Drugs may not be best weapon against teen migraines, study finds
... headaches, recorded an average of 3.3 migraines a month with moderate to severe pain. The teens also recorded an average of 5.1 hours per month when their headaches prevented them from participating in a variety of activities. "Some of these k...UCSD's Victor Nizet, M.D., receives Pediatric Infectious Diseases Award
...nted to Nizet at the Society's annual meeting last month in Baltimore, the award recognizes young physicians who have made outstanding contributions in clinical or basic research in pediatric infectious diseases. Nizet Investigates bacteria that produce disease in children, with a particular focus on the p...Columbia Health Sciences professor named 2002 Soros Advocacy Fellow
... auspices of his fellowship, which will begin next month and last two years, Dr. Krol also will attempt to engage pediatricians and family practitioners to advocate on behalf of Medicaid dental program improvements-and will work at the grassroots level to incorporate oral health education into pediatric re...Heart disease is a pediatric problem: New guidelines point to lifestyle 'training' in childhood
...ase, 41 percent fewer childhood deaths between one month and five years of age, 50 percent less bladder cancer and 90 percent less lung cancer, according to the statement. Ironically, cigarette smoking also has a link to obesity. Some adolescent girls start smoking, thinking it will help them slim down, W...Zimbabwean women very willing to use diaphragms-potential HIV prevention method
...d to be HIV-infected-first enrolled women in a two month program to teach and encourage male condom use. Women who were unable to negotiate consistent condom use by their male partners were then enrolled into the diaphragm acceptability phase. One hundred and fifty-six women took part in the study which i...Journal of Rehabilitation R&D releases latest issue
...rcent of those studied reported a fall between one month and six months post-stroke. Subjects with motor, sensory, and visual impairments had a lower risk of falling than did those with motor impairments only and those with motor and sensory impairments. Preliminary study of a genetically engineered spin...Misclassification of cause of death in cancer patients
... could increase by about 1% if all deaths within 1 month of cancer-related surgery were correctly attribute...patients who, between 1994 and 1998, died within 1 month of cancer-related surgery to remove a solid tumor. Among the 4,135 deaths within 1 month of diagnosi...Exercise therapy improves fibromyalgia
...ed one year later. These results show that a three month programme of prescribed graded aerobic exercise is an effective treatment that leads to improvements in self reported health status, say the authors. Furthermore, prescribed exercise can be undertaken effectively in the community by personal trainers...Leading American, German chemists converge to share research, vision
... chemists, age 40 or younger, will meet later this month in Durham, N.H. to share scientific ideas and results in leading areas of chemical research, including biomolecular engineering and bioinspired materials, molecular electronics, nanooptics and frontiers in synthesis. The German-American Frontiers of ...Activism may help those with AIDS cope better with illness
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The world AIDS conference last month offered a large dose of grim news about the disease and its precursor, HIV. But a new university study suggests that there is at least one glimmer of hope. In a recent article in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, researchers report ...Babies fond of salt have higher blood pressure, a granny with hypertension
... for follow-up blood pressure measurements at one- month had preferential salt responses. Compared to babi...her than babies with an aversive response. At one month of age, blood pressures were still 3.8 to 9.6 mm Hg higher in these babies who had preferential resp...Medical physicist treats spinal tumors faster with new procedure
...neys, and lungs. This research was presented last month at the annual meeting of the American Association for Physicists in Medicine in Montreal. "Each year roughly 100,000 people are diagnosed with spinal tumors in the U.S.," says Fang-Fang Yin, a medical physicist at Henry Ford Hospital Systems, "Most ...Gene therapy may increase cancer cure rates, medical physicists show
...ded. The researchers presented their results last month in Montreal at the annual conference of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Known as genetic radiotherapy, the combined treatment can potentially increase cancer cure rates by up to 70% over present therapies that exclusively use radi...Cost, availability of insurance and drugs top health care worries
...ime. According to Harris Interactive polls taken a month before the events of September 11, health care was third after education and the economy/jobs on Americans' priority list of issues. At that time, 14 percent of Americans said that health care was one of the two most important issues for government t...Having dry eye before LASIK surgery is a risk factor for severe dry eye after surgery
... lenses. Post-LASIK dry eye lasts for at least one month after surgery. "Tear function and dry eye symptom...yness among all groups were not significant at one month after surgery because those in the NDE group experienced some temporary post-surgical dryness that r...Interpersonal psychotherapy effective in treating binge-eating disorder
...s were followed up after treatment ended, and at 4 month intervals for the next 12 months. Binge-eating recovery rates were equivalent for participants in CBT and IBT with 64 of 81 patients (79 percent) experiencing a recovery in the CBT group and 59 of 81 patients (73 percent) in the IBT group. At one-ye...No justification for early laser treatment of uncomplicated childhood haemangiomas
...ear of age. 90% of haemangiomas occur in the first month of life; they may continue to grow for six to eight months, most disappearing naturally by ten years of age. Although generally benign, haemangiomas can be complicated by ulceration, infection, bleeding and occlusion of vital structures. Lesions--esp...Occupational therapy is cost effective, significantly improves quality of life for seniors
...ersity of Southern California study published this month in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society. Conducted by leading health care economists, biostatisticians and occupational therapy scholars, the study is the first to measure the impact of preventive occupational therapy on the "well elderly." ...Almonds have cholesterol benefits
.... Three one-month diets were undertaken. For one month each participant ate a full dose of almonds (avera...rter of their total daily caloric intake. For one month they took a half dose of almonds (average 37 grams) described as a "handful" of almonds. In the la...Vitamin E is important for early prevention of cardiovascular disease in middle-aged women
...s of a new study by Iannuzzi et al. published this month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In examining the relationship between the women's antioxidant vitamin consumption and the presence of plaques in the common carotid arteries, the authors concluded that low vitamin E intake is a risk fac...