Alcohol researchers prove brief intervention successful in older problem drinkers
...lth behaviors. Patients in the intervention group experienced a 34-percent reduction in 7-dayalcohol use, a 74-percent reduction in mean number of binge-drinking episodes,and a 62-percent reduction in the proportion of older adults who consumed morethan 21 drinks a week. These data provide the first direct evid...Help for women's urinary tract infections
...ying abdominal and back pain. Many women have also experienced inconsistent treatment of cystitis from doctorto doctor and region to region. Despite its wide prevalence and theavailability of inexpensive antibiotic treatments, physicians don't all treatcystitis the same way. The result is unnecessary office vi...Novel drug therapy tackles third 'pathway' causing congestive heart failure
...of well being). None of the patients in the study experienced any adverse sideeffects from the drug. Congestive heart failure occurs when the heart fails to function as efficientlyas it should and can't pump enough blood to meet the body's needs. It can bethe result of a heart attack, high blood pressure, a co...Breast cancer patients face increased depression
...nt. The patients included 15 women who had not yet experienced menopause at the timeof diagnosis, 14 of whom showed signs of estrogen deficiency, developing hotflashes or no longer menstruating. Four of these patients became depressed. Among the six post-menopausal women, four became depressed, and of these tw...MGH study shows mitral valve prolapse not a stroke risk factor
...ondition in both healthypatients and those who had experienced strokes. It now appears that even thosewith true ... In addition, a 1980 study of young peoplewho had experienced strokes or related events diagnosed mitral valve prolapse in40 percent of those studied, implying th...Effects of nicotine influenced by housing and gender
... spent in the center, suggesting thatthese animals experienced reduced anxiety as a result of nicotineadministration. "Our studies with rats may reflect human sex differences in reasons for smoking. For example, women often report that they smoke to cope with emotional andsocial situations and to alleviate neg...Walking cuts risk of heart attack in elderly men
...r those who walked more. A total of 109 of the men experienced a heart attack. Forty-one of them wereamong the 805 men who walked less than a quarter mile, 48 were among the 1,067who walked a quarter to 1.5 miles, and 20 were among the 806 who walked morethan a mile and a half. All the men were physically cap...... of Medicine,appears to be "the availability of an experienced health care team." "I think that when you do something repeatedly, you get the hang of it and thesense of it, and many things follow automatically," says Dr. Shah. "When ahealth care team takes care of hundreds of patients, treating them with aspirin...Dental students help close care gap at Indian reservation
...an Health Serviceprogram at Pine Ridge, which "has experienced some difficulty in recent years in recruiting suitable dental school graduatesto fill entry-level dental officer vacancies," according to the externship agreement. Officials believe that students whoparticipate in such externships are more apt to app...Cholesterol-lowering drugs provide double protection against heart disease
...-lowering drug therapy, those with highcholesterol experienced a significant improvement in blood flow to their heartmuscle. However, it was still lower than in the group with normal cholesterollevels. Sixteen of the high-cholesterol patients also had high blood pressure, and fivehad diabetes, both of which can...Workplace environment can improve eating habits
...tion toincreased access to healthy food, employees experienced support from theirco-workers and from management for trying to follow diets that placed them atlower risk for cancer. The results were contrasted with outcomes in a comparison group of 56 work-siteswith about 9,000 workers that did not have cancer-c......tics at Glaxo Wellcome."Jonathan is a talented and experienced genetic epidemiologist and has insightinto the analysis of susceptibility gene research." The Glaxo Wellcome plan includes: Clinical networks to identify candidate families and collect clinicalinformation and blood samples; DNA Banking and Genotypi...Religious attendance linked to lower mortality in elderly
...rs reported having largersocial networks and hence experienced greater social support than infrequentattenders, Koenig said. High levels of social support have been linked to bettermental health, and they may also increase the likelihood that illnesses will bedetected by friends and family and thus treated more ...College men nearly as likely as women to report they are victims of unwanted sexual coercion
...the researchers.The study also showed that men who experienced unwanted sexual contact reportedmore symptoms of depression than the other males in the study, although none metthe criteria for clinical depression. There was no difference in the level ofdepression symptoms for women who said they were sexually coe...Implanted defibrillators and anti-theft systems appear safe under normal circumstances
...inically irrelevant byresearchers. However, seven experienced significant incidents in which thedefibrillators would have or might have fired, Zipes says. The researchers' findings concur with a Food and Drug Administration letter tophysicians in September 1998, which said that although the anti-theft machi...ReQuip cuts risk of dyskinesias by 15-fold in early Parkinson's disease
...r the 5-year study period, both groups of patients experienced similarcontrol of their symptoms. A third of those in the group randomized to receiveReQuip® completed the 5-year study without the need for L-dopa, achievingsatisfactory control with ReQuip alone. Patients in the group receiving ReQuip® su...Chronic, heavy cocaine use associated with long-lasting impaired function
...the duration of use,all cocaine users in the study experienced reduced cognitive function." This is the second recent study in which Dr. Bolla has identifiedpersistent cognitive problems in former heavy drug users. In the December 1998issue of Neurology, she published results showing memory impairment a...Reacting well to heart disease can help avoid future attacks
..., required anotherangioplasty, bypass surgery, or experienced another heart-related complicationin the six months after the initial angioplasty procedure. Helgeson and Fritz found that patients with higher cognitive adaptation scoreswere less likely to experience a new heart attack or other coronary event six...New laser treatment allows patients to swallow and breath easier
...cording to the American Cancer Society, males have experienced a24 percent increase in death from esophageal cancer, while there has been a 147percent increase in the number of women who have died from lung cancer between1974 and 1994. "PDT may, in some cases, cure the cancer if it has been caught veryea...Red wine can help maintain immune system, UF researcher finds
...ence ofalcohol. The mice who were drinking ethanol experienced a suppressed immune response,while the mice who drank wine maintained normal immunity. "We found that the animals that consumed straight ethanol had lower levels ofwhite blood cells than any other group," Percival said. "However, the sameamount of al...