UCLA study shows that people drink less alcohol as they age
...reased their drinking an average of 11 percent for each decade of aging while those born in 1935 reduced their drinking about 9 percent each decade. The study, "Longitudinal Patterns and Predictors of Alcohol Consumption in the United States...World's biggest study of multi-million pound health problem launched
... medical problem that costs UK health services 50m each year is to be investigated in the biggest-ever stu...In Britain, nearly half a million GP consultations each year concern patients with constipation, and doctors prescribe more drugs for the condition than the...New device will help stroke victims' recovery
...edical staff to determine the correct treatment at each stage. There are some 920,000 new stroke victims i...is searches through patient data to determine what each piece of information means in terms of the patient's condition. "By establishing these 'markers,' so...When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
...n stem, throwing askew the way nerve cells talk to each other and possibly resulting in a toxic buildup of... allow nerve cells in the ear and brain to talk to each other. The difficulties can isolate people from friends and family, beginning when people first hav...Investigational transplant drug effectively preserves kidneys while avoiding toxic side effects
... More than 23,000 organ transplants are performed each year in the United States. While current immunosuppressant medications have reduced the incidence of early organ failure following transplants, measures to prevent late failure and to halt other diseases that result from toxic side effects of current...Referrals to palliative care come too late to improve quality of life for cancer patients
...cussing end of life care with their physicians and each other so that palliative care services can be given at the most appropriate moment for the patient." Palliative care treats the physical, spiritual, psychological, and social needs of a person with cancer, both during cancer treatment and at the end ...Researcher explores ways to make hypnosis a more effective therapeutic technique
...research team tests subjects to determine how well each responds to hypnotic suggestions. Then researchers provide information about how hypnosis works, trying to eliminate the subject's misconceptions-for example, that people under hypnosis are gullible and easily led. "We try to encourage them to use th...Scientists replicate hepatitis C virus in laboratory
... the virus. Approximately 10,000 to 12,000 deaths each year in the United States are due to HCV....UCLA neuroscientists pinpoint new function for mirror neurons
...text only; and 3) the grasping of a tea cup within each of the two contexts, signaling intent either to drink or to clean. Actions embedded in context, compared with the other two conditions, increased blood flow in the posterior part of the brain's inferior frontal gyrus, known to be important for graspi......antiretroviral allocation strategy that would give each individual with HIV an equal chance of receiving a... they determine the amount of drugs to allocate to each facility to achieve equitable access by patients throughout the province. They then extend the analy...Study: Young adults can be motivated to eat fruits, veggies
...ing nine or more servings of fruits and vegetables each day, but when the study began, the guidelines call...n, her team found it helpful to identify how ready each participant was to make dietary changes. "We were then able to use that information to tailor educat...Psychiatric disorders greatly underdiagnosed in hospital emergency departments
... as a primary care provider for millions of people each year, the researchers say it's imperative that emergency departments expand their staffs to include mental health professionals such as psychologists because hospital-based physicians may not have the training, interest, or time to deal with mental h...Brain-scanning technologies need standards, according to Stanford researcher
...am? The volume and cost of having a physician read each and every scan would be staggering. "When a subject goes into the study, does he or she know it might not be a medical professional who looks at the brain images?" Illes said. Another issue that research subjects may not realize is that if a benign t...Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
... mindful always of the patient and strive to treat each patient individually, without regard for the patient's socioeconomic status, insurance type or race," he said....Folic acid recommendations have had little impact on birth defects
...births in Europe and Israel from 1988 to 1998. For each country, cases of neural tube defects were identified, and policies and recommendations regarding folic acid were ascertained. Recommendations alone did not seem to influence trends in neural tube defects, despite the proved effectiveness of folic ac...Drugs aid weight loss among type 2 diabetes patients
...with unpublished studies the companies had done on each of the included drugs, Norris says. Norris says there is only a small amount of data on other weight loss drugs and people with type 2 diabetes. For instance, the researchers did not find any good studies examining the effects of popular weight loss ...New study tests amitriptyline for painful bladder syndrome
... up to 75 milligrams of amitriptyline or a placebo each day for 14 to 26 weeks. All will practice suppressing the urge to urinate for increasingly longer stretches until they can wait 3 or 4 hours before going to the bathroom. Participants will also regulate when and how much they drink and avoid bladder ...Immediate access to antibiotics stems spread of sexually transmitted diseases
...ent. Packets contained the standard treatment for each STD, which is one tablet each of cefixime (400 milligrams) for gonorrhea and azithromycin (1 gram) for Chlamydia. Also included i...Next generation body scanner launched by the University of Manchester
... how different parts of the brain communicate with each other. Researchers working on abnormalities in the... how different parts of the brain communicate with each other and this will be invaluable to many different areas of our research. "The scanner will lead to...Studies examine coffee drinking and risk of liver and colorectal cancers
... with an increase in the amount of coffee consumed each day. However, the authors caution that because decaffeinated coffee is rarely consumed in Japan, and therefore no distinction was made between caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee, it cannot be determined if caffeine is responsible for the decreased...