National survey finds U.S. public enthusiastic about cancer screening
...colonoscopy. "Most American adults (87 percent) feel routine cancer screening is almost always a good idea," the investigators found. "Seventy-four percent believe that finding cancer early saves lives 'most' or 'all of the time.' Fifty-three percent believe screening usually reduces the amount of t...Friendships play key role in suicidal thoughts of girls, but not boys
...sk of suicidal thoughts among adolescent girls who feel isolated. We need to provide help to these students, too." Another important finding was that girls had increased risk of suicidal thoughts if people they listed as friends did not name each other as friends. "When girls are stuck between friends who...What do bad breath, hot dogs, and gastric blood flow have in common? The nitrite anion
... very least, perhaps we should avoid mouthwash and feel less guilty about eating hot dogs at the ball park."...Stevens' Cattabiani helps link doctors, hospitals worldwide
...six years designing, testing, and refining what we feel is the most advanced healthcare information system platform available," says Grasso. "We are now in the process of conducting the last series of trials within the New York Metropolitan Area at major hospitals, nursing homes, imaging centers, physicia...U-M study: Doctors more likely to prescribe pricey new blood pressure drugs
...hard to keep up on the medical literature. Doctors feel it's an educational visit, but the sales reps hand out samples." The University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers prohibits distributing drug samples to patients. "It may seem like the doctor's helping patients get more affordable medicine, b...When alcohol consumption evolves from a 'social lubricant' into a 'crutch'
...hat doesn't mean that a person who uses alcohol to feel comfortable in social situations is likely to become an alcoholic. We would argue that people with high social anxiety who use alcohol repeatedly to relieve their stress may come to rely on it as their primary coping strategy, and research suggests ...Bullying in schools pervasive, UCLA study finds
...gns of depression or social anxiety and they don't feel lonely. "We hope that these findings help us di...e students with educational settings in which they feel comfortable talking about their plight. But we also need to give kids tools to effectively deal with...Distress-prone people more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease
... statements such as "I am not a worrier," "I often feel tense and jittery," and "I often get angry at the way people treat me." "People differ in their tendency to experience psychological distress, and this is a stable personality trait throughout adulthood," said study author Robert S. Wilson, PhD, of R...Higher dose of Gleevec leads to increased remission in CML patients
...., deputy chair in the Department of Leukemia. "We feel so comfortable with what we are finding that patients being treated at M. D. Anderson already are being given the higher dose therapy." The study is the first to look at use of high-dose Gleevec in patients with newly diagnosed, early stage CML. Ini...Wanted: people to test orgasmatron
...ghout the operation so that they can say when they feel less pain. During one such operation, the patient began exclaiming emphatically. When Meloy asked what was up, she said, "You're going to have to teach my husband to do that." This effect was already familiar to many surgeons performing such operati...Inconsistent guidelines lead to wide variation in chaperone use during Pap smears, U-M study finds
...ollecting a Pap smear, it was so the patient would feel comfortable. In time, hospital lawyers began to advocate chaperones for legal protection. Today, few guidelines and little consistency exists, leaving patients at the mercy of their doctor's training, gender or geographic location. A study by doctors...Treatment options expand for patients with neuropathic pain
...ough we may not appreciate it, much of the pain we feel every day is normal and healthy. The intense pain we feel after putting a hand on a hot stove, for instance, tells you that you're doing damage to your body a...Brain's 'daydream' network offers detection for Alzheimer's diagnosis
...someone asks what you had for breakfast or how you feel about something that happened in your past, then you might activate parts of the default passive processing network as you search for the answer. "Since the brain's default processing network is connected to brain areas that are heavily involved wit...Natural scenes calm drivers more than city views, study finds
...ees rather than more urban scenes can make drivers feel a little less frustrated." Nasar conducted the study with Jean Marie Cackowski, a former graduate student at Ohio State and now managing editor of the Journal of Planning Literature. The study appears in the November 2003 issue of the journal Environ...Suicidal minority teens lack adult support
...re more than twice as likely as non-attempters "to feel that they had no one to count on," say Lydia O'Donnell, Ed.D., and colleagues of the Education Development Center Inc. Their findings appear in the American Journal of Health Behavior. More than half of the teens who attempted suicide said that they ...Understanding how lymph nodes respond to infection may redefine how immune system functions
...ells are much more than just bad actors making you feel sick when you are exposed to noxious agents. They are actually major players helping you deal with these noxious agents." "With a clearer understanding of the adaptive immune system and the role of mast cells, comes the opportunity for new therapeuti...Experimental drugs show promise in halting brain tumors
...ating human tumors that were grown in mice, and we feel these results are indicative of how the drugs may act in humans." Rich will present results of the three studies -- funded by the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation and ABC2 -- at the Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics Meeting in Boston Nov. 17-...Injured workers dissatisfied with compensation system
A large proportion of injured workers feel pressured to return to work before they are ready, finds a University of Toronto survey. The study by occupational therapy researchers asked injured workers about their experiences with the compensation and rehabilitation system in Ontario. More than...Women treated more aggressively for hypertension, yet results similar to men
...y, since the disease itself does not make patients feel bad. A lack of awareness affects compliance with medications, going to the doctor for check-ups, eating healthful meals -- all those things that are helpful in keeping hypertension in control."...Drug proven to benefit heart attack victims vastly underused
...y indicates that emergency room physicians did not feel empowered to begin this treatment without the go-a... for emergency room and primary care physicians to feel comfortable using these drugs."...