Study finds factors linked to substance use disorder relapse among health care professionals
...itoring program. The participants were followed up between January 1, 1991, and December 31, 2001. Twenty-five percent (74 of 292 individuals) had at least 1 relapse. The researchers found that a family history of a substance use disorder increased the risk of relapse (2.3 times greater risk). The use of a ...Extreme exertion, emotion can spark repeat heart attacks
...f Psychosomatic Medicine of dozens of studies done between 1970 and 2004. In one study, people who exercised rarely were nearly seven times more likely to suffer a heart attack after strenuous exertion than those who exercised more than three times a week. Nevertheless, point out the authors, the absolute r...Chronic fatigue patients show lower response to placebos
...ersists for many years. Alternatively, disconnects between how patients and doctors view the illness "may impede development of a collaborative therapeutic relationship," reviewers suggest. The study also showed that the placebo response is 24 percent for medical interventions but only 14 percent for psychia...Depression linked to insomnia in HIV patients
...es revealed a "consistent and strong relationship" between psychological problems, particularly depression, and insomnia in HIV patients, say the reviewers. Health care workers should pay more attention to diagnosing and treating anxiety and depression in people with HIV as a way to prevent insomnia, "given ...UW research shows risk factors for relapse among health care professionals who abuse drugs
...ram. Data on the subjects were originally gathered between January, 1991, and December, 2001. Domino became interested in the problem of drug use among health care professionals after surveying the cause of death among physicians and noting that anesthesiologists, who can easily obtain potent pain-killers, w...ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...sis. Due to the differences in the infrastructure between the USA and Europe, the ESC Guidelines differ from...observed despite the delay, due to transportation, between randomisation and the start of the treatment. 10. The superiority of primary PCI over thrombolysis s...Study finds majority of women willing to accept cervical cancer vaccine for self and children
...ifically, the study included 200 surveys conducted between February and December 2004 at gynecology and adole...iversity of Texas, Galveston. Women with children between the ages of eight and 14 were asked to take the survey, which was available in both English and Span...African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
...oma" "Both of these studies on racial disparities between African-American and Caucasian women with endometrial cancer suggest that a biologic reason may in part underlie the 'aggressive' endometrial cancers that develop in some African-American patients," said LTC Larry Maxwell, MD, Department of Obstetric...Infant vernier acuity is comparable to that of adults
...with varying amounts of spatial phase displacement between them and measuring an individual's ability to gauge the displacement between the stripes. Angela M. Brown, Veena Adusumilli, and Delwin T. Lindsey of The Ohio State University ...Recovered king of beasts returns to his home, thanks to unique operation
...his cage and to his sister, Delilah. "The meeting between Samson and his sister Delilah was joyous and emotional," said the director of the zoo, Bezalel Porath. "Samson now has many visitors. We also received letters from kindergartens and telephone calls from many who inquired about his welfare. I want to ...Flu pandemic coming, US not prepared
...ocal to national to international, including links between federal authorities and clinicians throughout the country. IDSA is working with congressional leaders to integrate these recommendations into bio-preparedness legislation now being considered on Capitol Hill. The Society is working to achieve biparti...Study shows use of budesonide reduced the risk of asthma related events by 40% in children
...rall, the incidence of side effects was comparable between the two groups, with fewer asthma exacerbations and adverse events reported in the budesonide group throughout the study (budesonide 43.8%; usual care 42.8%). The most frequently reported adverse events were respiratory infection, pharyngitis, rhinit...New studies show mixed results on epilepsy drugs and birth defects
...ve them a number of tests. A total of 249 children between the ages of 6 and 16 took the tests. The 41 children who were exposed to valproic acid during pregnancy were more likely to have low verbal IQ scores (average of 84) compared to other groups in the study, such as those exposed only to the drug phenyt...Success of liver transplantation may be most influenced by three risk factors
...: donor age; the length of time an organ is cooled between procurement and transplantation; and how urgently ...er disease at Vanderbilt University Medical Center between January 1, 1991 and July 31, 2003 to determine which of a number of previously identified risk facto...New colorectal cancer screening recommendations for African Americans
... of the important differences in colorectal cancer between African Americans and Caucasians. Facts about Colo...ere are 2.6 million African American men and women between age 45 and 49 in the United States (July 2003 data) For more information on racial disparities in c...WISE study starts in Toulouse: 60 days of bed-rest for terrestrial female astronauts
...the European Union. This study is a joint venture between the European Space Agency (ESA), the French space agency (CNES), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). It is being carried out by MEDES, the French Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology, i...Pushy parents can be bad for their children's health
...lth outcomes of 23 children, who had been referred between 1997 and 2001. The children, whose average age was...delines. Fifteen of the children had already seen between two and seven consultants at the time of referral. Seven parents were subsequently unhappy with the ...New generation contact lenses cut risk of severe eye infection
...re were no differences in risk of severe keratitis between the different types of lenses when they were worn ...ses were slept in, and there were some differences between lens types. Rates were 96 per 10,000 wearers a year for hydrogel lenses, compared with almost 20 pe...... day off. During their shift, they took breaks of between 30 and 45 minutes every couple of hours. They regularly changed lane booth, working a rotation system. Smoking also increases the amount of urinary 8-OHdG, and there were more smokers among the office workers. But levels of urinary 8-OHdG were an av...TB Alliance announces new drug discovery program with GlaxoSmithKline
...treatment is complicated by drug-drug interactions between some anti-HIV and existing TB drugs. The TB Alliance has united leading researchers, industry actors, and public health advocates to realize the first, most comprehensive TB drug pipeline since the 1960s. Contact: Brenda Timm - +1 (212...