AScribe Health News Service articles from March 2005

AScribe Health News Service archives from March 2005

Palo Alto Medical Foundation, American Red Cross Team Up for 'CPR Saturday'; Free Training to Be Held March 12 at Cubberley Community Center.
March 1, 2005... Byline: Palo Alto Medical Foundation PALO ALTO, Calif., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) is sponsoring "CPR Saturday", a free CPR training event on March 12 presented by the Palo Alto Area Chapter of...

Parents Who Quit Smoking When Their Kids Are Young May Have a Big Influence on Whether Their Offspring Will Quit Smoking in Young Adulthood.
March 1, 2005... Byline: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center SEATTLE, March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center suggests that parents who quit smoking when their children are young may have a big...

Celebrating 35 Years of Delivering Hope to Homebound Seniors: Meals On Wheels PetPal Program Serves Homebound Seniors and Their Pets.
March 1, 2005... Byline: David Perry & Associates SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Meals On Wheels (http://www.mowsf.org) - the San Francisco nonprofit that "delivers hope" along with two meals a day to more than 1,100 homebound San...

Perspective Change Needed in Obesity Prevention; March Is National Nutrition Month.
March 1, 2005... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture FRESNO, Calif., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The idea that eating right and getting physical activity are solely governed by personal responsibility is a concept of the past,...

Potential Treatment for Fragile X Syndrome Demonstrated in Fruit Fly Model.
March 2, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Fragile X Syndrome is one of the most commonly inherited forms of mental retardation, with an incidence of 1 in 4,000 males and 1 in 8,000 females....

Conference Looks at Health Care for Muslim Women in the U.S.
March 3, 2005... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Patient-centered Health Care for Muslim Women in the United States" is the topic of a conference March 4 and 5 at the University of Illinois at Chicago that...

Breathtaking: Green Guide Reports on New Air Pollution Studies.
March 4, 2005... Byline: The Green Guide Institute NEW YORK, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- You are what you eat, so they say. According to a number of new studies, however, you are also what you breathe -- and even what your mother breathed. Recent research...

Herbal Remedy St. John's Wort Amplifies Effect of Blood-Thinning Drug Plavix, Study Suggests; Small Study Shows Need for Further Research, But Patients Urged to Tell Doctors About All Herbal Supplements, Drugs They Take.
March 7, 2005... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ORLANDO, Fla., March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The widely used herbal remedy St. John's wort appears to amplify the action of the popular blood-thinning drug clopidogrel, sold as Plavix, a small...

Risky Injection Behaviors Are Established at Onset of Injection Drug Use.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Bloomberg School of Public Health BALTIMORE, March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The circumstances surrounding the first injection experience of young injection drug users are significantly linked to future injection behavior, according...

University of Maryland School of Medicine Study Shows Laughter Helps Blood Vessels Function Better; Volunteers Were Shown Funny and Disturbing Movies to Test Effect of Emotions on Blood Vessels.
March 7, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using laughter-provoking movies to gauge the effect of emotions on cardiovascular health, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in...

Women Less Likely to Get Top-Quality Heart Attack Care, But Quality Efforts Help Both Men and Women Live Longer; GAP Study Shows Lower Mortality When Doctors, Nurses, Patients All Review Medications, Lifestyle Changes Before Patient Leaves Hospital.
March 9, 2005... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ORLANDO, Fla., March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Efforts to improve the quality of post-heart attack care in hospitals are working - but they appear to be working better for men than for women, new...

James Madison University Manufactures Rare Protein for Dry-Eye Syndrome Treatment.
March 9, 2005... Byline: James Madison University HARRISONBURG, March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A protein that may keep human eyes from feeling like sandpaper - a condition known as "dry-eye syndrome" that affects 35 million Americans - is being reproduced...

Study Examines Consequences of Thailand's 'War on Drugs'.
March 9, 2005... Byline: Bloomberg School of Public Health BALTIMORE, March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Chiang Mai University Research Institute for Health Sciences and the Northern Drug...

University of California Scientists Confirm Healthier Food Costs More; March Is National Nutrition Month.
March 9, 2005... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture FRESNO, Calif., March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Making a few simple dietary improvements, such as substituting 100 percent whole wheat bread for white bread, lean ground beef for...

