Do we need a world health insurance to realize the right to health?
...antiretroviral therapy to people living with AIDS, previously dismissed as unsustainable, became widely accepted as soon as the Global Fund provided a long-term funding perspective. Other health interventions deserve a similar approach." Ooms and colleagues' framework for a world health insurance involves ric......tal principles and requires new concepts: chemists previously understood "polymorphism" to mean that a molecule can take on one or another packing arrangement in the crystalline state; a single crystal of a specific chemical substance is either one polymorph or the other. Aspirin is the first case in which two ...Genetically modified cells attack tumors
... The researchers based their new treatment on work previously reported that showed certain NSPCs have a natural tendency to seek out damaged or cancerous areas in the brain. In the current study, the researchers first injected into mice that had neuroblastoma large numbers of NSPCs that had been genetically ...New imaging technique identifies people-at-risk for Alzheimer's disease
...h measures the metabolic function of cells and has previously been used in aiding diagnosis for Alzheimers disea...plaque and tangle concentrations in areas that had previously demonstrated high FDDNP binding values on the PET scan. "This is the first time this pattern of pl...Olive oil emulsion helps with problem heart arteries
... delivery in the rare cases where stents could not previously be inserted," Dr. Savage said. "It would be a worthwhile addition to the interventionalists' bag of tricks."...Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible
... was important not just because it unified several previously separate lines of research but because it might give doctors the tools to motivate their alcohol-dependent patients to stay sober. "Doctors treating or studying alcoholism should be made aware of the research of Dr Bartsch because it may provide a ...Study explains how NSAIDs halt cancer growth
...er Research. "Although observational studies had previously demonstrated that NSAIDs [such as aspirin, ibuprofen and sulindac] might be effective in the prevention and treatment of several common cancers, it wasnt at all clear how this was happening," explains the studys senior author Towia Libermann, PhD, Di...Epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis may be larger than previously thought
...sistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) may be larger than previously suspected, according to an Article in this weeks issue of The Lancet. The study found anti-TB drug resistance in virtually all of the 79 countries surveyed, with particularly high levels in areas of the former Soviet Union and some provinces of China...Over 500 sudden unexplained deaths every year, mostly in young men
.... This figure is around eight times higher than previously thought, the data suggest. The research team drew on cause of death judgments relating to sudden unexplained deaths in people from 117 coroners (out of 122) across England between October 1997 and May 1999. The judgments were all based on post ...New observations on properties of water
... November 2006). Their study suggests that, unlike previously thought, the cloud crystals in cirrus clouds are not completely solid ice, but are covered with a layer of liquid water and sulphuric acid. The layer effects for instance the reflectivity of the clouds, and therefore the climate. It has also been obs...New dyslexia theory blames 'noise'
...ture Neuroscience. In addition, the same authors previously showed that poorreaders also have trouble figuring out categories in simplecard games. Other recent studies lend support to the noise exclusiontheory. Johannes Ziegler of the Universite de Provence inMarseille, France, was the lead author on a...Antibiotic ear drops favored over popular oral antibiotics for ear infections
...developing antibiotic resistance. Dr. Roland has previously demonstrated that middle ear infections are often caused by micro-organisms that are not susceptible to antibiotics approved for pediatric patients. But the ear infections are sensitive to topical ear drops. That research showed that children with ea...Binghamton University researcher to study declining US fertility rates
...cribe the fertility decline in greater detail than previously possible, looking at differentials such as race, ethnicity, region and occupation. He will also explain the decline using multi-level empirical models. "The census is quite rich," he said. "I am employing a method of analysis called Own Child Fertil...High risk of chronic health conditions plagues those with schizophrenia
...000 adults between the ages of 18 and 64. She has previously used this data to study mental illness and cancer, mental illness and diabetes, and the likelihood of women with mental illness to undergo mammograms. In the new study, Dr. Carney Doebbeling and colleagues report that compared with individuals with...Mandarin language is music to the brain
...show that language processing is more complex than previously thought, and it gives clues to why people who use auditory prosthetic devices have difficulty understanding Mandarin. The study appears in this weeks online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.In the English language,...Key to avoiding whiplash injury may lie in head restraint positioning
...," he says. "Ligament distortions were compared to previously determined failure thresholds. Our team also used previous studies and computer models to validate our work. In addition, we studied the computer response in 57 different measures of spinal motion. This data was compared to previous experimental rese...MGH study examines impact of infection with both HIV and hepatitis C virus
... cell count upon entering the study but the lowest previously recorded or nadir' CD4 count. That finding sugges...gainst HCV the kind of memory' response against a previously encountered pathogen seen in many infections. "Currently a nationwide trial is recruiting people f...TV viewing and physical inactivity independently associated with metabolic risk in children
...tly of obesity and other factors. TV viewing has previously been linked to metabolic-risk factors in youth. However, it had been unclear whether this association was independent of physical activity and obesity. This study showed that TV viewing and physical activity should be considered as separate entities...Novel brain areas associated with the recognition of gender, ethnicity and the identity of faces
...gender, ethnicity and identity cues in an area not previously thought to be associated with face processing. Led...within regions in the fusiform gyrus, a brain area previously associated with face processing. More surprisingly, however, strong responses were also found within......eek delay. Both groups were encouraged to continue previously prescribed medications and treatments. Participants in the massage intervention group received a standard one-hour Swedish massage twice a week for four weeks, followed by Swedish massage once a week for the next four weeks at the Siegler Center f...