Too much water may be as dangerous as too little during long-distance athletic events
...ports drinks don't always include enough sodium to offset the body's loss of the mineral during exercise. The drinks often carry more water with smaller concentrations of salts than are normally found in the human body; therefore, they do not replace salts adequately, said Dr. Levine, medical director of th...Alcohol magnifies the rewarding effects of smoking, even for light smokers
... people smoke when they drink is that nicotine may offset the sedative effects of alcohol," said King. "However, we showed that the desire to smoke sharply increased within a half hour after drinking, which is when alcohol's stimulant-like as opposed to sedative-like effects are usually observed. It als...Anthrax treatments' cost effectiveness shown in Stanford study
...ated with preventing cases of inhalational anthrax offset the cost of using both vaccination and antibiotics," said lead author Robert Fowler, MD, a former Stanford postdoctoral scholar who is now at the University of Toronto. The researchers also determined that widespread pre-attack vaccination was not pa...Exercise slows development of Alzheimer's-like brain changes in mice, new study finds
...rformance. This suggests that exercise may help to offset learning/cognitive deficits present in AD patients. Next, the investigators examined tissues from the brains of mice that had exercised for 5 months. They compared the levels of plaques, beta-amyloid fragments, and amyloid precursor protein, a protei...Substituting nurses for doctors results in high quality care, few savings
... on nurse-led urgent care, lower salary costs were offset by this so-called "lower productivity" and increased use of resources. "As salary differentials between nurses and doctors may vary from place to place and over time, the net saving to health care services, if any, will be highly context dependent," ...Decline in major heart disease offset by rise in diagnosed angina among British men
...ly since the late 1970s, but this has been largely offset by an increase in the rate of diagnosed angina, finds a study in this week's BMJ. These results emphasise the ongoing need for health service resources for angina, say the researchers. The study involved 7,735 men, aged 40-59 in 1978-80, who were ran...Misunderstanding real cost a barrier to mammography
... benefits in their insurance plans that might help offset any financial burden. The study authors concluded that mammography screening campaigns may want to include information about insurance and health plan benefits to help reduce what appears to be a major barrier to the exams for some women. The findi...NIST method improves timing in oscilloscopes
...ignal of interest and two reference waves that are offset from each other. The reference waves are generated by an external device and are synchronized in time with the signal being measured. Measurements of the reference waves are compared with a calculation of an ideal wave to produce an estimate of total...New study questions benefits of aspirin for the over 70s
...le from the age of 70 to prevent heart disease are offset by increased cases of serious bleeding, argue rese... dose aspirin (prevention of heart attacks) may be offset by increased cases of serious bleeding. The figures also indicate that the overall balance of harm ...Bones don't pay a price when fat is lost through exercise
...y four pounds, because much of the loss of fat was offset by increased muscle mass. The fat in the abdominal region, measured by magnetic resonance imaging, was reduced by 20 percent among exercisers. The group that was not exercising had either no or significantly less improvement than the exercising gro...Prescription of heroin is less costly for society
...o-prescription were considerably higher, they were offset by lower costs of law enforcement and reduced costs of crime against property. The average total net savings amounted to 12,793 per patient per year. From a societal perspective, supervised medical prescription of methadone plus heroin to chronic, t...Digital mammography does not improve breast cancer detection rates, study finds
...ssibly necessary follow-up procedures, which could offset some of its higher initial costs. But more evidence is needed to confirm these potential benefits. Maliff predicts some facilities may "take the leap" to digital mammography for marketing reasons to position themselves as offering the best women's ca...'Hospital-at-home' concept does not save money or improve outcomes, study finds
... shows that the higher patient satisfaction may be offset by evidence that the burden on caregivers is greater. The review, an update of previous studies on the subject, appears in the July of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates me...Massachusetts General Hospital launches magazine that examines medicine's leading edge
... The magazine includes limited advertising to help offset its production and distribution costs. "This magazine is not afraid to provoke or expose readers to new and unconventional even unpopular ideas," says David Torchiana, MD, CEO and chairman of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization. "Pr...The ACCP strives to close the 10/90 gap between rich and poor nations
...ries. The financial burden to the organization was offset by offering electronic access to ACCP publications in place of surface mailing print copies. Chair of the recently established International Development Committee, Barbara Ameer states the working goal of the group is "to strengthen the capacity ...Asthma home intervention cost-effective for inner-city children, research reveals
...kness and associated health-care use substantially offset the intervention's cost. Expenses arose from administering an allergy skin test, hiring and training high school graduates as environmental counselors, buying air filters and vacuum cleaners and engaging pest management services when needed. Vacuum c...UCLA study identifies $7 in societal savings for every $1 spent on drug abuse treatment
...verage $1,583 cost of substance abuse treatment is offset by monetary benefits such as reduced costs of crime and increased employment earnings totaling $11,487. The researcher team used detailed data from 2,567 clients admitted to 43 treatment providers in 13 California counties during 2000 and 2001. The i...Jefferson researchers find lack of protein in obese people is risk factor for kidney, heart disease
...bese people. Then we can develop the treatments to offset this activity."...Aggressive lowering of LDL level shows limited benefit for patients with previous heart attack
...reduced cardiovascular death appeared to have been offset by a higher number of deaths due to noncardiovascular causes. Although this difference did not reach statistical significance and could well be due to chance, it led to a call for further safety information on the use of atorvastatin at a dose of 80 ...ESA participating in UN's Montreal summit working for a better atmosphere
...e Protocol includes a mechanism for signatories to offset emissions against increases in the stock of carbon stored in vegetation, especially forests. What the Protocol requires for such offsetting to take place is annual reporting of land use changes especially afforestation, reforestation and deforestat...