Seniors Should Watch for Drug Interactions When Taking Multiple Medications
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A recent study found that more than 80 percent of adults age 57 and older take at least one prescription drug a day and that about half of them regularly mix drugs with over-the-counter medications and supplements. Interactions between presc...Food & Water Watch and International Coalition Members to Protest World Water Forum in Istanbul
WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wenonah Hauter of Food & Water Watch, an international consumer advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., along with Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians and the Blue Planet Project and representatives of the Latin American network Red...Letting infants watch TV can do more harm than good says wide-ranging international review
A leading child expert is warning parents to limit the amount of television children watch before the age of two, after an extensive review published in the January issue of Acta Paediatrica showed that it can do more harm than good to their ongoing development. Professor Dimitri A Christaki...Testosterone May Improve Mental Function, From the Harvard Men's Health Watch
BOSTON, Jan. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When we think about the powers of testosterone, we usually do not consider mental processes. However, research suggests that testosterone levels may affect men's cognitive performance, reports the January 2008 issue of Harvard Men's Health Watch. A...Your Hearing May be at Risk, Says Harvard Men's Health Watch
BOSTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Call it acoustic trauma or noise-induced hearing loss. By any name, it's the most important preventable cause of permanent hearing loss. Up to 28 million Americans have impaired hearing; for as many as a third, acoustic trauma is a significant contrib...Antidepressant Use May Boost Fracture Risk, From Harvard Women's Health Watch
BOSTON, May 29, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Evidence is accumulating that depression is a risk factor for osteoporosis, reports the June 2007 issue of Harvard Women's Health Watch. A recent study found that people ages 50 and over who regularly took antidepressants called selective serotonin r...Stand Up To Cancer Awards $73.6 Million for Novel, Groundbreaking Cancer Research
...cientific community to Stand Up To Cancer has been extraordinary," said Margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.), CEO of AACR. "It has been truly amazing to watch this bold new funding model, which was introduced just one year ago, grow into an unprecedented opportunity to move research forward for the benefit o...Gaining Too Much Weight During Pregnancy Nearly Doubles Risk of Having a Heavy Baby
... -- to only 13 percent -- when women with gestational diabetes gained less than 40 pounds. "The take-home message is that all pregnant women need to watch their weight gain, and it is especially important for women who have risk factors like gestational diabetes," Dr. Hillier said. The study was funded...Ultraview 1700 Central Monitor
Features:...for configuring as a bedside monitor Flexport® system interfaces link alarms from standalone devices at the bedside Tone access controls Alarm watch delivers bed-to-central alarm notification Centrally view, control, review and record patient data for monitored patients WinDNA Intesys Clinical S...Clarus - Clinical Documentation
Features:...al data repository for ad hoc reporting Crystal Reports used for ad hoc reporting Detailed data acquisition for patient / infection tracking Online watch list Access to clinical data repository for ad hoc reporting ...Tracer® III Digital Nerve Locator, Model NL3
Features:... allows changing stimulus parameters without stimulating. Audible chirp indicator of pulse delivery and amplitude frees the operator from having to watch the display. Chirp volume is adjustable to be optimal for any environment. Adjustable pulse width allows selective stimulation of motor or sensory...CIC Named to Independent Research Firm's 'Hot Banking Tech Companies to Watch in 2009' Report
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Communication Intelligence Corporation (" CIC ") (OTC Bulletin Board: CICI), a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the financial industry and the recognized leader in biometric signature veri...Ladybugs may be cute, but watch out when they get near wine
Modern man"s earliest known close ancestor was significantly more apelike than previously believed, a New York University College of Dentistry professor has found. A computer-generated reconstruction by Dr. Timothy Bromage, a paleoanthropologist and Adjunct Professor of Biomaterials and of Basi...Researchers use multiphoton microscopy to watch chromosomes in action
Feverish fruit fly larvae, warmed in a toasty lab chamber, are giving Cornell researchers a way to watch chromosomes in action and actually see how genes are expressed in living tissue. Using multiphoton fluorescence microscopy, a technique pioneered at Cornell by physicist Watt W. Webb, research...Hopkins researchers develop new tool to watch real-time chemical activity in cells
Attempts to identify potential drugs that interfere with the action of one particular enzyme linked to heart disease and similar health problems led scientists at Johns Hopkins to create a new tool and new experimental approach that allow them to see multiple, real-time chemical reactions in livin...Argonne to showcase science and technology at community open house
... Walk through an accelerator Glimpse nanoparticles changing colors Battle model cars powered by fuel cells to see which is fastest watch a master scientific glassblower demonstrate his craft Monitor climate change with live data feeds from around the world Ride an energy bike ...University has grand designs to build a house of straw
...mmer by constructing a "BaleHaus" made of prefabricated straw bale and hemp cladding panels on campus. And people around the world will be able to watch its progress online via "Strawcam" from Monday 20 July at: www.bath.ac.uk/features/balehaus/ - part of a site which will also feature blogs, videos,...NeoStem Featured in WCBS-TV Health Watch Segment on Adult Stem Cells
NEW YORK, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (Amex: NBS ), which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need, today announced that Robin Smith, MD, MBA, and NeoStem's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer w...Genstruct's Andrea Matthews Selected for Mass High Tech's 'People to Watch Under 30'
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Genstruct Inc., a biotechnology company translating the complexity of human biology to develop new successful therapeutics, today announced that Andrea Matthews (age 25), manager of its Scientific Programs, was selected by Mass High Tech for its "People...Midwest Biotech: Watch India, the Next Biotech Frontier
CHICAGO While I have been fascinated with India for years, I have to admit that Ive never been there. My interest in India started during a marketing internship at Lever Bros. (now Unilever ) in New York City during one college semester. A colleague there befriended me. He was a young, Indian...National stem-cell panel, including UW profs, urges close watch on research
Research institutions should create oversight committees to guide human embryonic stem-cell studies according to common guidelines, a panel of experts, including two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors, said on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. "In the absence of federal guidelines broadly gove...Swiss biotech has quality of its big pharma, watch and chocolate industries
I had the good fortune to be in Zurich, Switzerland less than two weeks ago to visit with a number of Swiss biotech companies and the Swiss Biotech Association, as part of a mission of visiting American companies organized by the Swiss Business Hub here in Chicago. This trip to Zurich was my f...The press vs. Google: Copyright cases to watch
Does Google News - which displays thumbnail images, headlines, and story leads in connection with links to complete news stories on external websites - infringe copyrights in the original photographs and news stories? Are headlines and story leads protectable expression or public domain f...