Medication Offers Hope For Relief From Burning Mouth Pain
...gh recent research has focused on various physical explanations for burning mouth,there is no consensus on the cause or treatment. BMS seems to follow a pattern in many sufferers, Grushka observes. The burning pain begins bylate morning and usually reaches peak intensity by evening, which makes falling asleep dif...Breakthrough? Study Finds Dopamine Cannot Be Source Of Pleasure In Brain
...he lever,too. The new work promises better explanations of how such abused chemicalsas nicotine, alcohol, cocaine and amphetamines act in the brain, Wightman said.It also might help identify less toxic substances that could ease withdrawal andmake it more successful. "Because nobody ever had a way...Health And Wealth: Women Are DifferentOr Are They?
...'s odds of dying. The team raised several possible explanations of this and said further researchwould have to answer such questions: Could it be because the wife's increasedearnings lower the husband's sense of power or self-esteem? That more hours inthe workplace allow women less time for activities that butt...Migraine Pain: Not Mainly In The Brain
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...and possibly a cultural tendency towardsfatalistic explanations for events." The research was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and HumanDevelopment and the National Institute of Mental Health. Health Psychology is the official, peer-reviewed research journal of theDivision of Health Psychology ...One in seven adolescents still doesn't have health insurance
...n said.Newacheck said experts have offered several explanations why private insurancecovers fewer adolescents, including higher premiums and a shift of jobs to theservice sector of the economy where employers are less likely to offer healthinsurance as a benefit. When parents were asked why their adolescent ch...Magnet therapy: what's the attraction?
...ultant to the American Physical Society, says that explanations currently being offered are false. Here are some highlights from the article: Some literature on magnet therapy claims it attracts blood to the treated area. But Park says no magnet can attract blood. "You can test this yourself," writes Park....Peering into the amazing mind behind those baby blue eyes
... computers. They think, make predictions, lookfor explanations and even do experiments. And all this spectacular learninghappens as part of everyday life in the ordinary child's world of peek-a-boo,drop the spoon and the terrible twos. "It's the same process in science," he said. "As adults we have th......prescribers that although there may be alternative explanations other than the drug for the observed increase in risk of gastrointestinal bleeding "..greater caution is probably warranted in co-administering non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and serotonin reuptake inhibitors."...O.R. model could reduce high death rate among kidney dialysis patients by up to 20%
...he rate in European countries. Experts suggest two explanations for the higher mortality rate: one, the larger number of critically ill patients accepted for treatment in the US compared to Europe; and, two, an American dialysis reimbursement rate that is 50% lower. The reimbursement rate reflects the high cost o...Human brain has unsuspected oxygen reserve, challenging previous theories
...nition. The team also is looking for alternative explanations for the increased cerebral blood flow seen during many mental tasks. We have to take a step back and admit that the blood-flow response we see so crisply when areas of the brain become active may serve some other purpose, he says. Also, other mechani...Costs of family caregiving for elderly with cancer are significant, often forgotten
... patient and about $1 billion nationally. Possible explanations for the increase in caregiving time include increased morbidity, or negative health effects, from a cancer that is clinically significant enough to warrant recent treatment, the treatment itself, or more likely, from a combination of the two. The re...Researchers find correlation between older adults' use of speech and the ability to gesture
...he pantomime task. There are at least two possible explanations for this inverse relationship, according to study author Anna M. Barrett, MD, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. "Speaking may have interfered with gesture production. Any of us can make more errors when we try to talk and do somethin...Surgeons dont offer women choices of treatment as often as they could
... BCS and therefore recommended mastectomy. Other explanations could be that some surgeons may have felt that, regardless of the information given, the women could never completely comprehend the information because of their lack of medical knowledge, or that the time they spent with each woman was too brief to ...Report shows decline in youth smoking, but work remains
...s racial/ethnic groups, including descriptions and explanations of smoking behavior among African American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and American Indian and Alaskan Native adolescents. Smoking rates vary by ethnic group, with American Indian and Alaskan Native adolescents showing the...Tamoxifen and estrogen have similar effects on the brain
... note that it is important to consider alternative explanations for these results that take into account all of what we know about the physiologic effects of estrogen in women, as well as the relationship between lifelong exposure to estrogen and the risk for breast cancer. Ganz and her coworkers point out that t...Though rare, victims of lightning strike may suffer
...ese symptoms after being struck by lightning. The explanations for IMD after lightning strikes vary from a direct causal relationship to a precipitating factor, or IMD symptoms may even be coincidental to the lightning strike event. Further study will help elucidate the role of lightning strike in IMD, and also...Racial disparity in cancer survival: Are other factors at work?
...ame. This findingcasts doubt on one of the popular explanations for theracial gap in survival -- that cancer behaves moreaggressively in blacks due to biologic or geneticdifferences. These findings are published in the April 24issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. "In many studies, survival di...Mayo Clinic researchers find useful test for identifying patients
...medical professionals were sometimes left with few explanations of why. Now, genomic medicine has helped Mayo Clinic researchers find a renewed use for a test once deemed ineffective in detecting a cardiac condition sometimes cited as the cause of previously unexplained sudden deaths. "This is a test we use to de...