Vigorously active adolescents are leaner, fitter
...ther things have intruded, television-watching and screen time being the main one. Something has to give." He encourages parents to put children in environments where they can be active and safe, such as after-school and weekend programs. "They can do their schoolwork when they get home; they will just not...Dr. Gutin selected as Fulbright Senior Specialist
... societal trends including fast food and excessive screen time. In his own childhood in the Bronx, his brother had to hunt him down to get him to stop playing long enough to come inside and eat a home-cooked meal. He's excited about helping another country learn from the mistakes and experience of his own a...OHSU develops instant, computerized notification system to communicate patients' end-of-life wishes
...s that a reminder will pop up on the OHSU computer screen to alert any future health professional who cares ...enters the hospital and is incapacitated, an alert screen notifies the medical team of the POLST and directs them how to react. For example, a patient with ad...National trial shows older children benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
...the U.S. "This study shows how important it is to screen children of all ages for amblyopia." said Dr. Hertle. "Previously, patients were told there was nothing that could be done to help them. Now, there is something we can do and it has immediate results." Children in the study were divided randomly into...Older children can benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
...sion. "This study shows how important it is to screen children of all ages for amblyopia." said study co-chairman Richard W. Hertle, M.D., Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Commented co-chairman Mitchell M. Scheiman, O.D., Pennsylvania College of Optometry, "This study shows that age alone should not ...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
...abnormal results using computed tomography (CT) to screen for lung cancer are more likely to quit, suggesting an opportunity for doctors to motivate smokers to quit smoking. The study appears in the May 15, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ), a peer-reviewed journal o...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...in real time, an action that can be projected on a screen and saved. This new technology provides in several minutes the same information gleaned from the current gold standard for visualizing coronary artery blockages: the angiogram. An angiogram uses X-rays and a contrast dye that is injected into t...MR spectroscopy may be superior for determining prostate cancer prognosis
...-specific antigen (PSA) test became widely used to screen for prostate cancer, tumor detection rates have increased dramatically, particularly among those at early stages of the disease. But increased detection has led to a clinical dilemma, since standard histologic evaluation, based on a biopsy sample's a...Virtual colonoscopy: Virtually promising
...ure. Unlike colonoscopy, most screening tests only screen for disease. Colonoscopy is a screening test, a diagnostic test and a therapeutic procedure all in one, which may be considered an advantage by some people; however the downsides must be considered. There are a few examples of truly good screening t...Breast cancer detector that uses electricity instead of X-rays under study
...put it in a van with a generator and go around and screen a lot of women." HEDA may exceed mammography's performance particularly in assessing the dense breasts of younger women. "As women age, breasts become more fatty; they lose the fibrous and glandular tissue that are there for milk production," says Dr...'Surprising' findings reported about iron overload
...Birmingham received $3.1 million of study funds to screen 20,000 people for the group of disorders called hemochromatosis and iron overload. Ronald T. Acton, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and director of the UAB Immunogenetics Program, is principal investigator for the Birmingham Field Center that did t...NIAID awards first $27 million using new bioshield authorities
... Ph.D. Focus: development of several tests used to screen tens of thousands of drugs to identify those that inhibit the activity of botulinum neurotoxinThe two institutions receiving contracts and the principal investigator at each are XOMA (US) LLC, Berkeley, CA, Marc Better, Ph.D. Focus: development and ...Kids at risk for lead poisoning don't get necessary testing
...arriers to optimal care for children with elevated screen blood lead levels and to clearly define the responsibilities of public and private health care providers." In addition to Kemper, the study was co-authored by Lisa M. Cohn, MS; Kathryn E. Fant, MPH; and Kevin J. Dombkowski, DrPH, with the Child Healt...Younger is better when implanting cochlear implants, IU study finds
...which an instructor covers his face with an opaque screen and asks the child to do various tasks with the toy. The Svirsky and Holt study may help doctors and families decide when to proceed with a child's cochlear implant. It may also help answer a question that would otherwise require what Dr. Svirsky cal...Study demonstrates longest reported survival rate for locally advanced lung cancer patients
...uestions and tries to find better ways to prevent, screen for, diagnose, or treat a disease. Most clinical research that involves the testing of a new drug progresses in a series of steps, called phases. Phase I trials evaluate how a new drug should be administered, how often, and what dose is safe. Phase I...Digital mammography decreases 'call-back' appointments, reducing patient anxiety and cost
...use of digital mammography instead of conventional screen film mammography can lead to significant decreases...sts. She found that of the 6,189 conventional film screen mammograms, 274 patients were called back for a 4.4% call back rate; of the 6,792 digital mammograms...Testicular cancer gene in mice may offer clues to origins of cancer in men
...esearch, the finding could lead to a way to either screen for the human disease or treat it, say the researchers, who represent The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Duke University Medical Center, the National Cancer Institute and the Lawrence Berkeley Natio...Children need better cancer drugs, says expert panel
...ies of synthetic and natural products, services to screen compounds for anticancer activity, drug discovery databases, and programs to support drug assays and clinical trials. "What is needed is a comprehensive mechanism to put all these pieces together into a pediatric drug pipeline," says Dr. Adamson, emp...Study helps doctors ID intimate partner violence abuse victims
...bit adverse health behaviors. Physicians regularly screen for tobacco and alcohol use in their practices, ho...m drinking are conditions that clinicians commonly screen for and both have been strongly associated with IPV in prior studies. By estimating the predicted pr......" word such as DEMOCRATS was flashed on a computer screen followed by a "target" word such as Cancer. The student subject had to decide if the second (target) word had a positive or negative connotation. The subject was not asked to judge on a relationship between the two words. Latency time from the ons...