As Montreal Conference considers deforestation issues, ESA presents space solution
... COP 11, explained that his country's forest cover kept relatively stable, but that it was spread across the country's 26 cantons in a complex and fragmented manner. As part of Kyoto Inventory, all 41 290 square kilometres of Swiss territory was covered by satellite images. The resulting land use cover, ...Radiation better than surgery at preserving speech for patients with head and neck cancer
...dability of speech was much better in patients who kept their larynx. In addition, 89 percent of patients with their larynx intact were able to obtain nutrition orally and without supplements, compared to 64 percent who underwent the laryngectomy. The overall three-year survival rate for all patients was ...Prisoners should have access to proven HIV prevention methods
...Within prisons, HIV-infected populations are often kept close to high-risk populations, and these social-network characteristics undoubtedly contribute to HIV-risk behaviour in these environments, state Evan Wood (British Columbia Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada) and colleagues. This ...Snake bites should not be underestimated, say experts
...e aware that large numbers of dangerous snakes are kept surreptitiously as macho pets, writes Professor David Warrell. This "underground zoo" reveals itself a few times each year when bitten owners are forced to seek medical help. Envenoming can evolve over many hours, so patients must be carefully observ...U of M study shows radiation therapy for pelvic cancers increases risk for fractures in older women
...ogy and End Results (SEER) registry data, which is kept by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and linked to Medicare, to review the records of 6,428 women. These women were age 65 and older when diagnosed with pelvic malignancies between 1986 through 1999. The researchers' purpose was to determine whethe...Twelve-point plan tackles moral and ethical issues of using email for health research
...ssues regarding the confidentiality of any records kept by the researcher or by participants? 6. Will part...cipants? How will the identity of group members be kept confidential in the records and reports of the research? 11. Is there a possibility of harm to the p...Substituting carbohydrates in diet with protein or unsaturated fats may reduce cardiovascular risk
...ants ate each diet for 6 weeks and body weight was kept constant. The study was conducted from April 2003 to June 2005. The researchers found that blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and estimated coronary heart disease risk were lower on each diet in comparison to baseline. "In OmniHea...A good night's sleep can mean a better day at school
...slept their assigned number of hours at home, they kept sleep diaries, wore activity-monitoring devices and made bedtime and rise time phone calls to the E.P. Bradley Hospital Chronobiology and Sleep Research Laboratory in Providence, R.I., where the study was conducted. "Most of the children also came to...IBS study shows that targeted antibiotics lead to long-lasting improvement in symptoms
...en followed for a total of 10 weeks. Participants kept a stool diary, took a questionnaire and were given methane breath tests. The positive effects of the drug were shown to continue throughout most of the 10-week study, not just during the actual antibiotic course. Because the cause of IBS has been e...Parents' safe gun storage behaviors improve after counseling
...g the clinic, 206 (7.8 percent) reported that they kept guns in their homes; 151 completed both the baseline and follow-up questionnaire. "At follow-up, families who received the intervention were more likely to have improved overall gun-safety practices compared with the control group (61.6 percent vs. 2...Researchers question persistent cough treatments for kids
...e of every three children treated. The antibiotics kept the cough from becoming worse in one of every four children treated. Another earlier study conducted by Marchant suggests that bacterial bronchitis is common in children with this type of persistent cough, and "this may explain the findings of this r...Cool therapy reduces brain injury and death from oxygen loss in newborns
...ody cooling group where their body temperature was kept at 92.3 degrees for 72 hours, then slowly re-warmed. Body temperatures were lowered by placing babies on a blanket initially filled with circulating 41-degree water. Both groups received standard newborn intensive care including monitoring of vital s......oughout this process, we will ensure the market is kept progressively informed on a timely basis," Dr Sutton said....Radiation dose reduction in liver cancer
...rial embolization," said Dr. Suzuki. "It should be kept in mind that serious radiation skin injuries may be caused by interventional procedures," said Dr. Suzuki. "It is important for physicians to do everything they can to use the lowest dose of radiation," he said.......strogen with progestin. A majority taking hormones kept taking them despite negative results from the Women's Health Initiative, which found that post-menopausalhormones increase the risk for heart disease and breast cancer. "We can only speculate as to why some faculty continue to take hormone therapy de...Cars, computer chips and heart attacks?
... of hospital care and the lack of coordination has kept many from getting all those proven therapies in the past," says Eagle, the Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Cardiology in the U-M Medical School. "Now, we've shown that standardizing care really makes a difference." Eagle says he hopes the new data...Polar explorer delivers rare snow-depth data to ESA for CryoSat validation
... to the team member writing it down. The third man kept an eye out for polar bears and carried our gun. How difficult was it to take the measurements? Although the protocol for collecting snow thickness data is pretty straight forward, it was more demanding than I had anticipated. In the cold days of Marc...South Polar ozone hole makes big comeback
... atmospheric mass above the Antarctic continent is kept cut off from exchanges with mid-latitude air by prevailing winds known as the polar vortex. This leads to very low temperatures, and in the cold and continuous darkness of this season, polar stratospheric clouds are formed that contain chlorine. The...High blood pressure not well controlled among older men and women
... pressure, but their conditions are frequently not kept under control, according to new data from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's (NHLBI) long-standing Framingham Heart Study. In this age group, only 38 percent of men and 23 percent of women had blood pressures that met targets set forth i...New study reports the risk perceptions of natural vs 'medicalized' childbirth
Women were kept isolated in small rooms. Their arms were strapped down. Doctors were often methodically cold. And, upon the delivery, babies were swept away to isolation in a nursery. Much of this has changed. But, some would argue, there still remain many vestiges ...