Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
...eds of those so detained and therapeutic goals are kept paramount, such measures could play an important role of containing XDR-TB before it spreads more generally in the population globally." "We would not argue for forcible treatment of MDR-TB or XDR-TB patients, simply restriction of mobility rights o...New research says winning a Nobel Prize adds nearly two years to your lifespan
...tween 1901 and 1950 (the full list of nominees are kept secret for 50 years). This gave them 528 male scientists with known biographical details (birth and death dates). They looked at one sex only to avoid differences in life span between sexes. They dropped four from that total who died prematurely for ...States with higher levels of gun ownership have higher homicide rates
...all 50 states were asked whether any firearms were kept in or around their home. The survey found that approximately one in three American households reported firearm ownership. Analyses that controlled for several measures of resource deprivation, urbanization, aggravated assault, robbery, unemploymen...Ethnic disparities in alcohol services: financial and logistical barriers are key
...o pay, and being unable to obtain child care have kept Hispanics from seeking help for an alcohol problem when they had considered going. Hispanics in the United States have some of the lowest rates of insurance coverage of all ethnic groups. Our findings, if supported in other research, would point to...Reduced dietary fat intake may decrease breast cancer recurrence
...ons to learn about a low-fat eating plan, and they kept written records of their daily fat gram intake. Dieticians contacted or met with the women every 3 months, and participants could attend optional monthly dietary group sessions. Women in the control group met with a dietician when they started the tr...Key to avoiding whiplash injury may lie in head restraint positioning
...s than 2.4 inches (6 cm) from the back of the head kept ligament stretch within the physiologic range - meaning that no injury would occur. However, as the restraint distance increased beyond 2.4 inches, the ligaments began to exceed failure thresholds, meaning that whiplash injury was more likely to occu...Increasing numbers of California teens abuse over-the-counter cold medicine
...ol parents because these OTC products are commonly kept in the household," the authors write. "In conclusion, this study showed an increasing trend of dextromethorphan abuse over a six-year period, particularly in adolescents younger than 18 years," they continue. "It is important for health care prac...Enhanced depression care may be cost-effective for employers
...ive-year simulation in which the employee base was kept at a constant size by replacing those who left the company or died. In the societal analysis, the enhanced depression management program cost about $19,976 more per quality-adjusted life year than usual care. In other words, for every $19,976 in co...Increased patient demand for prostate test has serious implications for cancer services
...targeted more effectively and that patients can be kept better informed and counselled if testing is indicated. "Finding out what makes family doctors carry out PSA tests is an important step in this process. Cutting the number of unnecessary PSA tests carried out by family doctors will lead to more eff...Targeted cancer drugs may work by disrupting balance of cellular signals
...to describe a process in which the very thing that kept the tumor alive overexpression of a kinase is turned against itself when the balance is disrupted to allow the cell-death signals to predominate." The new model also could explain why targeted drugs have not worked well in combination with standar...Phys ed class more effective when there's more talking
...rmal school hours (between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.) They kept these written records at two different times one week before the program started and the week after the program ended. A 30-minute exercise session counted as a workout for a day. At the beginning of the study, nearly half of the students (46.9 pe...Daily weighing and quick action keeps pounds off
...5,000 people who have successfully lost weight and kept it off for at least one year. Strategies taught in...health and were given the tools to do it. And they kept off the weight." The authors note that daily weighing was strongly associated with prevention of we...Drug prevents postpartum hemorrhage in resource poor settings
...ng the uterus to contract. But oxytocin should be kept cold, and must be given by trained medical personnel--conditions that make it unsuitable for use in parts of the world where most births are at home and refrigeration and skilled medical personnel are in short supply. But the drug misoprostol, which...Health facility births key to substantially reducing maternal mortality worldwide
...he skills to resuscitate newborns, ensure they are kept warm, detect infections, and promote early exclusive breastfeeding. The Series authors therefore recommend that further investments for maternal survival prioritise the health centre strategy. Governments should not invest in community health work...Outpatient thyroid surgery safe for most patients, study shows
...., between December 2004 and October 2005, 26 were kept in the hospital just under a day and 13 were admitted. Smaller incisions, reduced use of surgical drains and prophylactic calcium supplementation have enabled thyroid surgery which just a few years ago required a four-inch neck incision and severa...Work-family conflict common among registered nurses, study shows
...airs, shopping, paying the bills or child care, or kept them from spending the amount of time they would l...time or accomplishing daily tasks, or how often it kept them from spending the amount of time they would like on their jobs or career activities. Half of th...ESA experiments with spaceflight participant Ansari to ISS
... part of the vertebrae, the sacral bone, has to be kept in position between the two hipbones. And a deep 'muscle corset' plays an important role in this process, with the tonic postural muscles being activated when getting up in the morning and deactivated when resting. It is hypothesised that this pro...A public health lesson from 9/11: To curb the flu, limit flights
...ravel months of the year, but in 2001, many people kept close to home or sought other forms of travel. "Thanksgiving is when new flu strains often spread across the country," Brownstein notes. For international flights, volume during September most strongly predicted the U.S. flu peak, suggesting tha...Mayo researchers discover HIV dependence on a human protein
...ned onto a computer hard drive. While patients are kept healthy when those copies are "suppressed" with multiple daily antiviral medicines, they are never cured. Stopping the medicines even briefly lets HIV repopulate the body with many millions of copies, like a computer virus spreading around the world ......moved the condom. Just over 100 respondents also kept a sexual activity diary for six months. Of the 74 who said they had used a condom, almost one in three had put it on too late, and almost one in 10 had removed it too soon, on at least on occasion during that period. And 322 of the 714 diary entrie...