System to pinpoint airline passengers who contaminate cabins
... The technique might enable officials to identify passengers responsible for the unintentional release of germs, such as contagious viruses, or the intentional release of pathogens or chemical agents in a terrorist attack, said Qingyan (pronounced Chin-Yan) Chen, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue Un...Animal study leading to new treatments for hemorrhagic shock and uncontrolled abdominal hemorrhage
... HBOC...Testing the taser on human subjects -- preliminary physiological measurements
... Human volunteers from law enforcement agreed to receive a single, 5 second exposure from a Taser X26, a model reported to be used by more than 30% of police agencies in the United States. Cardiovascular and blood parameters were measured b...Screening men over 65 for abdominal aortic aneurysms could save lives
... An aneurysm is a localised widening of an artery. It occurs because the artery wall is weakened and without treatment it could easily burst. If the ane...Stenting of abdominal arteries offers welcome relief for 'intestinal angina'
(May 11, 2007ORLANDO, FL)Using catheter techniques perfected in the arteries of the heart, interventional cardiologists are successfully treating chronic mesenteric ischemia, a condition akin to intestinal angina. According to a study reported at the 30th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), May 912, 2007, in Orlando, FL, angioplasty...DOE commits $27.5M for uranium contaminant transport field studies
... ... The Hanford study in...Specialist centers increase chance of surviving abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery
... ... "Our research adds to the evidence that concentrating surgical resources in large centres of excellence can provide great benefit to patients. A bad outcome in this type of surgery...Mercury contamination of fish warrants worldwide public warning
MADISON -The health risks posed by mercury contaminated fish is sufficient to warrant issuing a worldwide general warning to the public especially children and women of childbearing age-to be careful about how much and which fish they eat.... That is one of the key findings comprising "The Madison Declaration on Mercury Pollution" published today in a special issue of the international science...Blood marker helps predict prognosis among those with abdominal infection
... Organ failure related to blood stream infection (sepsis) is the leading cause of death in surgical intensive care units, accounting for up to 60 percent of deaths, according to background information in the article. Peritonitis, infection of the layer of tissue lining the abdomi...Illuminating the dark side of plants
... This clearly structured and colorfully illustrated guidebook, co-published by The New York Botanical Garden Press and Springer, is an i...Researchers warn milk eliminates cardiovascular health benefits of tea
... Tests on volunteers showed that black tea significantly improves the ability of the arteries to relax and expand, but adding milk completely blunts the effect. Supporting tests on rat aortas (aortic rings) and endothelial (lining) cells showed that tea relaxed the aortic rings by producing nitric oxide, which promotes dilation of blood vessels. But, again, adding...Change in guidelines could help eliminate TB in US
... ... Kevin P. Cain, M.D., of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and seven associates collected data on all...Prescription opioids the predominant choice among illicit opioid users
... To determine the impact on usage patterns among street drug users, Fischer and colleagues analyzed data from the OPICAN study (a multisite study of drug use patterns among illicit opioid users across Canada). They found that heroin use has become an increasingly marginal form of drug use and that, instead, use of prescription opioids is now the predominant form of illicit op...Pfizer to fund doctoral study fellowships, seminars in biostatistics at Rutgers
... ... The student, Andr...Teens half as likely to smoke if they are wise to subliminal messages in cigarette ads
... Teens with above-average smoking media literacy...Secondhand smoke in cars may lead to dangerous levels of contaminants for children
... In the first study to measure SHS in cars in real driving conditions, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers have shown that smoking in cars...Common cold may be just a fingertip away due to environmental contamination
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Sept. 29 -- A common cold can be just a fingertip away thanks to the high rate of viral contamination of environmental surfaces that a cold sufferer can leave behind, according to a study in hotel rooms by investigators from the University of Virginia (UVa) and Reckitt-Benckiser (LON: RB), the world's number one household cleaning company (excluding laundry). The study was...Criminalizing HIV transmission is a threat to public health, say experts
... ... "Although this attempt to introduce standardised criteria for prosecutions is welcome, we have serious concerns about the public health impact of using the law to criminalise disease transmission," say Rut...Reforms to gun dealer sales practices reduce supply of new guns to criminals
... In May 1999, a highly-publicized government study revealed that a Milwaukee-area gun shop was the nati...Eliminating blindness the safe way
... Trachoma is an infectious eye disease affecting around 84 million people. It is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness worldwide. The bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis causes trachoma by triggering inflammation and scarring the eyelid. Trachoma is rife in overcrowded and poverty stricken areas of the developing world, where it is easily spread from person to person due to lack of...Routine use of Hib vaccine could lead to virtual elimination of killer disease in Africa
... ... ... Reducing labo...Exercise important in reducing size of abdominal fat cells
... "The message is very clear," said Tongjian You, Ph.D., instructor in geriatric medicine at Wake Forest Baptist and lead author. "Exercise is important to reducing the size of these cells, and may one day be part of a prescription for treating the health complication...Examination not sensitive enough to detect breech babies
