Vaccine against cervical cancer and genital warts shows promise
...d serious adverse events. The authors suggest that universal HPV vaccination might be most effective if impleme...further reduction in incidence of cervical cancer, universal HPV vaccination might decrease the medical, psychological, and economic costs associated with the ma...UPenn receives 2005 Templeton Research Lectures Grant
...e need to put questions about the universe and the universal back at the heart of the university." Grassie, a sometime visiting lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies, notes that Metanexus and the University of Pennsylvania have many informal connections. Metanexus was originally incorporated with fo...Every birth and death must be counted
...e equity within and between societies, argues that universal birth registration is a crucial step in reducing health inequities. Unicef has estimated that a third of babies born each year are not registered--many of these unregistered children have no legal right to health care, education, or the state's prot...Infants with rare genetic disease saved by cord blood stem cells
...successes provide a strong argument for mandatory, universal screening of all newborns for the genetic lysosomal storage diseases. The major barrier to universal newborn screening is building an infrastructure to support widespread testing, she said. The cost of...Even in Canada's universal health plan, wealth effects hospitalization
Canada's universal health care plan is designed to provide equal access to care, independent of the patient's income level. A study in Health Services Research examined this issue, looking at patients with conditions for which timely care in doctors'offices has tradit...Changing sexual behaviour in the UK
...mly in favour of sexual exclusivity. There is near universal condemnation of sexual relationships outside of regular ones, with the majority of people of both sexes four out of five strongly disapproving of sexual infidelity....Saving six million children each year is affordable
...ssed the cost of delivering these interventions at universal coverage by calculating the sum of unit costs for ...t include the cost of scaling-up health systems to universal coverage, which will require extra outside donations, the findings suggest that the 42 countries in ...Hepatitis A in US drops substantially after implementation of vaccination program
...g. Health officials in Israel decided to introduce universal vaccination of toddlers against hepatitis A becaus...of intermediate endemicity. The Israeli program of universal toddlers-only vaccination can serve as a paradigm of a simplified model of effective vaccination for...Study identifies fat-secreted protein linked to insulin resistance
...ion of GLUT4 expression in fat tissue is an almost universal feature of insulin-resistant states (including obesity, type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome), previous members of Kahn's lab developed two transgenic mouse models: One with fat-cell specific overexpression of GLUT4 and one with fat-cell specif...Mental-state reasoning is universal milestone in child development
...etween the ages of 3 and 5, revealing that it is a universal milestone in child development. "Synchrony in the age at which children of diverse cultures pass the false-belief task undermines the claim that particular cultural views, such as a Western concept of mind, profoundly influence this very basic aspect...Surveillance data suggest that preschoolers drive flu epidemics
Current immunization policies recommend universal flu vaccination for children aged 6-23 months, but shots are advised for older children only if they have high-risk medical conditions. New data compiled by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, reported in October 1 ...Booster vaccination against hepatitis B not necessary for long-term protection
...ted. WHO recommends that all countries should have universal infant or adolescent hepatitis B vaccination integrated into their national immunisation programmes by 1997. By the end of 2004, 168 countries implemented these immunisation programmes. However, whether vaccinated infants maintain protection or need...PLoS Medicine publishes first trial of effect of male circumcision on HIV infection
...male circumcision in adulthood is a common but not universal practice. The researchers offered young sexually active uncircumcised heterosexual men the chance to be circumcised and then monitored for HIV infection. The participants (3,274 men) were randomly allocated to two different groups--one group was im...UCLA/VA research analysis in journal Nature explains wide variations in animal sleep habits
...nction across animals, just as food and water have universal functions," said Dr. Jerome Siegel, professor-in-residence at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and chief of neurobiology research at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Sepulveda. "Yet some animals can go without sleep for long periods o...Johns Hopkins celebrates its first century of neuroscience
...brain's "columnar" organization, now known to be a universal organizing principle of the brain. Since those early years when the brain's "big picture" was still a blank canvas, research in the brain sciences at Hopkins has expanded to investigate questions both big and small. For example, researchers in the ...High income earners use more diagnostic imaging
...n Canada, and by extension to other countries with universal health care policies and social goals. The study is limited by the fact that it was done in a single city. Access to diagnostic imaging is dependent on the availability and distribution of equipment and personnel, on the management of wait lists, an...Vitamin D status appears more important than high calcium intake for maintaining calcium metabolism
...lly accepted indicator of vitamin D status, but no universal consensus has been reached regarding which serum values constitute sufficiency. An inverse relationship between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) is well established. Parathyroid hormone is a major hormone maintaining norm...New antibody profiling technique to test for lung cancer
...y response to a single protein is unlikely to be a universal marker, we have been exploring methodology for efficiently identifying and measuring multiple tumor-associated antibodies." From a universe of 212 candidate markers, the researchers reduced the group to the five most predictive cancer-associated anti...Early results using therapeutic pancreatic cancer vaccine show promise
... tough, with many side effects. "Since there is no universal standard for treating pancreatic cancer, it is difficult to make direct comparisons between all the studies," says Laheru. In the current study, his team combined an immune-boosting vaccine with surgery and conventional postoperative chemotherapy and...ANA encourages nurses and health care workers to get vaccinated against flu
...rganization's position to stress the importance of universal vaccination among health care workers and we support the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases' (NFID) position regarding the importance of improving vaccination rates among health care workers." About Influenza Many respiratory diseases occu...