Adolescent girls more active if neighborhoods have parks
...that girls become less physically active once they reach adolescence, and that girls are generally less physically active than boys, she said....Fosrenol data show evidence of trends towards improved bone formation in CKD stage 5 patients
...ronic kidney disease, so by the time many patients reach dialysis, they may have painful and debilitating b... with difficult to control serum phosphorus levels reach K/DOQI targets," said Rajnish Mehrotra, M.D., Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Los Angeles B...Holiday season could ring in 'heartburn season'
...t takes a number of hours or even days for them to reach their full effect. So if you want to eat a pizza in the next half hour, it's not going to stop the acid that you're going to make in that time," Dr. Spechler said. Antacids can help if foods consumed generate heartburn. Antacids act like a sponge to...New family health history projects focus on Alaska Native, Appalachian communities
...bout the potential of these projects to expand the reach and impact of the Surgeon General's Family Health Initiative. We look forward to working with these communities to achieve their goals, as well as to sharing their models with other communities and populations across the country," said Vence Bonham, ...No benefit to mechanically opening arteries days after a heart attack
...sary to understand this observation, which did not reach the level of statistical significance, so it could have been due to chance alone. Dr. Hochman speculated that opening a totally blocked artery in a patient who has collateral blood flow may interfere with the ability of the collateral vessels ...New study on school bus safety shows injuries well exceed previous reports
... school bus safety messages may need to especially reach and affect children 10-14 years." More than half of all injuries among children younger than 10-years-old was to the head. While lower extremity injuries predominated among children 10-to 19-years-old. Strains and sprains accounted for the highest p...Three-dimensional, miniature endoscope opens new diagnostic possibilities
...ility to go places that other imaging tools cannot reach opens new possibilities for medical diagnosis and eventually treatment." Standard miniature endoscopic devices which give physicians access to hard-to-reach internal organs and structures utilize bundles of optical fibers to supply light to and tr...Economic pressures can lead to unequal treatment of patients
...reasing faster than inflation and are estimated to reach 20% of GDP in less than 10 years. Insurance companies and hospitals have created new medical plans and promote self-care technology in hopes of minimizing costs, but doctors resist this rationing system. Nevertheless, economic pressure is shown to ha...Stroke symptoms common among general population
...id not recognize them or that the symptoms did not reach the threshold necessary for a stroke diagnosis. ... symptoms may represent stroke events that did not reach the threshold required for clinical diagnosis," the authors write. "These undiagnosed or unrecogniz...Drug company reports should be read with caution, warn doctors
...ustry are less transparent, and are more likely to reach favourable conclusion on drugs, than independent reviews. According to the authors, bias in drug trials is common and often favours the trial-sponsor's product. To balance this effect, independent reviews which can have a more critical and system...German researchers develop first non-invasive test to measure skin aging
...nsparent to infrared light, the infrared laser can reach the dermis with intense pulses of light without damaging the upper layers. By two different quantum processes, collagen and elastin will then respond by glowing blue and green. Currently, dermatologists who want to check out the collagen network of ...UC Davis at forefront of national initiative to transform research to improve human health
...b can quickly become advances in medical care that reach the populations of patients who need them." "Th...roadest and most extensive efforts in the world to reach geographically dispersed and ethnically diverse populations; Its collaborative culture, which has fo...Penn leads $98 million translational medicine collaboration
...al-world practice. We expect to see new approaches reach underserved populations, local community organizat... The CTSA grant will enable Children's Hospital to reach a new level of informatics technology with the creation of a "E-Port," a cross-institutional website...$83.5 million NIH grant to Pitt establishes Clinical and Translational Research Institute
...al world practice. We expect to see new approaches reach underserved populations, local community organizations and health care providers to ensure that medical advances are reaching the people who need them." Institutions competing for the awards were required to "build academic homes for clinical and t...Yale School of Medicine awarded $57 million for bench-to-bedside research
...al-world practice. We expect to see new approaches reach underserved populations, local community organizations and health care providers to ensure that medical advances are reaching the people who need them." According to Robert Alpern, M.D., dean of the medical school, Yale is ideally positioned to ful...Progesterone shows promise as treatment for traumatic brain injuries
.... To be a candidate for the study, patients had to reach the hospital within 11 hours of injury. People enrolled in the study had a "blunt" traumatic brain injury, which typically occurs from a car accident, motorcycle crash or a fall. Enrolled patients had an initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score ranging...Short episodes of manic symptoms may indicate bipolar disorder in some youth
...rder in youth who present with mania that does not reach the duration criteria for adult bipolar disorder." The study assessed the symptoms of 438 children and adolescents between the ages of 7 and 17 years who were diagnosed with bipolar spectrum disorders; participants were enrolled at three centers: ...ACP says Congress must take action to reform dysfunctional Medicare payment system
...nd how to fund it, "it is imperative that Congress reach an accord that will, at a minimum, replace the 5.1 percent SGR cut next year with positive updates that reflect increases in practice costs."...AIDS study challenges conventional treatment guidelines for HIV patients
...dict how quickly that person's CD4 cell count will reach the danger level at which treatment for HIV becomes most critical. Current clinical practice, based on previous work from other groups, is to focus on both the current CD4 count and the viral load to estimate how rapidly a person's CD4 cell count wil......it looks like the stroma cells form long arms that reach out and collect the virus particles, and then wrap around them, forming a sac, and bring them into the cell body," Shukla said. In phagocytes, ingested foreign particles are destroyed in the sacs, which are highly acidic. But even though the sacs f...