Whiplash pain is common, usually mild, and long-lasting
.... Pain in ankle-injured patients declined rapidly, falling from an initial average of 15 to near zero within the first month. In contrast, pain in whiplash-injured patients fell from an average of 20 initially to only 14 after one year. The greatest difference between the groups was seen in shoulder and arm ...Surprising results for Ugandan HIV intervention trial
...esults; the fact that the overall HIV incidence is falling in Uganda suggests that the study could have been underpowered to detect substantial differences in HIV incidence between the intervention and control groups. They conclude: "What does this trial tell us for the future? Rigorous evaluation of promisi...Millions of Americans are failing to get recommended health care
...hat found the nation's health care delivery system falling far short in its ability to apply new technology and biomedical knowledge safely and appropriately. The IOM reports blame a lack of organized processes rather than shortcomings in individual physicians for the quality gap. The reports call for the f...People near freeways are exposed to 30 times the concentration of dangerous particles
...rapidly with increasing distance from the freeway, falling to 30 percent of peak concentration at 330 feet. The rapid decrease and dilution in particle concentration was due to several factors, including atmospheric dispersion, coagulation, and wind direction and speed. Both Hinds and Zhu concur that better ...Foot pressure device may stamp out muscle loss
... regulate your center of gravity and keep you from falling down. But in space-based experiments, Layne and other researchers have previously found that when you're floating free in space and move your arms around, postural activity in the legs and back is reduced. "This is the same situation that occurs whe...Water may prevent some fainting spells
...ored participants for physiological signs such as falling blood pressure and heart rate until they were nearing the point of fainting. The test was stopped before anyone passed out. The Vanderbilt group provided 16 oz. of water five minutes prior to tilting. In this study, 10 of the 22 participants had a...Sleep and sedation controlled in same brain centre, say scientists
Undergoing anaesthesia may be more like falling asleep than we once thought, according to new rese...l induce sleep by mimicking the natural process of falling into a deep sleep. Using behavioural studies and molecular imaging techniques in rats, the team of ...Short-term pain can mean long-term gain for osteoarthritis patients
...dually to its highest level at around 3 p.m., then falling gradually until recording stopped at 9:30 p.m. On exercise days, the pain curve was similar but showed a significant spike immediately after exercise. This increase, Focht observes, was higher than expected based on the time of day, reported stress ...Injury death rate for Canadian farm children aged 1-6 higher than national average
...a rider on a tractor and then being run over after falling from the machine, and a child drowning," says Dr. Robert Brison, Director of the CAISP and professor of Emergency Medicine at Queen's University. "In the 'run over' fatalities, these tragedies are made more difficult by the fact that it is generally...Even moderate drinking raises blood pressure in some men
...study. The more they drank, the higher their risk, falling just shy of a threefold increase among the heaviest drinkers, found Noriyuki Nakanishi, M.D., of Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, and associates. The study included 3,784 men who did not have hypertension at the beginning of the study. N...Journal of Rehabilitation R&D releases latest issue
...e effect of accumulated impairments on the risk of falling for individuals who have had a stroke. Data reveal...ensory, and visual impairments had a lower risk of falling than did those with motor impairments only and those with motor and sensory impairments. Prelimina...Sedentary older women who fall at greater risk for motor vehicle crashes
...factors for motor vehicle crashes was a history of falling in those who didnt walk for exercise, according to...icant interaction between walking for exercise and falling in the past 12 months. The increased risk of motor vehicle crashes among women who fell was primaril...The Lancet Oncology (TLO) June 2002
...at cancer deaths for the whole of Europe have been falling over the past decade. Differences in lifestyle and environmental exposure are the most likely causes of cancer death in central-eastern European countries, which are linked to political, social, and economic inequalities. Lajos Dbrossy, former Region...Venlafaxine significantly effective for children and teens with generalized anxiety disorder
...tension; or sleep disturbances, such as difficulty falling or staying asleep or restless, unsatisfying sleep. Clinically, they present as children given to superficial illnesses; miss school for headaches or stomachaches. These are the kids constantly going to school nurse for minor symptoms, are shy, with...Duke sports medicine helps keep Cincinnati Reds healthy
...range of motion fell outside that range. For those falling beneath the range, Huff prescribed exercises that would increase a player's flexibility, while those above the range would typically be given a series of exercises designed to increase stability and strength. While the researchers assumed that injur...Late-onset schizophrenia found to be distinct condition
... age 40. Dr. Casanova theorizes that tau may begin falling out of solution relatively early in life, but some patients can compensate and so the symptoms may not appear until later in life when more cells are affected. Conversely, in some patients, just a few cells experiencing tauopathy may make cells misfi...Radical solutions needed to address health inequalities
...service access with rates of hospital intervention falling off progressively with age and with men more likely to receive treatment than women in all categories of care' she adds. 'The assumption that higher rates of hospital care are necessarily a 'good thing' should be revisited. Within an urban setting, t...New research reveals that fibre can improve mood
...ies; had a more positive mood; had less difficulty falling asleep and had lower depression scores than those people who ate a low-fibre diet. The results from the intervention showed that those who included Kelloggs All-Bran and Kelloggs Bran Flakes reported a 10 per cent reduction in fatigue. Professor Sm...Yale researcher receives $1.4 million grant to study the hypocretin cells involved in narcolepsy
... sleeping, and may suffer from hallucinations when falling asleep or waking." Van den Pols laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Stanford and the Scripps Research Institute, first described the hypothalamic neurotransmitter, hypocretin, in 1998. Later studies showed that patients with narcolepsy di...Researchers identify for the first time proteins vital to maintaining nervous system architecture
...ure nervous system becomes wobbly, with the wiring falling out of place and collapsing onto other wires, " Dr. Hobert says. Before these findings, neurobiologists had known the PVT cell of the major right nerve cord manufactured and secreted a protein, called netrin, to help guide the formation of the r...