Employees bring bad moods home, but they disappear by morning
...access to both a computer at work and at home. The participants were selected through an e-mail letter soliciting ...itions, such as secretary and office manager. The participants logged on to a Web page, and completed job satisfaction surveys and mood surveys at 9 a.m., noon and...Some harms of beta-carotene supplementation may persist after discontinuing use
...scular disease mortality disappeared quickly after participants stopped taking the supplements. However, the risk ...s of beta-carotene supplementation continued after participants stopped taking the supplements, Gary E. Goodman, M.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center...Imaging tool may help physicians diagnose bipolar disorder
...t by age, sex and right- or left-handedness. Study participants ranged from age 18 to 54 and included 26 women and 16 men. Using MR spectroscopy, a special form of MR imaging that allows researchers to analyze the chemical properties of tissue, Dr. Port and colleagues studied 60 to 70 regions of the brain a...Imatinib (Gleevec) has activity in AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma
...spite chemotherapy and/or HAART. Half of the study participants demonstrated partial regression of lesions, and in the remaining five patients, disease stabilized and they were no longer developing new lesions after four weeks. Biopsies of patients' tumors demonstrated that these responses correlated with inhibit...Employment reduces chronic drug use, UH professors find
...ms during the study. Of the 534 TANF study participants analyzed in the first year, one-third reported bei...ring this first year were measured by interviewing participants quarterly, with employment among drug-users rising to approximately 39 percent. "We attribut...Small study shows SAMe may improve treatment of depression
...antidepressant improved symptoms in half the study participants and produced complete relief of symptoms in 43 per... had not relieved symptoms. The study enrolled 30 participants who had continued to have significant depression after more than a month of treatment with drugs lik...Testosterone deficiency found in one-third of diabetic men
...searchers collected fasting blood samples from the participants and analyzed them for testosterone levels and for hormones associated with testosterone production. They also measured cholesterol and glucose levels, and a blood marker for how well glucose was controlled during previous months, called hemoglobin A1...International study provides culture-by-culture clues to family violence and abuse
...sity, the compendium presents evidence that, among participants in the two dozen countries included in the study, ...discrepancies between definitions of abuse used by participants from the various countries. For spousal abuse, for example, U.S. participants were on average most ...Study highlights importance of pesticide worker dermal exposure
...rizona, Kentucky, Michigan, Florida and Ohio). The participants held a variety of pesticide-related jobs, including preparing pesticide formulations, loading the pesticide into application devices, applying the pesticide and inspecting crops after application. They found that dermal exposure represents a subst...Obesity appears to be modifiable risk factor for atrial fibrillation
...k of developing AF. The study group included 5,282 participants (average age, 57 years; 2,898 women) without basel...bs. During an average follow-up of 13.7 years, 526 participants (234 women) developed AF. Age-adjusted incidence rates for AF increased across the 3 BMI categories ...More muscle means better regulation of blood pressure, study finds
... percentages of fat and lean tissue on their study participants and looked at their ability to excrete sodium the..., researchers measured the blood pressure of study participants every 15 minutes throughout a two-hour baseline period, an hour of competitive video games and a two...Low-glycemic load diet may improve ability to stay on diet longer
...sity of Minnesota. "On a typical low-fat diet, the participants tended to experience more perceived hunger and a slower metabolic rate, which may make it more difficult to stay on the diet, while those on the low-glycemic load diet did not feel as hungry and had a faster metabolic rate." Pereira and colle...System that regulates blood pressure may also affect aging
...l of body fat. At the end of the program, however, participants with the combination associated with highest ACE p... strength compared to a 23 percent improvement in participants who had the combination associated with lowest ACE production. There were no differences in walking ...LA BioMed Medical/Research Briefs December 2004
...with COPD and low normal testosterone levels. The participants were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: testosterone supplementation and strength training; placebo and strength training; testosterone and no strength training; or placebo and no strength training. After 10 weeks, both testosterone g...Chronic back pain shrinks 'thinking parts' of the brain, study finds
...alysis techniques to contrast brain images from 26 participants with chronic back pain with those from matched normal subjects. All participants with chronic back pain had unrelenting pain for more than a year, primarily localized to the lumbosa...What happens in the brain when we remember our own past?
...and episodic autobiographical memory. However, the participants in those studies were asked to recollect memories that were usually several years old, and it was impossible to tell how often they had been rehearsed over the years. This new study, on the other hand, used episodes from daily life that were only a f...Study examines nature and prevalence of errors in patient care
...buted to workplace distractions. According to the participants in the study, frequent interruptions from staff, students or even the telephone made administering medications and carrying out other patient-care activities challenging. Procedural errors, such as omitting a routine task or making charting and tra...Pet scans detect brain differences in people at risk for Alzheimer's
...d clear differences between the two groups. As the participants tried to remember if they'd seen a particular shape before, one pattern of brain activation appeared in the APOE- 4 carriers while a different pattern appeared in the non-carriers. Dr. Scarmeas says the difference may indicate that APOE- 4 carriers ...Three-year health study of teenage girls is underway at Trenton Central High School
... high school to measure stability of changes. All participants will be tracked and evaluated once annually until graduation from high school. "We are very fortunate to have received these grants," says Bonnie Arkus, Executive Director of the Women's Heart Foundation, "because it's time for women to be aware of......itness and nutrition are demonstrating exactly how participants in the BEST Study, a four-year investigation conducted at the University of Arizona (UA), improved their bone mineral density (BMD) using two essentials: calcium and weight-bearing exercise. Specially-trained Bally fitness instructors are showing the...