NHLBI study shows weight concerns increase girls' risk of becoming smokers
...girls healthy ways of controlling their weight and dealing with stress," said Dr. Eva Obarzanek, NGHS project officer at NHLBI. "But we also must provide smoking prevention and cessation programs through schools, community, and other outlets."...Behavior plays key role in disease development and control, according to 10-year prospective review
... isolation on CHD, with similar results in studies dealing with job stress and social conflict. These risk factors are associated with psychophysiological mechanisms through which stress and emotions could influence CHD and coronary artery disease (CAD). For those who do develop CHD and CAD, there is eviden...Study sheds light on 'dark side' of the knee
...no one has studied the two accepted procedures for dealing with the instability in this 'dark side' of the knee," said Claude T. Moorman III, M.D., orthopedic surgeon and director of the sports medicine program at Duke, who led a team of researchers from the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University a...Retiree drug costs will remain steep under house plan, Emory study shows
...irected the administration's estimation efforts in dealing with Congressional health care reform proposals during the 103rd and 104th sessions of Congress. He has held faculty appointments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard University, and Columbia University....Recognising mental illness in young people could prevent suicides
Recognising mental illness in young people and dealing with it appropriately could help prevent suicides, concludes a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers in Denmark identified 496 cases of suicide during 1981-97 in young people aged 10-21 years. They matched each case to a random sample of 50 people of...Managing anger, boosting activity helps substance abusers stick with treatment
...as attempting to better understand the problem and dealing with it directly. The "avoidance" strategies included avoiding thinking about the problem, becoming involved in substitute activities that provide satisfaction and reducing tension by inappropriately venting negative feelings. The researchers' findin...Benefits of discussing teenage health concerns are small but encouraging
...; the most common were diet (50%), exercise (36%), dealing with stress (23%), and smoking (13%). At three months, marginally more teenagers in the intervention group than in the control group reported positive change in at least one of four areas of health related behaviour (diet, exercise, smoking, and drin...Repressing anxiety may protect against stress disorders
...he effectiveness of the repressive coping style in dealing with trauma may be bolstered by traits often associated with this style. "Prior studies report that repressors tend to perceive themselves as competent, self-controlled and having adequate coping skills," says Ginzburg. Such individuals have also be...Researchers devise ways to reduce noise, improve sleep in nursing homes
...om the study so we can make better decisions about dealing with noise," he said. For nursing homes, which operate under tight budgets, the cost of the interventions will have to be weighed against the benefits, Ross added. The cost of implementing noise-reducing interventions is unknown for now. But Ahuja es...Preventive sessions after divorce protect children into teens
...and to reframe their thinking in a positive way in dealing with the stress of divorce. Literature Control condition mothers and children each received three books on divorce adjustment. After 6 years, the researchers followed up 91 percent of the families, whose children then averaged nearly 17 years old. ...Should people with dementia be electronically tagged?
...iour and looking for the least restrictive ways of dealing with it will become imperative, they add. Where no consensus can be reached, the courts might have to decide. This is not however, a sign of failure but of recognition of the seriousness with which we should regard the erosion of a person's liberty a...A patient's view on clinical trials
...air on your pillowcase," explained Sylvia. Besides dealing with their illness, life for cancer patients is mostly uphill. Fatigue is a common symptom that cannot be seen, but is felt quite acutely by patients. Family members are not always capable of understanding just how tiring cancer treatment is. Pati...Extra care needed for dying patients
...lieve they were sufficiently trained or skilled in dealing with dying patients. They did not consider it to be part of their role and this view was more prevalent in comprehensive cancer centres than at teaching hospitals or private practice. Just over one-third of the respondents reported that they feel em...Schizophrenia has different sub-types linked to problems in different parts of the brain
...fferent presentations of schizophrenia. We may be dealing with more than one disease." Researchers hope next to study whether these subtypes are stable over the course of schizophrenic illness. If they are, he adds, "then knowledge of these subtypes would facilitate both diagnosis and neurobiological rese...Seeing into the Alzheimers brain
... to look at the brain in people who are living and dealing with their disease," says Norman Foster, M.D., the U-M neurologist leading the research team. "The PET machine looks very much like an MRI or CT scanner, but it's different because it can show not just what the brain looks like inside the head, but h...Making therapeutic kitchens more like home aids Alzheimer's patients
...s Institute on Aging and has co-authored two books dealing with making dementia-care facilities more like home and supportive of residents. Nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, where half of residents are estimated to have some form of dementia, often provide kitchen-based activities to aid social ...$15 million grant spurs cancer collaboration; M. D. Anderson, University of Puerto Rico
...y, while M. D. Anderson faculty open a new door to dealing with cancer-related issues in the Hispanic population," says Harry R. Gibbs, M.D., vice president of institutional diversity at M. D. Anderson. "This team effort allows both institutions to learn from the successes of the other, and lays the building...Integration of agriculture, medicine requires new ways of thinking
...roteins function), and other new "-omics" sciences dealing with nutrition and metabolism are leading to a new understanding of how humans and other species interact with their food, medicines or other factors in their environments, said Muscoplat. Such studies have the power to explain on the molecular level...American Academy of Neurology initiates health literacy training for neurologists
...ff. "It can be very challenging, particularly when dealing with neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and stroke, to communicate effectively with patients. The AAN feels it's a practical step for neurologists be on the forefront to improve health literacy and make a major impact on patient care,......essed a high level of anxiety when uncertain about dealing with a patient's needs. First year resident Sam s...id or how to treat whatever the problem is." When dealing with guilt over a poor patient outcome, first year resident Jane said, "The patient just stroked out...