X-Rays: How Big A Risk To Kids? UF Researchers Seek Answers
...r researchers heading the project. "If the parent asks what the riskwas, nobody can give a quantitative answer." Hospitals routinely take measurements from X-ray machines to estimatetheapproximate size of the dose patients receive. Though all radiation carriessome risk, the exams can be crucial ...Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
...ter)? Is it considerable, small amounts or none?" asks Scott M. Grundy, M.D., Ph.D., who wrote an accompanying editorial in Circulation. He is director of the center for human nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. In one report researchers found that the benefit...Scientists Link Body Weight Regulation And Immune System Control
...nction be connected to regulation of body weight?" asks Barsh. Thatremains an open question, but the new research may hold some long-term prospectsfor the treatment of obesity. "This will obviously require further study, butone might imagine that a subclass of obese patients will be found to havealteratio...Psychologist Detects Brain-Activity Changes In Maltreated Kids
...ars oldhave such pervasive developmental effects?" asks Pollak. "This study is one wayto find some of the underlying developmental changes caused by traumaticevents." Pollak's study, which he presented to the Society for PsychophysiologicalResearch last fall, looked at differences in brain electrical acti...New Book Looks At Those Who Examine Our Sex Lives
...ng our behavior to that of therespondents. But who asks these questions? And why? What effects do they have on policy andperception? In her new book, "Kiss and Tell: Surveying Sex in the TwentiethCentury" (Harvard University Press), sociologist Julia A. Ericksen looks behindthe sensational answers to e......isk factors, in people who have hadheart attacks?" asks Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D., president of the AmericanHeart Association and director of the Cardiovascular Institute, Mount SinaiMedical Center in New York City. "Or is the decline a result of decreased incidence of first heart attacks due tomore e...Transmitting infertility from father to son
...suggest anythingspecial medically for these boys?" asks Dr. Page. "The bottom line is that there's a strong need for genetic counseling to be aprominent part of assisted reproduction," he stresses. When the boys in this study reach puberty, physicians may evaluate themagain -- this time to determine whet...Myc's cancer-causing joy ride more reckless than previously believed
... are the importantrules? Who are the key players?" asks Land, who is the Robert and Dorothy MarkinProfessor of Cancer Biology. "We're scratching the surface of a complexity that five years ago, nobody evendreamed about. The full texture of the biochemical circuitry of cells is justbeginning to emerge, and...Cigarette smoking among American teens
... "great risk" of harm for the user. [The question asks how much "people risk harming themselves (physically or in other ways) if they smoke one or more packs of cigarettes per day."] (See Figure 3.) "Certainly this is a move in the right direction," Johnston comments, "but among the eighth-graders, ev...Insured minorities continue to face obstacles to health care, UCSF study reports
...easure, said the researchers: whether the provider asks about medications and treatments prescribed by other doctors. "These findings reinforce the fact that language, cultural, and economic differences are barriers to health care," said Phillips, who added that minorities also have a more limited choi...Health clubs not fit for cardiac emergencies
...the past five years. The screening questionnaire asks such questions as whether a person has had a heart attack, chest pain or dizziness. Participants are directed to contact their personal physician if they answer yes to one or more questions. Even more worrisome was the low level of emergency prepare...Direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads get poor grades for educating consumers
...erican College of Physicians. Then, when a patient asks about an advertised drug, the physician can provide a handout, saying, "This information is produced by the best experts in the field and provides a more balanced view than what you will find in profit-motivated advertisements," the authors suggest. ...Parents benefit by accompanying children on ambulance trips between hospitals
...sult of its study the transport team now routinely asks if a parent wants to accompany the transport. Dr. Woodward added that the parents presence during the transport conveys comfort to the child and eases the childs transition to a hospital setting. One parent wrote on the survey, "My child was very cal...Road skills hint at 'motion blindness' of Alzheimer's
...tual environment help navigate a real environment? asks Duffy. It may be that virtual experience is as good as real experience, or even better, because you could highlight features in the environment that would train people to look for certain things. Duffy first reported the phenomenon of motion blindne...Stanford team prevents kidney transplant rejection without drugs
...ading to rejection. Strober said the study asks two questions: Can you get patients off the drugs and, if so, for how long? "We feel we can answer yes to the first question," Strober said, adding that so far, two of the four patients in the study are completely free of drugs, with another still ta...Researchers identify new signs of depression and anxiety in patients
...n Scale (DUKE-AD), a seven-item questionnaire that asks about nervousness, feeling depressed or sad, getting tired easily, trouble sleeping, being comfortable around people, difficulty concentrating and giving up to easily. Providers completed the Duke Severity of Illness Checklist (DUSOI) within 24 hour...New hearing test simulates noise of real world
...rom different ones. Yet, every time only one voice asks the children to choose an object. To correctly identify it, the children must try to ignore all the simultaneous speakers, except the one giving directions. "When the voices come from the same place and when we add more competing voices, the task ge...Simple questions may help predict death risk for heart patients
...ity of life. The SAQ is a 19-question survey that asks heart disease patients to what degree angina (chest pain) limits their physical activity; how often they have angina, and how it affects their quality of life. Patients' responses are scored on a scale of 0 to 100. Higher scores indicate less physi...The Lancet neurology press release
...mber's Leading Edge editorial The Lancet Neurology asks whether private diagnostic testing without physician support should be allowed. Other reviews The potential of anti-inflammatory drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes: an update on diagnosis, pathogen...A team of researchers asks in a new health journal article, "Are the Fat More Jolly?" What they found was that obesity does not protect people from mental health problems. "The answer," they write, "is a most emphatic 'No.'" Looking at eight different indicators of mental heal...