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...g central vision -- and the diminished capacity to manage such everyday tasks as reading and driving that goes with it -- what's a patient with macular degeneration to do? One option: recruit alternative regions -- healthy "islands" -- in the diseased retina to take on the job, if at all possible. Investig...Managing anger, boosting activity helps substance abusers stick with treatment
...rs to participate in more rewarding activities and manage their negative emotions early in treatment may improve their chances of success, new research suggests. Previous research has repeatedly shown that participants who stick with their treatment programs for the longest times are most likely to recover ...Common treatment for cancer pain stimulates breast tumor growth in mice
...ne, which is routinely given to cancer patients to manage severe pain, actually stimulates signals in endoth...could lead to the development of new treatments to manage cancer pain. For example, understanding the activity of opioids like morphine in angiogenesis may le...Solving problems by phone improves well-being of stroke caregivers
...y, and to use a systematic and objective method to manage caregiving problems," says lead author Joan S. Gra... caregivers use effective problem-solving steps to manage caregiving problems during regular telephone calls. Over four weeks, those in the intervention grou...Diabetes patients with low literacy more likely to have poorly controlled disease
...nd. Diabetes patients rely on a number of tools to manage their disease and prevent serious health problems....Patients often must monitor their own blood sugar, manage multiple medications, visit many providers, maintain foot hygiene, adhere to diet and meal plans, an...Panel calls for greater attention to cancer patients' pain, depression, and fatigue
... unacceptable -- there are effective strategies to manage these symptoms and all patients should have optima...ts into the causes and cures of cancer, efforts to manage the symptoms of the disease and its treatments have not kept pace. There are nearly 9 million people...Adolescents with inattention problems more likely to smoke
... possible explanation might be that nicotine helps manage ADHD symptoms. According to study co-investigator and author Kenneth P. Tercyak, PhD, assistant professor of Oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center, "stimulation derived from nicotine may help some smokers with ADHD compensate for their di...U-M Depression Center receives $750K gift from Eli Lilly Foundation
...o help mental health care providers understand and manage depression in their patients, the U-M Depression Center has developed programs that streamline treatment selection, patient tracking and management of medication side effects and interactions. The gift will also allow Depression Center researchers to...Diabetes treatment linked to increased blood pressure in animal study
...the development of a number of new drugs to better manage the disease, including the GLP-1 agonists. These agents, which are currently being tested in clinical trials, work by targeting the rate of gastric emptying and by stimulating insulin secretion from islet cells in the pancreas. Circulating levels of ...A computer-based, self-help system for the space age
... media program that teaches cancer patients how to manage the side effects of cancer treatments. A virtual space station will serve as the setting for the program, which will provide assessment, treatment, prevention and education. The program will integrate graphics, audio and video multimedia designed to...Drugs may not be best weapon against teen migraines, study finds
...ays to identify early signs of migraine and how to manage the triggers that bring on the pain. The book also offered training in relaxation, biofeedback and stress management. Teens read a chapter each week and discussed what they learned during a 20- to 30-minute phone conversation with project leaders. T...Experience alters how we perceive emotion
...s that could help abused children more effectively manage resulting behavioral problems. For this study, Pollak invited both abused and non-abused children, 8 to 10 years old, to his Child Emotion Research Laboratory. There, they played computer "games" that presented digitally morphed photos of facial exp...Electroacupuncture trial is NCCAM's first intramural study
...ed nausea does not respond well to medications. To manage delayed nausea, cancer patients are often prescribed glucocorticoids, a type of steroids, which can lead to unwanted side effects, such as weight gain, retarding of growth, or susceptibility to infection. It also appears that delayed nausea may contr...Landmark study results published in NEJM highlight breakthrough treatment for heart failure
...estimated to cost $5.4 billion/5.7billion Euros to manage chronic heart failure, with over 55% of this figure associated with hospitalisations alone.5 The InSync system includes a small pulse generator that is implanted beneath the skin in the shoulder region. To monitor the heart and provide the necessary......but does not require that same commander having to manage all the minute details of the particular operation he has ordered. In fact, the agents will know exactly what to do, and just how to do it even if things go terribly wrong, as they so often do in war. Moshfegh has pulled together a remarkable collab...Guidelines do not prevent deliberate self harm
...d self harm, and more research is needed on how to manage patients who deliberately harm themselves, suggest...ggests that more research is needed on how best to manage such patients in primary care to reduce the incidence of repeated episodes, they conclude....FDA approves Actonel for once-a-week use
... the convenience of a once-a-week dosing option to manage their osteoporosis and protect their bones. It will be available in mid-June 2002, by prescription only. Actonel 35 mg once-a-week is a valuable new tool for the treatment and prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis, said Robert Lindsay, M.D., P...Experimental pill found to improve symptoms in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer
...nts with advanced lung cancer today, is how we can manage our patients care so that the side effects from these treatments arent worse than the symptoms, commented Dr. Natale. To find out whether ZD 1839 reduced the symptoms of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, the investigators evaluated 216 patie...NIAID teams with Wyeth on HIV/AIDS vaccine
...lized immune cells to kill any cells that HIV does manage to infect. HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, May 18th, reminds us that the fight against AIDS requires the marriage of ideas and expertise from both the private and public sectors, says U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. This nov......bout a third of all asthma sufferers are unable to manage their asthma well, Irvin said. The LODO study aims to test its effectiveness as an add-on therapy for this population. Theophylline is a pill-form asthma treatment classified as a bronchodilator that has been used for over 50 years to help open narr...