Understanding genetic cancer risk might not help smokers kick the habit
...roup was already afraid of what smoking can and is doing to their health," she said. "Knowledge that they don't have this gene just reinforced what they already knew. Perhaps the next step is to study a younger, healthier group and see what the long-term impact would be." McBride also said that about 50 pe...Study asks how clinicians treat overweight kids
ST. LOUIS-What are health care professionals doing to care for overweight children and teenagers? Research reported in the July issue of Pediatrics finds that doctors, clinical nurse practitioners and dietitians should screen more thoroughly for medical problems associated with obesity and address ba...Can longer consultations really save time and resources?
... for doctors to have more time is for them to stop doing things, argue Arnold Zermansky and colleagues in an accompanying letter. For instance, a move from repeat prescribing to repeat dispensing would probably save the average general practitioner about an hour a day. The extended roles of practice nurses...Playful therapy garments for children receive patent
...rom the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She was doing custom bridal design when she decided to return to school for a Ph.D. at Virginia Tech."I wanted to focus on a population whose design needs were not being addressed." She continues to develop therapeutic apparel for children. She is also involved in...Recirculated airplane cabin air does not cause more colds
...o filter out infectious particles, and they may be doing a good job. It may be that just being on a plane, packed with a lot of people is the primary factor in transmission of colds, or maybe traveling is the issue: changing time zones and losing sleep have been documented to increase rates of viral infect...Platelet molecule regulates blood coagulation, study finds
... does normal PS located in a platelet membrane. In doing so, factors Xa and Va bind to each other in solution as tightly as they are bound together on a membrane surface. Moreover, the study indicates that PS triggers catalysis and makes sure that prothrombinase biochemically "cuts" prothrombin properly, t...Conjoined twins celebrate first birthday at UCLA's Mattel Children's Hospital
...CLA's Mattel Children's Hospital. The children are doing very well -- they are thriving, playing and even trying to crawl. The twin girls, who are joined at the head, will reach another milestone in less than two weeks. The doctors have set the date for their separation surgery for Monday, Aug. 5. The surg...New P.E. study demonstrates vigorous exercise can lower adolescents body fat, blood pressure
...to emphasize this much more since right now, we're doing an increasingly bad job of it." A report on the findings appears in the August issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health. Besides McMurray, authors are Dr. Joanne S. Harrell, professor of nursing at the UNC School of Nursing, Chrysse Bradley, resear...Sutter Health announces plan to deploy Bridge MedPoint error-prevention system
...and CEO Van R. Johnson. "We are fully committed to doing everything possible to improve quality, prevent medication and other errors, and promote practices and systems that ensure our patients' well-being." MedPoint is an award-winning barcode-enabled point-of-care (BPOC) software system developed by Bridg...Sandia helps public health officials with anti-terror 'decision analysis' tool
...a/CA's Exploratory Systems Department. "What we're doing is creating the situation ahead of time so that - by playing through various scenarios - the involved decision-makers can examine various protection and reaction schemes and figure out what works best under different conditions." Hirano said the prog...Strategies allow for drug-free transplants, report researchers at international congress
...an to continue weaning the patients who so far are doing well, perhaps having them completely off the anti-rejection drug tacrolimus after one year. The Pittsburgh team's encounters with rejection and the results of a third study from Stanford University are a reminder of the formidable challenge of achie...UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center researchers study ways to prevent tobacco-related bladder cancer
...than nonsmokers to get bladder cancer. "What we're doing is looking for things that tell us why some people get this disease and others don't," Figlin said. "We want to decrease bladder cancer occurrence and develop molecular profiles that tell us who is most at risk." Bladder cancer is a major health pro...Medical students don't receive enough training in helping patients quit smoking
...ath in the United States., medical schools are not doing enough to train medical students to help their patients quit smoking, a Wake Forest University School of Medicine research team reports in the Sept. 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. John G. Spangler, M.D., M.P.H, associat...Re-emerging field contributes to 10,000 patents yearly
...c and analytical approaches to find better ways of doing them. Operations researchers work in industry, government, health care, and the military. Terms coined by operations researchers have found widespread use in business and science, the study notes. "What is striking is the extent to which the words op...The Lancet Neurology October press release
...on is to protect the vulnerable in society; but in doing so, is it undermining the rights of those with mental illness? This month's Leading edge discusses the changes proposed in the draft bill and their implications for both those with a mental illness and their carers. Global democratic consensus on n...Concern over billion dollar alternative medicine bill
... they are spending on alternative medicines is not doing more harm than good."...Off-the-job drinking predicts subsequent on-the-job injury for up to five years
...usiness owners why they should take an interest in doing something to prevent as well as control heavy or problematic drinking among their workers. Most importantly, when at-risk drinking is identified, employers must take measures to prevent its impact on safety/injury. Currently, only a small pro...Public strong on opinions weaker on knowledge
...of the respondents believed the Government was not doing enough to limit this technology but also displayed considerable ignorance about the actions government has actually taken. For example, even though the UK Government's decision at end of February to allow further testing of human embryos was well pu...Repressing anxiety may protect against stress disorders
...y or diverting their attention away from it may be doing themselves a favor. Such practices may act as a buffer against stress disorders, according to the results of an Israeli study of heart attack patients. "The findings of this study suggest that a repressive coping style may promote adjustment to traum...Researchers devise ways to reduce noise, improve sleep in nursing homes
...cal noises, such as cleaning equipment; and people doing things, such as pushing carts. So acoustical engineers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have created several low-cost, noise-reducing environmental interventions and tested them in five nursing homes. The results are promising, researche...