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Link Between Vietnam Service And Prostate Cancer Is Statistically Insignificant

A report that appears in the March 2006 online issue of BMC Public Health focuses on the co-relation between men in the armed forces who served in Vietnam and the incidence of prostate cancer (CaP).// This co-relation exists since a defoliate called Agent Orange has been linked to CaP. However ...

IDRI Awarded $314,500 Grant From Murdock Trust to Expand TB Drug Discovery Program

...ultimately identify new drugs to treat it. TB is a contagious disease spread by tiny droplets in the air and can be hard to avoid. A seemingly insignificant cough from an infected person can spread the infection. Nearly 2 million people die of TB every year and one-third of the planet is infected. With the...

Nuvilex Gets Update from CK41 on purEffect(TM) Launch Plan

...hat can and will compete successfully in the $1 billion over-the-counter acne treatment market. The six-week delay from the planned mid-May launch is insignificant compared to the invaluable contributions that Mr. Savage is making to the product, its market launch and commercial success. Everything that is good ...

New Survey Shows Consumers Making Effort to Buy Healthy Foods But Buyer Beware: 'Zero' Isn't Always Zero

...e daily limit before they even sit down to dinner," said Steve Hughes, CEO of Smart Balance, Inc., which commissioned the survey. Even seemingly insignificant amounts of trans fat can have a significant impact on health. The AHA reports trans fat has been shown to raise LDL ("bad") cholesterol and lower HDL ...

'Only 10 Seconds to Care' by Dr. Wendy S. Harpham helps heal clinician-patient bonds

...f physicians who seem hurried or unemotional. "Mutual understanding paves the way to healthy relationships," said Dr. Harpham. "By learning to let insignificant lapses slide, health care professionals and patients can focus on what really matters -- clinicians providing quality care and patients benefiting opt...

Controlling our brain's perception of emotional events

...by increasing the activity of a specific dopamine receptor in a region of the brain called the pre-frontal cortex, it was able to transform a normally insignificant emotional experience into a very strong emotional memory. In contrast, when a different subtype of the dopamine system was activated, it was able to ...

Parents' sexuality influences adoption choices

..., irrespective of sexuality, had no preference for the gender of their adopted child. They were simply grateful to finally have a child and gender was insignificant in the context of their larger goal of becoming parents. Among those who expressed a preference, gay men were the most likely to have a preference ...

Energy drinks may be harmful to people with hypertension, heart disease

... their blood pressure and heart rate. No significant changes in EKG measurements were reported. The increases in blood pressure and heart rate were insignificant for healthy adults, but could prove harmful to people with a heart-related condition, says James Kalus, Pharm.D., senior manager of Patient Care Servi...

Consumers Win Major Victory Over Seafood Scaremongers

...lifornia upheld the original verdict in a 2006 case which established that the trace levels of mercury in canned tuna are naturally occurring, and too insignificant to require warning labels. A three-judge panel heard oral arguments on January 27, when Deputy Attorney General Sue Fiering argued that the labels sho...

Reducing suicidal behaviors among adolescents

...ing solutions," Rashad said. The study revealed that body dissatisfaction had a strong impact on all suicidal behaviors for girls and was generally insignificant for males. For instance, any perception of being overweight by girls raised the probability of suicidal thoughts by 5.6 percent, the probability of a ...

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Investigational Genetic Test May Help Address Common Problems in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

... not with the size of the prostate gland itself. In addition, PCA3 scores were higher in men with pathologically significant cancers than in men with insignificant ones.(2) PCA3 scores increased the accuracy of a nomogram that doctors can use to predict which men have low-grade or low-volume prostate canc...

SYNTAX Analysis Finds Treatment With TAXUS(R) Express2(TM) Stents More Cost Effective Than Bypass Surgery in Many Patients With Complex Coronary Artery Disease

...patients who reported being angina free was comparable for PCI and CABG at one month (64.4% v. 61.6%) and six months (68.5% v. 72.0%) (p=statistically insignificant for both), but was higher in the CABG group at 12 months (71.6% v. 76.3%) (p=0.05). In addition, the study showed that total medical costs were $...

New Position Statement from The North American Menopause Society Addresses Use of Local Estrogen for Treatment of Vaginal Atrophy in Postmenopausal Women

...perience and patient preference. -- Progestogen is generally not indicated when low-dose estrogen is used locally for vaginal atrophy. -- Data are insignificant to recommend annual surveillance of the endometrium (lining of uterus) in asymptomatic women using vaginal estrogen. -- Vaginal estrogen therapy sho...

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Pacific Northwest forests could store more carbon, help address greenhouse issues

...e by 50 years, their potential to store atmospheric carbon would still increase by 15 percent, the study concluded. That would be a modest, but not insignificant offset to the nation's carbon budget, scientists say, since this region accounts for 14 percent of the live biomass in the entire United States. Th...

OJ worse for teeth than whitening says Eastman Institute researchers

...is team determined that the effects of 6 percent hydrogen peroxide, the common ingredient in professional and over-the-counter whitening products, are insignificant compared to acidic fruit juices. Orange juice markedly decreased hardness and increased roughness of tooth enamel. Unlike ever before, researchers ...

Study shows CGM devices also benefit people with type 1 diabetes

...n the CGM group, given their already exquisite level of control. He noted that the study group expected that there might even be small and clinically insignificant increases in HbA1c values in the CGM group if the devices were able to help them reduce the frequency of glucose levels below 70 mg/dL. Instead, the ...

