Housebound elderly benefit from early intervention
... that becoming housebound initially leads to sharp falls in self-esteem and confidence. But two thirds of the sample managed to feel better as they adjusted to the change in their situation. They often explained their adjustment in emotional and spiritual terms. The extent of support from their families wa...Home injury found to be a major cause of deaths, largest study of its kind finds
...Washington, D.C., today (Thursday, Sept. 26).After falls and poisonings, the leading causes of such deaths were fires, inhalations and suffocation and drowning, she said.Among other findings were that states with the fewest home injury deaths per 100,000 population were Massachusetts, Utah, Maryland, Minne...Patients often miss out on nutrition counseling, at cost to health
...e of chronically ill patients receiving counseling falls short of the Healthy People 2010 national nutritional objectives, which suggest that 75 percent of office visits for hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disease and diabetes should include nutrition counseling. The study results are published in the Octo...NIH supports ice slurry at Argonne
...esses slow dramatically. For example, a skater who falls into an icy pond can be resuscitated even after being submerged for a significant amount of time. Because external cooling works too slowly, the team proposed that the ice slurry be injected into the body to induce faster, internal cooling. Because...Smokers infections increase risk of early atherosclerosis
...evere early atherosclerosis, but we found the risk falls to that of nonsmokers soon after they quit, unless there is a history of chronic infection." Researchers used ultrasound scans to examine changes in the carotid arteries (the main vessels supplying blood to the brain) of 826 men and women ages 40 to...Studies define biochemical structure that keeps blood pressure low, bypass grafts open
...sease, which may result when the support structure falls apart. "It's a whole new ball game," Dr. John D. Catravas, director of the Vascular Biology Center, said of the findings which contradict previous understanding of how the compound, cyclic GMP, which also helps keep blood vessels open and enables pen...USC researchers develop new way to measure cultural adaptation of youth
...nd lead author. Acculturation, the study reports, falls into four general patterns: Integration: the person combines aspects of the host culture with the culture of origin; Assimilation: the person replaces native culture with the new host culture; Separation: the person retains the native culture and...Exercise can prevent falls in older people
...exercise programme focusing on balance can prevent falls among older people living at home, finds a study i..., and vision improvement, and were asked to report falls using a monthly postcard calendar system. Exercise was the most effective single intervention tested...Increased fruit and vegetable consumption could reduce cardiovascular disease
...n protocol in research kitchens. He concludes: The falls in blood pressure in our study would be expected to produce small clinical effects, but would substantially reduce cardiovascular disease at the population level. A reduction of 2 mm Hg in diastolic blood pressure results in a decrease of about 17% i...Whitewater death inspires students to create safer helmet
...aterial, which will not absorb water if the wearer falls into a stream. The shell is made of rugged ABS plastic. Plastic head coverings are usually produced through an expensive molding process. But Cordeiro and Lee dramatically reduced the cost of their prototype helmet by using a high-tech rapid prototyp...High visibility speed cameras may increase road deaths
...h benefits. Hidden cameras are associated with net falls in speeds, crashes, and casualties when compared with visible ones. The introduction of high visibility speed cameras is a mistake, he says. We need evidence that they are more effective than hidden cameras. If they do not reduce collisions, deaths, ...Electricity can pump medicine in implanted medical devices
...utomatically after the patient falls asleep. The same technology could be used to improve medical tests, where tiny samples of a substance could be analyzed more precisely inside a narrow channel....Yale researchers report on brain activity believed related to sudden infant death syndrome
...ert them to wake and breathe deeply. "When someone falls asleep with their face in a pillow, carbon dioxide levels rise," Richerson said. "The normal response is to wake up slightly, turn the head, and breathe harder. There is evidence that some infants that die of SIDS lack this normal protective response...Study finds widespread sympathetic nerve damage in Parkinson's disease
...hostatic hypotension (OH), in which blood pressure falls suddenly when a person stands up. This condition ...eadedness, and fainting. OH increases the risk of falls and other types of accidents, which can be disabling or even life-threatening. Patients with PD fr...Enzyme halts muscle waste in mouse models of most-common childhood muscular dystrophy
...e, Martin said. Without that foundation, the house falls apart. Without dystrophin, muscles affected by DMD become damaged and break. Martin discovered the enzyme as he looked for other proteins that might compensate for the disabled dystrophin in DMD patients. Normally, CT GalNAc transferase acts as a c...Classroom management linked to lesser teen alienation from school
...00 students," he said. When high school enrollment falls below 600 students, academic achievement tends to suffer because schools that small have few resources. When school enrollment burgeons to more than about 1,200, both connectedness and academic achievement diminish. Blum and his colleagues found t...Late-onset schizophrenia found to be distinct condition
...s happens when a key structural protein called tau falls out of solution, said Dr. Manuel F. Casanova, neur...reason, in some brain cells of some people the tau falls out of solution. "It becomes what's called hyper-phosphorylated. There are some groups of phosphate ...Eye drops to treat childhood eye disorder work as well as patching the eye
...daily burden to administer treatment for amblyopia falls on the parent, said study chairman Michael Repka, M.D., professor of ophthalmology and pediatrics at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. This study shows that one drop a day of atropine works as well ...Study finds drops work as well as patch for 'lazy eye'
...daily burden to administer treatment for amblyopia falls on theparent," said study chairman Michael Repka, M.D., professor ofophthalmology and pediatrics at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns HopkinsUniversity School of Medicine in Baltimore. "This study shows that onedrop a day of atropine works as well as......ed as: a gunshot wound, a stab wound, accidents or falls requiring medical attention, fractures or dislocat... assessments of their living conditions to prevent falls and subsequent fractures and dislocations. Identifying patients with depressive symptoms and impuls...