More evidence of cannabis-induced psychosis
...ely. Dr Favrat's research had been approved, which makes the findings even more unexpected. Favrat and colleagues' report adds to the body of evidence that cannabis might be more harmful than previously thought. In the UK, cannabis was downgraded to class C early last year, but government officials have ...UMaine study looks at infants and chronic nighttime crying
...he parents, a practice termed "co-sleeping," which makes the child more accessible to the parent during the... is very common," he says. "Yonaki or night-waking makes the parents especially the mother exhausted due to sleep deprivation. Sometimes child abuse occurs...Chronic pain treatments more effective when taken together, new study shows
...tinues to be felt as a burning sensation and often makes normal touch excruciatingly painful. Both conditions are due to nerve damage and/or injury, and are associated with the experience of pain in an apparently uninjured area, Dr. Gilron explains. Most of the current treatments for this condition cause s...Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
...ly's combination of geography, geology and climate makes it one of Europe's most landslide-prone territories, with an average of 54 lives lost for each year of the last half century. However a new service based on satellite imagery can provide early warning of areas susceptible to landslides, by highlighti...Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...of the new study on Cuban baseball. "Cuba's system makes a great case study of how organizing sports through non-market rules has unintended consequences." According to Baird's research, to be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Cuba's pro players despite their mod...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
...on to their environment, witnessing bullying often makes them feel bad. Even incidents that adults may not ...eel depressed, lonely and miserable, which in turn makes them more vulnerable to further bullying incidents. Harassment at school interferes with the ability...Can you read my mind? W.M. Keck Foundation funds innovative brain research at Carnegie Mellon
...tivity over time during language comprehension and makes predictions about the subprocesses involved in word and sentence comprehension. They also will demonstrate how reading different words and sentences will produce variations in brain activity and how dysfunctions in specific brain regions influence th...New self-help technology set to combat eating disorders
.... The shame and secretiveness surrounding bulimia makes computer-based treatment particularly appealing to sufferers. Other key advantages of the interactive intervention are that it allows an individually tailored delivery, it uses a variety of media, and a mixture of teaching styles to facilitate the......more than 66 percent of the total food intake also makes patients more susceptible to erosion," says Dr. Shipley. "Erosion can also be caused by stomach acids introduced into the mouth through vomiting and acid reflux." "These findings are important and suggest that caution should be exercised when consumi...Use of inhaled corticosteroid led to fewer hospitalizations for young children with asthma
... children under 18 years of age have asthma, which makes it the leading serious chronic illness among children. Asthma is also the third leading cause of hospitalization among children under the age of 15 and the number one cause of school absenteeism attributed to a chronic condition. 4 Although asthm...Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges
...ystem to attack methamphetamine in such a way that makes users inclined to use more of the drug, the researchers say. Their study, which paints a clearer picture of the drug's effect on the immune system and its potential for abuse, was described today at the 229 th national meeting of the American Chemic...Earlier use of prostate cancer vaccines urged by Hopkins scientists
... "It's not immunological magic," Drake notes. "It makes sense that when hormone therapy gets rid of cancer cells and the protein antigens they carry, it's easier to re-educate the immune system to fight cancer cells when they come back in smaller numbers." "If our findings are confirmed, we believe human ...Prostate cancer screening practices examined
...e long term, we will see what difference screening makes in survival rates." Begun in 1993, the PLCO study has screened 34,244 men across the United States, aged 55 to 74, for prostate cancer and followed their subsequent medical history. The PLCO protocol advises men to consult their own physician if eith...Short-term effects of spit tobacco suggest long-term health risks
...responses that we measured would be blunted. This makes the degree of increases even more noteworthy." Robert Wolk, M.D., Ph.D., lead author on this study, noted that these results have implications both for long-term users and for individuals with established heart disease. "The degree of speeding up of ...Chemicals in tattoo inks need closer scrutiny
...g more widespread, and not knowing the composition makes the procedure more difficult. "Once the components of a tattoo ink have been identified, doctors removing the inks can use their knowledge of the chemical characteristics of the components to select a treatment that will be most effective and, hopefu...Dartmouth researchers find where musical memories are stored in the brain
...nced parts of the auditory processing stream. "It makes us think that lyrics might be the focus of the memory," says Kraemer....Northwestern Memorial Hospital honored with one of the nation's top awards for quality
...s clinical information technology. The EHR, which makes information accessible to all the caregivers real-time and provides rules and decision support to clinicians as they're making decisions, is a very powerful tool in ensuring patient safety and quality." "As technology and medicine continue to evolve,...Is your job giving you a heart attack? Occupational health conference answers that, and more
...l and mental health. Abstract No. 061. Job stress makes quitting smoking harder, especially for men While a stressful job has links to cardiovascular disease, it can also make quitting smoking harder. This is what Francoise Leynen at the Dpartement d'Epidmiologie et de Promotion la Sant Ecole de Sant P...Researchers close in on breast cancer vaccine
...cine consisting of copies of the DNA sequence that makes mammaglobin-A in humans. The researchers theorized the DNA vaccine would rev up special immune cells called T cells to recognize mammaglobin-A as a foreign molecule when it is displayed on the surface of cells as an antigen (a small protein that the ...Beta-blockers may help broader group of patients with heart problems
... popularly referred to as diastolic heart failure, makes up nearly 50 percent of all CHF patients-and these patients have very similar mortality and morbidity as those with reduced ejection fraction," says Padmini Varadarajan, M.D., advanced cardiac imaging fellow in the Department of Cardiovascular Medici...