World's largest respiratory health study launches next phase
... and sisters of thoseoriginal 8,500 children which will allow us to study different children from the same...unction and health into middle age. Questionnaires will be sent later this month to all the brothers and sisters of the original TAHSparticipants. So if you......t comes down to expectations. If you think a wine will taste good, it will taste better than if you think it will taste bad. People didnt believe North Dakota wine would tast...It's time to look at health risks in a new light, authors say
...re youre starting from, the relative risks figures will not be helpful. In their book, Bouwer and Rifkin...view, a book like this is long overdue, and we all will be better for the reflection and debate it is likely to stimulate among scientists and policy-makers...Happier hospitals means healthier patients
... their good practice to the others. The first step will be a workshop in September which will put forward good examples, using buddying and mentoring schemes to pair hospitals with others who wo...RAND, Health Dialog form alliance to create tools to evaluate health-care quality and efficiency
...vices Corporation today announced an alliance that will entitle Health Dialog to exclusive, worldwide righ...a new provider performance measurement system that will provide best-in-class capabilities for measuring quality and efficiency in the U.S. healthcare marke...Why women get more migraines than men
...e study, the researchers identified what they hope will eventually be a new treatment option for migraine. They found that a medication called memantine (brand name Namenda), which is currently approved for the treatment of Alzheimers disease, inhibits CSD and appears to be a highly effective treatment fo...Statin drugs may delay progressive artery damage in children
... the Academic Medical Centre. However, each child will differ with respect to the family history, lipid p... statin therapy in FH children remains unknown and will require further clinical trials to resolve, Vissers said. We intend to continue to monitor the chil...Scientists train nano-'building blocks' to take on new shapes, as reported in Science
...e bloodstream, the body's organs and immune system will get rid of them in around a day. But if you place the molecules into long, floppy cylinders, they may stay in the body for weeks, Pochan noted. Changing the shape of the micelle could carry a drug in the human body for a long period of time, accord...European heat waves double in length since 1880
...elief among climate scientists that western Europe will experience some of the highest environmental and social impacts of climate change and continue to experience devastating hot summers like the summer of 2003 more frequently in the future," Della-Marta said. The authors note that temperature records...To be or not to be a scientist
...brightest high school and college science students will gather at Childrens Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) to present the results of 9 weeks of scientific research. Each student experiment - no matter how small - puts us one step closer to finding cures to deadly diseases. This student sympo...International symposium on fruit, vegetables headed for Houston
...roperties of these foods. Many of these scientists will meet in Houston Oct. 9-13 to share the latest find... FAV Health 2007 - Fruits And Vegetables, that is will convene at the Omni Hotel Houston, Four Riverway, for the second international symposium on how prod...Electric fields have potential as a cancer treatment
...ll human trial, raising hopes that electric fields will become a new weapon for stalling the progression of cancer. The research, performed by an international team led by Yoram Palti of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, is explained in the August issue of Physics Today, the flagship m...Vicente Fox Center and RAND launch joint program to find policies to combat poverty
...tanding to establish a joint research program that will study ways to fight poverty and aid vulnerable gro..., Mexico. The new research program announced today will be based at the Fox Center. Studies conducted by the Fox Center and RAND will be published jointly...New oxidation methods streamline synthesis of important compounds
...roup manipulations and higher yields, this toolbox will change the way chemists make molecules. Currently, chemists must make molecules by beginning with something that is already oxidized. But, having to start with that functionality means it must be carried and protected throughout the entire synthe...Study shows radiofrequency ablation highly effective in treating kidney tumors
... an hereditary condition that makes it likely they will require repeated treatments because of continual development of RCCs....Shining light on pancreatic cancer
... colonoscopy, the researchers believe the approach will encourage more people to get screened before they develop symptoms of disease. The portable system was not used in the pancreatic cancer studies because the probe needs to be modified for the different scope used in endoscopy, but the underlying te...Method shows promise for early detection of pancreatic cancer
...with a conventional microscope. The results, which will be published in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Cl...e duodenum, a different organ than the pancreas -- will have molecular and other kinds of abnormal changes. No one can detect these changes earlier than we ...Mapping mountains from space with GOCE
...ccurate model of the geoid from ESA's GOCE mission will lead to a unified system for measuring heights. ...field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) will provide an extremely accurate and unique picture of the Earth's gravity field and geoid. The geoid ...AASM to school-bound: Sleep is the right ingredient for academic success
...nd teens that sleep habits adopted over the summer will need to be changed when school starts in order to .... A child or teen who regularly gets enough sleep will have improved academic performance, a positive attitude towards their education, and be able to bett......e in the psychiatry departments. I hope this story will help implode the myths that surround mental illness. And, honestly, it will be nice not to have this secret anymore. Schizophrenia affects approximately 1 percent of the worl...