Small social circles tied to heart disease death in women
...nd colleagues found that women who had more social contacts and saw them more often also had lower blood glucose and blood pressure levels, lower rates of smoking and other factors that reduced their risk for coronary disease. Women with larger social networks also showed fewer signs of artery blockage during...Weight loss strategies work in people with pre-diabetes
... the interventions. Pre-diabetics who had frequent contacts with the health care workers providing the diet or exercise advice and who kept up with the intervention were most likely to lose weight, Norris and colleagues conclude. The study was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....New radio-frequency technique for knee injuries
...t also in other sports where sudden turns, violent contacts and twists of the knee can take place. The rupture of this ligament is relatively frequent and, for professional sportspersons, may mean being out of competition sport for between six to eight months, with the social and economic repercussion that th...Cognitive behavioral therapy and medication is effective in the treatment of panic disorder
... months of CBT, with up to six follow-up telephone contacts during the next nine months, and medications provided by the primary care physician with guidance from a psychiatrist. The patients were selected from six primary care clinics associated with three university medical schools, serving a diverse patien...Specialist care gives better rate of survival
...icians are in better health because they have more contacts with the medical community, Dr. Armstrong said. "There are more opportunities for deterioration in status to be detected, for medications to be altered, and for therapies to be reinforced. Congestive heart failure is suffered by up to two per cent of...Patients newly diagnosed with HIV are more likely to enter outpatient care with case management
... manager accompanied the patient to a clinic. All contacts between case managers and patients occurred within 90 days after the beginning of the study. Seventy-eight percent of patients in the case-management arm of the study visited an HIV clinician at least once within 6 months and at least twice within 12...