Personality influences psychological adjustment and recovery from stroke
... Researchers found that people whose families described them as highly self-conscious or as deep thinkers ...y or interest to succeed. In contrast, people described as more energetic, outgoing, flexible and self-confident before a stroke can often successfully dedi...Depression turns generation gap into a chasm
... of Australian children and adolescents. Dr Sawyer described results in the area of adolescent depression at a national seminar, BLUEPRINT: a national response to depression in Canberra from 28 Feb to 1 March 2001. Structured interviews with those who care for adolescents (usually their parents) produced an es...UNC study ties depression, anxiety to fatigue in HIV-positive patients
... or grandchildren, the clinician said. "One lady described to me having to sit down to take clothes out of the dryer, and it's hard to imagine such a simple task being so tiring," Barroso said. "We hope to come up with some interventions that will give these people some relief." Four grants from the univer...Enzyme could provide continual fat burning
...h 30 issue of the journal Science, Dr. Salih Wakil described mice, whose genes were manipulated to make them deficient in the enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase 2, or ACC2, as being able to eat as much as 40 percent more than normal mice and weigh 10 to 15 percent less. ACC1 and ACC2 are involved in producing malo...Duke chemists synthesize fungus compound that could lead to oral diabetes drugs
...fellow Kaapjoo Park and graduate student Zhitao Li described the start of now-completed efforts by Duke combinatorial chemists to synthesize DAQ more efficiently. "The molecule itself is highly modular," Pirrung said. "It has an indole ring, a quinone ring, and a different indole ring. So that makes it per......ical and levels in mammals, fish and birds that he described as "surprisingly high." The findings indicate the reach of PFOS into the food chain and the environment, although the amounts found in wildlife are still very small relative to those shown to cause damage in laboratory animals, he noted. "What we'v...Lidocaine patch shown in large trial to relieve post-herpetic neuralgia
...excruciating types of pain. Patients with PHN have described the pain as deep and aching, "fire under the skin," piercing, stabbing, or "like constant electric shocks." Sensitivity to touch is frequently intense. "The pain can be so debilitating that it greatly diminishes quality of life," said Robert H. Dwork...New combination treatment for hepatitis C may be more effective than standard of care
...e are chronically infected with HCV. HCV is often described as "silent" because people may be infected for 10 to 30 years and not exhibit symptoms, yet still be carrying the virus. While many patients with HCV will not develop complications from their liver disease, chronic hepatitis C is still a leading cau...Physicians miss opportunities to improve care for oldest asthmatics
...r lackluster care fell significantly short of care described in the National Asthma and Education Prevention Program (NAEPP) guidelines. Twenty percent did not use an inhaled corticosteroid. Taken once or twice daily to quiet lung inflammation, this drug reduces the likelihood of an asthma attack before it beg...Sergio Lombroso Award in Cancer Research presented to
...ibution to furthering the treatment of cancer. He described Dr. Pandolfis passion for philosophy, in addition to science, and for helping humanity in a tangible way. Mrs. Daniela Di-Segni, niece of the late Sergio Lombroso, for whom the Award is named, spoke about her uncles commitment to help scientists batt...Study suggests that potential Alzheimer drugs might be dangerous
...icine in St. Louis. Kopan led the study, which is described in the June 19 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The first author was Brandon K. Hadland, an M.D./Ph.D. student at the School of Medicine. The St. Louis researchers collaborated with scientists at the Medical College of Georgi...Spaghetti gets protein boost from corn gluten meal
...approximately 0.36 grams per pound of body weight, described on average as 63 grams for men and 50 grams for women. More than 2.5 billion pounds of corn gluten meal are produced annually in the United States, according to the USDA. A by-product of milling corn and making fuel alcohol, corn gluten meal is also ...Polymer could allow oral delivery of insulin to diabetics
... people with diabetes to take insulin by mouth was described today at the 222nd national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society. This material a polymer with a gel-like consistency could offer an alternative to daily injections, says the studys principal researcher,...Biomolecule studied for medical uses
...y, Grinstaff and graduate student Michael Carnahan described the synthesis and characterization of one of these dendrimers, made from glycerol and lactic acid. He, Carnahan and other graduate students also discussed research on several dendrimers during the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Chic...Practical guidance for treatment of heart failure is launched
...n many forms of cancer. In simple terms it can be described as a condition in which the heart muscle progressively loses the ability to pump enough blood to meet the oxygen and other needs of the body. It is estimated that up to 50 million of the 1000 million people (5%) who inhabit the 47 nations of the Eur...Say two prayers and call me in the morning
...y to approach the subject. Even the physicians who described themselves as "religious" were no more or less likely to pursue a spiritual discussion with patients than their nonreligious peers. Dr. Chibnall said future research is needed to examine the role of medical education in creating and/or maintaining ph...US direct-to-consumer advertising ambiguous in communication of drug benefits
...xperiences (26, 39%). Nearly 90% of advertisements described the benefit of medication in vague, qualitative terms RATHER than with data; however, half the advertisements used data to describe infrequent side-effects. No advertisements mentioned cost....Tourettes, other tic disorders far more common than once thought
...ent in his career, Kurlan recalls the patient had described 20 relatives with similar symptoms. Kurlan put together a research team to visit the isolated village in northern Alberta which the patient called home, for a study of the genetic roots of Tourettes. The Mennonite community of 700 was made up heavil...Promoting physical activity runs risk of promoting unhealthy eating concerns
...sical activity program, Zabinski says. The results described in this article were based on data from the GRAD study, which included 338 college seniors, 54 percent of whom were women. That study showed that the program was effective in increasing physical activity among women compared with control participants...Pain, price, insurance delays for new vaccines concern kids' doctors
...r it themselves, though some doctors in the survey described their system of having parents verify up front that they could pay. But those without insurance, or with public insurance like Medicaid, initially faced either a cost that could be daunting for a low-income family, or at least a several-month wait fo...