Antidepressants impair cognitive function in the elderly
...ple medications daily. More research is needed to examine specific medications within classes to assess the long-tern effectiveness of psychoactive medications, " she says....Insured minorities continue to face obstacles to health care, UCSF study reports
...riers. The researchers are also among the first to examine the effects of managed care on minority populations and compare access across insurance plans. Analyzing data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey that included responses from more than 22, 000 individuals and 9,000 families from around ...... first population-based, case-controlled effort to examine risk protection offered by the newer preparations. "Until now, few women taking the low-dose preparations had passed through the critical 20- to-30-year window during which the incidence of ovarian cancer rises," explained Dr. Ness. "Ours is the fir...Award-winning book looks at responsibility for sick babies in hospitals
...Midwestern neonatal intensive care units (NICU) to examine conditions under which people accept or reject responsibility. On Saturday, Aug. 12, the "For the Sake of the Children" authors will receive the book prize from the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association, "given to recognize outstand...Living in the pharmaceutical century
... the future - for example, new analytical tools to examine patients and personalized drugs that tiny devices deliver painlessly to their targets. If the current rate of discovery is a guide, the future may hold cures for cancer, Alzheimer's disease and AIDS. The Pharmaceutical Century reminds us that even a...Supplements that target fat loss … metals that protect themselves …
...umber of drugs used to prevent cancer? Researchers examine possibilities for a unique preventive chemistry in this essential vitamin. (MEDI 191, 12:45 p.m.) Wednesday, August 23 Alzheimer's and mad cow diseases: A possible link? - A researcher examines the similar protein folding patterns involved in the...Society for the Study of Impotence 2000 Fall Research Meeting In Cleveland September 15-17
...entations, several plenary presentations also will examine some of the key issues related to sexual medicine, including: A series of Grand Master Lectures discussing the relationship of erectile dysfunction and treatment for prostate cancer. (Saturday, September 16 beginning at 8:20 a.m.) G...Study suggests greater pressure on family care as baby boom ages
...f between 2.4 and 3.6, according to the study. To examine shifts in informal family caregiving occurring over the last decade, Spillman, of The Urban Institute, and co-author Liliana E. Pezzin, PhD, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, analyzed data from the 1984 and 1994 National Long Term C...Study describes brain changes during learning
... Rioult-Pedotti and Donoghue are continuing to examine the relationship between learning and LTP. In particular they are studying which cells and genes are involved in the learning process. The researchers are also looking at the effect of different training programs on synaptic ...Therapeutic opportunities in neurodegenerative diseases
... for convenient registration. This conference will examine the latest research efforts towards understanding andtreating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease,amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and prion diseases. The use of inhibitors towardsprotein aggregation, secretase p...Product Quality Research Institutes (PQRI)
...tion and Research (CDER), industry and academia to examine and support drug regulatory issues. PQRIs research projects will generate scientific support to reduce regulatory testing and reporting requirements without compromising drug product quality. The institutes recommendations based on this research are...Injuries on the job: the effects of problem drinking
...nger workers." "This is but one of many studies to examine this question," added Howland, "and the results ac... or off the job. Much more work is also needed to examine the impact of alcohol dependence on occupational injuries."...Researchers image language recovery after stroke
...areas potentially involved in language recovery to examine the underlying mechanisms," Corbetta says. "We als...ults from all the subjects in a group. In order to examine changes in brain activation in each patient, Corbetta and colleagues used fMRI. This is the first pu...Specifying alcohol-related brain damage in young women
...ant of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to closely examine brain function in young alcoholic women. "Prev... these thinking and memory problems. We wanted to examine what brain parts might have been affected by heavy drinking during these women's youth, and how thos...Gender-specific intervention may be needed to improve diets of african-american youth
...sms of social support on dietary compliance and to examine other diet interventions to prevent hypertension, such as increased potassium and calcium....Sleepyheads, snorers face risk of stroke
... why sleep disruption contributes to stroke and to examine sleep patterns in relation to other diseases. These studies are in the preliminary stages....Study: Drinking in fraternities, sororities doesn't necessarily continue after college
...iliation. Most studies of college student drinking examine such questions at only one time, which limits the results. The study group did not include students who dropped out during their college years, however....UNC study ties depression, anxiety to fatigue in HIV-positive patients
...UNC faculty members believe theirs is the first to examine so many in combination. More work is needed to confirm and expand on the team's findings, Barroso said. "This is one place to start, as opposed to just saying to people, 'Well you are fatigued. We don't know what to do about this,'" she said. "It...High-tech scan for blocked arteries matches conventional tests in finding root of symptoms
... symptomatic patients at their own centers, and to examine its use in asymptomatic patients....Methadone may cause potentially fatal arrhythmia, Georgetown researchers find
...s now plan to conduct studies in humans to further examine methadones potential cardiac effects....