3 questions may provide good clues to smoke exposure
...of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine says that three significant but simple questions can provide an accurate prediction of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure. Asking a child's primary caregiver usually the mother -- the seemingly straightforward yes/no question "Do you smoke?" does not capture all of th...Response of New York City public school children to September 11
...he ground zero area schools were the recipients of significant mental health intervention immediately after Septe...of considerable public health significance since a significant proportion of New York City children have now experienced a major trauma (September 11), rendering t...All low-fat diets are not equal, Stanford study shows
... 9.4 percent decrease in LDL. Researchers found no significant differences in changes in triglycerides or high-density lipoprotein ("good") cholesterol. "The effect of diet on lowering cholesterol has been really minimized and undermined by a lot of clinicians and researchers saying, 'Yes, it has an effect but i...Medical-errors gap widens between best and worst hospitals: Healthgrades study
...the following findings: There were wide, highly significant gaps in individual PSI and overall performance between the top10% and the bottom 10% ranked hospitals. Top 10% hospitals generally had lower incident rates across all PSIs in 2001, but also generally improved at a greater rate than the bottom 10% h...Attention full-time workers: Get off the computer and out to exercise in your free time!
...cal activity, the analysis showed no statistically significant association between the amount of time spent in se...g the computer in their off hours, a statistically significant finding. In contrast, part-time workers who spent five or more hours per day engaging in sedentary a...FDA approves Boostrix a new US vaccine for adolescents against pertussis
...ssis among teens a population in which there is a significant disease burden." Boostrix [Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine, Adsorbed (Tdap)] Clinical TrialsIn making its decision, the FDA reviewed several clinical trials which included safety and immunogenicity data fr...CONRAD receives $24 million from Gates Foundation and USAID for HIV microbicide trials
... hope that the completed trials will demonstrate a significant decrease -- at least 50% -- in HIV incidence among CS users compared to placebo users, and a measurable reduction in incidence of gonorrhea and chlamydia. A 50% decrease would be an enormous step towards reducing new infections and cost savings --...ASU researchers team with Kinetic Muscles, Inc. to develop robotic arm for stroke rehabilitation
...esearch suggests that stroke survivors can recover significant use of their arms by performing repetitive motor function exercises over a period of time. This labor-intensive physical therapy is expensive, however, claiming up to 4 percent of the national health budget, according to the National Institutes of He...Stroke drug still meets resistance from doctors wary of its risks
...herapy for heart attack is 1 percent. There was no significant difference among doctors in urban, rural and suburban settings, or teaching and non-teaching hospitals. Women doctors were twice as likely as men to be willing to use tPA. Interestingly, 30 percent of all the physicians said that their own personal e...Scientists report strong evidence of alterations in blood samples of children with autism
...by 40 percent More than 100 proteins demonstrated significant differential expression between the autism and typically developing groups Other small molecules (metabolites) also show many differences "This is an important pilot experiment, a proof of principle," said Amaral. "From these results we think it i...Children with autism have distinctly different immune system reactions compared to typical children
...een altered immune response and autism may lead to significant advances in the early detection, prevention and treatment of this complex neurological disorder." "We would like to take these findings and explore whether, for example, the cytokine differences are specific to certain subsets of patients with autism...CPR instructions should focus on continuous chest compressions, UT Southwestern physicians recommend
...ssisted breathing is provided, dispatchers spend a significant amount of time trying to instruct inexperienced people on the right way to position the head and pinch the nose before breathing into the victim's mouth, thus delaying the all-important chest compressions." Dr. Pepe emphasized that stopping chest com...Recombinant DNA technology may enable oral, rather than injectable, delivery of protein drugs
...lation. But, these delivery methods pose their own significant challenges. Ultimately, Shen and colleagues began to reconsider the possibilities of oral drug administration. Their first breakthrough came when they began to recognize the potential uses of transferrin. "We discovered that transferrin can bind to r...Two studies document rise of superbugs in the environment
...a six-year period. From 1998 to 2003, there was a significant increase in the incidence of patients carrying MDR bacteria when they were admitted to the hospital. Of the four species of MDR bacteria that the researchers examined, three of them--including Escherichia coli, a familiar bug that can cause urinary t...Obese workers' pay lower due to health costs, Stanford study finds
... medical expenses has become more pressing, with a significant increase in the number of obese Americans. The pro...the-job health insurance. This time, they found no significant difference in pay. This finding - that an obesity-related wage difference existed only for those wit...Diabetes medication pioglitazone HCl may significantly improve predictors of cardiovascular risk
...T). Patients taking pioglitazone also experienced significant reductions in insulin resistance, C-reactive prote...40.23, p< 0.0005).In parallel, a statistically significant improvement was seen in blood pressure in the pioglitazone group at 24 weeks (systolic 9.4 20.1 mmH...Physical pain aggravates majority of Americans, according to poll
...Center, ABC News and USA Today. Among the survey's significant findings: Where does it hurt? Back pain is far and away the most common. Knees and shoulders are also troublesome. About one-quarter of all respondents cited back pain as their most recent difficulty, and another quarter cited joint pain. Nearly on...End-of-life care involves a more holistic approach
...seph's Healthcare, and as such is likely to have a significant impact across all our institutions." Originally from South Africa, Dr. Dorasamy lives with his family in Ancaster, Ontario.He is a Fellow of the College of Medicine of South Africa, a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Royal C...Low-fat dairy may lower risk of type 2 diabetes in men
...iry products stratified by their fat contents, the significant inverse association was primarily limited to low-fat dairy consumption. Most individual low-fat dairy products and ice cream showed a similar inverse trend but only skim milk reached statistical significance." "In conclusion, dietary patterns charac...Atorvastatin shows promise in small trial for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease
...authors write. "As a pilot proof-of-concept study, significant differences were not expected, but benefits identified tend to support the trial's rationale based on the hypothesis that excess brain cholesterol-promoting amyloid beta production [excess amyloid beta protein deposits are a hallmark of AD] and subse...