ICU nurse working conditions linked to increase in patient infections
...eed to address working conditions in order to help retain current staff now and recruit people into nursing in the future." Researchers evaluated several measures of working conditions to assess their effect on hospital-associated infections. They analyzed the organizational climate as measured by nurse ...Topical retinol helps reduce wrinkles associated with natural skin aging
... induction of glycosaminoglycan, which is known to retain substantial water, and increased collagen production are most likely responsible for wrinkle effacement [reduction]. With greater skin matrix synthesis [production of compounds that form new skin], retinol-treated aged skin is more likely to withstan...Retinol lotion reduces the fine wrinkles from natural aging of skin
...nduction of glycosaminoglycans, which are known to retain large quantities of water. In general, aging skin tends to be thinner, laxer and more prone to fine wrinkles than young skin. ...Adolescents with high-risk sexual attitudes attract peers with similar attitudes
...consequences were likely to choose new friends and retain existing friends with similar attitudes. This occurred to a similar extent in males and females, but occurred less often among Hispanic adolescents than among non-Hispanic white and African American adolescents. "This study has two implications for ...Chronic pain can drive you to distraction
...is required to hold information for processing and retain it for storage in longer-term memory stores. In other words, chronic pain can, quite literally, drive people to distraction. Participants in the studyall of whom had pain lasting six months or longerwere given computerized tests of working memory a...CO2 storage in coal can be predicted better
...ed to filter out CO2 on an industrial scale and to retain it. Mazumder also carried out a preliminary study into the decrease in porosity and permeability as a consequence of coal swelling due to the injection of CO2. The decrease in the permeability can give rise to serious injection problems in the area o...Aflac expands decade-long partnership with AACR
... starting out in their careers, but they also help retain in cancer research some of the brightest scientists who might otherwise pursue careers in other areas of science." During a year of noteworthy anniversaries, Aflac increased their support in 2007 to mark its decade-long partnership with AACR, as we...Insight on fruit fly immune system could lead to new types of vaccines, Stanford researchers say
...at a fruit fly's immune response can adapt to - or retain memory of - an earlier infection contradicts the long-held dogma that immune memory cannot exist in invertebrates such as insects. Such memory of a specific pathogen, known as adaptation, is supposed to be a hallmark of the higher-level immune system...Sick teens in crisis: Organ transplant patients may die when insurance for medicine runs out
...me difficult decisions, Schnitzler advises them to retain their insurance, as the cost of insurance is more affordable in the long term than the expense of transplant failure and hospital stays. Pediatric transplant recipients have every desire to become independent and useful members of society. To achie...Teens may lose transplanted organs when insurance runs out
...ifficult decisions, Dr. Schnitzler advises them to retain their insurance, as the cost of insurance is more affordable in the long term than the expense of transplant failure and hospital stays. "Pediatric transplant recipients have every desire to become independent and useful members of society. To achiev...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 31, 2007
...arlier research demonstrated that buried oil could retain toxic components for years if buried in anoxic (oxygen-depleted) sediments where little decomposition from weathering occurs. The new study identified a different mechanism in which oil can be preserved in sediments that do contain oxygen. The oil p...Race impacts professional lives of physicians of African descent
...alth care institutions to successfully recruit and retain ethnic and racial minority physicians."...Risk factors for hypertension start young
...n for the higher nighttime pressure is some blacks retain more sodium, which increases fluid volume in their bodies and their blood pressure, according to researchers. To determine pressure differences between black and white children and at what age those differences occur, Dr. Frank Treiber, vice presid...Hormone replacement therapy may improve trip down memory lane
...tem suggests that hormone therapy might help women retain certain memory functions. In a study in the new issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, they report that a group of postmenopausal women showed more brain activity during a visual memory test than did women who were not taking th...Firms covering large majority of nation's workers view health benefits as important recruitment tool
...ealth benefits as an important tool to attract and retain qualified workers, according to a national study by researchers at the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) and The Commonwealth Fund published in the November/ December edition of Health Affairs. Moreover, firms employing two-thirds of a...Small but substantial proportion of surgeons interested in part-time training
...ents, the field must devise methods to attract and retain female surgeons. Alison R. Saalwachter, M.D., of the University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, and colleagues assessed interest in part-time training options among 482 medical students, 789 surgical residents, 179 surgical fellows and 2...Plastic surgery patients honored for courage, altruism
...tiple reconstructive surgeries to save his leg and retain function enabled him to beat the odds. Today, Oscar is running and training for the Marine Corps physical readiness test to remain on active duty. He is a spokesperson for injured Marines, where he talks to veterans' groups, political organizations, ...Study calls for 39 percent more family physicians
...will attract medical students to the specialty and retain current family physicians; Work with health insurance companies, as well as with the government, to encourage them to contribute to the costs of medical education; Work with medical schools to attract the students who are most likely to select career...Gaining weight between pregnancies could lead to pregnancy complications
...uld be one such factor, since women who breastfeed retain less weight post partum while breastfeeding for longer periods of time lowers diabetes risk. But overall, the authors believe the results provide strong evidence that weight gain before pregnancy could lead to a number of complications of pregnancy. ...