ANA encourages nurses and health care workers to get vaccinated against flu
...st wages for the average worker. Recent estimates put the cost of influenza epidemics to the economy at $71 $167 billion per year....Twelve-point plan tackles moral and ethical issues of using email for health research
...and ensure that as many safeguards as possible are put in place to protect participants." A number of issues need to be considered before email research is undertaken. These include Making sure that people thinking of taking part in the study are very clear about what this will entail and that they pr...Riding roller coasters may actually be 'death-defying' for people with heart disease
...rt, sparking off an irregular heartbeat that could put individuals with heart disease at risk of having a cardiovascular event, according to new research reported at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2005. "Individuals who have suffered a heart attack, have heart disease or irregular h...Do increased levels of testosterone play a role in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?
...atrics shows that elevated testosterone levels may put infants at greater risk for SIDS. Michael Emery, PhD, from the University of Washington, and colleagues tested estrogen and testosterone levels in the blood serum of 127 infants who had died of SIDS and 42 infants who had died of other causes of unex...Brain morphing technology simplifies the surgical treatment for movement disorders
...rgeons cannot see the structure where they have to put the electrode and, as a result, they must spend a considerable amount of time searching for it," says Benoit Dawant, professor of electrical engineering, computer engineering and radiological sciences at Vanderbilt University, who is developing the g...Orlando press briefing: Budget cut puts elders' health at risk
...l be taking unnecessary drugs, be hospitalized and put in nursing homes. Health care expenses will skyrocket and the costs of the Medicare drug benefit will increase dramatically. While we cannot ignore the costs of the war in Iraq and recovery from the hurricanes, sacrificing geriatric education prog...U of M study shows radiation therapy for pelvic cancers increases risk for fractures in older women
...th radiation therapy for pelvic malignancies could put a woman at significant risk for fractures. Radiation therapy is a common treatment for cervical, anal, and rectal cancer. While it is a proven, effective treatment, Baxter suggests women who have had or are having radiation therapy for pelvic maligna......there may be no absolute protection or cure, would put far greater pressures on health care systems around the world. "Workers will face competing obligations, such as their duty to care for patients and to protect their own health and that of families and friends," says JCB member Ross Upshur, M.D., Dir...Feeling fat in the festive season? It's all in your mind
...ize every day, such as feeling thin or fat when we put our clothes on in the morning, or when walking through a narrow doorway or ducking under a low ceiling. However, unlike more elementary bodily senses such as limb movement, touch and pain, there are no specialized receptors in the body that send info...Road deaths almost 400 times greater than those from international terrorism
... 9/11 attack every nine day, for all the countries put together. The authors cite other evidence, suggesting that the number of Americans who avoided flying after 9/11 and were subsequently killed in car crashes was higher than the total number of passengers who died on the four 9/11 flights. The authors...Imaging shows similarities in brains of marijuana smokers, schizophrenics
CHICAGO Heavy use of marijuana may put adolescents who are genetically predisposed to schizophrenia at greater risk of developing the brain disorder, according to research presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Using a sophisticated brai...Study provides first estimate of US population affected by Barrett's esophagus
...a, Maryland (Dec. 1, 2005) According to estimates put forth in a study published today in the American G... to be a precursor to Barrett's. "The definition put forth in this study of the prevalence of Barrett's esophagus in the general adult population represe...Research review finds tobacco scenes in movies boost teen smoking
...point of view, in investing millions of dollars to put smoking on the American screen," Glantz said. "This strong and consistent scientific evidence has major implications for the current policy debate between the pediatricians and parents, on one side, and a handful of media companies on the other. The ...Modified Atkins diet effectively treats childhood seizures
...as unresponsive to drug therapy. The children were put on a regimen that included fewer carbohydrates than the standard Atkins diet, for six months. Of the 16 who completed the study, 13 had a greater than 50 percent improvement in seizures, seven had a greater than 90 percent improvement and four were s...Mountainous plateau creates ozone 'halo' around Tibet
... ozone found in heavily polluted cities -- and may put climbers at risk. The findings are published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "Around the circumference of Tibet, there's a halo of very high levels of ozone," said Professor G.W. Kent Moore, interim chair of the Department of Chemical an...Gatton livestock studies spurred a flu-fighter
...e world is your oyster, you can do anything if you put your mind to it". Instead of vet science, Professor von Itzstein studied a Bachelor of Science and, in 1984, gained a PhD in Organic Chemistry. He worked in Germany and Melbourne before returning to Queensland in 2000 to establish and lead the Insti...Digestive problems may impede overweight people from exercising
...nal symptoms. It is plausible that if a physician put a patient on an exercise program to lose weight the GI problems experienced might hamper the patient's ability to exercise." People in the study reported experiencing a variety of problems: 19 percent said they had abdominal pain, 13 percent had irr...Scythe balances life and death during development
...n to trigger apoptosis. But when the investigators put Scythe genes back into the cells, they became sensitive to these treatments and underwent apoptosis. "These chemicals affect the movement of calcium inside a special structure where proteins are made," McKinnon said. "This showed that Scythe helps t...Doctors pioneer new area of cruelty free product development
...yst who headed up R&D on the assay. "If scientists put more effort into developing alternatives to the use of animals in medical research and testing, we could alleviate animal suffering and practice more effective medicine." Mrs. Even presented PCRM's insulin assay at the Fifth World Congress on Alterna......ildren whose leukemic cells carried mutations that put them at high or low risk of failure, or who could be considered at "standard" risk--information that guided the researchers in determining how aggressively to treat each child. Patients found to have no response to ADE during induction therapy were...