Musical training might be good for the heart
... the opposite effect, with raga music creating the largest fall in heart rate. But during the pauses, all the indicators of physiological arousal fell below those registered before the participants started to listen to any of the tracks. This effect occurred, irrespective of the musical style or preferences...Arranon cancer drug receives advisory committee support
...ithin Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, is the largest pediatric cancer and blood disorder program in the country. The Cancer Center sees patients from 34 states and 26 countries and sees nearly 25,000 annually in its outpatient clinic. All of its physicians are faculty members at Baylor College of Medi...The interdisciplinary mandate: GSA's annual meeting to present new research on hot topics in aging
...ll accommodate the entire conference the country's largest in the field of gerontology at their complex from November 18th through 22nd, 2005. The five-day meeting will focus on a wide range of aging topics chosen by leading experts to showcase cutting-edge research in the field. This online schedule demonst...Mayo Clinic receives $15 million to launch innovative neuroscience research program
... Arbor Drugs in 1974, and it grew to be the eighth largest drugstore chain in the nation. In 1998 it was acqu...CVS, a "Fortune 100" organization and the nation's largest drugstore chain. Applebaum sits on that company's board....Fellowship funds major research project on medulloblastoma
...ure for Life Foundation TM has awarded one of the largest single fellowships on brain tumour research in Australia to a senior researcher at Children's Cancer Institute Australia (CCIA) for Medical Research in Randwick, NSW. Dr Wayne Thomas has received a three-year $600,000 Career Development and Support ...Sharper picture of major depression and alcohol disorders
Findings from the largest survey ever mounted on the co-occurrence of psychiatric disorders among U.S. adults afford a sharper picture than previously available of major depressive disorder* (MDD) in specific population subgroups and of MDD's relationship to alcohol use disor...Nursing Resource Teams can recruit and retain nurses
...T nurses and 20 unit-based charge nurses, were the largest group, representing 42.6 percent of the sample....Large sinus tumors can be removed endoscopically, study finds
... to take half the face off these patients. For the largest of these tumors, there is no such thing as an oncologic procedure where you have enough room to have clean margins." In fact, two of the study patients had previously undergone open procedures. More than half the study patients were still disease-fr...A new analysis of a standard brain test may help predict dementia
...d dementia patients. "We probably have the largest electrophysiological database of this kind in the world," says Dr. Prichep. "Since we can compare each individual's quantitative EEG to age-expected normal values, we were able to describe which features reflected expected changes occurring with nor...UCI-led research team recommends new tobacco control policies for lawmakers
...smoking initiation in youth is likely to offer the largest public health impact during this new century," said Daniel Stokols, UCI professor of planning, policy and design, who helped establish the consortium -- a partnership of researchers, community leaders, health advocates, school administrators, teacher...New ASU center will assess societal implications of nanotechnology
...his new area of innovation. The ASU center is the largest in a network of newly funded NSF activities on nanotechnology and society, including a second center at University of California-Santa Barbara and additional projects at Harvard University and the University of South Carolina. The network will suppor...NIMH expands public health education effort
...pressed to seek help. In the U.S., Latinos are the largest ethnic minority -- a population of over 40 million. Of this group, 40 percent reported that Spanish is their preferred language, according to a report by the Surgeon General. The new Real Men Real Depression materials were created to help Spanish-spe...UQ leads the State in NHMRC grants
.... UQ's share of the funding ($22,224,648) was the largest in Queensland and made up more than half the total...imiting growth of fat tissue, Dr Hutley said. The largest UQ award was a massive $1,841,500, which went to Professor Tom Gonda, Dr Brian Gabrielli, Dr Sean Gr...Practice makes perfect when implanting cardioverter-defibrillator devices
...h Institute in Durham, North Carolina. This is the largest study of the relationship between the volume of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) procedures done by physicians and the outcomes for their patients. The small devices are placed under the skin, with electrodes leading to the patient's hear...Older patients with acute coronary syndromes not getting recommended treatment
...found early use of therapies was where some of the largest differences between young and old patients remained. In addition, we demonstrated an inverse relationship between the number of evidence-based therapies applied and in-hospital death in young and old subgroups alike. Although any observational analys...Physician pay-for-performance programs may produce little gain in quality
...ance on quality of care within one of the nation's largest health plans, PacifiCare Health Systems. In 2003, ...ipt of a bonus improved the least but garnered the largest share of the bonus payments. "In the first year of its quality incentive program (QIP), the plan pai...NIAID awards $47 million to develop medical countermeasures against radiological, nuclear threats
...r developing medical countermeasures products. The largest of these contracts, Medical Countermeasures Against Radiological Threats: Product Development Support Services, was awarded to the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The university will receive about $9.3 million in fiscal year 2005. NIAID pl...Senator Arlen Specter to be honored at AACR gala
...ation for Cancer Research, the nation's oldest and largest cancer research organization, headquartered in Philadelphia, established the Public Service Awards to recognize significant and sustained contributions to the fight against cancer by individuals who work in the public arena. In his past position as C...Fox Chase study: Radiation then tamoxifen after lumpectomy for early-stage breast cancer pts
...smetic results. These findings of this study, the largest known series of data examining the sequencing of tamoxifen and radiation, were presented today at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in Denver, Colo. "Prior to this study, the sequencing of radiati...Largest single-institution study demonstrates Mammosite is a safe breast cancer treatment
...tsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). "Ours is one of the largest single-institution studies to confirm that it does this safely and with an acceptable level of toxicity." The study, which was designed to evaluate early outcomes of MammoSite brachytherapy, and was approved by the FDA in 2002, evaluated toxicity in ...