Reforms to gun dealer sales practices reduce supply of new guns to criminals
... used in crime. In the Hopkins study, researchers tracked the number of guns that police recovered from criminals within one year of retail sale. This unusually short sale-to-crime interval is considered an indicator of illegal gun trafficking. The store's change in sales policy was associated with a 96 per...Forget basal body temperature -- check out her clothes
... Haselton, Bleske-Rechek and three UCLA students tracked 30 college coeds in committed relationships through an entire ovulatory cycle. Using urine tests that are nearly as accurate for determining ovulation as ultrasounds, they ascertained each woman's most fertile period -- about 10 to 15 days after mens......zig Environmental Research Center, Germany, he has tracked down the responsible scent molecules. Seven test subjects immediately recognized the "musty" metallic odor when their hands came into contact with metallic iron or a solution containing iron ions with a twofold positive charge. In contrast, soluti...Researchers use novel three-dimensional imaging technique
...imaging technique, a team of UCLA researchers have tracked how Alzheimer's disease spreads through the hippocampus -- the area of the brain linked with memory -- in a pattern consistent with the known trajectory of neurofibrilliary tangle dissemination, an accumulation of diseased proteins in the brain cells...Many adults with psychiatric disorders may also have undiagnosed ADHD
.... Throughout the period analyzed, patients were tracked for claims citing one or more of the other targeted conditions with a total of 900,897 new diagnoses of ADHD; 12,036,905 new diagnoses of a depressive disorder; 1,148,175 new diagnoses of BPD and 6,573,576 new diagnoses of anxiety disorders. Of thos...No benefit to mechanically opening arteries days after a heart attack
...e to 28 days after their heart attack. Researchers tracked their health for an average of three years after the heart attack. There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups in the occurrence of death, heart attacks, or heart failure in up to five years of follow up, according...Teens who smoke have increased risk of developing asthma
...ely to become regular smokers. The children were tracked an average of 6.3 years, and as long as 8 years, depending on their age at joining the study and whether they continued participating. Over that time, 255 new cases of asthma were reported, with a greater percentage of girls than boys being diagnosed...Combination of personality traits increases risk for heart disease
... U.S. Air Force Health Study, in which researchers tracked the health of participants for 20 years. None of the men enrolled had heart disease when the study began. At the start of the study, participants took a personality inventory test, called the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, in which th...Adolescent girls more active if neighborhoods have parks
...h focusing on middle school girls. The study team tracked 1,556 girls in the sixth grade in six cities and counted the average number of public parks within a half-mile radius of the homes of girls in the cities. The girls were fitted with accelerometers - devices that measure physical activity - and were m...Innovative movies show real-time immune-cell activity within tumors
...able to peer inside living tissues. The microscope tracked and recorded the movements in three dimensions over time of T cells in a transgenic mouse developed by Weninger and Ulrich von Andrian at Harvard Medical School in which the cells fluoresce green. In addition, for this study, tumor cells in the mice ...Pure carbon nanotubes pass first in vivo test
...s is what we expected to find." The study, which tracked where the nanotubes went within 24 hours of being injected, also revealed trace amounts of nanotubes in the kidneys another common expulsion route for drugs. There was no evidence that nanotubes remained in other tissues in the body. Nanotubes are...SCAI president testifies before FDA on safety of drug-eluting stents
... has arisen, however. Several recent analyses that tracked patient outcomes for four to five years after stent placement showed that blood clots appear slightly more likely to form inside a drug-eluting stent than in a bare metal stent. When this occurs, the patient may suffer a heart attack or even die. "Cl...Height loss in older men associated with increased risk of heart disease, death
... developed cardiovascular disease, and deaths were tracked through 2005. Between the initial examination and the 20-year follow-up, the men lost an average of 1.67 centimeters of height. The researchers divided the participants into four groups based on how much their height changed: 1,471 lost less than ...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, December 2006
...e an increased mortality rate. Italian researchers tracked 134 patients with stable COPD, age 68.7 8.5 years, for a median of 32 months. Patients underwent clinical testing, including spirometry and a 6-minute walk test, and neuropsychological testing, including a mental examination, verbal memory assessment...Analysis: Older men treated for early prostate cancer live longer than those not treated
...In our study, we looked back at existing data that tracked long term outcomes of elderly men whose cancer was at low and intermediate risk of spreading. After accounting for all of the observed differences between the groups, we found that men who had either a radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy with...Nursing home or hospital: State policy has big impact on elderly
...st revenue. To conduct the study, the Brown team tracked the status of 570,614 residents aged 65 and older living in 8,997 urban, freestanding nursing homes located in 48 states. Residents were followed for a five-month period to see how many were hospitalized. Researchers found that, on average, 17 percen...New imaging technique identifies people-at-risk for Alzheimer's disease
...pattern of plaque and tangle accumulation has been tracked in living humans over time in a longitudinal study," said Small....Bottleneck in blood supply makes brain vulnerable to strokes
...d after the formation of the clot, the researchers tracked the movements of red blood cells using two-photon fluorescence microscopy. Two-photon fluorescence microscopy is a powerful imaging tool that uses brief (less than one-trillionth of a second) laser pulses to peer below the surface of the brain. I...Are one-third of costly implanted heart devices unnecessary? New study suggests yes
...patients' health and the causes of any deaths were tracked for up to three years. After that time, the data were analyzed by researchers from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, in cooperation with the Ohio team. In all, 67 percent of patients had positi...SCAI issues clinical alert on drug-eluting stents and late thrombosis
...ounterparts. However, several recent analyses that tracked patient outcomes for four to five years after stent placement showed that blood clots were slightly more likely to form inside a drug-eluting stent than inside a bare metal stent. It is not yet clear how large the difference in risk is, but available...