Study, meta-analysis examine factors associated with death from heatstroke
... pulmonary illness. Working home air-conditioning, visiting cool environments and increasing social contact were strongly associated with better outcomes. Taking extra showers or baths and using fans were associated with a trend toward lower risk of death. Although further studies are needed to provide spec...Despite claims, not all probiotics can treat diarrhea say experts
...a. All the children were aged 3-36 months and were visiting a family paediatrician with acute diarrhoea. Children were randomly assigned to receive either a specific probiotic product for five days (intervention groups) or oral rehydration solution (control group). At the time of the study, these products w...Indiana University Imaging Center receives $6M grant for kidney research
... served as an educational and researchresource for visiting scientists. About 60 researchers from across theU.S. and abroad have gone through the center's training programs. That'sin addition to IU scientists who are continually making use of thecenter's resources, Dr. Molitoris said. The center's activitie...Organic farming can feed the world, U-M study shows
... teaching a class about the global food system and visiting farms in Southern Michigan. "We were struck by how much food the organic farmers would produce," Perfecto said. The researchers set about compiling data from published literature to investigate the two chief objections to organic farming: low yiel...LSUHSC awarded designation resulting in improved patient safety and outcomes
...al programs to trainees, practicing physicians and visiting physicians while being part of the national network of educational institutes that will help us grow and develop. Since New Orleans already is a Continuing Medical Education (CME) destination, we hope our institute offers an additional reason for ass...CAM-oriented primary care providers result in cost savings, high patient satisfaction
Arlington, Va. (June 7, 2007) -- Patients visiting chiropractors and other holistically-oriented phys...t analysis supports earlier findings that patients visiting CAM-orientated primary carephysicians (PCP) primarily chiropractors experienced fewer hospitalizat...DFG approves 11 new Collaborative Research Centers
...now (for example funding specifically for inviting visiting researchers and scientists), in order to boost the individual responsibility of the Collaborative Research Centres and to simplify the utilisation of the funding granted to them. In the future, it will also be possible for Collaborative Research Cent...Aluminum foil lamps outshine incandescent lights
...s approximately the diameter of a human hair, said visiting research scientist Sung-Jin Park, lead author of the paper. We can pack an array of more than 250,000 lamps into a single panel. Completing the panel assembly is a glass window 500 microns (0.5 millimeters) thick. The windows inner surface is coated ...May/June Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ool continuation were 3.5 times greater. The home visiting program consisted of trained home visitors being paired with each adolescent and providing services through the childs second birthday. The services included delivering a parenting curriculum, encouraging contraceptive use, connecting a teen with pr...Public health impact of climate change, poverty, disaster response and housing design
...ironment International Trust in New Zealand, and a visiting fellow with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health of the Australian National University. The supplement's 15 papers were originally presented at a meeting of Knowledge Network on Urban Settings (KNUS) in November 2006 in Dar es...Kenya moves toward national food and nutrition policy
... the World Food Program, and Nevin Scrimshaw, PhD, visiting professor at the Friedman School and president of the International Nutrition Foundation, formed a team that facilitated two meetings in Nairobi on March 26 and March 27-29, 2007. The purpose of the first meeting, attended by senior policy makers, in...20-year study shows significant rise in childhood obesity, especially among girls
...chool than before" says Dr Holmback, who is also a visiting research fellow at the University of Chicago, USA. "As societies become more technological, various aspects of everyday life demand less and less physical activity and this is bound to contribute to childhood obesity. "And as overweight and obes...MS patients not receiving medications to slow disease progression, research shows
...ts (50.7 percent). About 62 percent of patients visiting neurologists and 92 percent seen by family practitioners/internists were not using immunomodulatory agents (IMAs), according to the research. Treatment with IMAs is known to reduce the frequency of relapses and slow disease progression. Six IMAs ha...Professors named Fulbright scholars
... Spain for more than a decade. He also served as a visiting professor in Italy and Spain in 2006. Holm will use his scholarship to continue a collaboration begun in Poland and the Czech Republic, where he has studied the exhumation of rocks in the Sudetes Mountains for the past two years. Holm, a 1986 Fulb...Community-based measures fail to reduce HIV levels, new study shows
...economic reasons. Whilst somemen may have given up visiting sex workers or started to use condomsconsistently, the sex workers themselves were unable to acquirealternative sources of income and continued to have unprotected sex withsome of their partners - on occasions, in exchange for a larger payment. Dr ...Biologists learn structure of enzyme needed to power 'molecular motor'
...holic University of America; Petra Gentz, a former visiting doctoral student at Purdue; Rossmann; and Venigalla B. Rao, a professor of biology at The Catholic University of America. "The virus first assembles the protein shell of the head and then packages the DNA into this empty capsid," Rossmann said. "Th...March 30 public briefing on PEPFAR's Progress
...IME SEPULVEDA AMOR (chair), Presidential Chair and visiting professor, Global Health Sciences and School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco AFFETTE MCCAW-BINNS, professor and reproductive health epidemiologist, Section of Community Health, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica CHARLE...Connecticut's Hand to receive IADR Salivary Research Award
... to textbooks and invited reviews, appointments as visiting professor, organizer of several meetings, and membership on several editorial boards and committees of professional organizations, including the IADR. The IADR Salivary Research Award, supported by the Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Company, was designed to stim...Survey reveals misperceptions about Alzheimer's among African-American and Hispanic caregivers
...eing offered a memory screening, and resistance in visiting a doctor. The survey indicated that respondents, regardless of their ethnic background, did not blame the delay in diagnosis on ethnic barriers. ATTITUDES DIFFER ON PLACING A LOVED ONE IN A SKILLED NURSING FACILITY Despite the role that assi...Obese patients run higher risk of post-operative complications
...s lead author Olumuyiwa A. Bamgbade, M.D., FRCA, a visiting instructor in the U-M Medical School's Department of Anesthesiology. "One manifestation of this public health epidemic is that patients who are obese face a much higher likelihood of very serious problems following surgery," says co-author Olubuko...