Teens overlooked in cancer research
...ss this issue. Barr is one of the editors of the recently released and first definitive document on the incidence, survival and mortality of 15 - 29 year-olds. Funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the United States, this monograph was a co-operative venture between the Children's Oncology Group ...Bottleneck in blood supply makes brain vulnerable to strokes
...strokes." Silent strokes have attracted attention recently because magnetic resonance imaging has made it possible to follow changes in the brains of individuals as they age. MRI scans have revealed that, over time, small holes accumulate in the gray matter of many patients, including those who have no obvi...Operations research pioneer outlines ways to make kidney transplant allocation more equitable
...g Su at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. It was recently published in the journal Management Science. For over a decade, Zenios has applied O.R., the discipline that uses advanced analytical methods to make better decisions, to find alternative ways to distribute scare resources such as the supply of huma...Cough and phlegm cause fourfold increase in COPD incidence
...r understanding of the natural history of COPD? As recently reported in this journal, it has taken the respiratory community a painstakingly long time to do properly sized studies in young adults with sound methodology and state-of-the-art analysis. With COPD epidemiology growing in the European Community Res...Most hospital performance measures for heart failure not linked to improved patient outcomes
... of medical care can be measured and improved. The recently released ACC/AHA Clinical Performance Measures for Adults With Chronic Heart Failure includes: discharge instructions, evaluation of left ventricular systolic function, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (AR...Prompting men to have syphilis tests
...were more likely than those unaware to have tested recently for syphilis and to have greater knowledge about syphilis. This effect was sustained for almost three years. "Our evaluations strongly suggest that the Healthy Penis social marketing campaign was effective in augmenting syphilis testing and incre...Study offers window into human behavior, brain disease
...ntia before age 65. Because the cells arose only recently in evolutionary history -- in a common ancestor of great apes and humans-- and are particularly abundant in humans, and the finding supports the concept that evolution has rendered the human brain vulnerable to disease, including frontotemporal demen...CHPA president and leading physician available to comment on NIDA 'Monitoring the Future'
...ade students. In addition, Dr. Harold Koplewicz, recently featured on NBC's Today Show as an expert in child and adolescent substance abuse, is available for comment. Dr. Koplewicz is founder and director of the New York University Child Study Center; chairman of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psyc...Newer biomarkers add small improvement in cardiovascular risk prediction to established risk factors
...ar events. In addition, Levy can comment on NHLBIs recently announced large-scale biomarker project, a proposed biomarker consortium to conduct research on novel CVD biomarkers and develop new diagnostic tests to identify individuals at high risk for CVD and its risk factors....The future of federally funded food programs -- Can they also fight obesity?
...d Policy at Tufts University, and Tufts colleagues recently authored a report and accompanying issue brief through the bi-partisan National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices, and proposed policy changes that would allow the Food Stamp and WIC programs to continue reducing nutrition-related...Blood transfusions raise heart patients' infection and death risk -- especially women
...n to extend the research into elderly patients who recently underwent bypass surgeries in Michigan....Researchers devise safer way to dose life-saving heart drug
...uman was the lead investigator of a study that was recently published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. ...therapeutic range for digoxin in heart failure has recently changed to become lower and narrower, and the new range is associated with improved mortality," Baum...Epidemic of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis may be larger than previously thought
...glione concludes: MDR-TB is a precursor to XDR-TB, recently reported among HIV-infected people in South Africa. The findings of the Global Project emphasise the importance of implementing sound tuberculosis control activities to prevent further creation of MDR tuberculosis and the necessity of mainstreaming h...New observations on properties of water
... in cloud research, and he and his colleagues have recently published a study dealing with cirrus clouds (Formation of Low-Temperature Cirrus from H2SO4/H2O Aerosol Droplets, Journal of Physical Chemistry, November 2006). Their study suggests that, unlike previously thought, the cloud crystals in cirrus cloud...Older men treated for early prostate cancer live longer than those who are not
... controversial with unpredictable outcomes. Often, recently diagnosed men of this group were advised to just "watch and wait" to see how their situation progressed. "For this study we looked back over the existing data of a large population of prostate cancer patients, aged 65 to 80, with small tumors that ...World-class Biomedical Research Center to be in West London
...cal academic fellows and 53 clinical lecturers. It recently had its world-class reputation confirmed by the Times Higher Educational 2006 World University Rankings, which placed the university fourth in the world for biomedicine and ninth in the world overall. Further endorsement was received in the Chancell...Electronic Health Record-based programs triples osteoporosis screening rate, study finds
...sk for the disease, according to a study conducted recently by a team of Geisinger Health System researchers. About half of those who were screened were considered high-risk for the disease, the study found. An estimated 10 million Americans suffer from the disease and the nation collectively spends abou...New 'GreeneChip' identifies multiple pathogens rapidly and accurately
...optimal. An international group of researchers has recently developed a new technology for pinpointing pathogens. Called the GreeneChip, this device consists of a glass slide onto which are attached nearly 30,000 pieces of genetic material taken from thousands of different viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasi...Women with rheumatoid arthritis have significantly less chance of remission than men
...e their findings on almost 700 adults who had been recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Their average age was 58, and they had had their disease for an average of six months. Two thirds of study participants were women, and they tended to be younger than the men. After two years, the disease had...'GreeneChip' -- New diagnostic tool that rapidly and accurately identifies multiple pathogens
...alaria). Chart review showed that the patient had recently arrived in Angola from a country where malaria was...la viral hemorrhagic fever in two children who had recently returned to New York City from West Africa resulted in closing a hospital emergency room. For examp...