M.I.N.D. Institute study confirms autism increase
...s of mental retardation associated with autism had declined significantly between the two age groups. The percentage of parent-reported regression (loss of developmental milestones) does not differ between two age groups. Gastrointestinal symptoms, including constipation and vomiting, in the first 15 month...New study shows weight loss decreases ACE enzyme that controls blood pressure
...for the first time is higher than when lying down, declined an average of 18 percent. Swallowing a sugar solution had no effect on the measured values, suggesting that calorie intake does not affect ACE in the short term. "Even when people just lost about 7 percent of their initial weight and were still obese...Visceral fat loss after dieting is not necessarily responsible for disease risk improvements
... in white women than in African American women and declined at a similar rate. The authors suggest that ethnicity-race may have an effect on triacylglycerol levels that is independent of obesity status. The differing amounts of visceral weight loss in the two racial groupsand the similar positive effects of ...Long-term ERT in postmenopausal women with Alzheimer's may worsen memory
...t the performance of women receiving sustained ERT declined more than that of women receiving the placebo treatment. "When considered together, the results of this and other clinical trials suggest a pattern of beneficial effects on cognitive function after relatively short-term ERT; however, this beneficial ...Study shows first progress in heart-failure survival
...the 1990s, however, short- and long-term mortality declined to 25 percent and 50 percent respectively. This is a small but important improvement, and the most likely explanation is that treatments shown to be effective in clinical trials are being used in the broader population of heart-failure patients." The...Rising numbers of patients seeing non-physician clinicians, study finds
... in independent treatment by non-physicians, which declined during the study period. Dr. Benjamin Druss, who holds the Rosalynn Carter Chair of Mental Health in Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, says these findings "show how the health workforce has evolved during a time of great change in the US healt...Study shows declines in payment for emergency care
Payments for emergency care have declined substantially in recent years, according to a new ...e rate of payment for emergency department charges declined from 60 percent to 53 percent. The largest decline in payments was observed among the privately ins...Whiplash pain is common, usually mild, and long-lasting
...over time, however. Pain in ankle-injured patients declined rapidly, falling from an initial average of 15 to near zero within the first month. In contrast, pain in whiplash-injured patients fell from an average of 20 initially to only 14 after one year. The greatest difference between the groups was seen in ...Increased heart mortality rates linked to lower state subsidies of uninsured in New Jersey
...red patients. Mortality rates for insured patients declined at the same rate in both states. "Although market-based reforms in medicine are becoming more widespread, little is known about how they affect quality-of-care," said Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, the principal investigator for the study. He is an Assistant...New type of vaccine against nicotine addiction developed by TSRI scientists
...ugh the percentage of U.S. residents who smoke has declined steadily in the United States since the mid-1960s, about 22.8 percent of the total adult population still smokes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). San Diego and Orange County are two of the five metropolitan are...Children achieve sustained ADHD symptom improvement with long-term, once-daily use of Adderall XR
... symptoms are better controlled. The CGIS-P scores declined throughout the study from their initial-visit score average of 11.6 to 7.6 at 24 months and study conclusion (P< 0.001), indicating that these patients were able to control their symptoms over an extended period of time. This improvement in ADHD ...ACPM issues recommendations to address severe shortage of preventive medicine physicians
...0 years the number of public health physicians has declined from 2.3 percent to 0.8 percent of the total physician workforce; and data from the National Association of County and City Health Officials showing that only 23 percent of local health agencies are directed by physicians. She illustrates how health ...Male athletes also suffer from body image problems, study shows
... the percentage of athletes showing these symptoms declined from 2001 to 2002, from 15 percent to 12 percent. In this year's study, Carter also looked specifically at athletes in lean sports sports in which there is added pressure to be lean for aesthetic or performance reasons. This includes sports such as ...Infections linked to mental decline in elderly
... with antibodies to fewer than three. MMSE scores declined as viral burden increased: average MMSE was 26.9 for those showing infection by zero or one virus; 26.5 for those with antibodies to two viruses, and 25.8 for participants with antibodies to all three of the viruses. The median MMSE score for those ...Progress shown in death rates from four leading cancers decline in overall mortality has slowed
...ombined increased from the mid-1970s through 1992, declined from 1992 to 1995, and then stabilized from 1995 t...creased through 1990, stabilized through 1994, and declined from 1994 through 1998 before becoming stable from 1998 through 2000. There were continuing small d...EUROCARE 3 - new European cancer survival figures
...year survival or better. Survival for most cancers declined steeply with age at diagnosis. Two exceptions were breast cancer, where the best survival was for women aged 45-54 and prostate cancer where it was among men aged 55-64 years. But, even after the investigators had adjusted for differences in backgro...Deaths after fracture have not declined in 20 years
...r fracturing a thigh bone (neck of femur) have not declined appreciably during the past 20 years, finds a stud...om the late 1960s to the early 1980s, but have not declined any further in the past 20 years. Death rates also rose sharply with increasing age, were higher in ...Driving performance declines with dementia and age
...eople with dementia, generally in the mild stages, declined faster than the nondemented individuals," says sen...o "fail." As expected, the mild Alzheimer's group declined the fastest, followed by the very mild dementia group. Surprisingly, performance in the non-dementia...Alzheimer's Association cautious about new Alzheimer treatment research with antibiotics
...tudy. The scores of those in the antibiotic group declined by an average of 2.75 points less over six months than those who received the placebo (on a 70-point scale). The difference in scores between the two groups was statistically significant. At 12 months, there was still a difference between the two g...Monkeys consciously control a robot arm using only brain signals
...her room. While the animals' performance initially declined when the robot arm was included in the feedback loop, they quickly learned to allow for these dynamics and became proficient in manipulating the robot-reflecting cursor, found the scientists. The scientists next removed the joystick, after which the ...