Study Confirms Girls' Belief: More Fat Means Fewer Dates
...ibility had been suggested byearlier studies using measures collected at a single time....Study Shows Dermatologists Are Best At Removing Skin Cancers
...ate legislatures across thecountry are considering measures to regulate in-office surgery that could havethe practical effect of prohibiting most dermatologists from removing basil cellcarcinomas in their offices. Over a 66-month period, the study found that dermatologistsremoved all traces o......to prevent these deaths, through emergency medical measures such assurgery, drugs, and blood transfusions. A woman may die because she needs a Caesarean section, and theanesthesia machine in the local hospital doesn't work properly or because theone qualified surgeon has never learned the necessary pr...Irritable Bowel Syndrome The Focus Of Three UNC-CH Reports At Digestive Diseases Conference
...hapelHill have developed and validated a test that measures the quality of life (QOL)of people diagnosed with ...tility Disorders. "You can't just look at disease measures when trying to understand the impact ofa condition on the individual. It has a much more global effe...Livers From Children Are Going To Adults, University Of Pittsburgh Review Of National Data Reveals
...on and broader sharing ofsplit liver grafts. Such measures could enhance the survival of these children to levels similar to the entire transplantpopulation," said Rakesh Sindhi, M.D., research assistant professor of surgeryat the University of Pittsburgh's Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute andChild...... are; and how declines in PSA correlate with other measures ofanti-cancer activity such as changes in tumor imaging and scanning." Other authors on the paper include Robert Bok, MD, clinical instructor ofmedicine; Michele Corry, UCSF RNP; Mark Frohlich, MD, UCSF clinical instructorof medicine; Hiroko Kameda, ...Study Suggests Inflammation Signs Can Show Who Will Develop Diabetes
...2. Those with above-averagelevels of two specific measures of the body's inflammatory response--orosomucoid and sialic acid -- faced even higher risks of developing thecondition. Orosomucoid is a protein produced by the liver following inflammatorystress. Sialic acid is a carbohydrate attached to a series of...Two Beta-Blocker Drugs Equal In Treating Heart Failure
...percent increasein the ejection fraction test that measures the heart's pumping ability. Anormal ejection fraction is about 50 percent. "Because the most common heartproblem in people over 65 is congestive heart failure, which causes morehospitalizations than any other disease, anything that improves qualit...Showing pictures of admired blacks or elderly can lower levels of unconscious prejudice
...of the Implicit Association Test (IAT), atool that measures the unconscious components of prejudice. In a series oftests conducted on the World Wide Web in the last eight months involving morethan 50,000 Americans, Greenwald and Yale University colleague Mahzarin Banajidemonstrated that 80 percent to 85 perc...Noninvasive test aims to prevent sudden cardiac death
.... The test is called the alternans test because it measures a tiny fluctuation in heartbeat called the T-wave alternans. Joseph M. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and biomedical engineering, invented the test while he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he hopes it will b...Report: tuberculosis control programs inadequate in developing countries
...ing those with high rates of HIV infection.Similar measures could reduce the rate of tuberculosis transmission among thelarge HIV-infected population of Africa as well, Chaisson says. According to theWorld Health Organization, two-thirds of the world's HIV-positive population, ormore than 20 million people, l...PSA testing alone cannot fully explain drop in deaths from prostate cancer
...ed widely in this country since 1988, the PSA test measures the amount ofprostate-specific antigen in the blood. This enzyme, produced by the prostategland, can signal the presence of cancer when the level is significantlyelevated. Until quite recently, prostate-cancer mortality had long been on the rise.Betw...Stress, coping and biology intertwine for diabetes control
...etes should take into account the stress andcoping measures that influence directly their body's regulation of blood sugarand also affect their compliance with their biological regime of insulin, bloodtests and diet. "Our study moves a step beyond earlier research by developing a biopsychosocialmodel that ref...Walking cuts risk of heart attack in elderly men
... Even after accounting for differences in other measures of physicalfunction and cardiovascular risk factors, walking continued to be associatedwith a reduced risk of heart attack. But the researchers did not determine howmany years the men had been walking, nor at what intensity they walked. However, ba...UI study indicates many older adults still not receiving recommended vaccinations
...Vaccinations are one of the best preventive health measures around, yet I'malways surprised that they are not more widely used," said Bradley Doebbeling,M.D., UI associate professor of internal medicine and preventive medicine andenvironmental health, and study's senior author. "We were interested in findingo...Study suggests need for better pain management in newborns
...es receive very little pain relief and few comfort measures duringrequired medical procedures in the hospital and elective procedures such ascircumcision. The doctors and nurses in the study believed, however, that babiescan feel as much pain as adults. There is a close relationship between how adults......art relatedillnesses. 3-D echocardiography measures the size of each heart chamber, shows wallmotion and scans the entire heart in the time it takes conventionalechocardiography to acquire a single, two-dimensional image. While the image ofthe heart is displayed in two dimensions on a monitor, the co......ehealth practice." The take-home message? "Several measures of exercise all tell the samestory -- maintain your weight and exercise," says Carpenter. "If you can maintainyour weight through exercise, that's great. Together, they are a much morepotent combination."......3.1 per 100,000. A new indicator [page 17] measures the quality of children's diets. From 1994 through 1996, most children and adolescents had a diet that was pooror needed improvement. Moreover, older children had poorer diets. For example,in 1996, for children ages 2 to 5, 24 percent had a good di......great or slight, and to take appropriatepreventive measures when possible," he said. "It's also important that theyrecognize common signs of infection so they seek treatment immediately if theydo become infected." For example, Lyme disease is an increasingly widespread tick-borne infectionmost often contract...