These in turn will be used by scientists to assess how well snow conditions can be predicted using existing climate models as well as inputs to methods for improving the accuracy of CryoSat-2 maps of sea-ice thickness. Now on stable ice and with less than 50 km to go and clear views of Greenland in fr...Report calls for new directions, innovative approaches in testing chemicals for toxicity to humans
...se; these tests inform decisions about whether and how to regulate the chemicals' use. But how relevant the animal tests are for humans, usually exposed at much lower doses, has often been called...ACP supports improved access to information on relative strengths and weaknesses
...will introduce complex and controversial issues of how individual patients, purchasers, clinicians, and s...me time, however, we support further discussion of how cost-effectiveness comparisons might be introduced into the evaluation process at a later stage and ...Sleep Slide-Rule improves children's understanding of the importance of sleep
...he community concerning sleep need in children and how the amount of sleep a child should get each night ...alth and learning, but the importance of sleep and how to maintain healthy sleep habits has disappeared from our consciousness," said Lushington. "We teac...Split the difference: Pill-splitting study looks at cost-saving step that could be used by millions
...iptions for a higher dose and instruct patients on how to make one months supply last two months. However, this can result in potentially dangerous confusion, and skew the patients and doctors records. In recent years, pharmacists have worked to determine which tablets can be safely split, and which s...Brightening prospects of using fluorescent nanotubes in medical applications
... physics who headed the research. Now that we know how to separate out the brightest ones, I hope that researchers will begin considering ways to use them in clinical applications. The figure of merit for fluorescence is quantum efficiency: the ratio of the number of photons of light that a device emits ...Study outlines how stroke, head injury can increase risk of Alzheimer's disease
...odegenerative Disorders (MGH-MIND) have discovered how the death of brain cells caused by a stroke or hea...issue of the journal Neuron. We have discovered how a stroke can trigger a series of biochemical events that increase amyloid-beta production in the bra...Aging stem cells in mice may hold answers to diseases of the aged, Stanford study finds
... Researchers have put forward many theories about how cells age, said Derrick Rossi, PhD, postdoctoral scholar and co-first author of the paper. One of those theories has to do with cells accumulating genetic mutations. "The idea is that, over time, accumulated DNA damage progressively diminishes the ce...Loss of stem cells correlates with premature aging in animal study
...ge before their time. With this new knowledge of how DNA repair, stem cells, and the aging process interconnect, Brown, first author Yaroslava Ruzankina, and Amma Asare are currently using this mouse model to discover compounds that preserve stem cells and may, consequentially, suppress aging. ...Rochester spreads knowledge of cancer-related fatigue
... of ongoing research about what causes fatigue and how it can be managed. For some people, fatigue is so debilitating that they want to stop their cancer treatments, which is why it is particularly important to find ways to address this problem." During his own bout with cancer fatigue, Roscoe recalled...UGA study finds that violence costs nation $70 billion annually
...Control and Prevention, said the study illustrates how much money can be saved by investing in programs that decrease interpersonal violence and self-inflicted violence such as suicide. For comparison, the federal Department of Education has an annual budget of $67.2 billion and hurricane Katrina caused ...Dartmouth's alternative breast imaging techniques sort abnormal from normal tissue
...ses a very low voltage electrode system to examine how the breast tissue conducts and stores electricity. Living cell membranes carry an electric potential that affect the way a current flows, and different cancer cells have different electrical characteristics. MIS: This exam involves the propagation...Advances in understanding bipolar disorder topics of press briefings June 7, 8
... 9, and numerous poster presentations will address how bipolar disorder is treated in countries across the world, including Nigeria, India, Brazil, Australia and the United Kingdom. ...Born to lose: How birth weight affects adult health and success
...e study provides the most detailed look to date at how well-being and disadvantage are transmitted across generations within families. "The poor economic status of parents at the time of pregnancy leads to worse birth outcomes for their children," Johnson and Schoeni write in a working paper from the U...