Light pollution offers new global measure of coral reef health

...ght's direct effects, but lab studies show that light can disrupt coral reproduction, which is timed to moonlight. "Light at levels that would seem insignificant to humans can be incredibly significant to marine organisms and even terrestrial organisms," Longcore said. As a rule of thumb, artificial light t...

Networks of small habitat patches can preserve urban biodiversity

... Sets of small and seemingly insignificant habitat patches that are within reach for mobile species may under certain circumstances, as a group, provide an acceptable alternative to larger and ...

Forest peoples' rights key to reducing emissions from deforestation

...iss development organization, finds that the average direct cost to legally recognize traditional community tenure rights is around $3 per hectare an insignificant investment to make when the minimum estimates needed to pay for elements of a global REDD scheme are somewhere between $800 and $3500 per hectare each...

Synthetic moleculues could add spice to fight against cancer

...cells, meaning it takes 100 times more of the compound to kill a healthy cell than it does to kill a cancer cell. "Very small changes that may seem insignificant can have dramatic effects on these toxicity properties," Fuchs said. "But most of the compounds we've made have been more potent than curcumin against...

Urologists identify 7 biomarkers that may help pinpoint prostate cancer recurrence

... "There are several unresolved issues in the clinical and surgical management of prostate cancer, one of them being the identification of men who have insignificant cancers and can be followed, and another being the identification of men most likely to have spread of disease and early or late recurrence," said Dr....

A Great Lakes mystery: The case of the disappearing species

...terpret these data, but they give us a better idea of how pollutants affect them," Seplveda said. "If nothing else, our results suggest that seemingly insignificant levels of pollution could significantly harm animals like Diporeia." The project should help address suggestions by some researchers that Diporeia ...

Americans remain pessimistic about the environment, Stanford-AP survey finds

... in 10 years than it is now, compared to 55 percent in 2006-a statistically insignificant difference, Krosnick said. An additional 8 percent said the environment is ...ts approved of Bush's actions last year and 8 percent approved this year-an insignificant increase. Americans' approval of Congress's handling of the environment ...

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NovaRx Initiates Pivotal Phase III Clinical Trial in Lung Cancer Patients

...urvival of 41 percent. Such late-stage patients typically demonstrate one-year survival of less than 30 percent. Lucanix(TM) was shown to produce only insignificant side effects. "In addition to significantly increased survival," Fakhrai continued, "we saw virtually no side effects in the patients treated in pha...

PAREXEL Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 Financial Results

...e revenue and $120.7 million in cancellations, resulted in a backlog of $2.059 billion as of June 30, 2008. The foreign exchange impact on backlog was insignificant in the quarter. The net book-to-burn ratio was 1.56 for the quarter, and was 1.57 for Fiscal Year 2008. Mr. Josef H. von Rickenbach, PAREXEL's Chair...

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Announces 2008 First Quarter Results

... investments, consisting of bankers' acceptances, are liquid investments that are readily convertible to known amounts of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of changes in value. The objectives for holding short-term investments are to invest the Company's excess cash resources in investment vehicles...

Evotec Reports Details of the Positive Proof-of-Concept Phase II Study in Insomnia With EVT 201

...following morning there was no subjective perception of any residual sedation. The Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST) showed a small but clinically insignificant change tested the next day 9 h after dosing. The PSG analysis also showed that EVT 201 did not have a negative impact on sleep architecture unlike ma...

State alters schedule for server consolidation

...e predicted. As for the projected savings, Miszewski said a lower number of servers would help, but he acknowledged that the schedule change is not insignificant in scope. The assumptions on those [original projections] are not the same, he said. I dont know how much the savings will change. Getting real ...

Verifying Multichannel Pipettor Performance with Standard Dispense Solutions in the SpectraMax Plus (MaxLine Application Note #28)

...o ensure that the calibration is within or outside the acceptable range. The terms accurate and precise are relative. A 5% error may be considered insignificant in one method and totally unacceptable in another. Pipettor manufacturers specifications for dispense volumes of 100 - 200 L are typically less than 1...

Comparison of Performance between the AlphaQuest - HTS and the Fusion α Multilabel Reader for Detection of cAMP

... the standard deviation of the 1,000 nM sample, which was in excess of the competitor and hence produced the lowest signal. At various concentrations, insignificant differences between the signal to noise ratios of each instrument were observed as shown in Figure 4. Discussion and Conclusions ...

SUPERIOR RNA FOR DEMANDING APPLICATIONS

...tamination from an RNA sample, FirstChoice RNAs are tested by real-time PCR to ensure that residual DNA contamination is insignificant (<0.05%). Additionally, the RNAs undergo rigorous testing for nucleases. The integrity and stability of each RNA is veri...

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Species

...cessary to use a reasonably small number of factors (if more than a handful are needed, the genetic difference between the populations is likely to be insignificant and is unlikely to endure into the future), and to choose factors that are functionally independent (height and weight, for example, should usually be...

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Run-off

...he winner after a tie ... Urban Run - Off as a Source of Contamination in Drinking Water. Not too long ago, urban run - off was considered an insignificant contributor to ... RaceCenter.com - Your guide to running and multi-sport in the Pacific Northwest - Serving, Oregon, Washington, ... OregonLive.co...