Research Links Healthy Biological Clock To Longevity
... that generates a rhythmcontrolling the day/night behaviour of an organism. When this rhythm breaksdown, as it does in many aging humans, it leads to numerous health problemsincluding disrupted sleep patterns and poor body temperature control. Ralph saysthat while it is highly unlikely humans will ever receiv...Marijuana Not A Factor In Driving Accidents
...a decreases the drug's impact onperformance. Their behaviour is more appropriate to their impairment, whereassubjects who received alcohol tend to drive in a more risky manner." Smiley, who has studied transportation safety for over 25 years, drew herresults from a "metanalysis" of existing research into the e...British Adolescents Need Government Support To Help Clean Up Their Act
...s of concern, particularly when British teenagers' behaviour is compared with that of their western European co...t the unit offers real hope for addressing teenage behaviour and encourages other health professionals to welcome the initiative....Discussion about learning processes reopens
... Heidelbergcould not demonstrate abnormal learning behaviour in the mutant mice. Rather,the mice lacking LTP were, like normal mice, capable of accurately finding asubmerged, invisible platform in a pool of murky water ("water maze") and toswim there immediately when placed in the water. Further research is ne...Bullies need as much help as their victims
(Bullying behaviour and psychosocial health among school students in New South Wales, Australia: cross sectional survey) (Bullying, depression and suicidal ideation in Finnish adolescents: school survey) Two studies in this week's BMJ report on the psychiatric eff...Better diagnosis of pain in children
... allows doctors and nurses to record seventypes of behaviour which are related to pain. Staff observe the childunobtrusively, noting a score for whether it is crying, how it breathes (panting,holding its breath or breathing regularly), the way it moves its arms and fingers(in the case of pain, cramped, clenche......on techniquesthat allow researchers to control the behaviour of the tissue growth cultureusing the molecular properties of the material itself. The materials are madeby injecting an organic molecule into a plasma of ionised gas. This causes athin plasma polymer deposit to be formed around the molecule while ...Most acquisition of meningitis bacteria among students occurs in first week of university term
...might be explained by different patterns of social behaviour in single sex halls, suggest the authors. But mixed sex halls posed less of a risk than a daily visit to the hall bar which more than doubled the risk of acquisition....Risky sexual behaviour linked to psychiatric disorders in young adults
...tance dependence, are associated with risky sexual behaviour in young people, according to a study in this week...ange of psychiatric problems and aspects of sexual behaviour in over 900 men and women, all 21 years of age. The authors found that young people with depression,......ervational studies. In the studies the therapeutic behaviour of cabergoline in the daily clinical routine use was reviewed in patients with advanced PD. All studies were looking at adverse events, efficacy, dosing and interactions with other medications. The largest study, the Optimised Parkinson's Therapy in..."Dutch Nobel Prize" for three researchers
...tion from the solid to the liquid state, the phase behaviour of liquid crystals and the mechanism of protein crystallisation. An understanding of protein crystals has given us a greater understanding of virtually all the processes in the body. However, Professor Frenkels computer work involves more than just...Depression turns generation gap into a chasm
...viours such as substance abuse, increased suicidal behaviour and disruptive disorders," said Dr Sawyer. Once depression is diagnosed, modern treatments for it can be very effective, and they are improving all the time, but none of that helps unless adolescents with problems are identified and receive assistan...Meningitis in infancy linked to developmental problems
...or these deficits, improving academic performance, behaviour and self esteem," he concludes....Four researchers awarded Dutch Nobel Prize
...ch things as anxiety, introversion and over-active behaviour is very great. It is only as the child grows up that the parental environment begins to play a modest role in these problems. One interesting discovery made by Professor Boomsma is that the genetic influences on variation in the number of cigarettes......tive interventions that achieve real change in the behaviour of all stakeholders, including patients, healthcare workers, and governments....Women want to be asked about domestic violence
... their partner and to have experienced controlling behaviour (e.g. being shouted or screamed at) than women who did not report such violence. For general practitioners and doctors in accident and emergency, asking women about fear of their partner and controlling behaviours may be an acceptable and effective w...Enrol for successful weight loss
...t loss, through healthy eating, physical activity, behaviour modification and pharmacotherapy. Feedback received from patients enrolled in the Xenical programme demonstrates its value. One patient, enrolled in the US patient support programme, Xenicare, commented "Xenical is great, but without all of your hin...Nursing degree improves patient outcomes, study shows
...earch Unit also found that patients' knowledge and behaviour relating to their own health needs are more likely to improve if their home care nurse has a baccalaureate degree, compared to nurses without degrees. The research unit launched the study, published in two parts in the November-December and January-F...Heavy drinking by both sexes is a cause for concern
...g adults, say the authors. Tackling risky drinking behaviour in young people should be a key feature of the long overdue alcohol strategy, they conclude....Outsmarting cancer - new results from novel enzyme inhibitors
...Proteasome is a protein complex that modulates the behaviour of cells during the cell cycle. It regulates the levels of key proteins that control the fine balance between normal cell division and normal programmed cell death. In cancer cells normal programmed cell death goes wrong and the cancer cells become i...