Researchers suggest TB screening for all international adoptees
...America for latent tuberculosis infection with the use of the Mantoux tuberculin skin test. Children with positive tuberculin skin test results or who have symptoms suggestive of tuberculosis should be examined for evidence of active disease and have a chest radiograph performed. Children with latent t...Women with migraines and visual symptoms may have higher stroke risk
...y stopping smoking and finding alternatives to the use of estrogen-containing contraceptives, said Kittner, who is also professor of neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of the Maryland Stroke Center in Baltimore, Md. As alarming as the findings sound, the chance that a...New contracts support clinical trials on antibiotic-resistant, community-acquired staph infections
...us aureus (CA-MRSA) bacteria. If so, doctors could use those antibiotics first in an effort to dampen the development of resistance to such last-resort antibiotics as vancomycin....Warfarin better than aspirin at stroke prevention in elderly people with atrial fibrillation
...arin and aspirin affected stroke risk, and whether use of these drugs outweighed the increased risk of bleeding in elderly patients. They studied 973 patients aged 75 years or over (average 81 years), all of whom had atrial fibrillation, a particular type of irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia). Of these pat...A woman who heard voices with her own speech impairments
...speech improved to the point where she could again use short sentences. She was aware of her difficulties with speech and comprehension. In December 2006, she began to hear her own thoughts aloud and also hallucinated the voices of hospital staff in short sentences and single words, just as with her spe...Preventive treatments in elderly people needs rethinking
...gth of life, they argue. For example, preventive use of statins shows no overall benefit in elderly peo...m younger populations and using linear models that use absolute risks of disease rather than all cause mortality and morbidity. If we do, the only ones to ...Most seniors now have drug coverage, U-M study shows
...d those with worse self-reported health and higher use of prescription drugs in 2004 were more likely than others to sign up." ...Galileo to support global search and rescue
...it system does. They have to rely on the beacon to use a navigation system to find its position and include it in the distress call. Emergency beacons need to have a direct line-of-sight to the geostationary satellites. There are some situations where this is impossible, such as near the Earth's poles...Diet foods for children may lead to obesity
...tly assess the energy value of their food. "The use of diet food and drinks from an early age into adulthood may induce overeating and gradual weight gain through the taste conditioning process that we have described," Pierce said. Pierce added that his team's "taste conditioning process" theory may...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for medical, energy, environmental breakthroughs
... & Lyle, Decatur, Ill., developed a new method to use corn instead of petrochemicals to produce propanediol (PDO), which can be formulated into a number of industrial products. Bio-PDO, a key ingredient in the production of DuPont Sorona, a new renewably sourced DuPont polymer for clothing, carpeting, p...Indiana University Imaging Center receives $6M grant for kidney research
...in conjunction with software designed at thecenter use fluorescent molecules to produce detailed quantita...dition to IU scientists who are continually making use of thecenter's resources, Dr. Molitoris said. The center's activities will incorporate four core p...Stress may leave your mouth a mess
...ntive to their oral hygiene and may increase their use of nicotine, alcohol or drugs, explained Preston D. Miller, Jr., DDS, and President of the American Academy of Periodontology. Patients should seek healthy ways to relieve stress through exercise, balanced eating, plenty of sleep, and maintaining a p...Baby DVDs, videos may hinder, not help, infants' language development
...ople speaking in parentese that melodic speech we use with little ones the babies are not getting the same linguistic experience, said Meltzoff, who is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki endowed chair in psychology at the UW. Parents and caretakers are the babys first and best teachers. They instinctively ad...Wireless technology shows promise in diagnosing pediatric intestinal disease
... treatment, this is the first study to examine its use in pediatrics. The small bowel has always been difficult to evaluate, due to its size and many convolutions, says study author Gian Luigi de Angelis, a professor with the University of Parma, Italy. This small camera can follow the entire length of...Michigan-CDC study supports value of social restrictions during influenza pandemics
...xt pandemic need to carefully consider how to best use these strategies to protect people and decrease the potential impact of the next pandemic in their communities. The 43 cities in the study were scattered from coast to coast and represented a combined population of approximately 23 million. In an e...Controlling prescription drug expenditures: a case report of success
...scription drug spending but also preserved members use of medications for chronic conditions, according to a manuscript published today (Aug. 7) in The American Journal of Managed Care. Other studies have found that single cost-control strategies such as increasing co-payments can decrease prescriptio...WPI wins $1M to develop system to locate and monitor emergency workers in buildings
...d to compute location); inertial navigation (which use gyroscopes and compasses to track a person's movem...y vehicles around the building. The receivers will use sophisticated, custom-designed algorithms to determine their distance from the transmitters and, by ...Electrical implant steadies balance disorder in animals
...sensation can be inherited at birth or result from use of antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs, Mnires disease, viral infection, stroke or head trauma. The Hopkins study, done in chinchillas because their inner ear function is well studied, is proof of concept that we can restore three-dimensional sensati...Theory of facial aging gets a facelift from UT Southwestern researchers
...g plastic surgeons target facial trouble areas and use injectible fillers to add volume to individual sections of the face. It could also aid in developing new and improved cosmetic and reconstructive surgery techniques, Dr. Rohrich said. Understanding how fat is compartmentalized will allow us to be v...High blood pressure problems largely misunderstood by sufferers
...hough not cured, through lifestyle changes and the use of medications, which must be continued for life. Because of the need for long-term treatment, it is essential that patients and healthcare professionals work together to fight the disease. This synthesis of qualitative studies provides valuable info...