Carefree people care less about cancer symptoms, endanger health
...edicine in St. Louis. They report that people with low overall anxiety levels were more apt to ignore sym... disposition toward anxiety. Individuals who score low on these tests tend to be confident, relaxed, optimistic, carefree, uninhibited, and outgoing. Those...Health report-card fears make doctors forgo potential life-saving heart treatment
...ended, lead some interventional cardiologists with low volumes or poor outcomes to improve their performance or stop performing the procedure. However, researchers say the unintended effects of the scorecard system on patient care decisions, as described in the paper, may adversely affect outcomes for pa...Jefferson scientists find zinc may help prevent esophageal, oral cancers
...like to determine whether zinc in combination with low amounts of celecoxib can prevent upper aerodigestive tract cancers, including esophageal and oral cancers....Doctors must consider potentially inappropriate medications when treating elderly
...a lists established drugs that have either high or low severity adverse effects in the elderly. Three months later, the treatment group received additional information including a detailed educational brochure, a list of suggested alternative medications for potentially inappropriate medications and a...Reduced progression of atherosclerosis tied to statin drugs lowering fats, protein
...lved 3,745 people. Patients who were found to have low C-reactive protein levels after treatment fared better than those with higher CRP levels, regardless of their post-therapy cholesterol level. "Taken together, these two studies emphasize the importance of inflammation in patients with corona...Substance in urine predicts development of preeclampsia
... highly likely to develop preeclampsia if they had low levels of a substance known as placental growth fa...ymptoms characteristic of preeclampsia result from low levels of PlGF and VEGF. Researchers are making plans to refine the finding into an accurate clinic...Environmental tobacco smoke linked to reading, math, logic and reasoning declines in children
... to environmental tobacco smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated with decreases in certain co...n reading and reasoning ability, even at extremely low levels of exposure, according to Dr. Yolton. Surprisingly, Dr. Yolton and colleagues at Cincinnati...Study finds that adherence to diet, not type of diet, more important factor for losing weight
..., our findings do not support the notion that very low carbohydrate diets are better than standard diets, despite recent evidence to the contrary," the researchers write....New findings on patient safety at children's hospitals
...ubitus ulcers by doctors), many were found to have low blood flow to their skin because they were on heart-lung machines or had had heart surgery, or to have limited movement due to neurological problems. This suggests an opportunity to develop specific approaches to prevent bedsores from developing in t...Study of hypoxia and new gene reveals early-stage action of p53 tumor suppressor gene
...ip3L in cells with normal p53 and exposed cells to low oxygen conditions. In cell culture and in an anima...ors with silenced Bnip3L grew more aggressively in low oxygen conditions than cells and tumors with intact Bnip3L. El-Deiry and first author Peiwen Fei, MD...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for January 2005 (first issue)
...ction test results, while at the same time finding low levels of a marker of pulmonary cellular dysfuncti...us origin. Serum levels of procalcitonin are very low in healthy individuals.) Other clinical and biologic factors, such as white blood cell counts or C-...What is driving the rise in over the counter drugs?
...n that is relatively easy to self-diagnose and has low potential for harm from abuse. Yet recent switches, such as the cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin in the United Kingdom, do not fit this description. The authors suggest that switches are motivated mainly by three factors: pharmaceutical firms' d...Frequent fast food meals increase weight, diabetes risk, NHLBI study says
... include foods high in fat, sugar and calories and low in fiber and nutrients," said lead author Mark Pereira, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. People need to evaluate how often they eat meals at fast-food restaurants and think about cutting back, according to P...Getting pregnant while on the pill: Yet another health hazard of being overweight
...hat today's oral contraceptives contain relatively low hormone levels compared to those first introduced four decades ago. "Hormone levels have decreased fivefold in an effort to reduce unwanted side effects ranging from weight gain to risk of blood clots and stroke," Holt said. "Today's pill dose is hig...Veterans in better health than other residents of nursing homes, new test for evaluating tinnitus
...hysical and emotional disability: from a rating of low (independent patients) to high (patients with severe disability). These disability profiles represent a significant step in defining patients with similar levels of disability who can be treated by standardized rehabilitative programs. Prosthesis w...Pfizer's antifungal medicine VFEND receives FDA approval
...ndidemia in nonneutropenic patients (those without low white blood cell counts) and the following Candida infections: disseminated (deep tissue) infections in skin and infections in abdomen, kidney, bladder wall, and wounds. Bloodstream infections caused by Candida (candidemia) are the fourth most common...UCLA-VA study names India dietary staple as potential Alzheimer's weapon
... Alzheimer's treatments. The researchers found the low molecular weight and polar structure of curcumin allow it to penetrate the blood-brain barrier effectively and bind to beta amyloid. In earlier studies (Journal of Neuroscience, 2001; 21:8370-8377; Neurobiology of Aging, 2001; 22:993-1005), the same...Mayo Clinic finds restless legs syndrome in children linked to family history, iron deficiency
...ality in the restless legs syndrome patients was a low iron level in the blood (as measured by serum ferr...ow if it's the diet or a genetic predisposition to low iron levels," says Dr. Kotagal. Drs. Kotagal and Silber also found family history of restless legs s...Triple-drug therapy promising against African HIV subtype
...even in the setting of opportunistic infection and low CD4 counts." In an accompanying editorial, Timothy P. Flanigan and coworkers in Providence, Rhode Island, Denver, Colorado, and Chennai, India, commented that the findings of this study, along with those of other recent studies, have shattered two my...MDCT angiography can potentially help determine which patients are at greater risk of stroke
...n 60%, provided that the surgery isassociated with low complications at the respective institution, Dr.Nandalur said. However, our study suggests that patients who have nosymptoms and calcified plaques could potentially be treated lessaggressively, possibly with just medicine, although larger prospectiv...