The future of biofuels is not in corn
... biofuels are equal. Corn now used to produce 95 percent of U.S. ethanol and the only commercially viable e...rn crop to ethanol production would only offset 15 percent of gasoline demand. Conversely, modest increases in auto fuel efficiency standards of even one mile ...UD scientists invent novel hydrogels for repairing, regenerating human tissue
...ty to regenerate itself quite easily. If almost 70 percent of it is lost to disease and removed, that remaining 30 percent can grow back, affording a functional liver. We want to use the hydrogels to deliver hepatocytes to ...'SCHIP funding levels too low' ACP tells Senate Finance Committee Leaders
...icare physician fee cuts. Under current law, a 9.9 percent Medicare physician payment cut will go into effect...an. 1, 2008, followed by annual cuts of at least 5 percent in subsequent years. ACP urged the Senate Finance Committee to report legislation to mandate at lea...Lower mortality rates associated with hospitals that rank highest on quality of care indicators
...ls in the top quartile of performance had nearly 1 percent lower mortality among patients with AMI, 0.4 percent among patients with CHF and 0.8 among patients with pneumonia. The researchers calculated that 2,200...First of its kind report on how children with brain tumors perform at school
...eign language, especially for girls. More than 58 percent of female patients received grades below an eight ...10 = excellent) in foreign language compared to 38 percent of healthy children. It appears verbal performance is the area most seriously affected for brain tu...Screening for behavioral health first step to getting treatment
... greatest number of patients. In 2001, sixty-eight percent of adults reported an appointment with a primary c... substance use problems. By 2003, only thirty-four percent of health insurance products had any behavioral health screening requirements, according to the nati...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...transmitted sound waves. From this, an ultrasound percent density (USPD)--thought to be a good proxy for mammographic density--can be determined. The method has been tried out in a clinical trial with a cohort of 100 patients and shows that USPD corresponds well with both qualitative and quantitative ma...ACP commends proposed changes to payments for physician work at nursing facilities
...sequent nursing home visits increased by between 9 percent and 26 percent and the work value for the annual nursing home visit increased by more than 32 percent. Approximate...UT study reveals inaccuracies in cardiac PET-CT imaging, finds fixes
...ndicating coronary artery disease in as many as 40 percent of patients, according to a study published today ...The technology showed false-positive results in 40 percent of the 259 patients who participated in Goulds study. In 23 percent of those patients, it showed sev...Studies show antidepressants not linked to birth defects
...top taking an antidepressant suddenly. About 10 percent of pregnant women in the United States suffer from depression, some of it undiagnosed. Previous studies have found that some SSRIs may increase the risk for other problems for babies, including: Withdrawal symptoms in newborns; Pulmonary hypert...Anti-gay hate crimes widespread
...e Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Overall, 21 percent of the people in the survey reported being the vic...cause of their sexual orientation. In addition, 49 percent said they had been verbally abused because of their sexual orientation, 23 percent reported being th...Do people listen to heat warnings?
...idents 65 and older, Sheridan found that almost 90 percent were aware a heat warning was issued, but only half took action....U of M researchers assess effectiveness of computerized physician order entry system
...a drug at the wrong time, dropped by as much as 66 percent in United States hospitals that switched to a CPOE... and transcription errors account for more than 60 percent of medication errors. Patient safety is our final goal, said Tatyana Shamliyan, lead review author...Needle-stick injuries are common but unreported by surgeons in training
...uch as electric scalpels, clips and glues. Twenty percent of all general surgery operations could be done wi...survey, which took place in 2003, revealed that 99 percent of surgeons-in-training suffered an average of eight needle-stick injuries in their first five years...When minority patients have insurance and a medical home, their health care improves
...red at some point during the year. In contrast, 21 percent of whites and 18 percent of Asian Americans lacked coverage. In addition to being the groups most likely to go without health...Early-morning Friday classes may prevent students from getting sloppy on 'thirsty Thursdays'
... Clinical & Experimental Research . "Roughly 78 percent of the freshmen in our study reported drinking alc...issouri-Columbia. "This number jumped to 85 to 90 percent when most students attained legal age in the third year of the study. It appears that this drinking...Smoking may interfere with alcoholics' neurocognitive recovery during abstinence
...coholics frequently smoke. Anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of individuals in North America who seek alcoholism treatment are also chronic smokers. New findings indicate that smoking may interfere with alcoholics neurocognitive recovery during their first six to nine months of abstinence from alcohol. Resu...Intensive-care patients with alcohol problems are more likely to require mechanical ventilation
... At my institution, we estimate that more than 40 percent of our medical intensive-care unit patients have A...r researchers have reported a rate of more than 30 percent in their medical intensive-care unit. De Wit and her colleagues examined data from the Nationwide...Personal comments by physicians distract from patient needs
...closure and its effect on the patient. Thirty-four percent of the visits contained at least one self-disclosu...he self-disclosures were patient focused, while 60 percent were physician focused, the investigators concluded. Eighty-five percent of the disclosures were con...Shoulder tapping -- Young males are most willing to purchase alcohol for underage youth
...to 30 years old. Only a small percentage eight percent of the general adult population entering alcohol ... found that a higher percentage of young males 19 percent were willing to purchase alcohol for underage youth. Although 19 percent may sound like a relativ...