Antidepressants lessen risk of heart attack, Stanford researcher says
... more thoroughly." The ENRICHD study, which is the largest psychotherapy trial in coronary patients to date, involved 1,834 depressed or "socially isolated" post-heart attack patients (985 men and 849 women). The participants were enrolled during a three-year period (October 1996-October 1999) and randomized...Largest study to date reveals baseline findings for flexible sigmoidoscopy
PITTSBURGH, July 5 The largest study to date on the early detection of colorectal cancer offers benchmark data for what could be expected from large-scale use of flexible sigmoidoscopy as a screening tool for colorectal cancer. The report, published in the July 6 issue of the Jour...Household dust is main source of flame retardants in humans
...ronmental Science & Technology . ACS is the worlds largest scientific society. Until this study, which is based on a computer model developed by Canadian researchers, scientists have been unsure exactly how people are being exposed. PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers) used widely as flame-retardant addit...Melanoma research receives a massive funding boost
...ter and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals. It runs the largest melanoma treatment centre in the world, and with associated expertise in molecular diagnosis and treatment, provides our best hope for improving outcomes in people who develop, or are at risk of developing, melanoma. This research group was recently ...UF study: Child raising toughest on young grandmothers
...s under age 6, he said. In the United States, the largest percentage of children living in a grandparent-headedhousehold are black, Mills said. Other research has found that black grandparents acting as parents are more likely than their white counterparts to be unemployed, live below the poverty line and h...Red and Charline McCombs contribute $30 million to M. D. Anderson research effort
...exas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center $30 million, the largest gift ever made to support cancer research at the institution. The University of Texas System Board of Regents today (July 8) formally accepted and thanked the San Antonio-based McCombs Foundation for the gift, which will help launch a long-term resea...Quality measures need to be field-tested, researchers find
...barriers of judicious antibiotic use will have the largest chance of succeeding." The investigators are performing further research to test the effect of such a strategy....Handwashing with soap key to reducing burden of childhood disease
...infection, making these two clinical syndromes the largest cause of childhood deaths globally. Stephen Luby (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA) and colleagues did a randomised controlled trial in adjoining squatter settlements in Karachi, Pakistan, to measure the broad health ...National Academies news: Coeur d'Alene Superfund site
...ls, the committee said. Locating and removing the largest sources of lead-contaminated sediments in riverbeds especially those likely to be carried downstream should be a priority as well. The agency's plan also does not adequately take into account the basin's frequent floods, which could recontaminate ...Diabetes drug controls blood glucose, cardiac risk
...ed Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS), the largest and longest diabetes study undertaken to date. It focused on the same health outcomes as the earlier study: diabetes-related problems such as heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, nerve damage, amputation, blindness and death. "The eight additional ...Efforts to improve hospital care
...oring accuracy. "For example," Romano states, "the largest absolute improvements between 2002 and 2004 were documented for smoking-cessation counseling and discharge instructions, which are measures that hospitals can manipulate through check-off forms that nurses complete when they discharge patients with t...'Save sight with more light': NASA helps develop new bulb
... Institute's Lighting Research Center, the world's largest university-based center for lighting education and research. The center believes light fixtures close to task areas and bulbs with high light output are the best ways to combat the effects of low vision. Additionally, the Discovery Fund for Eye Resea...The Gerontolgogical Society of America taps Aetna's Rowe as annual meeting keynote speaker
...tive officer of Mount Sinai NYU Health, one of the largest academic health care organizations in the United States. In the past he was also a professor of medicine and the founding director of the Division of Aging at Harvard Medical School, and chief of gerontology at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. He has a...Many body-conscious teens use supplements to improve physique
...ear to be heavily influenced by the media. In the largest population-based study to explore the use of hormones and supplements, body image, and media influences, 8 percent of all girls and 12 percent of all boys reported using products in the past year to improve their appearance, muscle mass, or strength....PTSD, depression epidemic among Cambodian immigrants
... colleagues report on their survey in the nation's largest Cambodian community. An estimated three million of Cambodia's seven million people died during the repression and civil wars of the l970s and most of those who survived suffered multiple traumas. Moreover, even after two decades in the U.S., the majo...Largest study of unrelated bone marrow transplantation for leukemia serves as benchmark
...tates, University of Minnesota researchers led the largest study to date in patients with leukemia and related disorders undergoing bone marrow transplantation from unrelated donors. The study was designed to determine whether one of two general approaches to prevent graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD), a pote...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for improving health, environment
...ting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Eighteen research chemists from five companies were named Heroes of Chemistry by the ACS for improving health and well-being by creating new drugs or other products and inventing environmentally friendly and more effective techn...Coffee is number one source of antioxidants
...ting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. "Americans get more of their antioxidants from coffee than any other dietary source. Nothing else comes close," says study leader Joe Vinson, Ph.D., a chemistry professor at the university. Although fruits and vegetables are gene...Chemical compound inhibits tumor growth, size in new mouse study
...eting of the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society. Tumors in mice treated with OGT2378 were one-tenth the size of those in untreated mice. The results suggest that a drug or other treatment can modify tumors in such a way that the bodys own defenses are able to attack the cancero...Biosensor reveals new information about suspected cause of Alzheimer's disease
...eting of the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society. Haes, in cooperation with Van Duyne, Northwestern professor William Klein and research associate Lei Chang developed a method to detect small harmful proteins in cerebrospinal fluid using nanoscale optical biosensors. The proteins...