Mayo Clinic Health Management Resources offers employee e-health management case study
...ches commitment to employee health is based on the belief that helping employees improve their health is in the best interest of the company; it results in a workforce that is more productive, has fewer distractions and will be absent less. The case study explains an in-house program called "Choosing Health...Sleep less, live longer? Increased death rate associated with sleeping 8 hours or more
Although its a common belief that 8 hours of sleep is required for optimal health, a six-year study of more than one million adults ages 30 to 102 has shown that people who get only 6 to 7 hours a night have a lower death rate. Individuals who sleep 8 hours or more, or less tha...Nutrition education with a food label focus helps diabetics over 65 meet treatment goals
...r saving money at the supermarket to counter their belief that it was too expensive to eat a healthful diet. One session was conducted in a supermarket so the participants had an opportunity to apply the principles they learned. Participants were also offered guided activities throughout the program to str...Seeing movie stars smoke makes teens more vulnerable to tobacco use
...n of positive benefits from smoking and a stronger belief that smoking is a normal adult behavior. Each of these attributes has been shown to indicate a greater likelihood that a nonsmoking teen will start to smoke. The observed associations remained strong even when other factors known to predict teen smo...Undersize infants score higher on IQ tests if breast fed exclusively
...diets. The finding also discredits the widely held belief that supplementary feedings of formula and cereal, in addition to breast milk, will help these smaller infants reach normal size faster than they would on breast milk alone. Ten percent of all births in the United States are small for gestational ag...Brain center searches for patterns
...to maladaptive superstitions such as the gambler's belief that a pair of dice is "due" to roll a seven. ...between washing the car and having it rain, to the belief that rolling dice without getting a seven means that a seven is due. Thus, brain processes that were...Beth Israel Deaconess study documents outstanding surgical outcomes for diabetes patients
BOSTON Contrary to the long-held belief that surgery poses a significant danger to patients with diabetes mellitus, a 10-year study of more than 6,500 patients from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has shown a mortality rate of only 1 percent among diabetes patients undergoing ...Initial chemotherapy treatment reduces relapses in MS patients
...fit and reduction of disease activity supports our belief that mitoxantrone, as administered in this study, may be an effective induction treatment before initiating other long-term disease modifying therapies for worsening relapsing-remitting MS patients, commented study author Emmanuelle Le Page, MD....Long-term survival results favor chemotherapy before surgery for locally advanced breast cancer
...ecause of the sheer volume of their tumors and the belief that they would soon die from spread of the disease well beyond the breast, or distant metastatic disease. Over the last decade, studies of neoadjuvant therapy for patients with large primary tumors had demonstrated that successful tumor downstaging...Stanford study shows now-familiar medications at core of better outlook for depressed patients
...antidepressant medication. "Our study confirms the belief that the diagnosis and treatment of depression have been impacted by the advent of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)," said Randall Stafford, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and lead author ...No association between ageing gametes and birth defects
... conclude that there is no evidence to support the belief that sexual intercourse too soon or two long after ovulation is associated with an increased risk of birth defects and Downs syndrome. For many years, the ageing of gametes as a result of prolonged retention in the female reproductive tract before fe...Scientists warn against anti-aging hype
...ely studying the underlying nature of aging in the belief that their research will eventually suggest ways to slow its progression and to thereby postpone infirmity and improve quality of life," the authors write. "But anyone purporting to offer an anti-aging product today is either mistaken or lying." Conc...Understanding cancer patients' needs, concerns, is key to improving clinical trial participation
...ned to participate, many of them out of a mistaken belief that investigational treatments are not as effective as standard treatment. In fact, many investigational treatments are at least as effective as conventional therapy, and cancer patients who participate in clinical trials frequently have higher surv...American cancer specialists disagree about the purpose of clinical trials
...ize the objectives of treatment and research." The belief that studies are directed primarily to benefit the participant also challenges the commonly held principle that research is conducted for scientific knowledge and the improvement of future therapy....'I think I can' helps shed pounds after giving birth
...en would exercise during pregnancy. But a woman's belief in her ability to exercise regularly -- which researchers describe as exercise self-efficacy -- also was a strong predictor for working out during pregnancy. The studies are based on a sample of 622 women at the Research Institute of Bassett Healthca...UNC studies add new dimension to 'lock-and-key' theory of drug action
...hat the old lock-and-key idea was too simple, this belief was based on studies in isolated cells. Now, two new papers just published by Mailmans team show that several drugs they designed have this property in intact brain, as well as in isolated cells. The drugs used in the studies mimic dopamine, a neuroc...Magnesium sulphate halves risk of eclampsia for pregnant women with pre-eclampsia
... Anticonvulsants are used for pre-eclampsia in the belief they prevent eclamptic convulsions; previous research has suggested that the anticonvulsant magnesium sulphate (first used in obstetric care in the USA nearly a century ago) offers the best hope for reducing the development of eclampsia among women w...Genetic manifestation of melanoma linked to geographic location
...is at first glance puzzling, because the long-held belief in the field is that the phenotype [physical manifestations] of hereditary cancer gene mutations should not be tied to the environment." The authors raise the issue of why and how factors that affect geographic incidence rates of melanoma also affec...Passive smoking increases the risk of heart disease
...he consistency of these findings ... increases the belief that the observed association (between passive smoking and heart disease) may represent cause and effect."...Strong spiritual beliefs may help people recover from bereavement
...er from their grief. People reporting no spiritual belief had not resolved their grief after 14 months. Peop...ly over the same period. People with low levels of belief showed little change in the first nine months but thereafter resolved their grief. Most palliative c...