Clinical depression may have negative effect on periodontal treatment
...n Academy of Periodontology. "As we are hearing a lot about the decrease of mental health lately, this new information is important for periodontists and patients to consider before periodontal treatment. Pretreatment assessment of depressive status may serve to improve the quality, accessibility and e...Vitamin D gets an A+ for treating heart disease
... buildup of the mineral calcium in the arteries. A lot of evidence suggests that calcification in the arteries is very similar to the calcification process that occurs in bone, he says. Earlier studies had suggested that low blood levels of vitamin D might play a role in the calcification that may contr...Poor hearing common among elderly people in the UK
...ormance. 2537 (8%) of the participants reported a lot of difficulty hearing and 13 630 (42%) a little or a lot of difficulty. Around a quarter of participants given the whispered voice test failed the test (3795...USC ophthalmologists announce launch of permanent retinal implant study
...es in a 4-by-4 array. "Each electrode can excite a lot of nerve cells," says Humayun, "though we don't yet know exactly how many." The device is Second Sight's first model to be permanently implanted in a patient. "This is a major milestone," says Robert Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO of Secon...Electricity can pump medicine in implanted medical devices
...hing fluid through a very small channel requires a lot of pressure," Conlisk said. "Of course, you can't use pressures like that inside the body. So if we can drive fluid safely and effectively with electricity instead of pressure, that's a real...Number of teens --primarily boys -- having sex declined in '90s
...deal with sexuality in their children. There is a lot of evidence that they will talk to their kids to protect them at 10 or 12, but by age 15 the media and friends become children's main source of information about sex. However, if you opt out of accepting your kids' sexual lives because of squeamishn...Heart attack patients may benefit from drinking tea
...d smoking and drinking habits whether they drank a lot of tea or no tea at all. Mukamal does caution, however, that although these findings strongly suggest that tea consumption reduces the risk of death following a heart attack, controlled clinical studies will need to be conducted to firmly establish t...Heart health should be the front line of diabetes care
...ys Grundy. With many other ailments, there are a lot of treatments or aspects of disease management that patients can do on their own, he says. However, diabetes is one condition in which physician involvement is critical. It is extremely important that patients with diabetes work closely with physi...Alcohol may hasten the progression of cancer
...onsumption decreases metastasis. Thus, there is a lot more work needed in this area." Meadows, the Doro... be important because cancer patients often lose a lot of weight near the end of life even if they are able to maintain their food intake. It is commonly ...Special Fulbright awarded to Vanderbilt ethnomusicologist
...ercome sexual and religious taboos. We can learn a lot from their example, he said. More information on Barz research, including sound and video samples of the womens performances, is available in the article Singing for Life at Vanderbilts on-line research journal Exploration at http://www.exploration....... Not exactly. But Dr. Johnston points out that a lot of the things that parents do intuitively actually do work. "I think rocking, swaddling, giving pacifiers, playing soothing music or singing songs all help. What youre trying to do is move the attention from the pain or the discomfort to something ......ight now, which if properly used could alleviate a lot of suffering." Picturing Your Pain Source: Gaia Remerowski, gremer@po-box.mcgill.ca Dr. Bushnell is excited about being involved with the proposed McGill Centre for Research on Pain which will boast one of the largest concentrations of internationa...Eisenhower Mem. 1st CA hospital to use Bridge barcode system to prevent medication errors
... After all, learning to use a barcode scanner is a lot easier than trying to remember the characteristics of all the drugs in the Eisenhower formulary! With MedPoint scheduled to go live in early 2003, Miller said the hospital expects to comply with a newly enacted provision of the California Health and ...Columbia dental students chosen for three out of nine NIH summer fellowships in national competition
... motivated, talented young scholars who will get a lot from the experience and have a great deal to offer. We couldn't have asked for better ambassadors to represent both the university and the school in this program."...Supportive spouse, family, friends contribute to successful aging
...al wear and tear of aging. Men and women who had a lot of supportive friends were much more likely to score low for allostatic load than those with two or fewer close friends. Women, and to a lesser extent men, also seemed to benefit from good relationships with their parents and spouses. Relationships l...Mayo Clinic researchers discover enzyme has potential to stop multiple sclerosis tissue damage
...ted for therapy," says Dr. Scarisbrick. "We have a lot more work to do." Her colleague, Moses Rodriguez, M.D., Mayo Clinic neurologist, concurs. "This is a very important enzyme," says Dr. Rodriguez. "It really has therapeutic potential."...That scar on your arm won't help if the man next to you has smallpox
...pulation than the study suggests. "We don't know a lot about the determinants of long-term immunity," he says. Previous studies earlier this century in England and in the US suggested that immunity could last 50 years or more, Margolis says. "It won't protect you against infection, but it might protect ...Homeless sexual minorities at greater risk for physical and sexual violence, mental illness
...ohol Abuse and Alcoholism funded the research. "A lot of people believe homeless adolescents are on the street by their own choice. That usually isn't the case," said Bryan Cochran, lead author of the study and a UW doctoral student in psychology. "Their lives are something of a revolving door. These...Students invent voice-activated grasping tool for disabled man
...s teammate, Hofeller, said, The project involved a lot of trial and error, but it was fun to apply what weve been learning. The third team member, Peace, added, When youre working out a problem in an engineering book, the conditions are ideal. In this project, the conditions were not perfect, but we stil...Tiny wounds on eye may lead to big problems in certain cases
... cases where the subject had a lot of staining." The research appears in a recent issue of the journal Optometry and Vision Science. The researchers asked optometrists at 20 clinics and private pract...