... ... Fetal presentation is usually assessed by palpating the abdomen, but little is known about the accuracy of this in late pregnancy. So researchers in Australia de...Only poor pay and low status of pediatrics helped women doctors buck discrimination
... ... ... This force...Stanford snake venom study shows that certain cells may eliminate poison
... It's long been thought that the body's own immune system, rather than reducing the symptoms, may make things worse. But now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that the immune system really does side with the victim, at least in four...Scientists at Cardiff University have developed a bright idea for detecting zinc in the body with implications for illnesses such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. ... ... Zinc is essential for human growth and development and an imbalance of zinc occurs...Study examines link between racial discrimination and mental and physical health
... ... Self-reported racial discrimination was common, according to 75% of the participants, but more common in men than in women (78% versus 73%). "Our study shows th...New fruit fly protein illuminates circadian response to light
... ... The body's 24-hour clock controls a multitude of internal functions such as periods of sleep and wakefulness, body temperatu...Study recommends new tool to assess blunt abdominal trauma
... ... ... ... During a two year period, Dr....Craniofacial Biology Award presented to Mina
The 2006 Craniofacial Biology Research Award is being presented today to Dr. Mina Mina, Chair of Pediatric Dentistry, the University of Connecticut School of Dentistry (Farmington). The award is part of the Opening Ceremonies of the 84th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), convening at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre.... ...For the past 18 year...University of Kentucky Gill Heart researchers study abdominal aortic aneurysms
As the baby boomer generation races toward Medicare eligibility, a new screening procedure could mean that many men in the United States may soon learn that they have a killer condition they can do little or nothing about. ...... Anticipating a surge in diagnosed cases of abdominal aortic aneurysm, a condition for which Medicare just approved a one-time free screening for men, University of Kentu...IVF is more cost-effective than intra-uterine insemination, mathematical model predicts
A theoretical study reveals that in-vitro fertilisation is less costly and more cost-effective than intra-uterine insemination, for the treatment of infertility in couples with unexplained infertility or mild male factor subfertility. In a study published today in the open access journal BMC Health Services Research, researchers use a mathematical model to show that offering a full cycle of in-vi...Targeted lymph node examination improves staging of colon cancer
Examining more carefully the lymph nodes to which colorectal cancer is most likely to have spread may improve the accuracy of colon cancer staging and spare some patients the cost and toxicity of chemotherapy, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....... Colon cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the United States, a...Hodgkin disease type is a major determinant of prognosis
Regional differences in the survival of Hodgkin disease (HD) can be partially explained by the type of HD, according to a new population level study. Published in the July 15, 2006 issue of CANCER ( ), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study reveals that while nodular sclerosis was much more common in the United States than Europe, there was significant HD variability ac...Preliminary study shows promise for treatment of renal cell cancer
A new study suggests that sunitinib is a promising agent for treatment of metastatic renal cell cancer, currently a disease without highly effective treatment options, according to an article in the June 7 issue of JAMA. ...... There is an urgent need for more active agents for the treatment of metastatic (spread of cancer from point of origin to another part of the body) renal cell carcinoma (RC...Politics weighs in: Obesity dominates in the former Soviet bloc
ST. LOUIS -- Obesity is more prevalent in Central and Eastern European countries that formerly comprised the Soviet bloc than in Western European countries, a new Saint Louis University School of Public Health found....... The research believed to be among the first studies to focus on environmental risk factors for obesity in Europe was published in the June 2006 issue of the European Journal...Terminally ill patients continue to receive aggressive treatment at end of life
ATLANTA--The increasing use of chemotherapy and intensive hospital treatment for cancer patients in their last two weeks of life continued at least into the late 1990s despite the growth of the hospice movement that emphasizes comforting personal bonds and controlling pain and discomfort, say researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. ... ...A new report, which will be presented a...New technique reduces radiation exposure by 60 percent in abdominal CT of children
By lowering the tube current to account for both the weight and body symmetry of a child, an abdominal CT radiation dose can be reduced by 60% without compromising the image quality, says a new study by researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. ......For the study, the researchers reviewed the abdominal CTs of 74 children. The researchers found that on average, mo...Abdominal fat more significant in exercise-induced shortness of breath than overall weight
When it comes to being short of breath during exercise, how fat is distributed on the body is a more significant factor than overall body fatness or lung function, say researchers at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. They found that women with higher amounts of abdominal fat required mo...Abdominal fat linked to higher death rate in men, new study shows
KINGSTON, Ont. A new study by Queen's University researchers shows for the first time that visceral fat in the abdomen is directly associated with a higher risk of mortality in men....... According to Physical and Health Education doctoral student Jennifer Kuk, who is the first author of the study, these findings underline the importance of measuring abdominal fat to predict the risk of future d...