Could a popular HIV drug benefit hepatitis B patients?
...own from mother to infant during pregnancy and has reached epidemic levels in China, Vietnam and sub-Saharan Africa. "It is a terrible disease because it kills people in their prime of their lives in their 30s, 40s and 50s," Di Bisceglie says. "What makes it even more devastating is that there are mild non-...The Lancet Neonatal Series at one year of age has anything changed?
... Development Goal (MDG) 4 for child survival to be reached by 2015. Since last year's call for action, there have been positive changes in policy and funding. More efforts have been made to include newborn health in global guidelines and national strategies, with UNICEF developing their first guidelines on ...Prenatal cocaine exposure not linked to bad behavior in kids
...half the cocaine-exposed children by the time they reached 3. "One might have expected that caregivers who took on children with prenatal cocaine exposure would've expected (more problems) and reported a higher number of problems," Warner said. "But that wasn't the case." The researchers studied 256 children...Mothers often have inaccurate perceptions of their children's body weight, study shows
...t to stem the tide of pediatric obesity, which has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. "It's not just Latino parents. As a pediatrician, when you start to talk to parents about their child's weight or body mass, you have to ask: How much and what are children eating? How much TV are they watc...Early diagnosis key to melanoma cure
...suggest that, in females, melanoma deaths may have reached a plateau but continue to rise in males. In conclusion, early diagnosis of melanoma currently offers the only hope of reducing mortality and efforts must be intensified in this regard, say the authors. Primary prevention is relevant in order to stres...Training on virtual 'patient' improves carotid angiography skills
...nt-safe' environment, and make sure the doctor has reached a level of competence before he then works on his first patient," Dr. Cates said. William A. Gray, M.D. from Columbia University in New York, New York, who was not connected with this study, said that although simulation is increasingly used in medi...For one Stanford doctor, the beat goes on during open-heart surgery
... man undergoing triple bypass surgery. The surgeon reached into the chest, lifted the beating heart out, then craned his neck to the side, just so, searching for the right spot on the back of the heart to attach the next vessel. Ihnken, MD, clinical assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the Stanfo...End-of-life treatment preferences may change as health declines
...rences for their end-of-life care before they have reached that stage, the authors write. "The problems with predicting future hypothetical states of health have led some to conclude that instructional advance directives are a misguided means of care planning," they continue. "However, the methods we used ...Vulnerability to measles among nursery school children risen sharply
...have increased across Scotland, these have not yet reached the levels before 1998, and are not expected to reach the levels required for population protection among young schoolchildren, say the authors....Studies evaluate health effects of dental amalgam in children
...ope, the other in the United States--independently reached the conclusion: Children whose cavities were fill...ge, geographically distinct groups of children and reached similar conclusions about the safety of amalgam." Dentists have used silver-colored amalgam to fill ......not. "What makes this study so exciting is that we reached a population that has always had access problems and we showed that with the right care, attention and support, we were able to substantially reduce their barriers to cancer screening," said study co-author Dr. Jonathan Tobin, head of the Clinical Di...Doctor proposes five steps we can take to help curb child obesity
Weight problems among children have now reached epidemic proportions. And it's no wonder. High-calorie fast foods and soft drinks are everywhere, and they are heavily promoted in many of the 40,000 television commercials that kids watch every year. In Child Obesity: A Parent's Guide to a Fit, Tri...Therapeutic prospects beyond Vioxx
...s might confer a cardiovascular risk before either reached the US market. In the present studies, the investigators used multiple genetically manipulated mice including mice that mimicked the impact of either COX-2 inhibitors or low-dose aspirin and compared them with treating healthy mice with COX-2 inhib...Massive German floods monitored from space
...tzacker officials have said the Elbe's water level reached 13 centimetres higher than it did in the devastating floods in the summer of 2002, which saw water levels reach 150-year highs across parts of Central and Eastern Europe....Taller people more likely to develop atrial fibrillation
...gle point in time, although the patients of course reached their adult height long before they were likely to develop atrial fibrillation. And while all the subjects in this study were patients with impaired left ventricular function, Dr. Langberg speculates that the same results would be found in other grou...Parents need to be educated about HPV vaccinations for daughters
...accines against the human papillomavirus (HPV) had reached a stage where they were soon to be submitted for licensing. But he warned that it was important there were programmes of education for women and men, particularly parents, about HPV and cervical cancer. Professor Kitchener, of the Academic Unit of Ob...No-smoking rules not common enough for asthmatic children
...ulatory Pediatrics, shows that the message has not reached every parent that any secondhand smoke exposure for children especially those suffering from asthma is detrimental to their health. Parents and caregivers may be trying to limit smoke exposure by smoking in a different room or by opening a window i...Report finds limited number of psychiatrists statewide
...ed; The lack of child psychiatrists statewide has reached a critical stage; and In some counties, both psychiatrists and primary care providers are in shortage, creating a situation in which people with mental disorders might go undiagnosed or untreated. "Unfortunately, we have a growing shortage of psyc...Medication reduces risk of adverse events for patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing PCI
...n occurring within 30 days after randomization was reached in 90 patients (8.9 percent) assigned to abciximab vs. 120 (11.9 percent) assigned to placebo. Thus, there was a significant 25 percent relative reduction of the risk with abciximab. Most of the risk reduction caused by abciximab resulted from a redu...... detect Her2/neu from mouse blood until the tumors reached an inoperable size, but with the new FACTT technology they could detect Her2/Neu in some mice when tumors were barely visible and within two days of implantation. These results indicate that it is possible to detect tumors at very early stages so tha...