Lack of inhibition strengthens nicotine addiction
...signals for 60 minutes even though nicotine levels drop off 15 minutes after smoking. We suspect that this ability to extend the reward only enhances the drug's ability to reinforce smoking." It may also provide a new target for drugs designed to help people stop smoking by interfering with nicotine's ef...Study finds drops work as well as patch for 'lazy eye'
...hildren to comply with treatment. The atropine eye drop works by temporarily blurring vision in theunaffec...ropine treatment isthat the parent simply places a drop in the child's eye once a day. Withpatching, the parent must monitor the child wearing the patch for...Eye drops to treat childhood eye disorder work as well as patching the eye
...hildren to comply with treatment. The atropine eye drop works by temporarily blurring vision in the unaffe...opine treatment is that the parent simply places a drop in the childs eye once a day. With patching, the parent must monitor the child wearing the patch for...Examining the effects of managed care on alcohol and other drug treatment
...et, and many clients who begin to attend treatment drop out before completing the planned duration of services. As stated by the authors in their study, one in four clients did not return for services; that is, they sought services but never entered treatment. In addition, retention/completion rates var...Checking in on BCs reference-based pricing experiment
...sed pricing was introduced.The authors found a 29% drop in the use of higher-priced medications immediately following the change and estimated the governments savings at $6.7 million in the first year alone. However, the authors also note that while the use of antihypertensives was unchanged, 11% fewer pe...Blood test for heart failure scores big in new study
...eart attack, and were able to achieve a 40-percent drop in critical care admissions, and a 20-percent dropin overall hospital admissions. The multinational trial of the BNP test was supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Biosite, the maker of the BNP test. Dr. Maisel is on the firm's cardio...Spiral scan sees stroke blockage more clearly
...ay be a seizure, a migraine headache, or a drastic drop in blood sugar mimicking a stroke. About 600,000 Americans suffer a first or recurrent stroke each year and about 167,000 of them die. The two major types of stroke are ischemic, caused by a blood clot that blocks a vessel and prevents oxygen-rich...Does weather play a role in stroke?
... heart occurring when there had been a temperature drop five days previously. The researchers also discovered an increase in stroke from blockage of large arteries in the brain or heart during periods of higher air pressure and humidity....Causes of menstrual migraine explored
...e. Menstrual migraines are triggered by the abrupt drop from high to low levels of estrogen in the blood that occurs during menstruation, according to study author and neurologist K. Michael Welch, MD, of Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, KS. We found that among the genes most affected by ...Number of teens --primarily boys -- having sex declined in '90s
...31 percent between 1986 and 1996. Reasons for the drop in teen-age sex and related behaviors defy easy ex... and blacks between 1991 and 1997. For whites the drop was from 50.1 percent to 43.7 percent, for blacks it was from 81.5 percent to 72.7 percent and for H...First large doctor-patient e-mail study finds positive attitudes on both sides
...arp increase in e-mails didnt mean a corresponding drop in calls and no-shows, with rates of both remaining about the same for both groups, Katz notes. This was because the group of patients who used e-mail were not the same group who frequently call or visit their doctor. Rather, e-mailers appeared to be...Episiotomy rates decreasing, but procedure still overused
...h School of Medicine. There has been a substantial drop from 56 percent in 1979 to 31 percent in 1997 but the rate is still too high, said Anne Weber, M.D., an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and an associate investigator at the Magee-Womens Research Institute. Pl...Researchers investigate needs of family members when a patient dies
...uation in which a patient dies, the patients needs drop instantly he or she no longer requires medical care. At the same time, the familys needs remain and even intensify, explains lead author David Bishai, MD, MPH, PhD, an assistant professor of population and family health sciences at the Johns Hopkins...Pregnancy, birth rates fall among young women exposed to elementary school intervention program
...sed by the findings. We never predicted such a big drop in the teen pregnancy or birth rate in our sample." Lonczak said the intervention appears to have long-term benefits because it "gets to the guts of issues" and offers hope. "It fosters a commitment to schools and communities and it gets parents invo...Outpatient treatment is as effective as inpatient treatment for PID
...th groups as well 21 months. "Consistent with the drop in hospitalization rates for many medical conditions over the past two decades, there has been a sharp decline in the number of women treated for PID on an inpatient basis. Today up to 90 percent of these women are treated as outpatients," Dr. Ness s...Stress leaves blood vessels tightly wound
...o 4.1. Further, researchers found this significant drop in dilation was completely prevented by the ETa receptor blocker (8.6 before vs. 9.4 at 10 minutes after). Researchers believe this response identifies ETa activation as a mechanism responsible for endothelial dysfunction; therefore, blocking ETa re...High blood pressure drug eases vessel stiffness, lowers systolic pressures
...ffective at reducing the central pulse pressure: a drop of 10.2 mm Hg versus a 3.2 mm Hg reduction for the ACE inhibitor. Finally, they measured the stiffness of the central aorta and demonstrated that the reductions in pulse pressure were attributable to a reduction in central aortic stiffness. Omapatri...Eye drops can delay onset of glaucoma
...essure-lowering eye drops, either a single type of drop or a combination of more than one. The drops reduc...ced risk by as much as it did, Kass says. A modest drop in pressure makes a big difference. Open-angle glaucoma is the most common form of glaucoma and one...Survey reveals needs of glaucoma patients across Europe
...ma patients are not fully compliant with their eye drop medicines, and that concerns those of us committed...More than 90 percent also agreed that a single eye drop therapy might lead to better compliance than a multi-drop regimen taken two or three times daily. ......e night. During sleep, blood pressure rates should drop significantly. But in some people, especially blacks, rates remain high throughout the night, increasing the stress on the cardiovascular system. "If you look at blood pressure curves for black and whites, there is about a 10-year shift," he said. B...