Green Guide Recommends Chemical-Free Bedding.(health risks of polybrominated diphenyl ethers used as fire retardants)
March 10, 2005... Byline: The Green Guide Institute NEW YORK, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A good mattress should give you a good night's sleep-and keep you safe. Since 1973, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has required that all...

Elizabethtown College Students Create Proximity Sensor System for Wheelchair-Bound Woman.(Audible Warning Sonic Sensor System)
March 10, 2005... Byline: Elizabethtown College ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of first-year engineering students at Elizabethtown College have created a proximity sensor system that will help a disabled woman better maneuver her...

Report Recommends Uniform Newborn Screenings Across U.S.
March 10, 2005... Byline: University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The public is invited to comment on a new national report, released March 8 in the Federal Register, that recommends the...

Weight Status of Children Ages 8 to 15 Predicts Obesity, High Blood Pressure in Adulthood; Study Shows That Even Children With Body Mass Index on High End of Normal Are at Risk, Particularly Boys.
March 10, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research shows that children between 8 and 15 years old who are in the upper half of the normal weight range are more likely than their leaner peers to...

Enriched Environment Delays Onset of Alzheimer's in Mice.
March 10, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago Hospitals CHICAGO, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A research group based at the University of Chicago has found that an enriched environment -- in this case more chances to exercise, explore and interact with...

Sex Selection Popular Among Infertile Women.
March 10, 2005... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new survey says a significant number of women being treated for infertility would choose the sex of their next child if given the option -- and those as yet...

Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn Launches Labs For Aging Research At Harvard Medical School Five Year, Five Million Dollar Commitment With Goal Of Leveraging Larger Initiative View; Video Interview of Aging Researcher David Sinclair.
March 11, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Mar. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Seeking to accelerate the pace of research into the molecular mechanisms that govern aging, philanthropist Paul F. Glenn, an alumnus of Harvard Law School and...

What Are Little Boys Made of? Scientists Suggest a Role for Estrogen Receptor in Behavioral Sex Differences.
March 11, 2005... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Mar. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- What makes a man behave like a man and a woman a woman? The answer may be partly in your genes. Researchers at the University of Virginia...

The President's Gift - By Paul Anrig; The Social Security Privatization Battle Gives Liberals More Than Just a Good Shot at a Legislative Victory. It Gives Them a Chance to Define Themselves.
March 11, 2005... Byline: The Century Foundation NEW YORK, Mar. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- President George W. Bush's decision to make Social Security privatization his top second-term priority is proving to be an extraordinary gift to liberals. At the very...

Reducing Hostility in Young Coronary Artery Disease Patients is Important Piece of Rehabilitation, Suggests Mayo Clinic Proceedings Study.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., March 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Young coronary artery disease patients have a higher prevalence of hostility than older patients with the disease, researchers explain in the current issue of Mayo Clinic...

AARP Fun and Fitness Programs Available Online to All; Visit www.aarp.org/health and Learn About Fitness Programs, Order Free Physical Activities Workbook, and Much More.(American Association of Retired Persons)
March 14, 2005... Byline: AARP WASHINGTON, March 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Fun and fitness are the thrust of two online programs offered by AARP. "Step Up to Better Health" is a Web-based program designed to help people fit more walking into their...

Brain Imaging Studies Investigate Pain Reduction by Hypnosis.
March 14, 2005... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, March 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although hypnosis has been shown to reduce pain perception, it is not clear how the technique works. Identifying a sound, scientific explanation for hypnosis'...

Novel Laboratory Technique Identifies High Levels of Pathogens in Therapy Pool.
March 14, 2005... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., March 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- A research team using a novel genetic cloning and sequencing technique has identified a surprisingly high number of airborne pathogens in a Midwest...

Short-Term Effects of Spit Tobacco Suggest Long-Term Health Risks; Mayo Clinic Study Finds Spikes in Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, Adrenaline After 'Dipping'.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., March 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Use of smokeless tobacco raises short-term adrenaline levels in the bloodstream by more than 50 percent and also causes the heart rate and blood pressure to surge,...

