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Reduced Doses of Medication Beneficial to Preschoolers with ADHD

... Mental Health (NIMH) and was described in several articles in the November 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. "The Preschool ADHD Treatment Study, or PATS, provides us with the best information to date about treating very young children diagnosed with ADHD,...

Team Tracks Genetic Origins of Eye Cancer

... anomalies observed in nearly 100 patients. Both articles reflect research that comprised a large part of White's doctoral research at WVU. Much of the research was conducted at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Rockville, Md., where Director-Myska headed a lab studying chromosomal aberrations. "...

Medically Induced Abortions (MIAs) Causes More Deaths Due To Infection

...tone and misoprostol. She said, 'The importance of articles like [Dr. Aldape's review] is to point out that C. sordellii infections are a broader problem--it's a big intellectual and strategic error to focus on medical abortions. This is an infectious diseases issue.' In her editorial, Dr. Winikoff points...

Kids in Sport—Great for Fitness, but Concern About Injurie

...e pediatric athlete," the Editors write. Several articles in the Thematic Issue highlight the challenges of sport-related injuries in young athletes. For example, disruption of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee is a severe injury that is increasingly common in children and teens. A review dra...

Gene Linked With Aggressive 'Wet' Form Of AMD

Two recent articles in Science by researchers at Yale School of Medicine has reported about a gene variant that increases the risk of developing //the aggressive 'wet' form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness in people over age ...

Common PTSD Drug is No More Effective Than Placebo

...TSD symptoms. “There are at least 20 peer-reviewed articles published in the field of PTSD that recommend drugs which lower norepinephrine,” Neylan says. “However, ours was the first randomized, controlled study of alpha-2 agonists for symptoms of PTSD.” The double-blind study compared the effects of guanfa...

Brain Images Show Hysteria Not an Imaginary Disorder

...p explain the differing results in the few studied articles devoted to this topic.” Ghaffar says one possible explanation for why this happens could be that bilateral stimulation acts as a distraction, shifting the patient’s attention, and thereby overcoming the inhibition. “Future studies plan to build o...

Inhaled Particles Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer

...d to particles at work or in the environment?" The articles in the special issue—highlights of a recent MIT-sponsored conference—provide new insights into the lung cancer risks associated with particle exposure. Several studies focus on a particle called carbon black—a fine powder made from incomplete combu...

A New Gene to Contribute in Insulin Metabolism

...nal Nature the Bonn researchers have published two articles on this topic. Sometimes science resembles a relay race: in 1996 the biochemist Professor Waldemar Kolanus discovered a group of cellular proteins, the cytohesins, and described their function in the immune system. Two of his colleagues at the LIME...

Climate Sceptics Issued With Challenge by a U.K Scientist

... all who have claimed in their recent speeches and articles that Carbon Dioxide is not responsible for increase in global temperatures currently experienced. Mr. Corbyn, welcoming the challenge on Saturday, said: "I relish the prospect of a debate," he said. "There is no evidence that carbon dioxide is invo...

New Compound for Anti-Malarial Prophylaxis

Two articles that were published in this week's PLoS Medicine suggest possible new avenues of treatment against malaria. // In their first paper, researchers led by Dominique Mazier from the Laboratory INSERM/ University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, isolated a ...

Drop That Glossy, Girl!

...ccording to recent studies, teenage girls who read articles on weight loss and dieting in such magazines, are ...ded this question: "How often do you read magazine articles in which dieting or weight loss is discussed?" Forty-four percent of the girls reported reading suc...

Intervention Can Cut Job Stress While Protecting the Heart

... lunch breaks or in a passive program that offered articles and monthly e-mails on stress reduction techniques. Participants in the passive program also had access to services offered by the company's medical department. The weekly stress management sessions focused on mental relaxation techniques, as well ...

Is Evidence-based Medicine Enough to Support Additional Research in Alternative Medicine?

...ial issue of Integrative Cancer Therapies presents articles that explore EBM and alternative strategies to EBM for evaluating CAM and in particular, options for conducting CAM research on cancer. This issue discusses whether clinical research on CAM using randomized placebo-controlled trial designs is the bes...

Relationship Between Delirium and Dementia

...ndings spawned from the symposium make up the five articles featured in the special issue of the journal, including: Biomarkers. “There is currently no way of identifying delirium save for the observations of an astute clinician,” notes Inouye. In this review article, BIDMC geriatrician Edward Marcantonio,...

Billions of Dollars Saved in U.S. By Polio Vaccination

...nd Duintjer Tebbens also co-authored several other articles in the same issue that characterize the risks and costs of future options for polio risk management, the costs and value of global surveillance, and the trade-offs associated with different choices related to outbreak response. Source-Newswie...

EU States Agree on Clone Food Plan

...knowingly eat food from cloned animals. Recent articles in the UK mainstream media calling cloned animals ‘farmyard freaks' is also reminiscent of the term ‘Frankenstein foods', coined several years ago to describe genetically modified foods and blamed for helping to sway public opinion against them. ...

President’s Address on the ‘Tele-Radiology’ Set Up of Krst

... free services to the poor patients and publishing articles and books in advanced radiology. I am sure tele-radiology will become an important tool for outreach to rural citizens. I extend my greetings to the organizers, radiologists, doctors, medical educators, medical technologists, para-medical personne...

Ban on Non-iodised Salt Challenged

...ens' Fundamental Rights to life and equality under articles 21 and 14 of the constitution. Holding the ban to be "against the public interest and opposed to public policy", the petitioner contended that it was "unjust, unwarranted, malafide and suffered from the vice of non-application of mind." It was also...

Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads to Respiratory Complaints

... Tetrault and colleagues systematically reviewed articles from 1966 through 2005 identified from the MEDLINE... function and respiratory complications. Of the 34 articles that met selection criteria, 12 were classified as challenge studies because they examined the link ...

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