HIV Patients' Mental Health Affects How Seriously They Take Treatment
... from their surroundings or aredepressed are more apt to disregard medical treatment, according to studyfindings. "The psychological well-being of HIV patients plays a role in their adherence totreatment," said William Holzemer, RN, PhD, UCSF professor of nursing, chair ofthe UCSF School of Nursing's De...Anti-Migraine Drugs Might Cause More Pain Than Relief For Those With Heart Disease
...ptan. Compared to sumatriptan, all drugs were more apt to cause the coronary arteriesto contract, but are administered to patients in lower doses. The researchersdetermined the maximum contraction response of the arteries elicited by thedrugs and the concentration of the drug required to achieve half of......was greater than 10 percent,those babies also were apt to be resuscitated. The more certain they were thatthe baby would not survive and be healthy, the more willing they were towithhold treatment." When doctors and parents disagreed about how much treatment should begiven, all parents wanted mor...Cochlear Implant Increases Access To Mainstream Education
... deaf children receivinga cochlearimplant are more apt to be fully mainstreamed in school and use fewer schoolsupport servicesthan similarly deaf children without an implant. Results of the Hopkins-funded study, believed to be the first in the UnitedStates toexamine the use of special education aid ...Dental students help close care gap at Indian reservation
...udents whoparticipate in such externships are more apt to apply for commissions with the PHS upon graduation. Tommasone served two years as a PHS officer at a reservation in Oklahoma after earning his dental degree at CWRU in1968. Officers in the PHS have Naval ranks and wear uniforms, he explains. A fou...Abstemious mice offer hint at molecular target for treating alcoholism
...ck the enzyme, known as PKCe, were 75 percent less apt toimbibe than their normal brethren. Mice lacking the enzyme also responded as if they were pre-treated with a classof drugs that are commonly used to treat seizures, anxiety and epilepsy, butshowed now sign of being sleepy or sedate, normally a side......Medicaid," said Dr. Lin. "Single parents are more apt to seek out social services, such as Medicaid, for their children." A second study presented by Dr. Lin and her team at the GSPH, this time among children eligible for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), had somewhat different resu...Some autistic people have memory advantage for certain tasks
... The normal subjects were more apt to have false memories - they thought that they recognized words that were in fact not on the list. But these "wrong" words tended to fit the context of the list. "The false-memory test is ...Gender differences in general aviation crashes
...cluding fatalities; and females were slightly more apt to use a shoulder restraint than males. "Our study reveals several gender differences in the types of pilot error involved in general aviation crashes," concludes Professor Baker. "In order to improve training of pilots, the most common errors misha...Suicides involving guns rise sharply among young African-American males
... "African-American youth who are suicidal are more apt to turn to firearms, which often lead to lethal results," said Joe, an assistant professor in Penns School of Social Work. "The evidence is clear that firearm-related suicide is becoming a major public health problem among African-American males," t...Implantable heart device reduces deaths by one-third
...us heart disease, the patients with ICDs were more apt to develop additional problems that could not be helped by the defibrillator....Does your brain shutdown with Alzheimer's?
...rge draining from a dying battery. The image is an apt one, because experiments on nerve cells suggest that as Alzheimer's takes hold, electrical charge may leak out of the brain cells, forcing them to "power down" and die, taking cherished memories with them. The finding points to a new and unexpected ...More than 70 percent of adults with cancer use alternative therapies
... use; patients 60 and younger were nearly twice as apt to avail themselves of alternative treatment compared with those over age 70. Income, in contrast, was not significantly associated with alternative-therapy use and did not seem to be a barrier to treatment. Overall, the median cost of alternative t...Gender preferences in 'comfort' foods stem from childhood
...ite is often true," Wansink said. "People are more apt to seek out comfort foods when they're jubilant or when they want to celebrate or reward themselves." But the kinds of foods that give comfort may vary with one's mood, according to the Illinois professor. A person may crave pizza when happy, reach ...Freshman eating binge is real, with national implications
...recent dieting (recent dieters, he notes, are more apt to gain weight). Levitsky and his colleagues beli...d, and when students take large portions, they are apt to consume them. Easy access to junk food in dorms and around campus also contribute to excessive w...Comfort-food cravings may be body's attempt to put brake on chronic stress
... are chronically stressed, and why such people are apt to gain weight in the abdomen. The finding, to be published this week on-line in the Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on a glucocorticoid steroid hormone (corticosterone in rats, cortisol in humans) that plays...School clinics best way to get birth control to students
Minneapolis high school students are more apt to take advantage of free contraception if they can get birth control directly from clinics at their schools, according to new research in the November issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Before 1998, students who visited school-based cli...Age-related outcomes, immune response in patients with brain tumors linked to thymic cells
...e ability of immunotherapy to fight cancer. A more apt description than "age-dependent outcome" is "CD8+ recent-thymic emigrant-dependent outcome," according to an article in the Nov. 1 issue of the Journal of Immunology. CD8+ T lymphocytes, which attack foreign invaders, develop in the thymus and elsewh...Research news from Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy: March 2004
...oods, particularly fiber-rich cereals, may be less apt to develop the metabolic syndrome. "Higher consumption of whole-grain foods is associated with a lower risk of insulin resistance, thereby decreasing the risk of diabetes" said Nicola M. McKeown, PhD, scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutritio...