Position of car indicator lights affects safety -- designers should take note
...liss believes that the effect could be greater for older people or for people in real world situations that have more distractions than the students faced in the trials. "Designers obviously want to create good looking cars, but this should not be done at the expense of compromising safety. The position ...IADR to present Behavioral Science Award to Harvard's Douglass
... care delivery and health outcomes, oral health of older adults, risk factors for tooth loss, fluoride exposure and osteosarcoma, and, most recently, on childhood dental caries. Dr. Douglass received his DDS from Temple University and the MPH and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan School of Publ...Educational video increases knowledge but not behavior
... (legal) blindness among European-descended people older than 65 years. Without assistive devices and adaptive behaviors, sufferers of AMD are often unable to perform daily tasks such as reading, writing, driving, and face recognition, which can cause a loss of self-esteem, employment, independence and soc...Research has shed light on the computer frustrations that plague older adults
...king computer technology accessible and usable for older adults. For instance, older adults are using email increasingly to keep up their social contact with others and are using the In...US businesses not prepared for aging workforce
...tress that flexibility resonates particularly with older workers. "Most older workers who say that they want to extend the number of years they remain in the labor force also say...New Washington study shows OB anesthesia equally safe when provided by CRNAs or anesthesiologists
...he greatest percentage of emergency admissions and older mothers (over 35 years old). Additionally, a substantially higher percentage of sicker patients were transferred to CRNA-only hospitals, a factor which could, potentially, affect the number of anesthetic complications at a facility. However, this d...HIV in late childhood and adolescence a growing problem
...the first time the plight of the growing number of older children and adolescents living with undiagnosed H...e Connaught Clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe, shows that older children and adolescent with AIDS have all of the features that would be expected from long-term sur...Measuring lung motion leads to better radiation treatment for lung cancer
...precise shape of the tumor are more effective than older techniques. "Ideally, the radiation should be delivered to as small an area as possible so normal tissue near the tumor isn't damaged," says Daniel Low, Ph.D., professor of radiation oncology and director of the Medical Physics Division. "But with a ...Framingham study shows parents who live long pass on
...y, researchers examined 1,697 offspring age 30 and older (average age 40) whose parents participated in the original FHS and had reached age 85 or died before January 1, 2005. They compared cardiovascular risk factors among the offspring based on whether both parents, one parent, or neither parent lived to...Many Americans at high risk of vision loss do not have access to eye care
.... In 2000, about 3.3 million Americans age 40 or older were visually impaired and more than 11 million of those age 12 and older needed glasses or contact lenses, according to background information in the article. By 2020, thes...85th General Session, International Association for Dental Research
...r effects on temporomandibular disorders, to frail older adults with dementia and failing dentition, to the impact of Hurricane Katrina on oral medicine and pathology in New Orleans. (For a complete listing, please see the green section of this Press Kit.) Featured during Meeting Week will be the IADR/Uni...Study reveals depressed elderly risk early death
...The project has shown that depression is common in older people with physical ill health, recently discharg...ments and services available to sufferers and many older people are still unaware of the symptoms. Often they will visit their doctor presuming they have a ...A year of added life more valuable for the young, study suggests
...e higher priority than equivalent health gains for older people. When we incorporate these values into standard cost-effectiveness analysis methods, then interventions for young people, such as recently developed vaccines for HPV or meningitis, look significantly more appealing from a cost-effectiveness pe...National addiction treatment leaders to meet at first NIATx Summit
... An estimated 23 million Americans age 12 and older need treatment for substance use disorders and addictions. Less than 10 percent of them actually receive treatment. Dropout rates among those who do approach 30 percent. Since 2003, NIATx has helped treatment centers make dramatic improv...Most children in US hospitals receive medicines off-label
...ve drugs off-label if they underwent surgery, were older than 28 days and had more severe illnesses. "Critically ill children may have failed to respond to conventional therapies and may receive drugs off-label because they have no approved options," said Dr. Shah. The authors point out that, while phys...Emory algorithm improves kidney transplant chances for sensitized patients
...urvival rate of the transplanted kidney. With the older technique of cross matching HLA cells with the blood of a potential recipient, we couldn't always identify which HLAs the antibodies were targeting. False readings could occur." A decade ago Drs. Bray and Gebel helped One Lambda, Inc., an HLA diag...Residents in disaster areas face medication adherence dilemmas
...o increase medication adherence after disasters in older adults."...Early sex may lead teens to delinquency, study shows
...ng an adult. They may feel like they can do things older kids do, and for some that may include delinquency." And these negative effects of early sex may last through adolescence and into early adulthood. When the same respondents were surveyed again in 2002 when most were between the ages of 18 and...The Natural Fat-Loss Pharmacy by Dr. Harry Preuss
...ement, but it is especially helpful to those 70 or older as well as AIDS and cancer patients and can lower blood pressure and high cholesterol. BCAA (Branched-chain amino acids leucine, valine, soleucine): Branched chain amino acids comprise 35% of the amino acids in muscle tissue. Supplying muscles......a visual approach landing. The study found while older pilots initially performed worse than younger pilots, older pilots showed less of a decline in overall flight summary scores than younger pilots, and over time ...