Financial stress doubles periodontal disease risk
...ome that is largeenough? Do you have difficulty in meeting monthly payments of your family bills? And, how often is it that you don't have enough money to afford the kindof food, clothing, medical care, or leisure activities you and your family needor want? Further studies are needed to help establish the t...Keep an eye on the weather if you take herbal antidepressants
...hen kept in thedark, the researchers reported at a meeting of the American Society forPhotobiology. Roberts recommends that those taking St John's wort should wearhats and wraparound sunglasses. "If this product is consumed, one should avoidexposure to bright light to prevent damage to the eye," she says. ...Treatment for ADHD appears to reduce risk of substance abuse
...eentreated with medication for the disorder, those meeting ADHD criteria who hadreceived no treatment, and children not meeting criteria for ADHD. In order that the three groups be as similar as possible, data was analyzed onl...Senior volunteering indicates well-being
...an Sociological Associationmeeting in Chicago. The meeting begins today (Aug. 6). "The fact that the still-employed do not reap the same kind of benefits fromvolunteering as do the retired suggests that community participation compensatesfor the social and psychological benefits of employment among retirees,...Vanderbilt School of Nursing begins graduate program in correctional health
...nedfor this." Faculty and administration have been meeting with the Bureau staff for threeyears to develop the curriculum. Students may choose to have clinical experiencethrough the state and local prison systems in the Nashville area as well asselected federal prisons in the U.S. "There is excitement for th...Return to play not determined by the numbers
...mendia told attendees today(Aug. 20) at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association inBoston. "Applying RC scores using a grand mean or a group mean just cannot bedone. Decisions on athletes must be done individually." Echemendia, who is chairing the conference session "Return to Pl......indings will be presented here today at the annual meeting of theAmerican Psychological Association by Julie Busse, a UW educational psychologydoctoral student. The results come from a larger study looking at the familygenetics of learning disabilities headed by Virginia Berninger, UW professor ofeducational...Symposium on treating drug addiction -- Tip sheet
...arch findings will be discussed at the ACSnational meeting in New Orleans, August 22-26. A symposium on the topic will be held in the Convention Center, R09, on Monday,Aug. 23, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. All papers are embargoed until the timeof presentation, unless otherwise noted. All four presenters...Progress toward a vaccine to fight cocaine addiction is reported
...ofcocaine was described here today at the national meeting of the AmericanChemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Kim D. Janda, Ph.D., a scientist at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla,Calif., said he has induced the immune system to create specific antibodies thatattack the cocaine......he children, will be presented today at theannual meeting of the American Psychological Association by Nancy Robinson, aUniversity of Washington child psychologist and director of the university'sHalbert Robinson Center for Capable Youth. The research focused on 162 children, the highest achieving ...First medication to target PCP addiction is reported by Arkansas researchers
... presented his findings here today at the national meeting of the AmericanChemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Owens said his new technique uses monoclonal antibodies-identical copies ofanimal antibodies cloned and reproduced in the laboratory-to prevent or slow theentry of PCP into the...LSU scientist says new drug will save brain cells attacked by neurological injury or disease
...rsity. He presented his findings at thenational meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largestscientific society. Bazan said he has found the gene responsible for producing an inflammatoryprotein known to precede brain cell death in conditions of injury or disease-anddiscovered how to swi...Behavioral program boosts antibody that fights breast cancer
...vited address at the annual meeting of the AmericanPsychological Association. Andersen and her colleagues examined 115 women with Stage II or Stage III breast cancer......epared the findings for presentation at the annual meeting ofthe European Society of Cardiology. Their analysis was done using information gathered on 585 patients treated at 72hospitals in eight Latin American countries and 4,358 patients treated at 307hospitals in the United States and Canada during a cli...Health plays a crucial role in California labor market, according to UCSF researchers
...t." Researchers defined traditional employment as meeting the following criteria: 1) holding a single full-time and full-year job; 2) working the day shift as a permanent employee 3) being paid by the firm at which the work is done; 4) and not working from home or as an independent contractor. Researchers ...UCSF professor receives Pharmaceutical Scientist of the Year Award
...presented September 6 at the organization's annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain, honors Giacomini for her lead... around the world to share research knowledge. The meeting in Barcelona, Spain is the 59th World Pharmacy Congress and runs from Sept. 5-10. Giacomini was pre...9th European Congress on Lung Disease
The 9th annual meeting of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) will be ...onzlezMangado, the chairman of the congress. "This meeting will be a unique, historicoccasion, as Spain will be welcoming over 10'000 of the world's leadingspe...University of Pittsburgh study finds that simple test spots early signs of heart disease in women
...ast fall at theAmerican Heart Association's annual meeting in Dallas. The 15-year study is the first to evaluate the relationship of heart diseaserisk factors measured before menopause and the extent of early, or subclinical,disease in the coronary arteries and aorta as measured after menopause usingEBCT, a...New test can better uncover hidden breast cancer
...y tomore advanced, customized treatments suited to meeting the medical needs ofindividuals with breast cancer. Doctors may be able to gather information aboutthe characteristics and extent of a patient's cancer far better than everbefore. "Our findings may help to identify those patients with breast cancer w...Hormone linked to body weight may help regulate blood pressure
...resented today at the American Heart Association's meeting on highblood pressure. "It is possible that leptin is one of the regulators of blood pressure," saysHideki Takizawa, M.D., Ph.D., an instructor in the second department of internalmedicine at the Sapporo Medical University in Sapporo, Japan. In an e...