Housebound elderly benefit from early intervention
...lf-esteem than those who did not. The services can involve using a home help or care assistant, attending at a day centre, or even a move to sheltered housing. A key effect of all these is the making of new contacts and friends. Some older people reject help because it is not appropriate, in their view, to ...Surprise: Pharmacists care program boosted patients satisfaction, but also hospital, ER visits
...at we were trying to do was to figure out a way to involve community pharmacists more actively in patient car... believe they and others need to figure out how to involve pharmacists in patient care more effectively. "Pharmacists really are in a good position to become m...'Prehabilitation' prevents functional decline of at-risk frail elders living at home
...ity in elderly people is complex and is thought to involve the interplay of impairments in physical ability, cognitive status, and intervening events. The "prehabilitation" intervention's cost of $2,000 per person was moderate compared with cost of other treatments; further evaluation is needed to determine...Fred Hutchinson oversees two grants of nearly $8 million to develop blood test for breast cancer
...tchinson from the U.S. Department of Defense, will involve investigators from 10 institutions in Seattle, Houston and Los Angeles. (Please see list.) The second is a grant of nearly $1 million from a unique, multi-year, public-private partnership of the Avon Foundation and the National Cancer Institute calle...Polishing the crystal ball: risk prediction methods need update
...urately predicting risk. Clinical trials typically involve younger people, they add. Because most Olmsted County residents are white, the findings may not apply to other populations. In an editorial on the study, William S. Weintraub, M.D., professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, notes that ri...OHSU ethicist offers guidance for physicians with patients using alternative medicine
...her condition with Reiki therapy, which is said to involve moving energy through the body in order to balance it. The patient makes this decision despite the fact that surgery is a commonly successful treatment for her condition. Following much discussion and evaluation, the physician respects the patient's ...OHSU takes part in unique Alzheimers treatment trial
...l. The double-blind, placebo-controlled trial will involve 70 subjects newly diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Each subject will take the drug or placebo twice daily for a period of 16 weeks (50 percent receiving placebo). Throughout the testing period, researchers will track each subjects' memory and thinking abi...UNC forms Conte Center for multidisciplinary schizophrenia research
...his debilitating disease." Conte Centers typically involve multiple research projects investigating severe mental illness. The UNC Conte Center will conduct four interrelated studies using distinct research methods. Researchers will attempt to identify critical brain events that trigger the development of ps...New hope for vaccine to fight rheumatoid arthritis, other autoimmune diseases
...myelin sheaths of nerve cells. Current treatments involve either steroids, which fight inflammation caused by the immune system attacks, or immuno-suppressant drugs, which depress immune system function generally. Both these approaches create serious side effects and can only slow, but not stop, the progres...Keen ER identification could avert future strokes
...g advantage of 'teachable moments' can potentially involve only a few simple recommendations or words of advice from a health professional." Interactive computer programs and Internet-based patient education programs also have shown promise, he notes. The number of patients with AF is expected to rise from...Story tips from DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nov 2002
...ry. Conventional methods for assessing circulation involve invasive procedures or time-consuming and expensive laboratory testing. In some cases, by the time doctors realize there isn't adequate blood flow to an organ or tissue, irreversible damage has already occurred. ORNL, working with the University of P...Chronic stress can interfere with normal function of the immune system
...ce the onset and/or progression of conditions that involve excessive inflammation, like allergic, autoimmune, cardiovascular, infectious and rheumatologic illnesses," Dr. Miller. But even though the cancer patient parents reported more depressive symptoms, depression does not seem to operate as a mediator. I...Marked crosswalks may pose risk to older pedestrians
...ans may be encountered. Yet many pedestrian deaths involve older adults crossing the street at urban intersections. Could the presence of a marked crosswalk actually increase an older pedestrian's risk of being struck by a motor vehicle? The answer appears to be yes, at least for an older adult who is crossi...NIDA leads research network to improve substance abuse treatment in criminal justice settings
...op and test treatment system models. Phase II will involve pilot testing of the data collection instruments, treatment service delivery strategies, and the research plans. Preliminary data will be analyzedand the study plans will be revised according to findings from the pilot projects. Phase III will see th...Cholesterol drug could lead to new therapy for multiple sclerosis
...times the pathways that we think of in one context involve the same characters in different roles," says Steinman. Still, he says, it would be remarkable if statins, used daily by tens of millions of people for one medical condition, proved useful in another. (Statins also are now being investigated as a pos......s happen in a straight line, angular accelerations involve rotation. "We know for a fact that rotation of the brain has been shown to cause the most injury," said Naunheim, pointing to an animal study conducted in the 1960's at the National Institutes of Health, which demonstrated that if head rotation was l...Rush begins use of magnetic guided navigation system
...romes and mental illnesses. This will potentially involve using the magnetic navigation technology to accurately place tiny electrodes, stimulators or recording devices into the brain to modify the brain's electrical signals in order to modify behavior, alter the natural history of certain diseases or to de...Northwestern on trail of gene mutations that trigger sex reversal
...it is hoped, find the responsible genes. This will involve comparing phenotypic (appearance) sex to genotypic sex (presence or absence of the male-determining factor Sry) in the genome. The mice progeny from the sex determination/sex reversal study will be made available to the scientific community for fut...Patients and doctors must change attitudes for public to have real role in decision-making
... performance should be left to the experts and not involve users....Improved molecular beacons show promise for cancer detection, rapid viral diagnosis
Diagnosing cancer may one day involve introducing "molecular beacons" into the body and then watching for specific optical or magnetic signals as the nanometer-scale structures latch onto the unique genetic sequences that are markers for the disease. Believed to be the first technique ...