Biofeedback on abnormal mechanics lowers risk for stress fractures, pain under kneecap
...l ones 30 minutes. Runners are not allowed to run outside the laboratory during retraining for fear of reinforcing old gait habits. Dr. Daviss earlier gait mechanics research had found that individuals with tibial stress fractures tend to land harder when each foot hits the ground, and in fact about half ...Correlation between bile duct obstruction and ductal cancer found
...erhaps even more important, the cancers metastized outside the liver (as they frequently do in human patients with advanced bile duct cancer) only in the animals with bile duct obstruction. Virginia Commonwealth University scientist Dr. Alphonse Sirica presented the findings at Experimental Biology 2007 in...Outdated policies are impediment for Americans with disabilities
...sible and participate in work and other activities outside the home. "The number of Americans who have dis...ice should not be covered if it would be used only outside the home, such as an item for use in an office. Policies may also keep people from obtaining equipm...Elsevier extends ScienceDirect ArticleChoice to academic institutes worldwide
...ournal, handbook and book series articles that are outside their current portfolio. Articles can be purchased in bundles (100, 200, and 500), and are available as required. IP access ensures that articles can be downloaded multiple times within 24 hours at no additional cost. As Marten Stavenga, Global Bu...Smoking ban dramatically reduces air pollution in Irish pubs
...ng finding, especially since the reported exposure outside the workplace also decreased by 42 percent," she said. She also noted that because the study relied on volunteers, it only involved men. Given the lack of sex-specific studies on women and occupational disease and evidence that secondhand smoke exp...Researchers discover gene crucial for nerve cell insulation
...can affect the peripheral nervous systemthe nerves outside the brain and spine. These disorders are known collectively as peripheral neuropathies. Peripheral neuropathies can result in numbness, weakness, pain, and impaired movement. They include one of the most common genetically inherited disorders, Cha...Margaret Foti receives AACR Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research
...e University of Rome La Sapienza. Among her many outside professional activities, Dr. Foti has served as a Board member, and later as President, of the National Coalition for Cancer Research; member of the Advisory Board of the Friends of Cancer Research; Board member of the Translational Genomics Institut...Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work, Stanford ophthalmologist says
...e reluctance among people in the art world to look outside the historical or psychological influences on the great artists," Marmor said. "I'm open to debate about what these visual changes might mean stylistically or aesthetically. What is not open to debate is what the artists saw. If you ignore that, you'...Childhood immunization against pneumonia cuts hospital admissions by almost 40 percent
... so-called "herd immunity effect" in which people outside the target range of the study benefit from the vaccination of children and infants. In this case, the 41,000 reduction in hospital admissions for all-cause pneumonia in children under two was accompanied by an annual decline of nearly 25,000 pneumo...Healthy schools project gets an 'A'
...alth," says Eagle. Supporting the healthy habits outside of school is also important. "The change has to be reinforced at home or its not going to last," DuRussel-Weston stresses. "Parents can talk to their kids about what theyre learning in school. Its important that they are informed so that they know ho...Clevidipine during heart surgery improves blood pressure control
...the blood-pressure-monitoring curve (AUC) that was outside the upper or lower limits of the range during surgery and for 24 hours afterwards. The first two ECLIPSE studies found that patients treated with clevidipine experienced significantly improved blood pressure control over those who received nitrogl...MRI contrast agent can detect heart attack in the making
...lt: a disc-like structure with the peptides on the outside of a phospholipids bilayer. He then spiked the outer phospholipid layer with chelated gadolinium, a metal chemically bonded to organic molecules to render it nontoxic. The gadolinium, long used in blood contrast agents, allows the cholesterol to st...Drug/intervention combinations offer benefit in severe CVD
...hours and the magnitude and duration of excursions outside of pre-defined acceptable ranges (85-145 mmHg pre- and post-operatively, and 75-135 mmHg intra-operatively) were determined by the area under the curve (AUC). Median AUC values were calculated for each treatment and multiple logistic regressions were...Most first-time offenders for driving while intoxicated need help for more than just alcohol
...ined alcohol and drug and/or psychiatric disorders outside of a court-ordered context. "Those seeking treatment for multiple disorders might consider investigating the extent to which treatments address issues beyond the cessation of alcohol use alone, and also the extent to which follow-up care is availa...Position of car indicator lights affects safety -- designers should take note
...iddle of the car) than if the indicator lights are outside the headlights, according to research published to...tly faster to cars where the indicator lights were outside the headlights, than when they were placed inside. Furthermore, Bayliss believes that the effect c...ACP hosts 'Internal Medicine 2007' in San Diego
...d it difficult to keep up with the clinical topics outside of their subspecialties. This track identifies a series of sessions covering many of the core topics in internal medicine that are useful to all internists, independent of specialty.The Hospitalist Track includes medical consultation, end-of-life car...US adults now discovering the secrets of probiotics
... such as Imodium or Pepto-Bismol, when they travel outside the U.S. About half of U.S. adults (51 percent) agree they would take a probiotic to prevent stomach/intestinal issues related to travel; about half (51 percent) also indicate they would pack a probiotic to treat stomach/intestinal issues related to...NIH names Clinical Trial Units for the Microbicide Trials Network
...to the surface of the vagina. The MTN CTUs based outside the United States are the National AIDS Research Institute in Pune, India; the Medical Research Council in Durban, South Africa; and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. U.S. institutions named as CTUs that will be conducting MTN trials exclusi...Clinical Trials Units selected for newly restructured HIV/AIDS research networks
... Louisiana and Washington, D.C. The CTUs located outside of the United States are in the following countries: the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru, South Africa and Switzerland. Additional CTUs are anticipated in Brazil, China, France, India and Thailand. The 145 clinical research sites where tr...Insight on fruit fly immune system could lead to new types of vaccines, Stanford researchers say
...ected only once - and that's not how things happen outside a lab, where a fly would be continually exposed to microbes. Pham thought to ask what happens when the flies encounter a microbe a second time. Pham found a bacterium - Streptococcus pneumoniae - that infected the flies but didn't kill all of them....