Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
...hat they were themselves dialysis patients, and to estimate the percentage of time that they would experience various positive and negative mood levels, the healthy participants assumed that they would be miserable. They thought they would experience negative moods most of the time, and on average have moods ...UT Southwestern doctors track Oklahoma Alzheimer's patients via telemedicine
...ide effects of psychotropic medications and get an estimate of disease progression." Dr. Weiner, who holds the Aradine S. Ard Chair in Brain Science and the Dorothy L. and John P. Harbin Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research at UT Southwestern, also conducts interviews with patients' caregivers to assess the ...Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective
...iel's findings. They developed a computer model to estimate the health benefits and expenditures of performing voluntary HIV screening programs in health care settings. They also found that screening for HIV infection is cost-effective relative to other commonly accepted screening programs and medical treatme...Early HIV screening prolongs life and is affordable, Stanford study shows
...Hospital in Toronto, developed a decision model to estimate the health benefits and expenditures of performing voluntary HIV screening programs in health-care settings. They followed a group of patients over their lifetime and looked at the costs and health consequences of screening and counseling, HIV transm...Alcohol: Global burden on health similar to tobacco and high blood pressure
...s of UK alcohol related mortality data the authors estimate that a 10% rise in British alcohol prices would produce a drop in cirrhosis mortality of 7% in men and 8.3% in women and a fall of 28.8% in men and 37.4% in women in deaths from explicitly alcohol-involved causes (alcohol dependence, poisoning etc.) ...Progesterone therapy could prevent thousands of preterm births
...en with other risk factors." Assumptions used to estimate the impact of 17P on recurrent preterm birth were based on criteria from the promising findings of the clinical trial reported by Paul J. Meis, M.D., et al. for the NICHD Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network in The New England Journal of Med...Screening for osteoporosis prevents hip fractures in older adults
...y. The researchers found that using a machine to estimate bone density by measuring the tissues' ability to absorb X-rays was associated with a 36 percent reduction in hip fractures over six years compared with usual medical care. The study, to be published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on Feb. 1, i...Study reports women don't experience undue pain, anxiety during mammography screening
...d the McGill Pain Questionnaire, and to provide an estimate of how much pain and/or anxiety they had experienced during the test. Analysis of the results found that contrary to expectations there were no significant differences in terms of pain perception between the subjects who listened to the relaxation ...Study sheds light on cross-species infection for BSE
...y published early online by THE LANCET provides an estimate of the compared efficiency of oral transmission of BSE to cattle and to man. There has been uncertainty regarding the amount of BSE material that constitutes an oral infectious dose for humans. The study estimates that a person would have to eat at l...Exercise helps reduce symptoms of depression, UT Southwestern researchers find
... can be recommended for most individuals." Experts estimate that only 23 percent of individuals with clinical depression seek treatment for the mental illness and only 10 percent receive adequate treatment. Almost 19 million Americans are thought to suffer from depressive disorders. Other researchers particip......urther magnetic changes, from which scientists can estimate the electrical conductivity of the mantle. This provides a check on the temperature of the material hidden deep in the Earth's interior. "What excites us is the huge scope of what we can study even with quite small satellites," comments Nils Olsen o...Study estimates number of excess cases of coronary heart disease caused by Vioxx
...over the market life of rofecoxib. The US national estimate of the case-fatality rate (fatal acute myocardial infarction plus sudden cardiac death) was 44%, which suggests that many of the excess cases attributable to rofecoxib use were fatal. "In the future, when trials show that a new treatment confers a g...New research shows heroin use falling across Scotland
...5,800 in 2000 the first year for which a reliable estimate was established - to 51,582 in 2003, a fall of 7.6%. The research, which focuses on 15-54 year olds, shows a fall in the estimated number of Scots who are taking particularly damaging drugs like heroin and valium. It also highlights a decrease nati...Male circumcision reduces risk of HIV transmission from women to men
...stical models, developed infectivity measures that estimate the per-sexual-act probability of HIV transmission...tistical model that incorporated published data to estimate the rates of HIV infection among the three types of sexual partners. For the men in the study, the o...Penn researchers add more evidence to demonstrate role of COX inhibitors in heart-disease risk
...ne the findings of two trials to obtain a stronger estimate of the risk of heart attack plus stroke than is possible from looking at either trial alone. Their analysis suggests that the COX-2 inhibitor Bextra elevated the combined incidence of heart attack and stroke three-fold in the study population of CABG...Number of adults with high blood pressure set to soar by 2025
...previously reported but this is the first study to estimate the total worldwide figure. Accurate estimates of the worldwide prevalence of this condition are an essential source of information for planning of health services. Measurement of the global burden of hypertension will allow public health and policy...More precise radiation therapy lets prostate cancer patients avoid erectile dysfunction
...t show the bottom of the prostate. Doctors instead estimate where the prostate ends, based on average distance from identifiable structures. The U-M study, using MRI in addition to CT scans to get a better picture of the whole prostate, found the distance between the prostate and the penile bulb ranged from 0...Environmental tobacco smoke linked to reading, math, logic and reasoning declines in children
...innati Children's and the study's main author. "We estimate that more than 33 million children in the United States are exposed to levels consistent with the adverse effects seen in this study." The study's findings translate into nearly a three-point decline in a standardized reading test and nearly a two-po...Few Americans are aware they have chronic kidney disease
...ed along with a patient's age, gender, and race to estimate GFR. "Kidney disease can be well advanced before it's found with creatinine alone. GFR is a more accurate gauge of how well the kidneys work, and our free calculator makes finding the rate a snap," said Thomas H. Hostetter, M.D., senior author of the...'Deep and crisp and eaten': The Scottish deep-fried Mars bar
... survey of Scottish fish and chip shops to try and estimate the popularity of the deep-fried Mars bar. The deep-fried Mars bar was first identified in Scotland nearly a decade ago, although epidemiological data about its existence remains scarce. David Morrison (Greater Glasgow NHS Board, UK) and Mark Petticr...