Promising new strategy for Swedish medical research
... The detailed mapping and understanding of disease patterns in combination with lifestyle factors requires the longitudinal follow up of large groups of healthy individuals. No country can do this alone. Sweden is internationally recognised as an important player in this respect and is even possibly considere...Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) biennial meeting
...or among children, teens Autism Children's sleep patterns Gay, lesbian and other sexual minorities among children Influence of television Nutrition and obesity Offspring of gay parents Poverty and child development Prenatal anxiety and later child development Preschool and child care Romances and br...UCLA study shows that people drink less alcohol as they age
...heory that could explain the disparity in drinking patterns between the earlier and later born groups is that earlier generations tended to drink more. The culture of drinking has changed over time. "My parents had cocktail hour," Moore said. "We don't have that anymore." But the later-born generation is hea......ginal, Austronesian and Indo-European show similar patterns of vowel and consonant inventory and distribution, but exceptions to sound patterns regarded as universal show that these similarities are best viewed as the result of convergent evolu...Gene signature can predict breast cancer spread
... Rotterdam, Netherlands) and colleagues, looked at patterns of gene expressions in 286 tumour samples from patients with lymph-node negative breast cancer who had not received hormone or chemotherapy after their initial treatment. The sample group consisted of 209 patients, from all age groups and tumour size...Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
...ith HT, and may be reluctant to change prescribing patterns based on research findings that small numbers of study participants suffered adverse affects. "Physicians have learned that hormone therapy does provide relief to their patients," the authors write. "How can a drug that does such immediate good, and...Another look finds promising proteomics test is not biologically plausible
...to the difficulty in finding complex, reproducible patterns of proteins. According to Baggerly, that now appea...the Lancet study have reported different proteomic patterns in three separate data sets. Researchers at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, reanalyze...Study associates alcohol use patterns with Body Mass Index
...hers compared survey respondents' alcohol drinking patterns with their BMI scores. Since previous studies hav...gned studies to determine whether certain drinking patterns constitute risk factors for overweight and obesity....Alcohol's damaging effects on adolescent brain function
...cientific findings suggest that certain behavioral patterns shown by kids and adolescents with conduct disorder such as persistent, impulsive and aggressive behavior, lack of adherence to societal norms, etc. may be a marker for underlying problems in emotional reactivity and related impairment in frontal l...Women with thyroid problem have lower risk of breast cancer
...ormones. Population studies have shown conflicting patterns in the relationship between thyroid hormone and breast cancer. For example, Japanese scientists found patients with thyroiditis an elevated thyroid hormone state had a higher incidence of breast cancer, while other scientists found high levels of t...UT Southwestern doctors track Oklahoma Alzheimer's patients via telemedicine
... research at UT Southwestern since 1991 examining patterns of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of memory loss in American Indian populations. In one of these, patients are more than 200 miles away from their doctors. "After the initial diagnosis is made, it is not necessary to have follow-up, face-to-fac...Gender bias in child growth evaluations may miss disease in girls
...hia who led the research. "Instead, these referral patterns may result from social pressures implying that short stature is a more significant problem in boys than girls." The study appears in the February issue of the Journal of Pediatrics . The researchers reviewed the charts of all 278 children referred t...Abnormal brain activity during the observation of others' actions
...hown that individuals with autism display abnormal patterns of activity in brain circuits that underlie the understanding of other people's behavior. Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized in part by marked social deficits. The basis of the study is a population of brain cells called mirror neu...Why North America is not a rhythm nation
...isteners are frequently challenged by the rhythmic patterns of other cultures. North American adults, for example, have difficulty perceiving rhythmic patterns in Balkan music. Erin E. Hannon, Cornell University, and Sandra Trehub, University of Toronto, found...Treatment for brain tumor does not always follow recommendations
...e data to enable comparison of individual practice patterns and outcomes for adults with malignant glioma. The...eived chemotherapy (n = 300; 54 percent). Practice patterns varied significantly between academic and community settings. "We present patterns of care for a lar...Clinicians report missing patient information is common
...re than 10. These contracts often dictate referral patterns for consultation and testing so that primary care ...inical information. With this cognizance, practice patterns can be modified. Physicians and their staff should screen charts prior to patients' arrival, looking...Adults who had higher exposure to infant siblings have decreased risk for MS
...ontact in early life may alter childhood infection patterns and related immune responses and reduce the risk of MS," the authors conclude.......for reflecting radio signals. Other, much weaker patterns are overlaid on the global picture. In the Earth's...netic instruments, can scientists sort out all the patterns of magnetism from the different sources. The most careful analyses reveal yet another effect. Magne...Researchers hope monkeys can provide new insights into depression
...ptist Medical Center willreport new findings about patterns of depression in monkeys in the Aprilissue of the Journal of Biological Psychology . The article is nowavailable on-line. The scientists found that depressed female monkeys become socially withdrawn and have reduced body fat, low levels of activity,...Two minutes of magnetic stimulation can change your brain for an hour
...'s team adapted the technique by testing different patterns of repetitive magnetic pulses to the scalps of volunteers, delivered over a period of 20 to 190 seconds. The pulses were aimed at the motor cortex that controls muscle response, because effects on the motor cortex can be objectively measured by recor...