Mayo Clinic discovers a key to 'low metabolism' and major factor in obesity
...ether: 20 study participants who were willing to forgo Christmas peanut brittle, Halloween Milky Ways and all restaurant and home meals. Every meal had to be taken at the hospital, without exception. A biomedical team at Mayo Clinic of approximately 150 people, ranging from endocrinologists, dieticians...Mandated parental notification laws concerning prescription contraception would affect teenagers
...arental involvement were mandated; 5 percent would forgo sexually transmitted disease (STD) services. " this research confirms that parental involvement laws for minors seeking prescription contraception in family planning clinics would discourage few teenagers from having sex and would likely increase rat...One in 6 chronically ill adults skip Rx drugs due to cost
...February, they reported that diabetes patients who forgo medication due to cost pressures have worse blood sugar control, symptoms and physical functioning. "We're getting a clearer picture of how chronic illness, out-of-pocket cost, insurance and patient characteristics combine to create a pattern of non-...Study finds fibromyalgia prohibits sufferers from breast-feeding
...ay be harmful to newborns, these women must either forgo their medication usage or give up their dreams of nursing their children. "Because breast-feeding is a stationary activity, they would become stiff, sore and along with increased fatigue would often be unable to resume normal activities as quickl...Heat-controlled drug implants offer hope for future
...oped a material that may one day allow patients to forgo daily injections and pills and receive prescriptions instead through micro-thin implantable films that release medication according to changes in temperature. The research, detailing results from testing insulin release in the lab, appears in the Sep...Pool-bound plyometrics help you get stronger with less pain
...ports for at least five years. The women agreed to forgo other forms of lower body resistance training and all aerobic workouts during the study. Half of the women worked out in a gym while the other half exercised in about four feet of water in a swimming pool. Participants repeated several sets of drills...Physicians and patients rarely discuss costs
...ic, creating enough of a burden that many patients forgo prescribed medications. "This means that patients are changing the plan of care for financial reasons without consulting their doctors," said study author Caleb Alexander, M.D., instructor of medicine, associate faculty in the MacLean Center for Clin...Most women can skip Pap smears after hysterectomy
...ergone hysterectomy for non-cancerous diseases can forgo annual Pap smear exams, according to new research ...d has only one sexual partner, it's appropriate to forgo Pap smears after hysterectomy. But if the woman's risk factors for lower genital tract cancer change...Feeding tubes may not help in severe dementia, yet use varies widely
...ngs on feeding tube use, DNR orders, and orders to forgo artificial hydration and nutrition will be availab... in an advance directive of patient preferences to forgo a feeding tube, but this factor was not associated with the interstate variations found by the resea...Prostate cancer hormonal therapy may increase sexual and physical problems
...experience sexual impairment compared with men who forgo such therapy. In the March 20 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , Arnold L. Potosky, Ph.D., of the National Cancer Institute, and his coworkers estimate that roughly 20,000 men in the United States are treated initially with ADT...Drug-free therapy gives patients reprieve from panic disorder
...pond well with therapy and can forgo medications." Nineteen people taking antidepressants to control panic disorder completed 12 weekly CBT treatments. Patients were put into two groups - one group (11 patients) stopped taking...Measles and pertussis risk higher for children with personal exemptions from immunization
... exemptor. The authors assert that the decision to forgo vaccination must balance individual rights with social responsibility. If all vaccine-preventable diseases were confined to the individual (e.g., tetanus), the consequences of forgoing vaccination would fall only on the child whose parents made the ...Many uninsured adults do not receive needed medical care
...oor health status, delay seeking medical care, and forgo necessary care for potentially serious symptoms. Uninsured adults receive fewer screening services for cancer and cardiovascular risk factors, present with later-stage diagnoses of cancer, and experience more avoidable hospitalizations. They also f...Analysis suggests women treated for breast cancer do better with axillary node dissection
...asn't been proven forbreast cancer that you should forgo the axillary node dissection," Scott-Connersaid. "Our results were fairly striking. The survival was significantly worsefor patients who did not have the dissection. "If this had been the only study, then I would say, 'Well, we need to get moreinfor......ty to obtain informedconsent in their decisions to forgo pain medication. The survey also showed that53 percent thought the amount of pain medication necessary to make patientscomfortable would prevent the patients from signing a legally binding informedconsent. Informed consent is an important eth...