Review finds ways of helping children of drug and alcohol misusers
...ave looked through the research literature on this subject and drawn on our own research with more than 1,000 people whose families have been affected by substance misuse to find out why this might be, and how we can encourage similar results elsewhere." The findings highlight the risk factors such as dom...XDx presents success with AlloMap molecular expression testing to international transplant community
... its AlloMap molecular expression test will be the subject of presentations and discussions at the 27th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) at the Hilton San Francisco. Data presented at the ISHLT sessions demonstrates that AlloMap ...... Low participation rates are a problem in human subject research because they can lead to delays, sampling bias and increased costs. Most studies to date have focussed on participants' motives for participation, so Brian Williams and colleagues from the University of Dundee, UK, decided to study the reaso...INTERMACS group reveals recent successes to international transplant community
...of ventricular assistive devices (VAD) will be the subject of presentations and discussion during the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 27th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions this week. INTERMACS, a registry contracted and funded through the National Heart Lung and Blood...Elsevier extends ScienceDirect ArticleChoice to academic institutes worldwide
...ll university and college libraries cover multiple subject areas and have difficulty acquiring all the information they need at a price they can afford. We feel that ScienceDirect ArticleChoice will offer them the flexible access and pricing options that they need. The unique flexibility of the product is...Hebrew University research shows developmental problems for siblings of autistic children
...pmental Disorders that was devoted entirely to the subject of diagnosis of autism in very young children. The issue was edited by Prof. Nurit Yirmiya and by Prof. Sally Ozonoff of the M.I.N.D. Institute at the University of California, Davis. They reported finding that 30 percent of those children with older...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, April 17, 2007
...y perceive a benefit." Note: This article is the subject of a video news release. Call for coordinates. A separate news release will be issued. Sequential Therapy Beats Standard Therapy For Helicobacter Pylori In a clinical trial testing two different ways to treat Helicobacter pylori infection...Teens get needed access to care with state health insurance
...hester Medical Center and author of a paper on the subject in this months Pediatrics. "But when given access through the state childrens health insurance program, or SCHIPs, they receive the preventive care that helps them grow into healthy adults." The study surveyed about 1,000 adolescents and their pare...1 out of every 3 arthritis sufferers is affected in ability to work
...thors point out that the findings of the study are subject to limitations typical of observational studies. The information was collected by self-report, which may reflect recall bias, and the presence of arthritis was not confirmed by a health professional; it may be difficult to attribute work limitation t...General physicals prompt needed cancer screenings
...nts during preventive visits, but few bring up the subject during other visits. "The preventive health exam may be an auspicious time to promote cancer screening," Fenton said. "These visits may afford primary care physicians the opportunity to discuss and recommend cancer screening when indicated, and phy...Key science Web sites buried in information avalanche
...over do so in a manner which can vary according to subject matter. The "visibility" of information on the Web is of increasing importance. Do people looking for research results on climate change or terrorism find themselves directed to a few top sites rather than a wide array of diverse sources? Do th......ects and was brought on just at the point when the subject had to evaluate the numbers and decide which had the greater value or which was physically bigger. The test was designed to measure the subjects automatic processing of numbers and was rolled out to both people with the dysfunction and those without ...Gender and age can be determined from face silhouettes
...e enough information to determine traits about the subject including age and gender. Researchers from Stanford University conducted a variety of studies using silhouetted face profiles obtained by reducing gray-scale photographs of face profiles to two-tone black and white images. Study participants were...Connecticut's Hand to receive IADR Salivary Research Award
...minent experts on salivary gland ultrastructure, a subject on which he has published widely. He has applied his cytochemical and morphological expertise to a wide range of studies. Thus, Dr. Hand and his collaborators have made significant contributions to our understanding of the ultrastructure and function...Educational video increases knowledge but not behavior
...ot (the control group). They then interviewed each subject three times: before the video viewing, two weeks after, and three months after. The interviews consisted of questions about emotional responses to AMD, knowledge of their disease and use of assistive devices. The team discovered that subjects who ...Tracing broken wiring in stroke patients
...in patient populations. It makes no demands on the subject other than holding still and possibly maintaining fixation and therefore can be acquired even in patients that cannot perform a task This significantly widens the range of patients that can participate in functional brain-imaging protocols." ...Study shows no survival benefit for CT screening for lung cancer
...nd additional treatment did not save lives but did subject patients to invasive and possibly unnecessary treatments." Beginning in 1998, 3246 asymptomatic men and women with a median age of 60 who had smoked or still smoked for an average of 39 years were screened for lung cancer with state-of-the-art mult...Prescriptions for health advice online
... information of variable quality, health consumers subject websites to an initial weeding-out process that will eliminate most NHS and drug company websites from the search within a matter of seconds. The study, carried out by Professor Pamela Briggs at Northumbria University, together with colleagues at b......ready funded? These dilemmas and issues are the subject of this free debate hosted by the ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science. Central to the discussion is whether social researchers should have unlimited access to the data that the government collects about the UK and its citizens. The resulting re......mprove the survival rate for RA patients remains a subject for further research....