UF researchers: rural residents less apt to seek Alzheimer's care from family doctors
...y doctors for everything from delivering babies to dealing with heart trouble and fixing broken bones. But when faced with the kind of memory difficulties associated with Alzheimer's disease, just a third of older rural residents with problems ask their primary-care health provider for help, compared with ha...Wolfgang Glasser receives ACS award for wood chemistry, bio-based composites research
...1) -- For his lifetime of research accomplishments dealing with the structure, properties, and use of wood-derived polymers, the American Chemical Societys Division of Cellulose, Paper, and Textiles has honored Wolfgang Glasser, professor of wood science at Virginia Tech, with the Anselme Payen Award. The ...Low income smokers support smuggling to maintain habit
...garette and tobacco smuggling as a positive way of dealing with the increasing costs of cigarettes, concludes a study in this week's BMJ. This suggests that they may show little support for tackling smuggling until more government action is taken to help them quit. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh ...Behavioral therapies plus pharmacotherapies can add up to success
... They were then taught a new coping strategy for dealing with this urge. While this is probably a very powerful method, I suspect few programs, except the most innovative, use this technique at present. Other components, however, have some parallels to interventions already incorporated into some program......ion tips will be vitally important in successfully dealing with a bioterrorism attack, explains Dr. Schoch-Spana. In addition, there is an urgent need to create an information stockpile. Multilingual public services announcements, leaflets, and other materials should be developed to provide concrete informa......e to play a significant role in womens lives; when dealing with health problems, a majority of women choose to talk to friends and family (30 percent) rather than seeking out a doctor (17 percent) or talking to a counselor or mental health professional (eight percent). -Women and Economic Security- Forty-six...$3 million gift from Purdue Pharma to support MGH Pain Program
...ill focus contributions on nonprofit organizations dealing with education, treatment and research involving patients with pain. "Pain is enormously devastating and debilitating, and those who experience pain deserve nothing less than our undivided attention, our creative thinking and our best efforts," say...Mayo Clinic Proceedings looks at epidemic of obesity in February issue
... a half hour (2 vs. 125). Effective strategies for dealing with the increasing prevalence of obesity depend on a better understanding of the causes. As those become better known, people can still engage in activities that will reduce the risk of unhealthy weight gain, including a plant-based diet with no mor...Most child care is provided by 'informal' providers, study finds
...ts (16 percent), insufficient pay (15 percent) and dealing with children who are misbehaving (14 percent) or withdrawn (13 percent)....Husbands of fibromylagia sufferers in slightly poorer health, more depressed than other men
...ficient for these spouses to develop resources for dealing with the changes caused by the disorder. The way...on is voluntary, Bigatti points out, those who are dealing poorly with their situation or who are under extreme stress generally dont have the strength or time...UCLA study shows contracting HIV can serve as an opportunity for positive change and growth
...e learned that these women, some of whom have been dealing with the effects of HIV infection for years, report many positive changes in their lives in addition to drawbacks, said UCLA researcher John Updegraff, the lead author of the study. Despite the fact that HIV is life-threatening, and causes tremendous...Childhood sexual abuse proves top predictor for HIV infection in women
...xual histories and offer appropriate resources for dealing with past trauma. The UCLA/Drew Women & Family Project followed 490 women in Los Angeles. Half of the group was HIV-negative and half was HIV-positive. Each HIV-positive woman was matched with an HIV-negative partner of similar ethnicity, age, and ma...Researchers investigate needs of family members when a patient dies
...amily who experiences a sudden death. When you are dealing with a situation in which a patient dies, the pati...n directly to the medical examiner. In addition to dealing with their mothers death, the experience left the daughters, ages 11 and 13, with a fear of returnin...... Johnston also coaches pediatric nurses in ways of dealing with infant pain. "Its very difficult to tell if an infant is in pain and the degree of discomfort the child may be experiencing," she says. Certain signs, however, can give clues about what infants are feeling. Facial activity and cry analysis ma...... or other pain medications. An important step in dealing with neuropathic pain, and pain in general, is to catch it early and treat it aggressively. If left untreated, it can end up turning into a chronic condition. "One of the goals of educating patients is to make them understand that blocking pain is ...Eisenhower Mem. 1st CA hospital to use Bridge barcode system to prevent medication errors
...ospitals. Like every other hospital, Eisenhower is dealing with a critical nursing shortage, noted Serfling. Nevertheless, we continue to maintain these increased ratios, which we implemented several years ago, because they clearly benefit our patients. Its no different with MedPoint. Weve chosen to implemen...That scar on your arm won't help if the man next to you has smallpox
... their contacts. It says its contingency plans for dealing with a smallpox outbreak, which will be reviewed this month, assume that no one is immune anyway. In Britain, where smallpox vaccination stopped in 1980, the Department of Health is taking the same approach. "We won't be relying on any current immun...Irregular periods in young women could be warning sign for later osteoporosis
...ct ovarian failure early," Dr. Nelson said. "When dealing with osteoporosis an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."...Homeless sexual minorities at greater risk for physical and sexual violence, mental illness
...gical problems and they have a more difficult time dealing with their sexual identity than do heterosexual homeless youth. "People tend to think homeless are an homogenous group. We are trying to show this isn't true," said co-author Ana Marie Cauce, a UW psychology professor. "There are different characte...New, non-invasive surgical procedure to eliminate epileptic seizures
...ensive Epilepsy Program is the only one in Indiana dealing with these extreme cases," says Vincenta Salanova, M.D., associate professor of neurology and co-director of the program. "More than 500 patients have been evaluated in the clinic and, of those, 300 have qualified for surgery. As many as 90 percent o...