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It's time to look at health risks in a new light, authors say

...their intent is not to offer medical advice but to show readers another way to evaluate health risks. In the books foreword, Jared L. Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University, says Rifkin and Bouwer have been courageous in writing this book. In going to the heart of whats been lacking in risk comm...

U of M report says early-childhood intervention improves well-being through young adulthood

...e of Public Affairs. This study is the first to show that large-scale established programs run by schools can have enduring effects into adulthood on general health and well-being, Reynolds says. Early childhood programs can promote not only educational success but health status and behavior. Reynold...

Why women get more migraines than men

...lem of brain excitability. Patients with migraines show cortical spreading depression, which is characterized by dramatic waves of activity that spread across the surface of the brain. CSD may in turn trigger not only the pain of migraine but the visual symptoms, nausea, dizziness and difficulty concentra...

Statin drugs may delay progressive artery damage in children

... year that statin therapy was delayed. The results show that earlier initiation of statin treatment results in a smaller carotid IMT at a later age, said John J. P. Kastelein, M.D., Ph.D., co-author of the study and professor and chair of vascular medicine at the Academic Medical Centre. However, each ch...

The matrix of autism

... speaking skills as many do. Yet when autistics do show exceptional abilitiesuncanny visual discrimination and memory for detail, for exampletheir flashes of brilliance are marginalized as aberrations, mere symptoms of their higher order cognitive deficit. They often earn a dubious promotion to idiot sava...

European heat waves double in length since 1880

...n the variability of daily summer temperatures and show that nearly 40 percent of the changes in the frequency of hot days are likely to be caused by increases in summer temperatures variability. This finding demonstrates that even a small change in the variance of daily summer temperatures can radically ...

Method shows promise for early detection of pancreatic cancer

.... 1 issue of the journal Clinical Cancer Research, show that the changes accurately predict the presence of cancer. More than 30,000 people in the United States die each year from pancreatic cancer. Count Basie, Ren Magritte, Billy Carter and Joseph Cardinal Bernardin all died from it; Luciano Pavarotti...

Trials underway for 'essential' new TB vaccine

...ein and the results of the clinical trials to date show the highest T cell responses ever induced with a vaccine. "This vaccine is safe and stimulates very high levels of the type of immune response we think we need to protect against TB. It is important for us to test whether or not this vaccine does ...

American Cancer Society to hold third annual Virtual Relay For Life in Second Life

...rs Relay. The Second Life community continues to show unwavering support, dedication and inexhaustible creativity as we draw close to another record breaking event, said Randal Moss, the Societys manager of futuring and innovation-based strategies. In addition to the Relay For Life event, the Society ...

Brief motivational interviews work best long term for college students sent to alcohol counseling

...ffectiveness of these interventions. New findings show that the effects of brief motivational interviews on drinking problems are still apparent 15 months after initiation. Results are published in the August issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research . "Here at Rutgers University, all c...

Landmark study finds adult Delawareans with disabilities in only 'fair' to 'poor' health

... and Survey Research. "The results of this study show that the health of Delaware adults with disabilities is not in a good state, and there are services that are needed to help these citizens live healthier lives than they are currently," Riddle noted. The study's 339 participants were recruited from...

Should adult male circumcision be recommended for HIV prevention in the US?

...sion is already very commonhospital discharge data show that in 1999 around two thirds of all newborn boys were circumcised. Nevertheless, based on the data from the three African clinical trials, Sullivan and colleagues conclude that "it is likely that circumcision will decrease the probability of a ma...

Cancer research summaries

... in, healthy recipients. And there is some data to show that transfused patients are at increased risk of cancers, particularly non-Hodgkin lymphoma. To test some of these ideas, Gustaf Edgren and colleagues set out to investigate whether there is a history of increased cancer diagnoses among individual...

Children and young people show elevated leukaemia rates near nuclear facilities

...ffected by different levels of exposure - did not show excess rates near nuclear facilities. Several difficulties arise when conducting dose-response studies in an epidemiological setting as they rely on a wide range of factors that are often hard to quantify explains Dr Baker. It is also possible that...

The future of biofuels is not in corn

...ating global warming. The most favorable estimates show that corn ethanol could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent to 28 percent, while cellulosic ethanol is estimated to offer a reduction of 87 percent compared to gasoline. Ethanol is not the solution to revitalizing rural America. While h...

Lower mortality rates associated with hospitals that rank highest on quality of care indicators

...ue of the journal Health Affairs. These findings show that these quality indicators, which are widely available on the web, are very helpful in identifying low mortality hospitals, said Ashish Jha, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at HSPH and lead author of the study. The Hospital ...

European Space Agency's Envisat captures breath of volcano

...adar instruments aboard Envisat can simultaneously show the ash plume, the ash falling area, the lava streams and the volcanic cone shrinkage or expansion. Atmospheric sensors are used to identify the gases and aerosols released by the eruption, and quantify their wider environmental impact. Having acc...

Polish journalist scoops first prize in prestigious European award

...king about health and illnessI feel that we should show the human courage of all those who live and survive a tumour that's why I try to use a simple language, a human tone, far from unrealistic expectations and false alarms. A further two journalists were specially commended by the Best Cancer Reporter...

Studies show antidepressants not linked to birth defects

...l Director of the March of Dimes, said the studies show how important post-market surveillance is in assessing the safety of medications in pregnancy. During pre-approval, drugs are tested on relatively few subjects and only side effects with a large frequency are detected. Once approved, many people take...

Where is the most dangerous place to travel over the holiday?

...raveling on rural roads. While U.S. Census figures show that about two out of ten (21 percent) Americans live in rural areas, the U.S. Department of Transportation has found that about six out of ten (57 percent) highway deaths happen on roads that it considers rural.Millions of Americans will be driving ...

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