Spouses of heart disease patients face high risks themselves
... between spouses was high body mass index (BMI), a measure of body fat. A BMI of 25 to 29.9 is defined as ov...e. Although some spouses do participate, we don't measure their risks and we don't counsel the spouses individually," she says. "We need to think of new ways......s, patients underwent neurophsychological tests to measure various mental functions, including attention, concentration, motor skills, and immediate and delayed memory recall. Based on these tests, a total of 36 patients demonstrated no cognitive loss or impairment caused by their chemotherapy treatment. To ...Growing blood vessels around clots in leg arteries may treat painful walking
...ed in the study will be followed for six months to measure changes in their capacity to exercise and their quality of life....U-M health leaders offer an innovative framework for keeping academic medicine viable
...r service for patients. Implementation of means to measure patient satisfaction, staff productivity, quality and cost-competitiveness. In surveys of patients throughout southeastern Michigan, the U-M Health System consistently ranks high in public perception. Distribution of certain operating surpluses to h...Behavioral sensitization: A new perspective on alcoholism
... this study used to study alcohol's effects was to measure locomotor activity; researchers measured the distance that laboratory animals traveled following alcohol ingestion. Given independently, MK-801 stimulated locomotor activity, as did alcohol. When given together, however, the two substances diminish...Computerized analysis of heart arteries shows no benefits of hormone therapy
...ion, a test that injects dye into the arteries, to measure narrowing in the heart's arteries caused by a buil...o). Sophisticated computer techniques were used to measure subtle changes in their arteries over the study period (an average of three years.) "Overall, th...Hospital stays of three days for uncomplicated heart attack
...ospital day was close to $12 million. The standard measure for evaluating the value, or cost effectiveness, of medical therapies is the cost to society to add a year of life with the treatment in question. In the case of low-risk heart attack patients, saving 16 patients by keeping more than 22,000 hospital...New tools for early cancer detection
...and where most cancers begin. With the ability to measure the density and size distribution of cells, the researchers have found the technique to be equally effective in detecting cancer in four areas: the mouth, esophagus, colon and bladder. Employing state-of-the-art designs in micro-electromechanical sy...New evidence suggests reconsidering causes and treatments for schizophrenia
...scarinic cholinergic system challenged. One way to measure this is to examine the sleep recordings of these p... in cholinergic activity, while the results of the measure of amount of time spent in REM sleep suggest diminished cholinergic activity. Tandon says this reinf...'Handwriting challenged' doctors to take penmanship class at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
...r medical institutions," he said. "So that we can measure the effectiveness of our efforts, we are currently conducting a survey to determine how many calls our doctors' offices receive from pharmacists who cannot read their prescriptions. After the class, we will do follow up to see if the numbers have de...Patients with social phobia benefit from long-term treatment with sertraline HCl
...efficacy parameters that the investigators used to measure patients' symptoms. Placebo-switch patients had greater deterioration on the Sheehan Disability Inventory (SDI) Work, Social/Leisure and Family/Home quality of life subscales, that achieved significance on the Work subscale. Overall patients tolera...Brain scans of Gulf War veterans show brain damage
...spectroscopy - highly specialized brain scans that measure chemical levels inside the brain - UT Southwestern...y explores brain chemistry by using radio waves to measure intracellular concentrations of protons and estimate the concentrations of common brain chemicals. ...Media coverage of new drugs is often misleading
...n of cost-effectiveness, an increasingly important measure of a drug's overall value to society. "The media are a very important source of public health information," says Dr. Stephen Soumerai, a study co-author and HMS professor of ambulatory care and prevention. "But stories on new drugs can be misleading ......in.csi.lsu.edu ). He has designed the devices to measure wind and wave conditions, then to process that information and transmit it via satellite to a computer in his lab, where it will be analyzed and distributed through a network to the National Weather Service, the Office of Emergency Preparedness and t......Louisiana's coast. He has designed the devices to measure wind and wave conditions, then to process that information and transmit it via satellite to a computer in his lab, where it is analyzed and distributed through a network to the National Weather Service, the Office of Emergency Preparedness and other ...Study opens doors to significant changes in medications for schizophrenia
... brain imaging technique that makes it possible to measure the amount of medication in the brain, the CAMH / U of T research group previously demonstrated that antipsychotic medications need to occupy over 60% of the brain's D2 dopamine in order to be effective. In this most recent study carried out by Dr....25-minute test distinguishes between different types of schizophrenia
... by a quieter noise, the research team was able to measure the degree of PPI by the way the study participants blinked in response to the noises. PPI can be altered with drug treatment or by changing the environment; for example, leaving rats in social isolation disrupts their PPI. It is disrupted in schizop...Using PET scan technology to study alcohol's effects on the brain
...graphy (PET), an imaging method that allowed us to measure the consumption of sugar by the different regions of the brain, which served as an indicator of their level of activity." Wang added that since PET imaging was developed in the late 1970s, it has been used for cancer, heart and brain (including alco...First pivotal studies for new alzheimer's treatment published in Neurology
...uropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) scales were used to measure the results. Throughout the course of the study, the proportion of patients reporting any serious adverse effects was similar for both patients taking 16 mg. of galantamine and those receiving placebo (10% vs. 11% respectively). Novel Dual Mode of A......action Questionnaire (TraSQ), which is a validated measure of adherence. Preliminary analysis of the data indicated that 74 percent (108/145) of subjects on Ziagen/Combivir and 45 percent (66/146) on indinavir/Combivir reported taking all antiretroviral doses over the previous four weeks or missed less than...