'Bathtub' Equation Aids Diabetes Research
...luc-tuations in the blood sugar level. Finegood is optimistic about the progress of diabetes research. "I'msometimes shocked at how much we know about some things and how little weknow about certain simple things," she says. "We may not be close to findinga cure, but we're not that far off from improving preven...Health Workers May Experience Costly Dislocation As Health Spending Growth Slows
...t, the 1996 rate of growth was lower than the most optimistic "slow-growth" projections used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Department of Commerce in their forecasting models. An article appearing in the May/June 1998 issue of Public Health Reportsanalyses the effect this slowed rate of growt...Brain Tumor Treatment In Multicenter Tests
...ercent of patients. The UNC-CH researcher is optimistic about the clinical trial, which willinvolve patients whose brain tumors have arisen from a variety of cancers.Evidence from animal studies suggest that the treatment is safe and effective.The researcher's own experience with a handful of individual c...Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Leads To Lower Child IQ Scores, Language Skills
... "The good news is it gives people room to be optimistic about these kids because the kind of effects we are seeing are treatable with properintervention," said Lester. "But to do that you've got to believe the money has to bespent." Researchers analyzed information on more than 800 scho......rmally,"says Jones. While the researchers are optimistic about these results, they caution thatadditionalresearch and a larger number of patients are necessary to confirm thesefindings. They are nowexpanding the study to include additional patients with severe autoimmunedisorders. In addition to Jone...New outpatient surgery is helping women with stress incontinence
...inence or have improveda great deal. "So I am very optimistic that this will be a major advance in incontinencecare," says Klutke, who in September 1998 became one of the first Americansurgeons to use TVT. His study is the largest in this country to date. Muscle power When you hurt your arm, you don't stand m...Advances in 'On the Spot' tests have huge public health implications
...ptured. Prof Borriello concludes that we should be optimistic that the technological development of near patient testing kits will bring great advances in detecting and controlling infections....Reacting well to heart disease can help avoid future attacks
Patients who remain optimistic and cope positively after coronary angioplastysignificantly reduce their risk of a subsequent heart attack or other coronaryevent, new research shows. "Above and beyond the contributions of demographic and medical risk factors,patients' cognitive app...Positive outlook, sense of self-control can predict new coronary events, says Carnegie Mellon study
...who exhibited a positive regard for themselves, an optimistic outlookfor the future and a belief that they could make necessary lifestyle changes,might have altered the course of their diseases. What the study suggested but could not determine was the source of a moreprovocative mind-body question -- does a pat...Americans expect to live a year longer than statistics suggest
.... Men and blacks are most optimistic about theirlifespans -- m...than othersand so be more optimistic about their future life. Butcontrolling for perceived health, and a variety...More research needed to gauge estrogen's effects on Alzheimer's disease, Yale scientists say
...r reducing the severity of the disease. "We are optimistic that recent advances in technology, particularly functional brain imaging may now provide new opportunities to better address questions about estrogen's effects on cognitive function," Shaywitz said....Chemist uses DNA to trigger an alternative chemotherapy method
...o develop a therapy based on his method, but he is optimistic that the method provides another direction, one that could rapidly respond to viral diseases or cancer as fast as they mutate. He says the catalyst/prodrug/DNA trigger system could expand beyond the horizons of anti-viral and anti-cancer therapy to ...Researchers battle drug-resistant HIV on promising new ground
...s approach has great promise," he said. "I am very optimistic that if we are able to find a delivery system for this treatment, this approach may be useful to patients suffering from HIV infection."...Researchers develop white wine with health benefits similar to red
...erm human clinical trials are conducted. Aviram is optimistic that such a connection will eventually be proven, citing his own studies of atherosclerotic (hardening of the arteries) mice that reveals a substantial disease regression in the presence of red wine....Caution urged in research with angiogenesis therapy
...ournal of the American Heart Association. We are optimistic that ultimately angiogenesis therapy will prove effective and safe, the researchers write. However, researchers need to be aware of the biological effects of each angiogenic agent being proposed for clinical studies and accept the likelihood that co...Scientists find biological key to 'wasting syndrome'
...n we ever thought to human wasting syndrome. Were optimistic this will bring hope and relief very quickly to the bedside." Dr. Chojkier and lead author Martina Buck, Ph.D., of VA, UCSD and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, described the steps by which tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha, an immune-syst...Raloxifene following tamoxifen may offer no more reduction in breast cancer risk
...metrial cancer. These findings "do not support an optimistic future for the use of raloxifene as a replacement for tamoxifen after 5 years of adjuvant therapy," says Michael B. Sporn, M.D., of Dartmouth Medical School, in an editorial. However, he points out that the current study does not address whether ralo...Optimistic outlook may benefit lungs
ATLANTAAn optimistic outlook may improve lung function, suggests a stud...tudy of 670 older men found that those with a more optimistic outlook had significantly higher levels of lung function and a slower rate of decline in lung functi...Definitive CWRU study says exercise, no smoking leads to longer life in adults over 75
...des. Kahana provides baby boomers with an optimistic message that if one practices healthy behaviors, it will have a positive impact on their lives and that it is never to late to try to improve ones lifestyle....Inner city adolescents identify jobs, education as keys to their future
...-poverty urban environment, the teens presented an optimistic view that solutions offered by education, jobs and interaction with involved adults could help them succeed in life. "This study carries strong messages about the hopes and strengths of inner-city youth," said Kenneth R. Ginsburg, M.D., M.S. Ed., a ...