Why are so many people dying on Everest?
...Hillary and Tenzing proved that it was possible to reach the summit with oxygen and in 1978 Messner and Hab...titude expert, shook his head and said, "He didn't reach the summit until 12.30; that is a 14 hour climb it is too long."...A little TLC goes a long way toward reducing high cholesterol
...octor can use the new booklet to implement TLC and reach your goal. To help reduce saturated fat, trans fat, and dietary cholesterol, the guide offers tips on choosing and preparing low fat meals, selecting healthy snacks, reading nutrition labels, and dining out while staying on the TLC diet. The bookl...One in 10 teenage girls have self-harmed, study shows
...scents in the UK have been based on the cases that reach hospital. "We have found that the true extent of self-harm in England is significantly wider than that." Professor Keith Hawton from the Centre for Suicide Research at the University of Oxford, who directed the project, said: "This study provide...A third of the world population faces water scarcity today
... groundwater levels to dying rivers that no longer reach the sea. Another one billion people live in river basins where water is economically scarce - water is available in rivers and aquifers, but the infrastructure is lacking to make this water available to people." Access to reliable, safe and afforda...American College of Physicians to release 'How To Report Statistics in Medicine'
...Most important is the benefit that will eventually reach our patients, who are the reason why our profession exists." ...SWAN system to help blind and firefighters navigate environment
...ces. The 3-D sound application schedules sounds to reach one ear slightly faster than the other, and the human brain uses that timing difference to figure out where the sound originated. The 3-D audio beacons for navigation are unique to SWAN. Other navigation systems use speech cues such as "walk 100 y...Computer automated e-counseling improves weight loss
...t. Automating such counseling has the potential to reach larger populations at a fraction of the cost of more intensive interventions. "Compared to email counseling provided by a human, a computer pre-programmed with messages based on specific criteria is a highly efficient treatment approach that can be...Wear and tear of stress: the psychoneurobiology of aging
...ells dividing. When at least some of the telomeres reach a critically short length, the cell stops dividing and ages (senesces) which may cause or contribute to some age-related diseases. There is also more evidence that the brain is more involved in a person's stress response than previously thought, sa...Crafting messages with meaning for HIV testing and research
...ne, this research is important for learning how to reach out most effectively to women and minorities, said Dr. Zimet. We also want to understand what issues may prevent women and minorities from taking advantage of HIV/AIDS research and potential new vaccines that could save lives. ...Medscape review supports effectiveness and safety of new non-drug blood pressure treatment
... 70 percent of that population is either unable to reach their lower blood pressure goals or can't tolerate the side effects of medications. Left untreated, high blood pressure may lead to heart attack, stroke and kidney or heart failure. ...Popular statin reduces recurrent stroke risk
...e, the researchers said that it is not possible to reach any meaningful conclusions regarding their risks and benefits with atorvastatin treatment. The researchers suggest that the drug appears to exercise its overall protective effect by lowering the levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol -...Routine use of Hib vaccine could lead to virtual elimination of killer disease in Africa
...b vaccine and suggests that routine use could help reach the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015. ...New hope in cancer vaccines emerges as novel therapies are developed and tested
...d white blood and lymph system cells are easier to reach and manipulate) and a few solid tumors, including melanoma, which seem to elicit a natural, if weak, immune response. In 2003, recognizing this focus, M. D. Anderson opened its Center for Cancer Immunology Research, which is believed to be the firs...Reversing malnutrition a spoonful at a time
...ounds a month, expand its distribution network and reach more of the thousands of malnourished children in the region. The organization is also preparing to supply the RUTF to another group at two other sites. Tom Stehl, who is working toward a dual master's in business administration (MBA) and social wo...NYPD targets black, Hispanic and poor neighborhoods for arrests for smoking marijuana in public
... arrests, which increased throughout the 1990's to reach a peak of 51,000 in 2000, do not seem to be primarily serving the goals of 'quality-of-life' policing - which aims to penalise even minor criminal offences in highly public locations - anymore. The tendency to target areas populated by poor or ethnic...Stroke risk should determine anti-clotting treatment
...n the very rapid electrical signals from the atria reach the lower chambers of the heart (the ventricles) they start to beat quickly and irregularly causing palpitations and decreased blood pumping leading to tiredness and breathlessness. Previous guidelines published in 2001 recommended using several pa...Computer-aided detection improves early breast cancer identification
...care reimbursement will make the technology out of reach for most small and medium sized facilities," said Dr. Dean. "These may be the very places that need CAD the most, as prior studies have shown that CAD has the most impact for non-specialist radiologists," she said. ...Osteoarthritis initiative releases first data
...the government nor its private partners is able to reach alone." Over the next five years, the OAI will provide an unparalleled, state-of-the-art longitudinal database of images and clinical outcome information to facilitate the discovery of biomarkers for development and progression of OA. In this case,...Promising therapy for ALS delivers antisense drug directly to nervous system
...rogressive disease that attacks motor neurons that reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. Estimated to affect some 30,000 Americans, most people are diagnosed with ALS between the ages of 40 and 70. Typically, ALS patients live only three to f......em such as computed tomography and a guide wire to reach the site of the narrowing in the artery, expands the artery with a balloon and inserts a stent to hold the artery open. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, cerebrovascular disease is the third leading cause of death in the Unit...