Mammography Messages Need To Be Tailored For Older Women
...y helpturn this trend around by addressing women's fears of findinga lump and other barriers to being teste...rs of age or older, explored theerroneous beliefs, fears and practical issues that deter womenfrom getting mammograms. The findings are published in the Janu......opethat this study will help alleviate some of the fears parents may have aboutgiving a child beclomethasone or theophylline." Parents of more than 100, 6- to 17-year-old children with asthmacompleted behavioral questionnaires at the beginning of the study, at one monthand one year. The children, ...Communication Between Doctors And Asthma Patients Is Key
... the training were more likely to addresspatients' fears about medicines and review written instructions with patients. Parents of children treated by program physicians had more confidence in theirability to manage their child's disease at home. Clark found that patients of physicians who participated in ...For Breast Self-Examination, Once A Month Is Quite Enough
... who rarely examined their breasts werehindered by fears and anxieties. However, the Wales/Sheffield scientists foundthat cancer-specific anxiety was lowest among the women who examined themselvesleast often and highest among those who examined themselves most often. Highgeneral anxiety was found only am...New Book Says Cross-Train Your Brain To Increase Mental Function
...," he said. "It may also allay some of your fears about aging because you're doingsomething about it; you're doing something that actively engages your brain." As evidence that such neurobic "cross-training" can be a powerful,natural mental stimulant, Katz cites the compelling memories evoke...Baby Talk: Parents Do Make A Difference, By Promoting Childhood Chatter, From Birth To Age 3
...problems such as ear infections. Soothing parents' fears wasn't hard, Golinkoff says, because "children acquirelanguage at their own pace, and tremendous individual variability is quitenormal." In UD's Infant Language Laboratory, "Some children speak in fullsentences at 16 months, while others might not sa...New Book Looks At Those Who Examine Our Sex Lives
...fought. The fighting is often a metaphor for other fears or concernsAmericans have." Ericksen dedicated her book "to the hundreds of men and women who undertooksurveys in the belief that the truth about sex can set us free." She says,"Most but not all surveyors want to liberate sex from what they see as a...Study Reveals Prominent Fears Of School-Age Children
...undthat the boys harbored fears related to animals, supernatural ... fears, with a total of 177 fears described. Boysreported more safety- and animal-related fears (74 and 40per...Space plays havoc with your immune system
... lymphoma, a type of cancer common in Africa.Mehta fears that other, more dangerous viruses could also be transmitted moreeasily by stressed astronauts. In preliminary analyses, he has already foundelevated levels of cytomegalovirus in saliva samples taken on the shuttle. Thisvirus can cause blindness in i...Hope protects bereaved, HIV-positive men
...imists, researchers speculate thatHIV/AIDS-related fears surface most powerfully in men who witness the diseasedestroy a loved one. "It is particularly important to identify factors that may prolong the health ofthe infected since medical science does not yet offer a cure for HIV," saidReed. "Therapeutic e...Elderly should receive the same cancer care as young people
...f awareness of treatments available and beliefs or fears of patients and their families about cancer and its treatment, may all contribute to the fact that older patients do not receive the same cancer care as younger people. So say Dr Nicola Turner and colleagues from St James's University Hospital, Leed...Elderly heart attack patients fare well with managed care
...irst hour following a heart attack. Despite public fears that managed care may interfere with the provision oftimely urgent care, especially among vulnerable patients like the elderly, thestudy's findings indicate otherwise. One example was the higher use ofemergency transportation by HMO patients (56%) c...Issues surrounding genetic medicine and the Jewish population to be explored at conference
...c genetic risk may be recommended. "Unfortunately, fears about misuse of this information may keep individu...as worried about more than her medical outcome.Her fears also focused on the possibility that her children-and other familymembers-could develop the same dis...Duke team seeks novel vaccine strategy for HIV
...nce it is based on synthetic peptides,there are no fears of the vaccine actually causing infection. In general, the vaccines produced to date have not been sufficientlyeffective in generating strong and lasting immune responses.To "boost" the ability of their vaccine to induce an immune response, t...HIV prevention program targets young gay men through social networks and peer support for safe sex
...rd to understand that young gay men have very real fears about being openly gay in a society that does not support them. Moreover, they are trying to find their way in terms of loving and intimate relationships. Many of them have experienced sexual abuse as young people as well," she said "The Mpowerme...War on bacteria could leave drug-resistant strains unchecked
...ician who urges people to abandon their irrational fears and make peace with the beneficial bacteria surrounding us. Not only do most bacteria help keep harmful bacteria in check, they may even give a baby's immune system the exercise it needs to develop normally. "Dousing everything we touch with antiba...Common heart failure drugs can be safely used at higher, more effective doses, study says
... The important lesson here, he said, is that the fears that many doctors have about prescribing the full recommended dose of ACE inhibitors are not justified for most patients. With respect to kidney failure, ACE inhibitors may actually help rather than hurt. "It's paradoxical that doctors were afraid t...Lower dose hormone replacement therapy just as effective as often prescribed doses
...s. The availability of lower doses should ease the fears of those who are concerned about the link between estrogen and breast cancer." The double-blind study involved more than 2,000 healthy, postmenopausal women with intact uteruses. A group of 243 symptomatic women were measured by the number and s...UNC, Wake Forest scholars work to reduce crimes against Hispanics in North Carolina
...es because of their inability to speak English and fears of police and immigration officials. - were largely unfamiliar with state traffic laws. Were under-served by state law enforcement agencies, which have trouble finding and employing bilingual officers. Recommendations in the UNC report encourage po...Does direct to consumer drug advertising medicalise normal human conditions?
...oduct information arbitrarily because of unfounded fears about direct to consumer advertising impinges on the rights of Europeans to have all the information they need to make informed choices about their health, they conclude....