Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
...reliminary results show that intoxicated speech is marked by jumpychanges in pitch and energy production and...speech is slower, features longer sentences and is marked bymispronunciations, such as slurred sounds and transposed letters andwords. In the current study, ...Hospital Noise Disrupts Sleep For Patients, In The Critical Care Setting
...pital patientshave what is called "ICU psychosis," marked by symptoms of nighttimedisorientation and delusion. Sleep deprivation may also adversely affectrespiratory muscle function, possibly hindering weaning from mechanicalventilators, Millman said. The study appears in the current issue of the journal ...Laser Shown Effective In Patients Who Are Not Candidates For Bypass Surgery Or Angioplasty
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...ients at Shands. Tiny detectors implanted atplaces marked with felt-tip marker labels such as "liver," "bladder" or"stomach" measure doses to organs or tissues. While the results are useful, they paint only part of the picturebecausethe detectors measure the doses only at specific locations, said W...Products For Weight Loss Or Increased Energy Can Be Deadly, Warn Poison Control Experts
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...he brain. Epilepsy, a common neurological disorder marked by repeated seizures, affectsmore than 2 million Americans. Benzodiazepines, a class of drugs that includesdiazepam and lorazepam, are generally agreed to be the treatment of choice foracute repetitive seizures. "This new method of treatment clearl...New Survey Finds Physicians Seek More Clarity In MS Diagnosis And Management
...ients, to secondary-progressive MS (SPMS),which is marked by ever increasing severity of irreversible disability. Thesepatients in transition from RRMS to SPMS have a generally more aggressive stateof disease and may be less likely to respond to currently available therapies. By expanding the cla...DNA-Based Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise To Successfully Treat Melanoma In Mice
...injected withhuman DNA and the researchers found a marked immune response. In addition to inducing an immune attack in the mice, the researchers found thatthe human DNA also caused autoimmunity, or a condition that occurs when theimmune system attacks the body's own cells. The condition, called vitiligo i...AIDS Prevention: Does It Work? Paper Suggests New Way To Assess Prevention Programs
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...ion suffers from chronic forms ofdepression, marked by disabling psychological and social problems. These individualsare often misdiagnosed as having character or personality disorders. In thestudy, many patients had suffered chronic major depression - a severe form of atleast two ye...PAHO To Provide $1 Million For Cholera Programs In Central America
...atemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. The meeting here marked the first time the health officials gathered since Hurricane Mitch struck the Central American isthmus at the end of October. The Health Ministers from the six nations and Dr. Alleyne signed the Costa del Sol Declaration, which called on all the nati......imulation. But the treatment failed to provide any marked relief for a third patient with metastatic gallbladder cancer who had no evidence of bone involvement. "Although PENS does not appear to be as effective in treating patientswhose cancer has not spread to the bones, we've seen very encouraging re...New Three Year Follow-up Data Of Novantrone In Multiple Sclerosis
... Results of the featured follow-up data showed a marked difference in thenumber of patients who had an Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS)deterioration of one point when measured from baseline to month 36. Only 17% ofthe patients in the 12 mg/m2 arm and 24% of patients receiving 5mg/m2experienced a d...WIC, Medicaid Have Reduced Infant Deaths
... Medicaid." The Welfare Reform Act in 1996 marked a decisive change from theprograms begun under Franklin Delano Roosevelt and expanded by the Great Societyand War on Poverty initiatives of the 1960s. The act shifts responsibility forwelfare support to the states through block grant programs and rem......nuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)resulted in a marked reduction in blood pressure. CPAP is a breathing maskattached to a machine and is used during sleep to keep the airways open. Dr. Sullivan noted that pre-eclampsia occurs in nearly 10% of all normalpregnancies, and is the major cause of a...Evidence Shows Drug-Psychotherapy Combo Effective For Chronic Depression
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