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Is it Possible to Change Prescribing Habits?

...nd 0.2% for both types of problems. Providers did pay attention to the alerts; they increased ordering of the rule-associated laboratory test when an alert was displayed (39% at baseline versus 51% post-intervention, p There are limitations to the study. For example, the intervention focused on a spec...

Recreating 'Flowers for Algernon' with a happy ending

...howed a 30 percent improvement in their ability to pay attention, outperforming the normal mice. Second, he trained the mice to memorize spatial clues in order to navigate a water maze and swim to a platform. The normal animals learned to find the platform in seven days; the NF1 mice took 10. After...

Group proves it's possible to grow new lung alveoli by growing new blood vessels

... win-lose situation: the babies are saved but they pay the price with dramatically underdeveloped lungs--forcing them to spend their early days outside the womb fighting for every breath. And now, with many of these premature babies reaching their adolescent years, clinicians and researchers are also wai...

Study shows AIDS drugs cost-effective, care underfunded

...re either uninsured or underinsured" and unable to pay for their care, said Dr. Saag. "So in reality, the actual reimbursement to clinics is markedly less than $360 per patient per year, making the situation even more dire," he added. As a consequence, said Dr. Saag, "We are approaching a potential cri...

Cure for cancer worth $50 trillion

...provements in life expectancy raise willingness to pay for further health improvements by increasing the value of remaining life." Murphy and Topel also chart individual values resulting from the permanent reduction in mortality in several major diseases ?including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. O...

Marine mammals are on the frontline of failing ocean health

...t our wildlife." Getting the rest of the world to pay attention to the health of marine mammals may be the first step in mitigating potential human health impacts. "This is the age of discovery of new diseases and causes of marine mammal deaths," says Teri Rowles of NOAA. "We learn something new every...

World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says

...omes to making things available to those who can't pay for them," he said. If anti-aging technologies are distributed in the unchecked free market, "it's entirely likely to me that we'll wind up with permanent global underclasses, countries that will get locked into today's mortality conditions," Tuljap...

How 'hot' emotional brain interferes with 'cool' processing

...xample someone driving on a highway, attempting to pay attention to the driving task might encounter an emotional distracter such as an accident. As everybody knows, at that moment drivers lose focus on the task." "Also, the three types of distracters gave us good controls, which allowed us to clearly e...

First demonstration of 'teaching' in non-human animals

...ge of the path that it has taken. Tandem leaders pay a cost because they would normally have reached thefood around four times faster if not hampered by a follower. But the benefit is that the follower learns where the food is much quicker than it would have done independently. Tandem followers learn t...

Many cleaners, air fresheners may pose health risks when used indoors

...mation. However, now we've learned that we need to pay attention to other aspects of pollution sources that are right under our nose," said William Nazaroff, a UC Berkeley professor of environmental engineering and the study's lead author. To comply with its mandate to protect public health and welfare,...

Global study shows all tobacco bad for the heart

...ers of tobacco." "People around the world should pay attention to the message that it's never too late to quit. This is an important study documenting the powerful and persistent dangers of tobacco use worldwide," said Dr. Peter Liu, scientific director for CIHR's Institute of Circulatory and Respirat...

What's nature worth? New computer models tell all

... not--rather than just asking them how much they'd pay for this service," Costanza said. And finally, next year, the project will put out its results through an interactive website--perhaps a bit like Google Earth for ecosystems services--journal articles, and other reports. Recent studies have made ...

Beekeepers work hard for the honey, despite changing tupelo forest

... about it, and people from all over the world will pay top dollar just to get some of it. It's tupelo honey, a honey so distinct, light and smooth that people describe it as they would a fine wine. But the future of tupelo honey production may not be so sweet. Florida State University geography Profe...

Leptin found to control appetite and limb development in frogs

...y size disadvantage with little fat reserves. They pay the cost of immediate survival by being more prone to drying out, to being eaten by predators and reaching sexual maturity at a later age. Denver speculates that leptin is probably important to gauge whether the tadpole has adequate energy reserves--...

Choosy females make colourful males

...ferent characteristics in males. Yet females often pay attention to traits that reveal something about the quality of a male. As a result, females are likely to share the same preferences. In Lake Victoria cichlid fish, Martine Maan found a solution for this paradox: in different species, different trait...

Mice learn tasks that may help treat human psychiatric disorders

...rds. "Set shifting occurs when you've learned to pay attention to one thing and then need to concentrat... tell me the numbers because you are continuing to pay attention to the previous set - the card suits. You've both learned to pay attention to the suits an...

Eco-friendly bug sucker

...icals is much cheaper, so that eventually it would pay for itself", Essert told Chemistry & Industry. Around $20 - $40 worth of methyl bromide is needed to fumigate one pallet of fruit, whereas Carbon Dioxide and Ethanol used to treat with MSDD, assuming no recovery, would cost about $10.00. MSDD al...

Americans support free access to research

...ults polled said they believe that "if tax dollars pay for scientific research, people should have free access to the results of the research on the Internet." In addition, six out of 10 (62%) adults believe that if these research results are easily available (for free and online), it will help speed up...

A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species

...recipitate extinction. And as long as someone will pay any price for the rarest of the rare, market price will cover (and exceed) the cost of harvesting the last giant parrot, tegu lizard, or lady's slipper orchid on Earth. The authors describe multiple human activities that could precipitate the anth...

Paying attention sets off symphony of cell synchronization

...l attention you see it vividly. And when you don't pay attention, you're liable to miss something importa...ern of scientists. One hypothesis is that when you pay attention neurons produce stronger brain activity, as if the stimulus itself was stronger. That woul...

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