US service academies to collaborate with UNC, Andrews Air Force Base, Duke in knee injury study
...re propose that poor technique when landing from a jump may be a useful marker of neuromuscular factors as...k used in the motion analysis protocol is a simple jump from a 12-inch box to the floor. This is a standardized jump-landing task designed to simulate the f...OHSU scientist helping explain basis of psychotic behavior
...models, the increases were small compared with the jump in densities of D2 receptors in the high-affinity state. The protein product of the dopamine D2 receptor gene already is the primary target for antipsychotic drugs used to treat schizophrenia, prolonged drug abuse and other diseases with psychotic sy...Will cancer vaccine get to all women?
DEATHS from cervical cancer could jump fourfold to a million a year by 2050, mainly in developing countries. This could be prevented by soon-to-be-approved vaccines against the virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer- but there are signs that opposition to the vaccines might lead ...Tumor detection, data encryption to benefit from UH research
...xt three years. "This award is supposed to be a jump start for young professors, and historically, that's what it's done," Sharma said....Politicians bury their heads in the sand while global flu threat mounts
...howed that avian flu (called H5N1) is beginning to jump from human to human - as opposed to transmission from bird to human only, as happened initially. This vastly increases the potential for spreading the virus across the population, as infection no longer depends on direct contact with diseased birds. ...Trampoline injuries on the rise
...ear during 2001 and 2002. This represents a marked jump from the early- to mid-1990s, when a similar study showed an average of almost half the number of injuries each year. Most of the injuries, 91 percent, occurred at home. "Parents so far have not gotten the message that trampolines should not be used ...'Just in time' avian influenza program offered June 16
...southeast Asia could mutate into a form that could jump species and present a global public health threat. To help disseminate factual information about the disease as both a threat to agricultural productivity and human health and well-being, the Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine on the...Changes advocated in license renewals for elderly drivers
...f the nation's drivers. This figure is expected to jump to more than 30 million drivers by 2020. Drivers aged 75 and older have a 37 percent higher crash rate than younger drivers, said Rosenfield, an editor at the journal. And because they are more physically fragile than their younger counterparts, seni...Dialysis treatment choice affects risk of death in patients with end-stage kidney disease
...umber of Americans needing dialysis is expected to jump to 2 million, due in part to rising rates of diabetes, the leading cause of kidney failure. "Lifelong dialysis is often the only option when a patient's kidneys fail because there are not enough kidneys available for transplantation," says the study...Medical research poll cannot be ignored
...redicted that the number of new cancer cases would jump by 30 percent by 2011, reflecting the ageing population. This will place intense demand upon health budgets and services around Australia, and see an increased demand for new and innovative treatments. "Pharmaceutical companies already spend more tha...MRI pioneer wins national physics prize
... magnetic resonance would not have made its sudden jump in the early 1980s from esoteric laboratory research to a widely available technology. The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has named William Edelstein the winner of its Industrial Applications in Physics Prize "for his pioneering developments lea...Fewer heart failure patients die when hospitals make efforts to improve care
...he end at participating hospitals, compared with a jump from 8.5 percent to 10.7 percent in non-participating hospitals. The project began in 2003 when lead physicians and nurses from each of the eight hospitals came together in a series of learning sessions to develop tools that could be used in each h...Jefferson and Delaware researchers combine tiny nanotubes and antibodies to detect cancer
... less IGF1R on their surfaces, caused a three-fold jump in current. The MCF7 cells showed an eight-fold in...nd cells without that target don't cause a current jump whatever antibody is on the nanotubes. "This method could be used for detection and it could be use...Children with heart defects found to benefit from exercise
... and included dance, calisthenics, kick boxing and jump rope. Balls, music, games like "capture the flag" and relay races, and age-appropriate prizes were used to keep the kids motivated, and sessions were moved outdoors when weather permitted. "One game they particularly enjoyed was 'punch the doctor,'" ...Food insecurity and food stamps: How is the US doing?
...ts, "this increase represents the largest one-year jump since data collection began in 1995." Wilde, a food economist, tracks household food insecurity, food stamps, and related measures of hunger. The percentage of US households classified as insecure rose from 11.2 percent in 2003 to 11.9 percent in 2...Role of nervous system in fatal heart rhythm under study
...ut defibrillation a successful emergency shock to jump start the heart back into a regular beat. Studying those electrical signals is what will lead to better medical equipment, Dr. Schumacher says. Traditional cardiac tests such as electrocardiograms, which record the electrical activity of the heart an...Soaring UK rates of Chlamydia infection partly caused by more sensitive tests
... using NAAT. The increase equates to a 62 per cent jump in positive results for women and a 56 per cent jump in positive results for men, say the authors. Further analysis of the results showed that the increa...New theory suggests treatment for immune disorder could be effective against avian flu infection
... chemotherapy for avian influenza is a substantial jump in thinking, such therapy could still be reasonable, particularly since it has been shown to be very effective in decreasing mortality in HLH disease associated with severe infection by another virus, the Epstein-Barr virus. The scientists emphasise...Genes affecting blood pressure change as children become adults
...nother three or four years, there is another large jump in new genetic effect," he says. Despite conventional thinking, this scientist who focuses on genetics, was not totally surprised to see the novel genes show up during puberty although the amount of change surprised him but suspects gene expression......hrough cosmetic plastic surgery took a substantial jump in 2005, with nearly 2.3 million procedures performed an increase of 65 percent from 2004, according to statistics released today by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Hispanics continue to lead all ethnic groups with more than 921,00...