Effects of autism reach beyond language, new research suggests
... problem-solving tests we administered suggested a decline in problem solving abilities that required flexible thinking." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We already know how the immune and endocrine systems of healthy medical students react to stress, along w...Varicella vaccine effective on chicken pox; Impact on herpes zoster unclear
...h at Yale, note that the study shows a significant decline of 66 percent in mortality due to varicella. "These findings are relevant because they emphasize the importance of continuing the varicella vaccination program," said Vazquez. "It is possible that varicella vaccine may be useful in helping prevent zo...Government approach to cutting hospital stays may be misleading
...ously misleading because admissions would probably decline anyway, without intervention. To test their theory, they tracked emergency admissions in people aged 65 or more who had had at least two emergency visits to hospital in one year. This is the main criterion for admission to the Evercare programme* (wh...IDSA applauds Senate leadership for introduction of S. 3
...in drug-resistant infections, we are also seeing a decline in the development of new antibiotics to treat such infections," said IDSA President Walter E. Stamm, MD. In July 2004, IDSA released a report, Bad Bugs, No Drugs: As Antibiotic Discovery Stagnates … A Public Health Crisis Brews, which highlighted th...Adults who had higher exposure to infant siblings have decreased risk for MS
...ecent increase in incidence that has accompanied a decline in childhood infection rates over time. Anne-Louise Ponsonby, Ph.D., of the Menzies Research Institute, Hobart, Australia, and colleagues conducted a study to determine whether exposure to infant siblings in early life is associated with the risk of ...Exercise helps reduce symptoms of depression, UT Southwestern researchers find
...was for three or five days per week experienced a decline in depressive symptoms by an average of 47 percent after 12 weeks. Those in the low-intensity exercise groups showed a 30 percent reduction in symptoms, while those in the last group averaged a 29 percent decline. "Numerous effective treatments for d...... American satellite, Magsat, 20 years earlier, the decline in the field's strength suggested that it might disappear completely in a thousand years or so. The experts wonder if our planet is preparing to swap its north and south magnetic poles around, as it has often done before during the Earth's long histo...Moderate alcohol intake may reduce risk of dementia in older women
... occurs when memory, judgment and thinking ability decline substantially to the point of interfering with bas... of alcohol intake reduce the risk of dementia and decline in cognitive function. Espeland said, however, that the results must be interpreted with caution. "W...Cogtest and NetMet join forces
...art disease. Indeed, learning and memory abilities decline significantly in the absence of disease as part of the normal aging process, and the search for effective drugs to limit or reverse this loss is also underway." Cogtest's Chief Executive, Dr Tonmoy Sharma said: "I am very excited by the potential o...Multiple therapies curb declining ability to learn with age
...et and behaviour therapies to curb the progressive decline in the ability to learn that occurs with advanced aging. "We were really surprised just how clear-cut the benefit is of using a combined therapy," says lead investigator and psychology professor Bill Milgram of the U of T at Scarborough, who speciali...Likelihood of a large vCJD epidemic remains small claim researchers
...s Hospital, comments: "Since 2000 there has been a decline in the number of clinical cases reported. One reason for the discrepancy between the high estimated number of positive tests and low number of actual recorded clinical cases could be that many infected individuals do not go on to develop clinical dis...New guideline: Corticosteroids recommended for duchenne muscular dystrophy
.... This causes a gradual breakdown of muscles and a decline in muscle strength. Duchenne muscular dystrophy mainly affects boys. An estimated one in 3,500 males worldwide has the disorder, and each year approximately 400 boys in the United States are born with it. Symptoms usually appear between ages two and ...Sex habits of young women unchanged by morning after pill, UCSF study finds
...pecialized training to dispense the drug, also may decline to participate, she said. Regardless, said Raine, "while direct pharmacy access may offer some advantages over clinics, it is not a panacea to the problem of unintended pregnancies." Over-the-counter access to EC could eliminate many of the barriers ...Environmental tobacco smoke linked to reading, math, logic and reasoning declines in children
...udy's findings translate into nearly a three-point decline in a standardized reading test and nearly a two-point decline in a standardized math test, given an average score of 100 and a modest increase in exposure to envi...Being overweight has a significant effect on a child's quality of life
...that health-related QOL, or functioning, begins to decline as soon as a child is above average weight, with a gradual steepening as Body Mass Index (BMI) increases," the authors write. "The decrease was small for overweight children but more marked for those who were obese. These new observations are less d...UCLA-VA study names India dietary staple as potential Alzheimer's weapon
...loss, unusual behavior, personality changes, and a decline in thinking abilities. These losses relate to the death of brain cells and the breakdown of the connections between them. The disease is the most common form of dementing illness among middle and older adults, affecting more than 4 million America...Maintaining physical activity linked to less cognitive decline in older men
... The study showed that over 10 years the cognitive decline in men who had reduced their daily physical activi... by an hour or more was 2.6 times greater than the decline in men who maintained their activity. Men who performed their daily physical activity with a lower i...Holidays, birthdays and postponement of cancer deaths
...what statisticians call a "dip/peak" phenomenon a decline in the death rate the week before an event with a corresponding increase in the week afterwards, an indication that something may be causing a variation in normal patterns. He chose cancer patients over those with other types of diseases and d...Old T cells cripple immune function in the elderly
...ne which cells are responsible for the age-related decline in B cell function. They show that B cell activation and antibody production can be restored in old mice if they are infused with young CD4 T cells prior to immunization. On the flip side, young mice infused with old CD4 T cells developed antibody ...Medicare HMOs fail to control costs of colon surgery in elderly patients
...h an older, frailer patient population and overall decline in length of hospital stay, deaths and complications from this procedure remained low. The intention of Medicare HMOs is to reduce waste in the system by trying to eliminate unnecessary and inappropriate care, while giving providers incentives to us...