AAPS Workshop to Examine Chemistry and Manufacturing Controls Trials, Emerging Products
...rticipants will have an opportunity to share their experiences and develop recommendations for change. For more information on this workshop, including a complete preliminary program, registration fees, and accommodations, visit AAPS Online at http://www.aaps.org/edumeet/ tribulations/index.html . AAPS is a pro...Patients with social phobia benefit from long-term treatment with sertraline HCl
...the sertraline-continuation patients cited adverse experiences as their reason for discontinuing the study. No serious adverse events were reported. Sertraline is approved in Canada, the United States and other countries for the treatment of depression, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in ...... using wheelchairs and other "props" to make their experiences more realistic. Two new activities are planned for this year's event. Students will be able to meet some of the dogs that are part of the medical center's pet therapy program. The animals are specially trained and certified to visit patients who are ...Parenting, stress and your child's risk for alcoholism
...s. "This study very clearly showed that early life experiences can have a dramatic effect on subsequent developme...said the second implication is that "early-rearing experiences that increase anxiety - as measured by cortisol output - also increase subsequent alcohol consumptio......lty urinating. The most commonly reported adverse experiences with Allegra-D compared to pseudoephedrine alone were headache (13.0% vs. 17.4%), insomnia (12.6% vs. 13.3%), and nausea (7.4% vs. 5.0%). The most commonly reported adverse events with Allegra (fexofenadine HCl) 180 mg and placebo, respectively, in S...Women medical school faculty perceive gender bias, sexual harassment
...ague, compared to 5 percent of men. These negative experiences do not necessarily restrict a woman's career advan...ituation, self-esteem, family responsibilities and experiences with discrimination, harassment, mentoring and other topics. "These findings are particularly signif...New grants program to help create healing environments in hospitals through art
... community artists to transform patients' medical experiences through hands-on art, music, or writing. A public...nd staff across the country value their first-hand experiences in the arts as an adjunct to their medical care. They often share their reaction afterward with arts...Rapid improvements in lower back care possible
...f the Journal of General Internal Medicine. "These experiences suggest that rapid improvements in care for back pain are difficult but feasible," noted Deyo. "Although only 27 percent of the participating organizations posted major improvements, this can be seen as a substantial gain over the status quo." Also,...... These results show a striking contrast in health experiences for different racial, ethnic groups in California, said Yen, who added that these results of poorer employment and health status persist even after taking into account age, sex and educational level. Asian Americans showed mixed employment and healt...Testosterone skin patch improves sexual functioning in surgically menopausal women
...ed improved sexual functioning compared with their experiences before starting the study. They note that a number of factors could explain this response - including the women's strong motivation to improve their sex lives, improved communication with sexual partners, the presence of the patches as a visible...New medical research shows protein jump signals who suffers arthritis before X-rays show damage
...tes because the two races differ somewhat in their experiences with osteoarthritis. A similar analysis exclusively with black subjects currently is under way. Half the participants were women. When the continuing research began, participants were age 45 or older. About 40 percent of those included in the CO...UNC-CH School of Social Work receives grant to prevent violence
...on, alienation and aggression that can sour school experiences for children and lead to academic and behavioral problems," said Fraser. The grant extends work that the researchers have done with the state and Winston-Salem's Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, in which they developed strong ties with Dr. Larry Mabe, s...Hartford Institute/AACN award honors nursing schools for innovative gerontology education
...riatric nursing care; and integrate gerontological experiences into the overall curriculum. Curricula of all winners will be summarized and distributed to nursing programs nationwide. Winning Elements: At Pennsylvania State University, gerontological nursing concepts are woven throughout the baccalaureate n...Area of brain found to play key role in initiating memory storage
...n the brain. The amygdala appears to decide which experiences are important enough to store a decision based on the emotional significance of the events in a decoding process that affects both learning and memory. Our data show that a disabled amygdala leads to a breakdown of learning-related changes in other ...Personality influences psychological adjustment and recovery from stroke
...e of extroversion or introversion, openness to new experiences and how they coped with stress. The test was given a few days after the stroke and again one year later. Researchers found that people whose families described them as highly self-conscious or as deep thinkers were most vulnerable to post-strok...Parents benefit by accompanying children on ambulance trips between hospitals
...tals. The change reflects recent studies of parent experiences and attitudes by an emergency physician at The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, which showed that far more parents felt reassured after accompanying their children on ambulance transports, compared to parents who did not ride with their children. ...Training for doctors improves screening for risk-taking in teens
... we obtained adolescent patients' reports of their experiences during a visit with their providers. Most research on physician behavior relies only upon reports from providers about their own practices. In this study, we obtain the patient perspective, which is an important indicator of the provider's screening ...Newer form of 'gold standard' drug helps kidney transplant patients do better in long term
...r is yes all around." The study looked back at the experiences of 29,786 people who received kidney transplants between 1994 and 1997, and whose medical histories were recorded anonymously by the United States Renal Data System. Kaplan worked with co-author Herwig-Ulf Meier-Kriesche, M.D., an assistant professor......y participants will also be on hand to share their experiences as a volunteer. (Parking is available in the garage below the building or on the street.) The Seattle HIV Vaccine Trials Unit (HVTU) is one of 17 domestic and international clinical vaccine units in the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN). The local ...... section, Feb 13, 2001, Wyatt related some of this experiences battling cancer for the third time. | NIMH Home | Welcome | News and Events | Clinical Trials | Funding Opportunities | | For the Public | For Practitioners | For Researchers | Intramural R...