Indiana University Autism Center Trains Teachers to Help Youngsters.
March 15, 2005... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- One of the nation's largest pediatric autism programs is developing a project to help Hoosier educators and other professionals provide better...

Kansas State University Project to Help Keep Kids From Being Overweight.
March 15, 2005... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- After-school programs are known for keeping kids safe and secure, but a new federally-funded project led by Kansas State University researchers will study how...

President Bush Recognizes Volunteer From Hospice of Shreveport/Bossier, La.; April 17 - 23 is National Volunteer Week.(George W. Bush)(Lindsay Allen)
March 15, 2005... Byline: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- President George W. Bush presented the President's Volunteer Service Award to hospice volunteer Lindsey Allen when he visited...

Study Shows Acrylamide in Baked and Fried Foods Does Not Increase Risk of Breast Cancer in Women.
March 15, 2005... Byline: Harvard School of Public Health BOSTON, March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, have found no association between acrylamide intake in...

Determining The Fate of Cells in the Human Body.
March 15, 2005... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study in the April issue (currently available online) of Nature Genetics establishes a model that may take scientists closer to understanding how...

Drama Therapy Can Coax Alzheimer's Patients Back to Reality, Briefly.
March 15, 2005... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Some Alzheimer's patients who take part in a drama therapy group respond to the make-believe activities in dramatic and surprising ways. Older people in mid-...

Searching for 'Missing Link' between Obesity and Diabetes, Researchers Explore Leptin's Role; Single Hormone Appears to Regulate Blood Sugar in Two Different Ways.
March 16, 2005... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Twin epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes are bearing down on the world's population, threatening the lives of hundreds of millions of people....

Center for Keratoconus Founder Robert Gavin to Be Honored at Eye Birth Defects Research Foundation; Gala Event Will Feature BB King, Pay Tribute to Ray Charles.
March 16, 2005... Byline: Center for Keratoconus LOS ANGELES, March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Robert Gavin, founder of the Center for Keratoconus (http://www.kcenter.org), will be honored at the Eye Birth Defects Research Foundation's first-ever gala dinner...

Construction and Mining, Wholesale, Retail Top List of Industries With Problem Drinkers in the Workforce.
March 16, 2005... Byline: Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems WASHINGTON, March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The construction and mining fields have the highest percentage of problem drinkers, with nearly one in seven workers having a serious alcohol problem,...

American Cancer Society Urges UC Regents Not to Backpedal on Tobacco Funding.
March 16, 2005... Byline: American Cancer Society SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- For years the American Cancer Society California Division has urged private and public sector organizations to turn away from tobacco funding and to cease...

Study Suggests Link Between Environmental Mercury, Autism.
March 16, 2005... Byline: University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A provocative study just released by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio reveals a...

State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Facility Launched to Produce Microbicides to Protect Women from HIV; New Facility Will Help Microbicide Developers Produce Products for Upcoming Clinical Trials.
March 17, 2005... Byline: Global Health Strategies SILVER SPRING, Md., March 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) today opened a new manufacturing facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that will produce clinical trial...

Waist Size Linked to Diabetes Risk in Adult Men.
March 17, 2005... Byline: Bloomberg School of Public Health BALTIMORE, March 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The circumference of a man's waist is a better predictor of his risk of developing type 2 diabetes than his body mass index (BMI), which is a...

Women's Health Forum Explores Variety of Topics for All Ages; Palo Alto Medical Foundation Co-Sponsors Adult School's April 16 Event.
March 17, 2005... Byline: Palo Alto Medical Foundation PALO ALTO, Calif., March 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Women too often focus on taking care of everyone around them while neglecting their own health and well-being. For this reason, the Palo Alto Adult...

No Spirit of Responsibility at Big Beer -- by Robert Reynolds.(regarding beer industry's response to complaints about its advertisements)
March 17, 2005... Byline: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation LA MESA, Calif., March 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following is an editorial by Robert Reynolds, director of Alcohol Policy Initiatives for Pacific Institute for Research and...

