Commonly recommended sedative does not improve infant sleep
...nt aspects of a young child's health care, such as proper food intake and sleep routine, often are based on assumptions," they write. "Our study results illustrate that such assumptions may be wrong and should be subjected to study in life laboratories."...Prostatic irradiation doesn't lead to any appreciable increase in rectal cancer risk
...cancer and their families put these risks in their proper perspective, and not let their concerns about rectal cancer dissuade them from choosing radiation therapy as a treatment for this disease," said Wayne S. Kendal, M.D., Ph.D., an Associate Professor in Radiation Oncology at the Ottawa Hospital Regiona...Hopkins scientists use embryonic stem cells, new cues to awaken latent motor nerve repair
...ect cells in the first weeks of life to assume the proper places in the spinal cord -- readied the conditioned ES cells for the motor neuron circuit that starts in the spinal cord. Then, stem cells were fed into the paralyzed rats' spinal cords. Extending new motor neurons in an adult nervous system, howev...Education, retraining reduce catheter-associated infections in ICUs
...ngs that were dated, an indication of attention to proper dressing maintenance. "The 21 percent infection reduction achieved at the other centers wasn't as dramatic 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 estimate...Forget the label. Portion size is all in your mind
...ting a unit and the idea that a single unit is the proper amount to eat." The concept of unit bias helps explain how environmental differences in portions and package sizes impact overall consumption and may provide a foundation for a better understanding of the psychology of obesity....'Food insecure' Appalachians more likely to be obese, diabetic, study finds
...oods provided by the food assistance programs) and proper interpretation of sell-by dates on food labels. "(Those dates) don't mean that magically on that date the food rots, but if we have people throwing away foods, and yet they don't have resources to buy foods, that could be a problem," said Holben, who...New ACC/AHA guidelines released for valvular heart disease
...key changes in the 2006 document is a focus on the proper timing of valve surgery. The guidelines include more precise and quantitative definitions of mild, moderate and severe valvular disease, based on the patient's symptoms and the results of exercise testing, echocardiography, and other tests. This chan...Noisy classroom? Avoid sound-amplification systems, scientific society says
... way to improve classroom acoustics is through the proper designand renovation of classrooms as specified in ANSI S12.60. Using soundamplification in an attempt to overcome poor classroom acoustics onlymakes the situation worse. There should be less sound in theclassroom,not more."...Increase in counterfeit antimalarial drugs prompts call for crackdown, better detection
...h as including low, but ineffective, levels of the proper active ingredients and applying counterfeit holograms to packaging -- to deceive investigators and consumers. In fact, Fernandez, a bioanalytical chemist, and his collaborators found that some counterfeit artesunate anti-malarial drugs contain up to ...Manual chest compressions are better than automated for treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
...n suffer from what is known as CPR fatigue, making proper performance of manual chest compressions for longer than two minutes difficult. The multi-center randomized trial included 1,071 patients who experienced out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States and Canada. In the first group, 517 patient...Reports characterize fungal eye infections among soft contact lens wearers
...that earlier correct diagnosis with institution of proper specific antifungal therapy resulted in a speedier resolution of the keratitis," the authors write. The cause for the increased prevalence of Fusarium keratitis is not known, they continue; more research is needed. Until then, physicians should rema...Serotonin, acting in a specific brain region, promotes sleep in fruit flies
...d. While central to the lives of most animals, the proper regulation sleep remains a largely enigmatic process. The findings are reported by Quan Yuan, William Joiner, and Amita Sehgal at the University of Pennsylvania, and appear in the June 6th issue of Current Biology. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanog...Mowing the lawn is not child's play
... can be dangerous for children and adults alike if proper safety precautions are not taken. In fact, more t...f physical activity, it can also cause harm if the proper precautions are not taken," explained Richard F. Kyle, MD, orthopaedic surgeon and AAOS President. ...New survey reveals top summer health concerns
...d 41 percent are extremely or very concerned about proper decision-making in an unsafe situation. In addition, the survey revealed that one-third of parents agree that it is important for their young adolescents to have a summer job, to learn work ethic and responsibility. Survey data was collected online ...Spacers have advantages over nebulizers for childhood asthma
...liar nebulization to using a spacer." He said that proper titration -- adjusting medication dose and timing according to symptoms -- is still "the key issue, whichever delivery method is used." An estimated 6.2 million U.S. children under age 18 years of age have asthma and 4 million of these had an asthma ...Hebrew University researchers succeed in observing for 1st time how DNA damage is identified
...ion phase, it verifies that the DNA sequence is in proper order and does not contain any mutations. But the process of how this occurs has not been observed until now. "For the first time it is now possible to see how this phenomenon occurs," said Dr. Ben-Yehuda. "Proteins triggered by the bacteria that ar...High hepatitis B infection rate found among NYC's Asian American community
...es and regions, says Dr. Pollack. Once diagnosed, proper evaluation and care and, in many cases, specific antiviral treatment, is the key to avoiding long-term complications of the disease. Hepatitis B infection can be effectively prevented by vaccination. All persons susceptible to infection in the new ...Study finds most Americans have good vision, but 14 million are visually impaired
...a visual impairment could achieve good vision with proper eyeglasses or contact lenses. So, if you have trouble seeing, you should get your eyes examined as soon as possible. It may be that corrective lenses will improve your vision. But, if you do have an eye disease, the sooner it is found, the more likel...Genetic insights may explain retinal growth, eye cancer
...res that the retinal cells stop multiplying at the proper time during development of this tissue. The Rb gene is expressed after birth in those cells that are actively multiplying as they also help form the retina. In addition, the St. Jude team found that when Rb was inactivated during development of the m......xcess water and has the added benefit of retaining proper levels of sodium in the body, said Dr. William Abraham, director of cardiovascular medicine at Ohio State University Medical Center and lead author of a study of this drug. The study results are published in the April 18 issue of the Journal of the A...