'Apollo Program' for hydrogen energy needed, Stanford researcher says
...linecombustion. Steam reformers could be placed at individual filling stations,and methane could be piped in through existing natural gas lines. Butnatural gas supplies are limited and subject to price fluctuations that hurtthe long-term feasibility of this option. The third hydrogen production method the resea...Japanese doctors likelier than US counterparts to involve patients' families in decisions
...t's different than in the United States, where the individual autonomy to make decisions is perceived as relativ...now everything," Gabbay said. "And just because an individual is of Japanese decent, you don't want to assume that they don't want to know. A case-by-case approa...Once in the doctor's office, racial and ethnic disparities in care nearly disappear: Stanford study
... care. She also sees the need for data that follow individual patients through an entire treatment cycle, from first visit to final outcome, to help understand where and why disparities exist and how they can be eliminated....Study ties risk of problem gambling with proximity to casinos and other gambling opportunities
...hat this is not simply an effect of poverty at the individual level," explained Welte, a senior scientist at RIA and a research associate professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions. "Acceptance of gambling by family and friends, unreali...Three reasons not to believe in an autism epidemic
.... For example, the 1980 criteria required that an individual have "a pervasive lack of responsiveness to other ...ntrast, the current 1994 criteria require that an individual demonstrate only "a lack of spontaneous seeking to share achievements with other people" and peer re...ACTOS (pioglitazone HCl) significantly improved components of diabetic dyslipidemia
...t to understand the impact medications can have on individual lipid parameters. This study underscores the potential benefits of ACTOS beyond glycemic control in improving diabetic dyslipidemia in patients with type 2 diabetes. These findings require further research in order to determine whether the results ...A giant step toward tiny functional nanowires
... electrical measurements on nanomaterials and even individual molecules. While conventional techniques can't make gaps much smaller than 20 nanometers wide, Mirkin's method, called on-wire lithography, or OWL, has been able to produce gaps as small as 2.5 nanometers wide. Mirkin and his team made the notched st...Harvard scientists report public health impact of 1990 Iraq invasion of Kuwait
... comprehensive risk assessment suggests an average individual risk on the order of 2/10,000 may be attributable ...ealth impacts often result from small increases in individual risks spread across large populations. In these cases, the affected individuals may not be identifi...Building better therapeutic vaccines for chronic infections
...hylactic, or preventive vaccines, which protect an individual from infections; examples include the common pediatric vaccines as well as the flu shot. But therapeutic vaccines are designed instead to be administered to patients who have already acquired chronic infections, such as HIV or hepatitis. These therap...Johns Hopkins scientists uncover clues to 'disappearing' precancers
...f human papilloma virus (HPV) strain and a woman's individual immune system. For decades, scientists have known that HPV causes nearly all cases of cancer in the neck of the womb. Most sexually active women some reports say up to 80 percent are exposed to HPV and more than half of these women are infected wi...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for July 2005 (first issue)
...ercise training programs need to be adapted to the individual limitations of the COPD patient, taking into consideration cardiovascular, pulmonary, and skeletal muscle limitations. They note that exercises should be performed 3 to 5 days per week at an intensity above 40 to 85 percent of the oxygen uptake reser...Antidepressants lessen risk of heart attack, Stanford researcher says
...s who received therapy participated in a series of individual and group sessions delivered over six to nine months. Those patients who had more severe depression or who didn't respond after five weeks of treatment were also given sertraline hydrochloride (Zoloft). If antidepressants were still needed at the end...Problem gamblers share personality profiles of substance abusers
...ey write. "A focus on more basic traits, such as individual differences in personality, is a promising approach for understanding the high rate of comorbidity [conditions which occur together] of pathological and problem gambling with other addictive disorders," the authors write. "In the present study, the p...Screen everyone at risk for HIV and all pregnant women
...ople considered at risk for HIV report one or more individual risk factors or live or receive health care in an area with a high prevalence of the disease. Individual risk factors include: Men who have had sex with men after 1975 Men and women having unprotected sex with multiple partners Past or present inje...Pediatricians' opinions vary on reporting threshold for suspected child abuse
..., or years of experience, but when we compared the individual responses for the two scales, 85 percent were internally inconsistent, meaning that the physicians answered differently depending on the scale used. This is alarming because this suggests there is no consistency in how the majority of physicians surv...New model may better predict outcomes for children with autism and autistic spectrum disorders
...raws an analogy to weight and height. Just as each individual can have a different combination of weight and stature, someone can have an individual combination of intelligence and degree of autism. One central finding of the study, said Dr. Coplan,...Heart Health Conference to promote heart plan for Europe
...alth Conference gathered various perspectives from individual member states' initiatives, the World Health Organisation's strategy, and the European Heart Network's policy. The conference also included information from the ESC's CVD prevention initiatives Euro Action and EUROASPIRE 3 in collaboration with its n...Australia to develop world leading internet cancer trials technology
...ancer claimed more Australian lives than any other individual cause and was set to increase significantly in prevalence as our population aged. "It is more important than ever to use the best technology available to work towards reducing the burden of cancer, through the trialling of new treatments and improved...VCU study: Low-dose oral contraceptives may increase risk for heart attack or stroke
...the absolute risk for a cardiovascular event in an individual woman taking the pill is low Women using the pill are not going to automatically have a heart attack," said Nestler. "However, our findings do raise the issue of whether oral contraceptives are optimal therapy for certain groups of women who are at ......The key to preventing postpartum depression may be individual support provided after birth by a health professional and tailored to a mother's needs, says a University of Toronto researcher. "Health professionals want to identify pregnant women who may be at risk for postpartum depression in hopes of initiatin...