Ursinus College Promotes Intergenerational Civic Engagement Through Project Pericles.
March 18, 2005... Byline: Ursinus College COLLEGEVILLE, Pa., March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two spring semester courses at Ursinus College have engaged students with two different age groups in their communities. An English course, Community-based...

Mayo Clinic Tobacco Quitline Launched to Help United States Coast Guard Tobacco Users.
March 21, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., March 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Health Promotion Division of the U.S. Coast Guard launched a new tobacco cessation service today for the more than 200,000 Coast Guard active duty members, their...

Abuse and HIV Status Linked to Suicide Risk.
March 22, 2005... Byline: Bloomberg School of Public Health BALTIMORE, March 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Women who are HIV-positive or are abused are more likely to think about or attempt suicide, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins...

Rochester Institute of Technology Takes Eye-Tracking Research to Next Level; Portable Technology Applied to Everything From Understanding Deaf Cognition to Improving LCD Display Monitors.
March 23, 2005... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- How do we use our eyes to perceive the world? Could eye movements be windows into human cognition? Scientist Jeff Pelz thinks so. The director of...

Elephants Imitate Sounds as Form of Social Communication; Join Birds, Bats, Dolphins as Vocal Learners.
March 24, 2005... Byline: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WOODS HOLE, Mass., March 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Elephants learn to imitate sounds that are not typical of their species, the first known example after humans of vocal learning in a non-primate...

Westefeld Study Suggests Suicide Still a Problem on College Campuses.
March 28, 2005... Byline: University of Iowa IOWA CITY, Iowa, March 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A small percentage of college students across the country continue to seriously contemplate, attempt or commit suicide, but a new study headed by a professor in the...

Indiana University Researchers Closer to Helping Hearing-Impaired Using Stem Cells.
March 28, 2005... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, March 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are several steps closer to the day when a profoundly deaf patient's own bone marrow cells could...

See Yourself as Outsiders Do to Measure Progress Toward Goals, Study Says.
March 28, 2005... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- When people feel they've hit a roadblock in reaching a personal goal, such as losing weight, a change in perspective may give them the help they need to move...

Bullying Among Sixth Graders a Daily Occurrence, UCLA Study Finds.
March 28, 2005... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, March 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nearly half the sixth graders in two Los Angeles-area public schools say they were bullied by classmates during a five-day period, UCLA researchers report in the first study to...

MIT Researchers Identify Gene Involved in Building Brains.(CPG15)
March 29, 2005... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- A tiny molecule is key to determining the size and shape of the developing brain, researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT reported in the March...

Noise at Daycare and Home Interferes With Infants Learning to Speak.
March 30, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Noise levels in some daycare centers and homes can interfere with the language development of infants younger than 13 months, says a new...

U.S. Supreme Court Ruling in Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic's Case Expands Age Discrimination Protection.
March 30, 2005... Byline: Stanford Law School STANFORD, Calif., March 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Stanford Law School today released the following. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that workers over 40 do not have to show intentional discrimination by...

New One-e-App Program Office Will Speed Implementation of Web-based Enrollment System for California's Public Programs.
March 30, 2005... Byline: Public Health Institute OAKLAND, Calif., March 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) and The California Endowment announced today the establishment of a new statewide One-e-App Program Office. ...

New Web Resource on HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria: GlobalHealthReporting.org Helps Journalists, Others Stay Up-to-Date on Latest News, Reports, Data.
March 31, 2005... Byline: Kaiser Family Foundation MENLO PARK, Calif., March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Updated daily with the latest information on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria, the new Web site GlobalHealthReporting.org offers an easy and...

San Francisco Bay Area's Culinary Celebrities Join Together to Celebrate 35th Anniversary of Meals On Wheels at 18th Annual Star Chefs & Vintners Gala Sunday, May 15.
March 31, 2005... Byline: David Perry & Associates SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Meals On Wheels of San Francisco (www.mowsf.org), the non-profit organization dedicated to feeding homebound seniors in San Francisco, will celebrate 35...

Restore Bioterrorism Funds, Local Health Officials Appeal.
March 31, 2005... Byline: Burness Communications WASHINGTON, March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) today strongly urged the Bush administration and Congress to restore funding for local and state...