American Psychiatric Association Plans First Comprehensive Guidelines For HIV/AIDS Treatment
...are, treatment adherence,education, prevention and direct mental health services. As HIV-positiveindividuals live longer lives, the likelihood of a general psychiatrist workingwith an HIV-positive person is much higher than in the past, he points out. At the Emory/Grady Ponce de Leon Center, mental...Cholesterol Carriers Better Predictors Than Cholesterol For Second Heart Attack
...sociated with an increased risk of heart attack. A direct association existed between D-dimer and heart attack risk, with adoubling of risk occurring in people with levels in the top fourth (above 650nanograms per milliliter). As for the other proteins, the doubling of risk wasseen only in those with the lo...Treating Depression Makes A Healthier Heart
...hat improved moodmakes the difference, rather than direct action by the drugs. People who suffer from severe depression are up to four times as likelyto die from heart disease triggered by obstructed blood flow as people who arenot depressed-even allowing for classical risk factors such as smoking a...Two Beta-Blocker Drugs Equal In Treating Heart Failure
DALLAS, May 25 -- The first direct comparison of two beta-blocker drugs for thetreatment of congestive heart failure found that an older, cheaper drug is aseffective as the newest one on the market, researchers report in today'sCirculation: Journal of the American Heart Association. ...Controversy Over The Effects Of Passive Smoking
...reathein about 1 per cent of the amount inhaled by direct smokers. As such, theyshould also face about 1 per cent of the extra heart disease risk faced bysmokers. In other words, just 075 per cent-more than 30 times lower than thefigure found by Jiang He and his colleagues. This huge discrepancy is...Cocaine triggers heart attacks within one hour
...trokes. But this is thefirst study to examine the direct and devastating short-term effects of cocaineon the heart. Known as the Determinants of Myocardial Infarction Onset Study, the research wascarried out between 1989 and 1996 at 64 medical centers across the United Statesand included interviews with 2,...Bioterrorism topic of first new nationally broadcast public health grand rounds session
...eries, visit www.PublicHealthGrandRounds.unc.edu direct an e-mail message to Grand.Rounds@sph.unc.edu or phone 919-966-4032....NIH study to evaluate role of MRI in emergency diagnosis of heart attack & stroke
...oke treatment beyond 3 hours. Onestrategy involves direct administration of medication into damaged brain tissue. Scanned images from both the heart and stroke studies will be archived into adatabase-- along with clinical, laboratory, and other information-- to keeptrack of patient results....High stress hormone levels impair memory
...ySchool of Medicine in St. Louis provide the first direct evidence that severaldays of exposure to cortisol at levels associated with major physical orpsychological stresses can have a signifcant negative effect on memory. "We tested memory and other cognitive functions before treatment, afterone d...Rosenbaum discovers "hidden clue" on cardiogram
...over and over again." These research findings have direct implications to diagnosing potential risk of sudden cardiac arrest in patients. "T-wave alternans is a marker of susceptibility to sudden cardiac death in patients," Rosenbaum says. "Survival studies ofpatients with arrhythmia reveal that 95 percent ......afe time interval during which a human isfree from direct strikes," they wrote. In an area with a radius of 500 meters (1,640 ft), most of the intervals betweenlightning strikes range from 0 to 600 seconds, with a maximum frequency of 40seconds. To avoid being struck by lightning, you should seek shelter w...Alcohol researchers prove brief intervention successful in older problem drinkers
...han 21 drinks a week. These data provide the first direct evidence that briefphysician advice can decrease alcohol use by older adults in community-basedprimary care practices. According to principal investigator Michael Fleming,M.D., "Efforts should be undertaken to incorporate brief intervention protocols...Men and women agree: love, romance vital part of sexual person
...ggressive, individualistic, direct and experienced. However,Andersen said, participants in the study did not rate power and aggression as important as passion and love for thesexual man. Final......when parental monitoring becomes more importantbut direct supervision less feasible, according to Project Co-Directors Ann C.Crouter and Susan M. McHale, both professors of human development, and MatthewF. Bumpus, a doctoral candidate in human development at Penn State. Bumpusis the lead author of the a...Dental students help close care gap at Indian reservation
...-long externships. The students deliver 40 hoursof direct patient care per week and receive academic clinical credit for their service. Room and board are provided, but thestudents are not paid, nor are they compensated for their transportation costs. The first externships began June 1, and theproject will ...Many patients with diabetes do not follow advice to monitor blood glucose
... report that their study has shown that there is a direct association between frequency of testing and improved control of blood sugar levels, thus making the self-monitoring even more important. They conclude that the average cost of glucose management per patient (409 per year for a patient who monitors ...NYU researchers uncover the neurobiology of decision-making
...ndred years, the Cartesian reflex, whichproposed a direct connection between sensation and movement, has served as thefundamental paradigm for understanding the nervous system. Contemporaryneurobiologists, for example, still parcel the brain into 'sensory' and 'motor'areas but overlook the possibility that ...Self-assembly of new microstructured material defies textbook physics
... membranes similar to soap bubbles as templates to direct the assembly ofclusters of the beads into an intriguing new microstructured material. Along theway, the team uncovered a surprise: Under the right conditions, their beadsseemed to defy the basic physical principle that oppositely charged objectsattra...UI researchers identify prostate tumor suppressor
...ever,until this most recent UI study, there was no direct evidence to support theidea that genetic reintroduction of E-cadherin could suppress prostate cancerinvasion. Using prostate cancer cells from a rat model, the UI investigators restoredmissing or deficient E-cadherin in the cells. The results showed ...One in seven adolescents still doesn't have health insurance
...on or counseling. There is little data to show a direct link between absence of health insuranceand an increase in illness for this age group, Irwin said, but that may bebecause the majority of adolescents are healthy. However uninsured adolescentsare three times as likely as those with insurance show up...