Intensive exercise improves body's ability to process blood sugars
...beneficial effects of exercise were maintained one month after the cessation of exercise. Previous studies have shown that a single bout of exercise can improve glucose metabolism immediately after exercise; however, the Duke researchers say, the previously reported short-term effect disappears within 24 h...Cancer patients may lower their expectations
...stionnaires both immediately after diagnosis and a month or more afterward, the study participants were asked to rate the importance of life values and their level of attainment of these values which included serenity, positive relationships, independence, involvement in hobbies or community activities, ab...Maryland's 1990 'Saturday night special' ban reduced gun homicides in the state, new study shows
...96 law limited handgun sales to one per person per month and mandated background checks for handgun sales by private individuals. Because this finding is based on only two full years of post-law data, the authors highlight the need for further research on the effects of the 1996 law....Two viruses team up in West Nile vaccine
...ers will begin testing the vaccine in monkeys next month and hope to begin human trials in late 2002. Both WNV and dengue virus are flaviviruses, a group of tick- and mosquito-borne microbes that also include the viruses that cause yellow fever, St. Louis encephalitis and other illnesses. WNV occurs in ma...Volume of mammograms read may influence accuracy of diagnosis
...sts, those who interpreted the most mammograms per month detected the most cancers, but it was still not as many as the U.K. radiologists detected. "Our finding that higher volume improves diagnostic performance suggests that there may be an opportunity to improve quality and efficiency by re-engineering ...Three-month antibiotic treatment reduces risk of future heart attack
...zed study, a macrolide antibiotic was used for one month to treat people with acute coronary problems. The antibiotic seemed to show some benefit when compared to a placebo, but that advantage disappeared within six months. Sinisalo and his colleagues studied 148 patients, ages 18 to 80, who were admitte...Baldness induced by dopamine treatments may be reversible
...opinirole. The patient noticed new hair growth one month after switching drugs. After a year of treatment on ropinirole, the alopecia has not returned. In the second instance, the patient experienced hair loss after being given an increased dosage of pramipexole, which she had been receiving for a year. W...New index developed by Yale researcher to assess the risk of mortality in an elderly population
...cine and senior author of the study published this month in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. "Any time we are looking at the outcome of treatment and quality of care, it all impinges on understanding how comparable patients are." What she and her co-researchers found were that elderly patien...Patient trust is not harmed when HMOs pay doctors a bonus for holding down costs
...l groups got no additional information. Then, a month later, the battery of trust questions was repeated. Disclosure of the incentives was associated with a 1.4 percent increase in average physician trust among members of the capitated plan compared to controls, which was statistically significant. In...Women may have poorer quality of life than men after bypass surgery
...scharge. " We found the mortality rate after six month was almost the same in men and women, about two percent," says Dr. Vaccarino. "However, although symptoms and QOL improved from baseline in both sexes, we found that women had less improvement in several areas including depression, shortness of brea...Computational innovation predicts how patients will respond to drug treatments
...bases may speed that process by months. For every month we save during clinical trials, it means people can be helped sooner, Korenberg says. It also means potential cost savings of millions of dollars....As heart patients flock to alternative medicine, hazards may lurk
...ores and practitioners, patients spent about $10 a month on dietary CAM approaches, and $98 a month on body-based or mind-body approaches performed by practitioners such as chiropractors, acupuncturis...First IBIS results show tamoxifen reduces breast cancer in healthy high-risk women
...and not to recommence tamoxifen until at least one month after surgery. Similar precautions would also be appropriate for women who become immobile for any reason."...Fatigue may be red flag for postpartum depression
...wed a steady decline in tiredness during the first month after delivery," says Corwin. "The women who did show moderate to severe postpartum depression did not experience a fall off in fatigue as time progressed." The study found that the choice of breast or bottle-feeding had no effect on who became depr...More patients would refuse treatment if the outcome were impaired quality of life
...high-burden approach was described as at least one month of hospitalization with many minor tests, more complex tests, and major therapies such as being in the intensive care unit, receiving surgery or requiring mechanical ventilation. Severe functional impairment was defined as being bedbound, unable to g...ARICEPT significantly improves cognition, daily living over Reminyl in Alzheimers patients
...tin's Hospital, Bath, United Kingdom. "This three month study is encouraging news for mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease patients currently on ARICEPT, as well as those who have yet to initiate treatment."The 12-week, multinational (United Kingdom, Finland, Norway and Germany), head-to-head, randomized ...Genetic connection in link between permanent hair dye use and bladder cancer risk
... that women who use permanent dyes at least once a month for one year or longer have twice the risk of bladder cancer as non-users. Monthly or more frequent users of 15 or more years experience three times that risk even after adjusting for smoking, a known risk factor for bladder cancer. The increase in b...Survey identifies drugs most likely to be found in the environment
...e by the U.S. Geological Survey was published last month in Environmental Science and Technology, one of the American Chemical Societys leading peer-reviewed journals. One area of the research that Venkatraman says she is very excited about is the use of innovative analytical techniques, to measure drug ...Test identifies patients at risk for severe organ rejection, say Univ. of Pittsburgh researchers
...ing blood samples of 36 patients obtained within a month before transplantation, researchers performed the ELISA test to see if results correlated with their actual clinical course. What they found was that ELISA determined 10 of 36 patients were susceptible to organ rejection. Five of these 10 (50 percent......s 90% in Gabon. Corresponding cure rates after one month were 68% versus 41% in Kenya, 82% versus 79% in Sngal, and 85% versus 71% in Gabon Bob Taylor comments: For African countries that are considering a change of their current first-line antimalarial drug, amodiaquine-artesunate is an option. Cost, acc...