Scientists discover overweight, obesity jump during period between adolescence, adulthood
...h study. The larger, continuing study has involved collecting and analyzing responses from tens of thousands of U.S. adolescents surveyed about their lives, health and habits. ...NIEHS issues additional awards to continue 9/11 follow up
...cleanup. NIEHS-supported researchers were on-site collecting environmental and air samples the day after the disaster. Since then the Institute has funded a multi-faceted array of studies on the health consequences of the attacks. NIEHS grantees have identified the composition and structure of dust particle...Gay, lesbian couples can teach heterosexuals how to improve relationships
...he new studies noteworthy is that they went beyond collecting self-reported data from questionnaires. While self reports produce important information, the researchers wrote, "there is considerable evidence that people's perceptions of their relationship may diverge quite markedly from their actual interaction....College students may be drinking more alcohol than even they realize
...elf served or in bottled containers. When they're collecting information about drinks in these surveys, they ought to provide more information about what a 'standard' drink really is. In addition, we ought to study if alcohol-related problems are associated with miscalculation of the amount of alcohol that it...Nov/Dec 2003 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...t family physicians routinely use a chaperone when collecting a Pap smear? Is a speculum examination necessary f...ntly more likely than women to use chaperones when collecting a Papa smear. According to this survey of 2,748 family physicians, 84 percent of men reported using...Inconsistent guidelines lead to wide variation in chaperone use during Pap smears, U-M study finds
...ave a nurse or medical assistant in the room while collecting a Pap smear, it was so the patient would feel comfortable. In time, hospital lawyers began to advocate chaperones for legal protection. Today, few guidelines and little consistency exists, leaving patients at the mercy of their doctor's training, gen...CT scans find tiny bladder, kidney & urinary cancers
...ed with the U-M team's four years of experience in collecting and analyzing the images produced by MDCTU, have made the technique the standard initial diagnostic tool for U-M patients with a history of urinary system cancer who have new symptoms or are being monitored for recurrence. At U-M, radiologists work w...Breast conserving therapy offers good outcome if criteria are met
...." Results from the 362-patient study, which began collecting data in 1987, show that women treated with conservation surgery had low rates of recurrence in the breast, even in those patients with advanced primary tumors. After 5 years, the breast recurrence rate was only 6 percent and the local-regional recur...New drug may help cancer patients in need of stem cell transplants, Jefferson trial shows
...transplantation. Stem cell transplantation entails collecting certain types of cells known as hematopoietic stem cells from patients who receive treatment with high-dose radiation and/or chemotherapy for cancers such as leukemias, lymphomas and multiple myeloma, all of which involve the blood and immune system....Race affects older Americans' likelihood of getting flu shot
...ng the Oldest Old (AHEAD), both of which have been collecting data from 1993 to determine how retirement impacts the health and wealth of American men and women. The studies were funded by the National Institute on Aging. In the HRS study, 12,652 participants aged 50 to 61 in 1992 have been interviewed about th...National Academies news: Clinical research involving children
...ays. HHS should develop and carry out a plan for collecting and reporting data on pediatric research and its oversight. Plus, local and national professional organizations and research institutions should voluntarily promote quality-improvement efforts in the design, review, and conduct of clinical research....Novel MRI technique provides clear images of blood flow
... the scanner is simultaneously tagging protons and collecting data." During an MRI examination, a patient is guided through the cavity of a large doughnut-shaped magnet. The magnet causes hydrogen nuclei in cells to align, and when perturbed by radio waves, they give off characteristic signals, which create tho...Intensive diabetes management yields positive results, according to Pittsburgh project
...mprovement process and making them responsible for collecting their data in a prospective manner. By asking them to track their patient interventions, physicians were not only assessing their results but also responding to them at the time of encounter. It was also critical to give physicians data on their popu...Sleep problems in early childhood may predict substance use during adolescence
... plan to add to this study's subjective ratings by collecting objective sleep data through use of an actigraph, which looks like an electronic wrist watch and records day-to-day activities, amount of movement during sleep, and sleep duration, as well as polysomnography, the study of brain waves during sleep in ...MRI superior to ultrasound in predicting cerebral palsy in preterm infants
...infants. According to Dr. Barnes, "We are now just collecting that data. The potential is that MR spectroscopy may detect metabolic changes when no macrostructural changes (by ultrasound or conventional MRI) or microstructural changes (by diffusion tensor imaging) are present." The study will be presented on Ma...Computer system makes 'chain' of health care stronger, safer
...sician, and a nursing education report. As part of collecting information for these reports, the system provides a way for residents to document a patient's progress in online notes that can then be accessed by any other member of the team, even long after the resident has gone home. Templates that can be copie...Doctors don't agree on diagnosis of uterine cancer
...ociety of Clinical Oncology, say new standards for collecting and classifying biopsies are needed to improve the accuracy of diagnoses. Cancer of the uterus is the most common cancer affecting the female reproductive tract in the United States. It is diagnosed from biopsied uterine or endometrial cells t...The cancer patient's journey: An uphill climb
...ting cancer and all my friends were chasing girls, collecting baseball cards, and trying different styles with their hair - I had no hair," says Sean. "I had no girls who were interested in me because I was 60 lbs overweight, and I had no one to look up to, no models to encourage me. I felt so alone.""Climbing ...Anxiety good for memory recall, bad for solving complex problems
...he problem-solving questions." The researchers are collecting more data from a new group of medical students this fall. Future work may lead to efforts to help quell pre-exam anxiety....... Hopkins have developed a fast and safe method for collecting heart stem cells from remarkably small amounts of biopsied heart tissue (15 mg or less), and growing the cells in the lab to get more. The technique gets the job done within four weeks, producing enough stem cells to conceivably be used to repair h...