OHSU researchers study physical and mental impacts of exercise on the brain
...und but difficult to regulate in human studies. To limit the effect of these factors on study results, researchers chose to conduct the research using nonhuman primates. In all, 24 monkeys participated in the studies. The animals were separated into three groups: a "running" group, which exercised on tread...Survey on total cardiovascular risk shows significant gap between patient education and action
...rveyed say they are trying to avoid fats (65%) and limit sodium intake (61%). A substantial percent of those surveyed are ignoring "heart-healthy" behaviors even among populations with three out of three risk factors (hypertension, high cholesterol and family history of heart disease or stroke): 35% of...Stents combined with clot-busting drugs effective in limiting impact of deadly form of stroke
...the brain is an effective way to either prevent or limit the damage from acute vertebrobasilar ischemic stroke, according to a team from Johns Hopkins. The study's results, reported in the October issue of The American Journal of Neuroradiology, assessed the clinical outcomes of six consecutive patients tr...Newer formulation of heparin improves outcomes for suspected heart attack patients
...often by giving medications that dissolve clots or limit further clotting in the coronary arteries. Since no single drug has been totally effective in opening clogged arteries and keeping them open, researchers have tried different combinations of agents, in addition to early use of invasive procedures suc...Teaching hospital physicians report trouble obtaining specialty services for the uninsured
... were unable to admit uninsured patients or had to limit such patients' hospital care; how often they could...s with admitting an uninsured patient or having to limit that patient's care. Respondents were nine times as likely to report difficulty obtaining specialty...Study suggests US stop smoking effort paying off
...nments, counter tobacco advertising and promotion, limit tobacco access and availability, and increase tobacco prices through new excise taxes. To evaluate the impact of ASSIST on the states' smoking behavior, Frances A. Stillman, Ed.D., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her co...Investigational drug brings new hope to kidney cancer patients
...with a specific disease, such as colon cancer, and limit the goal to determining the percentage of patients who have at least a 50% reduction in tumor size. This study, a "randomized discontinuation trial," enrolled patients with many different tumor types for 12 weeks, then randomized patients with stabl...Only one more case of vCJD in Ireland - probably
...one further case of vCJD in Ireland, with an upper limit of 15 cases. Their estimate only considers those people who will catch vCJD from infected beef or beef products. It does not include any cases arising through secondary transmission, for example via surgical equipment that had previously been used o...Nov/Dec 2003 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
..." The researchers suggest that those planning to limit a screening test that has been so well incorporated into popular culture need to take women's perceptions and concerns into account. "Women need reasurrance," said Smith. "The women we interviewed were very distrustful of the rationale for the sugge...Nitric oxide can prevent lung disease and death for premature infants
...kest infants," Schreiber says, "but it was able to limit the extent of lung disease in many newborns at risk, preventing the lung damage that can cause lifelong illness." Because nitric oxide may interfere with platelets and increase bleeding time in adults and full-term babies, the researchers were concer...U.S. is poorly prepared for influenza pandemic, St. Jude experts warn
...ly slow in coming. Intellectual property laws that limit or slow the incorporation of certain new knowledge into vaccine production add to this problem. "If an influenza pandemic started tomorrow, we would not be able to head it off with vaccines because the production facilities available to produce them ...Future medical leaders have shorter futures, study says
...r tendencies that impair family relationships and limit exercise time, among others. Redelmeier and co-author Dr. Jeffrey Kwong, a former U of T medical class president who is now a community medicine resident at the university, compared the long-term survival of 1,521 doctors (including all class preside...Study suggests driving restrictions are not necessary for users of methadone, buprenorphine and LAAM
...ha-acetyl-methodol (LAAM). Such a restriction may limit use of treatment modalities in clients who drive. Thirty-four patients stabilized on methadone, LAAM, or buprenorphine for at least 3 months and 21 non-drug using volunteers participated in the study. Practice sessions were permitted on the simula...U of MN study first to detect tobacco-specific carcinogens in non-smokers in public setting
...iting the casino, levels of NNAL were below of the limit of detection in eleven participants. Three of these participants also had NNAL levels below the limit of detection in the after-visit samples; all others were in the detectable range. The article is pub...Obesity linked to aggressive prostate cancer
...dvise patients to maintain a normal body weight to limit the possibility that they would develop clinically significant, more aggressive prostate tumors." Both studies examined the relationship between obesity and prostate cancer recurrence in large samples of men with localized prostate cancer who had un...Urban areas organized in well developed partnering 'markets'
... to sexuality is also problematic. Police largely limit their interventions to potentially criminal issues, churches often ignore the issue of sexuality, and health care agencies treat sexuality as a medical problem and avoid a more holistic approach, Laumann and his team contend. But the need for an...The BESST way to judge IVF success
... The US, much criticised in Europe for failing to limit the number of embryos transferred despite having one of the highest rates of multiple births, has already incorporated a new category in its league tables showing the rate of singleton births as a percentage of embryo transfers. The tables, released...Drug prevents diabetes recurrence after islet cell transplantation
...r related anti-inflammatory compounds in humans to limit the need for more toxic immunosuppressant drugs in islet cell transplant patients." In the study, diabetic mice that can only mount an autoimmune attack were given islet transplants in the kidney and then daily injections of LSF for 3 weeks. A ...UF research adds to evidence that unborn children hear 'melody' of speech
... to federal workplace safety guidelines that today limit the duration of extremely loud noise exposure for pregnant women. In their recently reported research, Gerhardt and Abrams focused specifically on the kinds of sounds fetal sheep hear. Their method was unique: They implanted an electronic "pickup" ...New guidelines for drug studies for relapsed prostate cancer patients
...herapy may be life-saving for them, the Guidelines limit participation in clinical trials solely to these patients. The Guidelines also have clinical trials criteria. Only therapies that have shown to be effective in advanced disease in other tumors and /or shown to affect a target or pathway known to con...