Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
...ce bullying, and can teach students strategies for coping with and responding to bullying. School policies often distinguish among different types of harassment, punishing physical aggression and certain forms of name-calling, such as sexual harassment or racial slurs, while tolerating other insults, Juvone...New patient magazine from American Academy of Neurology to launch in April
...eatment. Articles will provide tips for living and coping with disorders including Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, migraine, multiple sclerosis, neuropathy, Parkinson's disease, and stroke, among other conditions. "Family and friends are impacted significantly when someone they love has a neurological disord...NYU Child Study Center receives grant from the American Red Cross September 11 recovery program
...serve as active, responsive parents and to develop coping skills that allow them to manage their own grief and distress. The 8-week Life Enrichment Program is designed to help decrease distress, increase energy and confidence, improve parent-child relationships and decrease child distress. In addition, t...Dialogue & personal example work best for parents in drug talks with teens
...ific, practical advice about drinking and driving, coping with peer pressure, and remembering to call for a ride when needed, Miller-Day notes. Once parents and teens learn to communicate on a regular basis about drugs, then the targeted drug talk becomes more helpful, especially before events such as a pro...Listening to fear: Helping kids cope, from nightmares to the nightly news
...ale School of Medicine Child Study Center provides coping strategies for parents on these and other fears ch...up, and to support and help kids develop effective coping skills they'll have for life....Mental health crisis looming for tsunami survivors, warns psychologist just back from Indonesia
...ce, first the loss of parents and siblings and now coping with surviving the tsunami." While in Aceh province, Kyes worked with the Indonesian relief groups Yayasan Ekosistem Lestari (Ecosystem Conservation Foundation) and Media Group Posko Indonesia Menangis (Indonesia Is Crying) to set up the emergency p...Most alcohol-related plane crashes occur at night and in worsening weather conditions
... plane, such as interpreting flight instruments or coping with spatial disorientation," said lead study author and medical epidemiologist Guohua Li, M.D., Dr.P.H., professor of emergency medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and professor of health policy and management at the Bloomber...Long-term data show benefit of DETROL LA as first-line therapy for overactive bladder
...life for some sufferers. Yet many are resigned to coping with their symptoms or concerned about bothersome treatment side effects," said lead study author Dr. Alan D. Garely, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York. "This six year review is good news for people with OAB because it shows that DETRO...Cumulative trauma in adulthood can worsen health in later years
...e changed dramatically by a traumatic event, their coping abilities may not have been developed enough to he... may have hindered their ability to develop better coping responses to adversity, said the authors. Some of the 22 traumas examined in the study were:...Bulimic teens also likely to suffer from depression
...m bulimia may in fact be fighting a two-front war, coping with the effects of a devastating eating disorder ...ome. The binges and purges that serve as a type of coping mechanism in the beginning of the disorder may, over time, lose their comforting aspects while their...Student nurses need better understanding of poverty-stricken patients
... behaviours, such as smoking for example, might be coping strategies to manage the stress experienced by the poor in their daily lives," Dr. Reutter said. Misconceptions about poverty that lead to insensitive care may prevent the poor from seeking the help they require from front-line health-care workers...Data suggest ADDERALL XR significantly improved simulated driving in young adults with ADHD
...n of treatments, such as medication and structured coping techniques. Psychostimulants, medications that stimulate areas of the brain that control attention, impulses, and self-regulation of behavior, remain among the most successful treatments for people with ADHD. In fact, at least 70 percent of childre...Burning anxiety: New treatment targets smokers with panic disorder
...r panic-related symptoms through gradual exposure, coping strategies and mentally correcting illogical fears. "Once conditioning has happened, you can't undo it," says Zvolensky, who initiated the programs. "We don't try to remove panic-related symptoms, but we offer an alternative model to teach people...Health issues may affect grandmothers who are primary caregivers
...ildren. Prior studies have shown that more active coping resulted in better health for caregiving grandmothers, and that those who took a planned approach fared much better than those who ignored problems or just reacted to them. "My hope is that this study will outline the need for additional services, f...Optimism associated with lowered risk of dying from heart disease
...tional optimism may also be associated with better coping strategies that are adhered to throughout life."...Family therapy reduces stress symptoms in adolescent survivors of childhood cancer
...eriences. Therapists then taught the participants coping skills by encouraging them to reframe their thoughts to focus on controllable and positive consequences. "We might urge a survivor to say, for example, 'Cancer is still unfair, but what can I do about it now?"' said Dr. Kazak, In family discussion g...Oats not safe for all patients with celiac disease
...eliac disease diet. This is good news for patients coping with severe restrictions on what they can and must not eat, but a study by Ludvig Sollid and colleagues in the launch issue of PLoS Medicine suggests that oats are not safe for all patients. Like other chronic inflammatory diseases, celiac disease i...New grant addresses minority nurse shortage
...s, maintain their self esteem [and] use of healthy coping skills by graduation and [that] 90 percent of diverse students will pass the NCLEX-RN [national licensure exam] the first time," said Schaefer. The second component of the project will use the DDDP nursing students and other nursing volunteers to tea...NJIT business incubator helps start-up companies move out of the lab and into the marketplace
...surgery or damage to the urethra. Most patients coping with urine retention of this nature have to rely on an indwelling catheter connected to a urine collection bag or insertion of an intermittent catheter several times each day. Urovalve holds a patent on a silicone device that is implanted into the ur...... continues to work through 12 weeks. For patients coping with this illness, this is good news." SEROQUEL was originally approved by the FDA in January 2004 as a monotherapy and adjunct therapy with lithium or divalproex, for the short-term treatment of acute manic episodes associated with bipolar I disorde...