The ACCP strives to close the 10/90 gap between rich and poor nations
...on gross national income per capita. The ACCP then put into action a tiered-membership fee policy that reduced fees for citizens residing in low income or lower-middle income countries. The financial burden to the organization was offset by offering electronic access to ACCP publications in place of surf...KwaZulu-Natal's successful fight against malaria
...ribe and evaluate the new measures against malaria put in place in the KwaZulu-Natal province, where cases had risen fifteen-fold during the 1990s. AL was introduced to the area in 2000 alongside an intensified effort to control mosquitoes with insecticides. Reviewing data from four health care facilitie...Pulmonary artery catheter use neutral for patient outcomes
...dance on the device's efficacy or safety. "To help put the results of ESCAPE into context, we wanted to look at how the PAC performed in different settings and situations in a wide range of patients," said the DCRI's Vict Hasselblad, Ph.D., lead statistician for the meta-analysis. Hasselbald explained th...Speakers and Youth World Information announced for first Neurology EXPO
...ll offer a colorful brain puzzle to take apart and put back together. Kids can make "beady neurons" in the Craft Zone. The Brain Fitness Zone will demonstrate the importance of bike helmets and good brain foods. In the On-Stage Zone, Eric Chudler, PhD, will describe what the brain looks like and how it w...International study finds one in five heart patients continue to smoke
...'t register it, or maybe the advice was offered or put out for them to take away, but having decided to stop smoking, not accepted because they felt no need to take it." The survey showed there was still a need for the development of more intensive, effective smoking cessation programmes, particularly fo...Penn surgeons use completely robotic surgery to treat prostate cancer
...st precise, most beneficial surgical techniques to put patients on a quicker road to recovery with better outcomes," said Dr. Lee....UCSD leads team to build Geographic Information System to assess toxic hazards from Katrina
...grate them with the data and visuals already being put together at the NIEHS Web site Within two weeks of...ng on line 40 terrabytes of storage capability. To put this in context, all the texts in the Library of Congress would equal about 20 terabytes of informat...Heart failure patients have impaired cooling response, UT Southwestern researchers find
...nd half with healthy hearts. For testing, all were put into tube-lines suits and the temperature of the water perfusing the suits was elevated, resulting in increases in skin and internal temperatures. Researchers then studied skin-blood flow and sweating, the two main mechanisms for the body to maintain...Study questions widespread use of C-reactive protein test to assess cardiovascular risk
...to 46.6 percent among people whose body mass index put them in the obese range. Numerous experts have been debating the use of the relatively inexpensive CRP blood test as a general screening tool for coronary heart disease, both pro and con. Some say CRP can help identify certain...Leading pediatricians group recommends infants sleep in cribs, not parents' beds
... of other races because they are more likely to be put to sleep in adult beds or on surfaces other than cribs, such as sofas. "There are varied reasons for sleeping with your kids. In St. Louis, we found that the practice was more common among families who could not afford safe cribs," Kemp said. Advoca...New ASU center will assess societal implications of nanotechnology
...an Sarewitz, said the center "is an opportunity to put into practice a new model of cooperation between the social sciences and humanities on one hand and natural sciences and engineering on the other." George Poste, director of the Biodesign Institute at ASU and co-principal investigator for the center ...Acellular pertussis vaccine proves effective in adults, adolescents
... adults with the added benefit that it may help to put up a roadblock in the transmission of the disease, so that parents, grandparents and other adults are not unknowingly passing the disease along," says David Klein, Ph.D., of NIAID's Respiratory Diseases Branch. In 2004, the highest number of U.S. pe...Penn researchers discover the powerful tool of simultaneous fMRI and PET imaging
...We have both machines available to us and have now put them together in a way that works," adds Newberg. "We can take the results of the simultaneous fMRI and PET scans and come up with two separate results and compare them for a new look at the brain. Using this technique, you capture the exact same mom...Innovative gel reduces post-operative pain
...mall amount of the patient's blood is drawn, it is put into a centrifuge machine that separates out the platelet rich plasma. The fact that the platelet gel is derived from the patient's own blood eliminates the risk of acquired diseases possible with other pooled blood products. Following endoscopic sur...UNC wins eight top NIH 'Roadmap' grants, more than any other university in the country
..."That commitment and the excellence of our faculty put us in a great position to compete for these awards." The wide variety of topics represented in the awards exemplifies the breadth and diversity of the university's faculty and programs, Waldrop said. The next-most successful institutions in securing ...Study focuses on age of first alcoholic drink
...s included in the current study. "This study helps put things in perspective. It is not just the age of first drink that relates to negative outcomes. There are often bad things happening to these children and the age of first drink represents just one of them and is not the most important one," Kuperman...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Oct. 18, 2005
...ny assistance programs (Article, p. 600). Authors put the patients into one of four hypothetical groups: no financial assistance, aid from pharmaceutical programs, Medicare drug discount cards (providing transitional assistance) and the new Medicare prescription benefit, which will take effect in 2006. ...Study finds government advisories on fish consumption & mercury may do more harm than good
...into changes in health. In other words, before we put an intervention into action, we need to estimate its real world impacts both its benefits and its countervailing risks." The work was funded by a grant from the National Food Processors Association Research Foundation (now the Food Products Associat...Side-effects cause some breast cancer patients to skip hormone treatment
... enough complain we may see some serious endeavour put into reducing side-effects. "Personally, I would give a Nobel prize to the doctor who could eliminate hot flushes. It really is important," Professor Fallowfield concluded. Key findings include: If daily tablets and a double injection a month had ......nters had defibrillators. "In theory, you want to put the defibrillators in places like senior centers where there are more cardiac arrests," Cram said. "Instead, we saw more defibrillators in schools. This practice may not be maximizing the numbers of lives that could be saved." The authors cited sever...