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Reinventing Aging: Baby Boomers and Civic Engagement
This 162-page report examines volunteering, community-based efforts, and other civic engagement opportunities for the baby boom generation (people born in the United States during the later 1940s through the early 1960s). "The main message of the Report is that there is an opportunity to help boomers create a social legacy of profound importance."Opens directly into a PDF file. From the Harvard School of Public Health-MetLife Foundation Initiative on Retirement and Civic Engagement. [Ironic] LONDON: A jailed cocaine dealer is working as Santa Claus on
John Tams, who dons beard, boots and red suit to work in a cafe's Christmas grotto, said he wanted to give something back to the community... Health care accounts for eight percent of US carbon footprint, calcula
The American health-care sector accounts for 8 percent of the country's carbon dioxide emissions, according to a first-of-its-kind calculation of health care's carbon footprint. Researchers used expenditures from different parts of the health care sector to measure the industry's potential effect upon global warming through the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Physical Therapy In ICU Can Reduce Hospital Stays
A new study shows the effectiveness of early physical therapy in a medical intensive care unit. The length of stay for a group of respiratory-failure patients who received mobility therapy within 48 hours of the insertion of a breathing tube was reduced by an average of three days compared to the stay for patients who did not receive the therapy. This reduced length of stay included a reduction of time in the ICU of more than a day. Can The Standard Course Of Radiation Therapy Following Lumpectomy Be S
Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers have presented preliminary results of a clinical trial in which women received a two-week shorter course of radiation therapy than the current standard following a lumpectomy. The study was presented today at the annual Charles A. Coltman Jr. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. New Strategy For AIDS Vaccination: HIV Exploits Competition Among T-ce
New HIV research shows how competition among the human immune system's T cells allows the virus to escape destruction and eventually develop into full-blown AIDS. The study, slated to appear in Physical Review Letters, employs a computer model of simultaneous virus and immune system evolution. It also suggests a new strategy for vaccinating against the virus -- a strategy that the computer simulations suggest may prevent the final onset of AIDS. Keeping Cancer At Bay: Long-term Therapy In The Fight Against Multiple
There is no known cure for multiple myeloma, so its diagnosis means high-dose chemotherapy followed by repeated treatments with each relapse of the cancer -- a watch and wait approach. A new approach of providing patients with continuous therapy to keep the cancer at bay was explored by a team of international researchers from France, Switzerland and Belgium. Their findings will be published in the Nov. 15, 2006, issue of Blood. Physicist Reads Solar System's History In Grains Of Comet Dust
Four years ago, NASA's Stardust spacecraft chased down a comet and collected grains of dust blowing off its nucleus. When the spacecraft Comet Wild-2 returned, comet dust was shipped to scientists all over the world, including University of Minnesota physics professor Bob Pepin. After testing helium and neon trapped in the dust specks, Pepin and his colleagues report that while the comet formed in the icy fringes of the solar system, the dust appears to have been born close to the infant sun. FDA-approved drug may slow beta cell destruction in type 1 diabetes pa
Researchers suggest that a drug already used to treat autoimmune disorders might also help slow the destruction of insulin-producing cells in patients recently diagnosed with insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes. Increase In 'Academic Doping' Could Spark Routine Urine Tests For Exam
The increasing use of smart drugs or "nootropics" -- to boost academic performance -- could mean that exam students will face routine doping tests in future, suggests a recent paper.
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