Study elicits 'child's eye' view of methamphetamine abuse and its effects
...ildren of methamphetamine users, and they were the subject of a study, apparently the first, to get a child's-eye view of what happens in these families and how it affects the children. "We're not aware of other studies that look at the effects of being reared in a methamphetamine-involved family on children...Centre for Eye Research Australia wins Minister's Award for Excellence
...or Wong has authored more than 80 articles on this subject in the past three years, published in prestigious journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal. The Retinal Vascular Imaging Centre (RetVIC) is a c...New x-ray delivery method could improve radiation therapy
...he beams within a well-defined "target" inside the subject to increase their killing potential there, while retaining the technique's hallmark feature of sparing healthy tissue outside that target. First, they exposed the spinal cords and brains of healthy rats to thicker (0.27 to 0.68 millimeter) microbeams...Female genital mutilation affects births: Study
...evidence that deliveries among women who have been subject to FGM are significantly more likely to be complicated and dangerous."...... them to infer which of two "cognitive states" the subject was in to give the researchers insight into which ... such cognitive state was a belief about where the subject was in the maze, and the other was a set of "operant" states. These operant states were a "proceed o...Epidemic of unneeded amputations
...e the hospital the next day. CLiRpath has been the subject of rigorous clinical trials, with limb salvage observed in 95 percent of patients surviving to six months(1). The procedure is now available in more than 300 hospitals across the U.S. Amputation decisions greatly impact lives of many people, like Mi...For patients with severe lung injury, less is more
... management in patients with ALI/ARDS has been the subject of intense debate for decades. We now have answers to two important questions to help guide critical care specialists on the best ways to support patients with severe lung injury." FACTT was designed to clarify: Is it better to give ALI/ARDS patien...New GI technologies improve internal organ visualization
...t responsiveness to ARM during the procedure. One subject experienced oxygen desaturation (level of breathing and sedation) below 90 percent (low=85 percent) and seven subjects experienced apnea for less than 30 seconds. However, the device automatically responded to these adverse physiological reactions b...JCI table of contents, May 11, 2006
...s that link obesity and insulin resistance are the subject of intense investigation and are not completely understood. In a study appearing online on May 11 in advance of print publication in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Yoshikazu Tamori and colleagues from Kobe University, Japan,...Tequila! Chemists help assure quality of popular Mexican beverage
... of Jalisco in West-Central Mexico. Although it is subject to strict production standards and labeling regulations, adulterated samples have occasionally been reported, the researchers say. The exact percentage of fraudulent samples on the market is unknown, they add. High-quality tequila is made with 100 p...How the US drug safety system should be changed
...changes as a rule, rather than those changes being subject to negotiation between the regulatory agency and industry. It also needs substantially more resources for the postmarketing study of drug safety. Strom concludes by proposing that an independent, nongovernmental organization is needed for nonregulato...Launch of the Lancet Asia Medical Forum
...or, The Lancet Infectious Diseases Note: Programme subject to change The Lancet Asia Medical Forum 2006 -- Preparing for pandemic influenza: the avian dimension and other emerging threats--is jointly organised by The Lancet, Elsevier Health Sciences and Reed Exhibitions, and supported by the Singapore Minist...UCI researchers to study health effects of exercise in children
...interaction among the research studies, facilitate subject recruitment and regulatory compliance, and provide statistical expertise. In addition, a pediatric growth, stress and inflammatory mediator core laboratory will ensure optimal and efficient use of analytic resources. The laboratory will be directed b...Perfectionist fathers can reinforce tendencies
... already preoccupied over their physical looks and subject to the demanding expectations of peers and media, according to a Penn State study. A survey of 424 college students revealed that, with sons and daughters alike, the father, not the mother, is more likely to create pressures leading college-age chil...Heart rhythm society issues draft recommendations on performance policies for pacemakers and ICDs
...worldwide. The draft recommendations will also the subject of the Health Policy Town Hall Meeting at Heart Rhythm Society's annual scientific sessions, taking place in Boston on Wednesday, May 17, 2006. Representatives from the Society, FDA, industry and patient advocacy organizations will participate in a ...Bullying keeps overweight kids off the field
...o children avoiding situations where they could be subject to ridicule, such as sports or gym class, but also can lead to depressed feelings that keep children from wanting to take part in activities. "When you think about it, it makes intuitive sense, when you consider the hallmark signs of depression - sad...Researchers discover link between expectancy, visual cues and the desire to smoke
... test). The researchers scanned the brains of each subject to pinpoint the areas that were active while the s...st no neural response to smoking cues, even if the subject reported an equivalent craving level. "Although the effect of exposure to drug-associated cues has ...Rare form of Alzheimer's disease found in Camelford resident
...defined by the European Union. The incident is the subject of an ongoing government inquiry. The findings, published ahead of print in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, concern a woman, who was 44 at the time of the incident. In May 2003, some 15 years after the incident, the woman, then...Mediterranean diet lowers Alzheimer's risk in American cohort
...e researchers also obtained dietary data from each subject using a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire. They determined a Mediterranean Diet score (0-9) based on a previously described method. During the course of the study, 262 members of the study population were diagnosed with Alzheimer's dise...Novel device shows potential in better detecting oral cancer
...on changed a few years ago when Rosin broached the subject to Dr. Calum MacAulay, the head of the British Columbia Cancer Research Center's cancer imaging program and who has extensive training in physics, pathology, and engineering imaging devices. Based on these discussions, MacAulay and post-doctoral fe...