First nationwide child health and air pollution study commences
...ndards are based on overseas data. This study will show if these standards adequately protect the health of Australian children. "The results of this study will give us a wealth of information that can be used to shape future policies on air quality." Each child will undergo some simple breathing test...Confidentiality and privacy of personal health information is critical to acceptance of NHIN
...ent all of a patients medications and allergies to show the essential elements of the medial record. Dr. Zaroukian concluded by saying that the effectiveness of the NHIN will be determined by the degree to which patients and providers trust the system. "Individuals and their health care providers will ...Change in neuroticism tied to mortality rates, researcher says
... that results for women or other ethnicities would show vastly different results. "You can find the full range of personalities in any ethnic or gender group," Mroczek said. "There are those who are laid back and then there are those who worry, who react very poorly to stress, who are always on edge." ...Strong marriage helps couples deal with tempermental baby
...parents, they are more likely to have children who show aggressive and inappropriate behavior at home and school. "It is not just what the mother is doing, or just what the father is doing, but how they handle parenting together," she said. "Even if you have one parent who is very good with their childr...Diet and lifestyle -- In the cancer fight, eating well is the best revenge
...tobacco use, it has been difficult to consistently show lifestyle factors that might help protect against this deadly cancer," she says. As part of a larger research project known as The Multiethnic Cohort Study, Kolonel and Nthlings followed the participants for an average of eight years after they fil...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center researcher finds mold by-product kills multiple myeloma
...an Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, show the by-product to be more effective than currently used therapies at killing multiple myeloma cells. The complete findings are also available online in Blood. "There were a number of fascinating findings," says Keith Bible, M.D., Ph.D., oncologist...Sex and prenatal hormone exposure affect cognitive performance, Yerkes scientists find
... development and neuropsychological disorders that show sex differences in prevalence or symptoms, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Alzheimers disease and autism. As part of the study, Herman and Wallen compared normal female and male rhesus macaques to those who differed in their pren...Wired for sound: How the brain senses visual illusions
...et of new findings by scientists in the field that show how integration of multiple sensations can happen ...rapidly than we thought before," said Mishra. "We show physiological evidence that visual and auditory stimulation might not be processed separately, then ...Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work, Stanford ophthalmologist says
...o go one step further and create images that would show how artists with eye disease actually saw their wo...t see the colors," Marmor said. "These simulations show how much his sense of color had been destroyed. Some people say, 'Oh, it's a stylistic change.' Gosh...Fragile X, Down syndromes linked to faulty brain communication
...ynapse," he said. "But these results unequivocally show that the pre-synaptic cells are the important ones in this defect." The result paralleled the researchers' earlier finding in the brains of the mice with Down syndrome symptoms: more connections are made by fewer cells. "We believe that these reduc...Latest IPCC report highlights need for integrated climate/human behavior models
... The predictions recently released by the IPCC WG2 show that in many cases the areas facing the largest changes in climate are not only located in countries that have contributed the least to the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases, but also those that have the least ability to adapt to them. "One wa...PneuStep -- MRI-safe motor makes robotic biopsies possible
...ot moves slowly but precisely, and our experiments show that the needle always comes within a millimeter of the target," says Stoianovici. This type of precision control will allow physicians to use instruments in ways that currently are not possible, he says. "This remarkable robot has a lot of promis...Jefferson immunology researchers show blood-brain barrier damage could affect MS severity
...missing the immune protein TNF-alpha often did not show disease, despite the increase in brain barrier permeability, causing the scientists to speculate about its role in the disease. "This is the first proof that there are permeability changes in all of these animals and the first hint that permeability ...Slick and springy: Brown research reveals protein's role in joints
...nside joints. In this new work, Jay and his team show how lubricin and hyaluronate work together to give synovial fluid its elastic property. The team found that these molecules act as weaver and wool: Lubricin gathers the long, thin, stiff polymers of hyaluronate together, creating structures that the ...World-renowned chemist honored with inaugural lectureship
... fludelones, a remarkable class of compounds which show promise for broad therapeutic indications. Another major area of research of Danishefsky involves his advances directed to fully synthetic anticancer vaccines, which are in various stages of pre-clinical and clinical development. Danishefsky earned...Call for greater use of comparative effectiveness studies to help advance disease management
...ed due to the large number of patients required to show a difference between two effective therapies," said Professor Delmas, REAL study author, Universit Claude Bernard, Lyon. "Large, comparative, retrospective analyses, like the REAL study, are one way to fill the knowledge gap and should be considered ...Pediatricians rarely provide translation services for patients with little English proficiency
... the April 2007 issue of Pediatrics. Our results show that language services for patients with limited English proficiency are clearly inadequate, especially in smaller rural communities, said lead author Dennis Z. Kuo, MD, MHS, a general pediatrics fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and gra...Healthy schools project gets an 'A'
...hat many sixth-grade students in Ann Arbor already show markers of risk for cardiovascular events. Project Healthy Schools is a portable program that can positively affect the cardiovascular risk factor profile of these students," concludes Lin. Teaching healthy habits Project Healthy Schools is a 1...'The eyes have it' -- Autism research yields surprising results
... of Nottingham. Dr Back said: "Previous findings show that children and adolescents with autism may have difficulty reading mental states from facial expressions but our results suggest that this is not due to an inability to interpret information from the eyes. "Surprisingly, autistic children seemed......riginates there. Depending on the weather, studies show that up to half the air pollution found in some European cities might have come from elsewhere in the continent. "Previously air pollution forecasts have focused on very large geographical areas and the methods for communicating the information ha...