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Improving Doctor-patient Communication Yields Significant Health Benef
A simple tool can improve the effectiveness of communication between doctors and patients about prescribed medications and result in dramatic improvements in health and safety. The new communication tool involves a computer-generated weekly calendar with color images of the medication to be taken each day, combined with instructions written in English and in a patient's native language if the patient does not speak English. High Blood Pressure Problems Largely Misunderstood By Sufferers
The distrust of health-care providers shown by people with high blood pressure impedes effective treatment according to a new study. In a systematic review and metasynthesis of 11 qualitative studies published between 2000 and 2005, including more than 500 patients, significant and problematic differences were identified in beliefs about the presence of symptoms, the need to take medications for the rest of one's life, and race-specific treatment plans. Experts: Climate Report Too Rosy
In Paris this week, climate scientists will issue a dire forecast of rising sea levels and higher temperatures. But some say it's a sugarcoated version. By the Associated Press. New Estimates For The Causes Of Child Deaths Worldwide
The most accurate estimates of the causes of child deaths to date, published in the March 26, 2005 of THE LANCET, reveal that worldwide more than 70% of the 10.6 million child deaths that occur annually are attributable to six causes: pneumonia (19%), diarrhoea (18%), malaria (8%), neonatal sepsis or pneumonia (10%), preterm delivery (10%), and asphyxia at birth (8%). Regulator Of Lipid Metabolism Ensures High Quality Breast Milk
Mouse mammary glands deficient in PPAR³, a nuclear receptor that regulates the storage of fat, produce toxic milk that causes inflammation and baldness in suckling pups, report scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. "We were quite surprised by the unexpected quality control mechanism that ensures the quality of breast milk,"says Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D., professor in the Salk Institute's Gene Expression Laboratory and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator. "Our finding explains why breast milk is always clean and healthful, even when there's a lot of inflammation going on in the mother's body,"he adds. Alaskan High Schoolers Help NASA Record, Share 'Earth Music'
North Pole High School math teacher Dr. Curt Szuberla and his student team of aspiring scientists and engineers braved the elements this winter on NASA's behalf to scout locations for and build a very-low-frequency radio receiver, or VLF. The receiver will help NASA and students around the nation study the eerie "music"of planet Earth -- radio waves emitted by lightning strikes and other natural phenomena, which VLF receivers deliver as a weirdly beautiful chorus. The Poinsettia Pages
History, lore, facts and figures, selection, and tips for caring for poinsettia plants. Includes a FAQ, instructions for getting poinsettias to reflower, and related links. From the University of Illinois Extension. The Seattle Public Library: Reading Lists
Collection of reading lists for children, teens, and adults, created by staff at the Seattle Public Library. Includes a series of lists on Pacific Northwest explorers and travelers, fiction set in Seattle and Washington state, Seattle mysteries, local science fiction and fantasy authors, and more. Video Analysis Adds Evidence For Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Skeptics have claimed that video evidence of an ivory-billed woodpecker is really a pileated woodpecker, but Cornell University researchers offered a frame-by-frame analysis of a video showing why they stand by their claim. Israeli Scientists Successfully Transplant Frozen-thawed Ovaries In Sh
Israeli scientists report (Thursday 15 September) in Human Reproduction that they have successfully transplanted whole frozen and thawed ovaries in sheep, retrieved oocytes from these ovaries and triggered them in the laboratory into early embryonic development. This could one day become a feasible treatment for women who have lost their fertility and may also have potential applications for other human organ transplants.
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