Even health professionals who treat obesity are biased against overweight patients
...estionnaire assessing explicit attitudes, personal experiences with obesity, and demographic characteristics. Th...ame criteria, along with personal and professional experiences with obesity....HFES Annual Meeting papers feature work on critical health and safety issues
...oup session, truck drivers talked about their past experiences with drowsy driving, considered four different modes of delivering the alerts/warnings, and came to some agreement that the warnings should be aggressive and continue until they were acknowledged. A functional prototype that incorporates the drivers...New scientific study finds forgiveness a factor in decreasing spread of AIDS
...zed as a multidimensional construct including both experiences of forgiving others and experiences of being forgiven, across a range of contexts interpersonal, spiritual, self/intrapersonal, and med...Repeated alcohol detoxifications can impair cognitive function
...ised detoxifications: patients with fewer than two experiences (n=36) and patients with two or more experiences (n=6). All of the subjects were asked to complete four types of tasks designed to measure executive...Common drug, given promptly, reduces incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder, small study finds
... post-traumatic stress disorder, in which a person experiences recurring emotional attacks, for months, years or decades following the inciting event. PTSD patients experience such symptoms as insomnia, difficulty concentrating, persistent reliving of the traumatic event, and reactions of panic or fear when conf...Cosmetic surgery satisfaction declines with time, Stanford research finds
...ed to design a study with Dover to examine patient experiences and their perception of results. The patients incl.... The researchers queried the patients about their experiences one day, three days and one week after the surgery and again at three weeks, six weeks, 12 weeks and...Isolated patients get lower quality of care, say researchers
... of the American Medical Association, examined the experiences of 450 adult patients 234 at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Center in Toronto and 216 at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass. Redelmeier conducted the study with Henry Stelfox and David Bates of Harvard. Seventy-eight patien...Students of mixed races report suffering more health problems
...er ages, to have access to guns and to have poorer experiences at school such as through suspensions, skipping class and repeating grades. In characteristics not related to traditional risks, such as grades, vocabulary, family structure and family education, mixed-race adolescents often fell between single-race ...Unusual fatigue may be warning symptom of heart attack in women
...rt attack, she said. But it is clear that women's experiences differ from the symptoms they expect. In this study, researchers found that 43 percent of women reported no chest discomfort during their heart attack. For those who did, the main locations were in the back and high chest. "Lack of significant ches...Direct link found between chronic inflammation, colon cancer
...help treat or prevent cancer. "When the body experiences oxidative stress, molecules called free radicals are produced, and these free radicals can damage cells the cell membrane and the DNA," Marnett said. The researchers examined a type of DNA damage caused by malondialdehye (MDA), a product of COX...Intergenerational program has benefits for children, older adults
...porting the children and sharing their talents and experiences with them. "The program is validating for the older adults and exciting for the children," Fees said. "We tend to isolate the activities of older adults from the activities of those younger," Fees said. "This program gives the opportunity for childre...A JAMA theme issue media briefing: pain management
...Workforce Nearly 13 percent of the U.S. workforce experiences a loss in productive time due to common pain conditions, and this costs U.S. employers an estimated $61 billion per year, according to Walter Stewart, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director, Outcomes Research Institute, Geisinger Health Systems, Danville, Pa. 11:...Caregivers for patients with dementia need more support before patient dies, less after
...r loved one. "This study gives us insight into the experiences of many of the six million people who provide long-term, unpaid care to disabled elderly persons in their families," said Dr. Schulz, who also is director of the University Center for Social and Urban Research and associate director of the University...Heart attacks rose at Brooklyn hospital after terrorist attack
...ich stimulate nerve chemicals. "Anytime a person experiences psychological or emotional stress, catecholamine levels rise, which increases heart rate and blood pressure," he said. The risks associated with psychological or emotional trauma have potentially major implications for people with heart diseases an...Injured workers dissatisfied with compensation system
...rapy researchers asked injured workers about their experiences with the compensation and rehabilitation system in Ontario. More than one-third of the 290 respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, "I felt pressured to get better faster than I was able to." Less than half reported being satisfied w...Helping teachers use keys to vocabulary building
...r more in class about the results of such learning experiences as science experiments. Children who don't grow up speaking English face greater vocabulary obstacles, and Bromley suggests pairing them with native speakers to correspond via "buddy journals" in which they write to each other. Often, both students ...Nov/Dec 2003 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...amily physicians. How could understanding women's experiences change the way clinicians communicate with patient...stry, a mistrust of clinicians, and vivid personal experiences with cancer. The study results indicate that the habit of having an annual visit to a clinician for...New study in Pediatrics shows nitric oxide therapy for newborns effective and cost saving
...o randomized controlled trials and other real-life experiences with ECMO and inhaled nitric oxide, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh's CRISMA laboratory developed a cost-effectiveness model that estimated treatment outcomes and costs associated with treatment and recovery. The researchers looked at two...New study in Pediatrics shows nitric oxide therapy for newborns effective and cost saving
...o randomized controlled trials and other real-life experiences with ECMO and inhaled nitric oxide, researchers at The University of Pittsburgh's CRISMA laboratory developed a cost-effectiveness model that estimated treatment outcomes and costs associated with treatment and recovery. The researchers looked at two...Yesterday, today and tomorrow: Mount Sinai researchers are making sense of episodic memory
Many of our actions are guided by past experiences combined with insight into the future. A major mystery of biology involves understanding how brain cells can create a representation that extends backward and forward through time. A new study conducted by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medic...