Cancer Survivors Center funded for children
...o school and other activities. Parent and sibling counseling Special sports/training programs to re-enter the child into the "active" world. Cleveland business executive Michael Sherwin serves on the Board of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and helped to bring the project proposal to the Board's a...Enhanced counseling eases depression among people caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease
...l of Medicine researchers shows that a six-session counseling and long-term support program substantially eases ...l effect, whereby the benefits that started in the counseling sessions led to changes that many families made in the way they interacted afterwards." Alzheimer's ...Bupropion, counseling may help youth with ADHD stop smoking
...ggest that combining the drug bupropion with brief counseling sessions may help teens reduce or stop smoking, ev... also took part in two 30-minute smoking cessation counseling sessions. Eleven of the 16 youths had co-occurring ADHD. The scientists say that the number of cigar...Study finds bupropion may be effective smoking cessation aid for women
... as Zyban or Wellbutrin, accompanied by behavioral counseling or counseling only. Behavioral counseling was designed to help participants reduce smoking, learn to cope with str...Adopting 12-step philosophy may enhance outcomes of counseling for cocaine addiction
...erapeutic success of combined individual and group counseling for cocaine addiction. The researchers who conducted these studies also found that counseling may affect a drug abuser's beliefs about drug abuse. The 12-step philosophy includes believing in a ...Medication for multiple sclerosis may help in treating cocaine addiction
...d study show that a combination of substance abuse counseling and baclofen--a medication often used to treat mus...rogram for cocaine addiction. Thirty-five received counseling and baclofen, and 35 received counseling and a placebo. Cocaine use was monitored by thriceweekly ur...Ongoing study evaluates pediatricians' effectivenes at violence prevention
...ide pediatricians who can tailor their gun storage counseling to the specific needs of a family." Barkin is als...nt of providers surveyed felt confident that their counseling would result in guns being stored safely with 17 percent reporting limited perceived effectiveness i...Exercise helps heart attack patients who are depressed, without social support
...American Medical Association (June 18, 2003), that counseling and group therapy reduced levels of depression and social isolation in these patients, but did not lower mortality or morbidity rates of study participants. For the current study, the researchers went a step further to compare the outcomes of patient...For many, depression persists after routine treatment
...ue aggressive therapy that combined medication and counseling sessions suggesting that the persistent depression... their depression, defined as four or more special counseling sessions during six months or the use of approved antidepressant drugs for at least two months. Pati...Smokers welcome help in quitting when offered at clinic visits
... percent of the participants in the study selected counseling in conjunction with nicotine patch medication. Thi...rs (CQ) program (self-help materials and telephone counseling provided by the patch manufacturer) or the patch plus CQ plus individual counseling. In the "free ch...Jefferson researchers announce recommendations on when to test blood pressure in young children
...ans to recommend diet, exercise and weight control counseling for children who fit into a new category known as prehypertension. "The definition of hypertension remains the same," Dr. Falkner says. "Prehypertension refers to an average systolic blood pressure or diastolic blood pressure that is greater than or ...New way to tally death risk for heart patients could ease worry
...opt it as a way of guiding treatment decisions and counseling recommendations for patients. The paper's first author, University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center Clinical Director Kim A. Eagle, M.D., explains that the risk-predicting tool could help doctors decide early on how aggressively to treat a particul...College students mandated to take alcohol interventions: what works
...roups, such as students required to attend alcohol counseling after a serious medical or disciplinary event related to alcohol, appear to benefit from motivational interventions in conjunction with "booster sessions." "Regardless the actual content of the session," said Barnett, "booster sessions pr...Pediatricians are plentiful, but not in poorer states
...at more vaccinations and screening tests, and more counseling about behavioral and mental health issues have all been added to the standard list of child health care. Other studies have found differences between pediatricians and family physicians in patterns of vaccination, infection care, asthma care, depres...VA beats managed care for diabetes, study finds
... cholesterol screening, foot exam, urine analysis, counseling on aspirin use and a flu vaccine. Researchers also checked whether patients fell within acceptable limits for blood pressure, cholesterol and hemoglobin A1c. Information was collected as part of the Translating Research into Action for Diabetes (TRIA...NYU Child Study Center to launch Healthy Kids, Happy Futures
...rovides public education, outreach and free crisis counseling services to persons, families and groups most affected by the World Trade Center disaster. Project Liberty is supported by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency with the support of the Center for Mental Health Services. The program is...Study finds fibromyalgia prohibits sufferers from breast-feeding
... no cure, patients often undergo physical therapy, counseling and medication to alleviate their symptoms. Commonly prescribed medications include antidepressants, ibuprofen and morphine. Women living with this condition are faced with a difficult decision once they decide to have children: to breast-feed or...Child health improvement through computer automation
...vide preventative care but are overwhelmed by what counseling is necessary," said co-author Paul Biondich, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics at the IU School of Medicine and a Regenstrief Institute research scientist. "Combining pediatric preventive care guidelines with a dynamic, scannable paper user int...Mentally ill have higher odds of developing brain, lung cancers
...findings underscore the need for smoking cessation counseling and physical work-ups for new psychiatric symptoms occurring with physical symptoms, for psychiatric symptoms presenting in an unusual pattern, or for new psychiatric symptoms occurring at ages atypical in the mentally ill," said Dr. Carney....Doctors miss chances to provide diet, exercise counseling to patients at risk of heart disease
...een 1992 and 2000, the researchers found that diet counseling was provided in less than 45 percent of visits and exercise counseling was provided in less than 30 percent of visits with patients who had at least one condition that inc...