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Out-of-pocket health care costs for disabled children vary widely by state
The size of the financial burden on families with disabled children largely depends on which state they live in, according to a new study conducted by the schools of social...
Why Men Are More At Risk Of Diseases Caused By Blood Clots Than Women
Being male increases your risk of diseases caused by the inappropriate formation of a blood clot (a process known as thrombosis), such as heart attack and stroke, but the reasons...
Bio-X Researchers Use Needle-thin Probe To Get First Look At Working Muscle Fiber
Sarcomeres are key microscopic elements of muscle fiber. Examining them typically requires a painful muscle biopsy that does not offer the opportunity to see the sarcomeres at work within the...
Thunderstorms Linked To Asthma Attacks
In the first in-depth study of its kind ever done in the Southeastern United States, researchers have discovered a link between thunderstorms and asthma attacks in the metro Atlanta area...
Alaskan Eskimos' High Rates Of Artery Plaque Could Be From High Smoking
Alaskan Inuit people have higher rates of fatty-plaque lined arteries than other Americans, possibly because they smoke more and are increasing other unhealthy behaviors. An observational population study found that...
Hospital error blamed for more infant overdoses
(AP) -- The case of 14 babies who received accidental overdoses while in intensive care has raised new questions about how a common blood-thinning medication could be given to...
'Cross fire' from the brain makes patients tremble
A typical symptom of Parkinson's disease is tremor in patients. A group of scientists, including Professor Peter Tass from Forschungszentrum Jülich have succeeded in demonstrating the mechanisms which cause the...
Model For Automated, Wearable Artificial Kidney Designed
Two researchers have developed a design for an automated, wearable artificial kidney, or AWAK, that avoids the complications patients often suffer with traditional dialysis. The peritoneal-based artificial kidney is "bloodless"...
Alzheimer's patients have rapid growth of brain ventricles: study
Brain ventricles that increase in size could be a sign of cognitive problems and the onset of Alzheimer's disease, say Canadian researchers.
Side-effects study opens up new drug leads
Scientists have identified possible new targets for existing drugs by comparing their side-effects
Forget The Stethoscope, New Technology Sounds Out Wide Range Of Heart Problems Automatically
Sounding the chest with a cold stethoscope is probably one of the most commonly used diagnostics in the medical room after peering down the back of the throat while the...
Stem cells used to treat muscular dystrophy in mice
Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have for the first time demonstrated that transplanted muscle stem cells can both improve muscle function in mice with a...
Identifying and disrupting key elements of malaria's 'sticky sack' adhesion strategy
Malaria is one of the most devastating diseases afflicting humanity. It infects and debilitates about 600 million people and kills up to three million people every year, mainly in the...
Genetic Variations Put Youth At Higher Risk For Lifetime Of Tobacco Addiction
Common genetic variations affecting nicotine receptors in the nervous system can significantly increase the chance that European Americans who begin smoking by age 17 will struggle with lifelong nicotine addiction,...
Irregularities cited in research
TOKYO, July 11 (UPI) -- Japan's education ministry said Friday a University of Tokyo medical science institute team committed irregularities in a hematology clinical research effort.
Cuomo: AT&T and AOL block child porn newsgroups
(AP) -- Two more Internet access providers have agreed to eliminate certain newsgroups that contain child pornography and purge their servers of child pornography Web sites in an agreement...
Mobilizing white blood cells to the lung: New discovery could lead to an improved influenza vaccine
Findings just published in the scientific journal Immunity by researchers at the Trudeau Institute shed new light on how a previously-unknown messaging mechanism within the human immune system prompts specific...
$1B Calif. savings in ending medical waste
SACRAMENTO, July 10 (UPI) -- Californians can save $1 billion a year by avoiding extra medical care and using cheaper but equally effective drugs, a public-interest group said.
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Melanoma Rates Soar Among Younger Women
But rates of the cancer in young men haven't changed, study says
Opinion: Sustainability bandwagon is unsustainable
Research organisations following the craze for sustainability research initiatives should be careful they don’t become fashion victims, advises Dr Thomas Barlow.
Positive thinkers stick to treatment
A study has found that no matter how life-threatening their condition, patients are most likely to adhere to medical treatment when they believe it will work.
Study: Scientists leave the ivory tower
A well-nursed prejudice in scholarly communication is that researchers avoid journalists and are disappointed with the coverage when they do have contact with the media. A current study in the...
Fewer nonsmokers breathe cigarette fumes, CDC says
(AP) -- Nearly half of nonsmoking Americans are still breathing in cigarette fumes, but the percentage has declined dramatically since the early 1990s, according to a government study released...
Good News About $4 Gas? Fewer Traffic Deaths
As unwelcome as they are, higher gasoline prices do come with a plus side - fewer deaths from car accidents, says a researcher at the University of Alabama at...
Online courses boost infection control skills that could prove vital in a pandemic
Online courses are helping staff to develop the skills they need to tackle hospital-acquired infections, such as MRSA and C.difficile, and this expertise could also prove vital in a pandemic,...
Nanomaterials could pose health risks, need more oversight, council says
Not enough is known about the health and environmental effects of nanomaterials and nanoproducts, says a new report, and more must be done to regulate items that contain them.
South Asia News in brief: 27 June–10 July 2008
Vitamin A saves babies, satellites help in Myanmar relief, Sri Lanka 'greenest in South Asia', and more.