Water fluoridation still a cost-effective preventive measure
...ust under AUS$18 in the 1990s. At each of the time points analyzed, however, the cost savings from water fluoridation were shown to decline with age,largely as a result of a plateau in the amount of new tooth decay experienced, lower averted costs of decayed surfaces experienced later in life,and estimates ...New scoring system predicts gastric bypass surgery risk
... zero are at the least risk, while those with five points are at the highest risk." The system deems patie...f 0.31 percent. None of the 356 patients with zero points died. The medium-risk group, with a score of two or three points, had a mortality rate of 1.91 perce...Anaesthetists need urgent guidance on patients who don't want to be resuscitated
...naesthesia that could be classed as resuscitation, points out Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Michael McBrien from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland. But automatically suspending DNAR Orders during surgery is no longer an acceptable option, according to Dr McBrien and his editorial co-a...Cherry juice may prevent muscle damage pain
...king the placebo juice. This fell by 22 percentage points in those drinking the placebo juice, but only by four percentage points in those drinking cherry juice. Muscle strength had slightly improved after 96 hours in those drinki...Pre-scan warnings would have caused extra distress say women with problem fetuses
...uld cause needless anxiety for a lot of women" she points out. "This view is shared by the majority of the w...e a scan regardless of what the scan found." Lalor points out that many women have a scan to check if the baby is OK rather than to find any anomalies. She re...Early puberty may mean anxiety, abnormal eating behaviors later
...hat the hormones themselves are to blame. Dr. Zehr points out that if either theory were true, adolescents would eventually grow out of such behaviors, because, eventually, the awkwardness of early puberty goes away and the hormones settle to adult levels. Based on the study's finding that early puberty is ...Education, retraining reduce catheter-associated infections in ICUs
...ramatic as what we had here in St. Louis, but that points out the complexity of exporting these programs," Warren says. "And they do work--we estimated that these interventions prevented 131 serious bloodstream infections across all the ICUs and avoided more than 250 additional days of hospitalization." Re...Preventing spinal cord injury during aortic surgery
...igh price: neurological deficits, but new research points to a possible defense against spinal cord injury during aortic surgery. The paper by Roseborough et al., "The mitochondrial K-ATP channel opener, diazoxide, prevents ischemia-reperfusion injury in the rabbit spinal cord," appears in the May issue of ...Cherry juice reduces muscle pain induced by exercise
...ng the dummy mixture. This fell by 22 percentage points in those drinking the dummy mixture, but only by 4 percentage points in those drinking cherry juice. Muscle strength even improved slightly after 96 hours in those drink...Tip sheet, Annals of Internal Medicine, April 20, 2006
...itals got ideal care. The authors say their study points to specific interventions -- for example, increasing use of recommended tests and treatments and omitting useless ones -- that would "reduce large variations in practice between institutions and improve care nationally."...DNA repair in mammal embryos is a matter of timing
...ndrome called ataxia telangiectasia. This new work points to the specific DNA repair pathway that ATM is required to monitor in order to prevent neurodegeneration. The HR pathway fixes a broken chromosome by using that chromosome's exact "twin" as a blueprint to guide the repair job, according to Peter McKi...Proposed changes to obesity guidelines may harm children in the US
...g problems and avoidance of exercise. Mr. Moynihan points out that one of the prime movers behind the proposed changes being considered by the expert committee is Dr. William Dietz, a senior member of the International Obesity Task Force. In the second article Mr. Moynihan reveals how the high profile and h...There's no modern substitute for some old-fashioned one-on-one
..., published in the June issue of American Surgeon, points to a powerful, but often overlooked, tool for influencing students' attitudes about their surgical training in school. Peter Ehrlich, M.D., MSc., an associate professor of pediatric surgery at the U-M Medical School, and colleagues found that the qua...... new study, published online last month in Nature, points to a small RNA molecule, called a microRNA (miRNA) as the culprit that keeps the latent virus-infected cell alive. These findings could one day lead to a new way to fight the virus and offers the first target for intervention in the latent infection....New World Cup soccer ball will unsettle goalkeepers, predicts scientist
...m disrupts the air flow around the ball at certain points on the surface, causing an unpredictable deflection. "With the world's best players in Germany this summer, there are bound to be plenty of spectacular scoring free kicks. "But watch the slow motion replays to spot the rare occasions where the bal...Health professionals must help tackle climate change
...ote, describes some examples of good practice, but points out that these depend on highly committed individuals innovating against the odds. Incentives in the NHS run in the opposite direction and no-one gets fired for failing to reduce the carbon footprint of a hospital or clinic. By 2010, 11 billion will ...Study: Breast cancer in younger black women is more likely to be an aggressive variety
...t Center and a Lineberger clinical faculty member, points out, "Right now, the only available treatment for basal-like breast cancer is chemotherapy. Fortunately, while there are no targeted treatments yet for basal-like breast tumors, some of the newer chemotherapies tend to benefit this subtype more than ...Study explores correlation between education and the leading causes of preventable death
...male high school completers is about 26 percentage points lower. Additionally, those who completed high scho...school completers were actually about 7 percentage points more likely to be overweight, though individuals whose parents completed more schooling tend to be l...Homeless young people warn researchers about the dangers of cash incentives
...g people don't see how their contribution is used" points out Dr Ensign. "We are keen to see researchers share their findings with young people in an informal way, so that they can see how valued their views are. "For example we have been working with a former homeless youth who is writing an article on ......ng active and vital, alert, wide awake," and seven points indicates "almost in reverie, sleep onset soon, losing struggle to remain awake." Interns on the nap schedule increased their average sleep time by 41 minutes, from 144 minutes a night up to 185 minutes. Interns on the nap schedule who forwarded the...