When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
... the brain's filtering capacity, the ears are more likely to be exposed to damaging noise. The brain's ability to provide proper feedback to the ear, by filtering out unwanted and unnecessary information, declines beginning in our 40s and 50s, Frisina says. Without that filter, a person is quickly overcome...Referrals to palliative care come too late to improve quality of life for cancer patients
...ate or very late referrals were significantly less likely to report having discussions with physicians about...ed late or very late referrals were two times more likely to believe before admission that palliative care shortens patient lives. They were also more likely ...Insurance incentives might help smokers quit, study says
...iving full benefits were one-and-a-half times more likely to quit successfully and nearly one-and-a-half times more likely to try quitting than those receiving no benefit, according to review authors Janneke Kaper of Maastr...Mayo Clinic researcher calls for improved newborn screening
...ted that in the near future screening programs are likely to be further expanded to include testing beyond the newborn period for additional diseases such as Wilson's disease, which causes copper to build in vital organs such as the brain and liver, and congenital disorders of glycosylation, a fast growing ...Diagnosis of prions in patients should utilize novel strategy, team says
...n tissue of cattle. "The studies reported here are likely to change profoundly the approach to the diagnosis of prion disease in both humans and livestock," says Safar. More broadly, the scientists say, the high sensitivity of the CDI suggests that CDI-like tests could also prove useful for diagnosing other...Migraine linked to risky heart health
...igraine--particularly those with aura--may be more likely to present with risk factors associated with cardi...hose with migraine were considered 43 percent more likely to be smokers, though less likely to consume alcohol. People with migraine with aura symptoms were 4...Physical activity linked to protection from Parkinson's disease
...e looking for, because consistent results are more likely to reflect biological mechanisms with important clinical implications. Future studies should also address the possibility that physical activity slows the progression of Parkinson's." The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, Na...Hyperactive kids three times as likely to be removed from their families
Severely hyperactive children are three times more likely to be removed from their families, because their p...yperkinetic children were more than three times as likely to have been removed from their families as all the other children in this sample. Exclusion of chi...Slow growth in infancy signals poor economic prospects in adulthood
...oy was at the age of 1 year, the more money he was likely to be earning in 1990. Earnings increased by 3.5% ... cm or less in height at the age of 1 was twice as likely to be doing manual work in adulthood as a boy who had been over 80 cm in height at that age. Those w...Culture-specific exercise sparks interest of older women
...res that are the equivalent of brisk walking, most likely will spark interest and be readily acceptable." The researchers, as a part of a pilot study to determine feasibility and acceptability, set up a Yang Style Tai Chi program for Chinese women at a community center where senior citizens already gather ...Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
...ere college educated were close to 40 percent more likely to be on aspirin therapy than those who did not ha...ion. The older a woman was in the study, the more likely she was on aspirin therapy. The researchers also found that 70 percent of the women taking aspirin ...Heart attack treatment gap may be closing for women
...Health funded study showed that women were just as likely as men to be discharged on recommended drugs after acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Women were prescribed aspirin, beta-blockers and statins as frequently as men. One in ten women with ACS, who is able to take the medicines, didn't receive aspirin ...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
...nd a need for critical data - the number of people likely to use reproductive genetic tests, how people currently access the tests, and the safety and accuracy of currently available tests, among them - to develop appropriate and effective evidence-based policy....'Marital strain' increases women's risk of death, heart disease
...arried men," Eaker said. "Unmarried men were more likely to be smokers." After the researchers made statis...good") cholesterol, married men were about half as likely to die compared to unmarried men. On the other hand, marital status and the more traditional measur...Unemployed women at higher risk for cardiovascular disease
...cial stress," she said. "Unemployed women are more likely to be underinsured or uninsured. This plays a role." Also, with 50 percent of American families living on double incomes, financial pressures also create stress with unemployment, she said. Past studies have shown conflicting results; some showing ...Gene signature can predict breast cancer spread
...t to predict which breast cancer patients are most likely to relapse. Around 60-70% of women with lymph-node negative breast cancer are cured by local surgery and radiotherapy but guidelines recommend that 85-90% of these patients receive additional chemotherapy. The ability to identify patients who have a ...Violence in the media can lead to aggressive behaviour in young children
...ew acknowledges that family and social factors are likely to affect a child's response to violent imagery. One UK study found that the effects of film violence were greater in young people who had grown up in violent families. However, the authors note that research has found that an affect persists even wh...Suicidal behaviour caused by antidepressants 'cannot be ruled out'
...hey found that patients taking SSRIs were twice as likely to attempt suicide compared with patients taking placebo. However, no increase in risk was seen when only fatal suicidal attempts were compared between SSRIs and placebo. Finally, they found no difference between patients taking SSRIs and those takin...Folic acid recommendations have had little impact on birth defects
...fects in the study area alone since 1992. The most likely explanation for these results is that recommendations were not implemented widely enough to produce a sustained change in behaviour in a sufficiently large proportion of women to cause measurable effects, say the authors. These findings underscore th...Young blood revives aging muscles, Stanford researchers find
...r blood," Rando said. His group is now looking for likely targets. He said that for some degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or muscular dystrophy, such blood-borne factors may be able to reactivate the regenerative cell's ability to repair tissue that has been damaged....