Getting older and feeling weaker?
...stant fibers. "If young and older workers are performing the same tasks, the older ones are typically working at a higher proportion of their capacity," he says. "Companies realize that older workers also tend to be more reliable and experienced." With all of this in mind, Nussbaum and Laura Wojcik, a f...Specifying alcohol-related brain damage in young women
...led to show a 'normal' pattern of activation while performing their visual spatial working memory task. "Compared with the nonalcoholics," explained Edith V. Sullivan, associate professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, "the young women with alcohol dependence appeared to engage the...Georgetown researchers to present evidence of biological cause of dyslexia
...eas less strongly than the control group did while performing both these two tasks (reading and visual motion detection). It appears that dyslexic participants-who, by definition, have difficulties reading-also experience difficulties in processing visual motion, and that the areas of the brain used by non-dys....... Dr. Ljubimova came to Cedars-Sinai in 1993 after performing cancer and other medical research in Kiev, Ukraine, at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and at the University of California, San Diego. She received her medical degree from Kiev State University in Ukraine, and took advanced studies at the ...Brain's efforts to save itself during Alzheimer's may backfire
...itive function in other words, they have problems performing difficult tasks that require them to remember things. In one test, mice were required to recall visual cues in a swimming pool to remember the location of an escape platform. The mice with excess galanin had trouble remembering where the platform ha...Duke chemists synthesize fungus compound that could lead to oral diabetes drugs
...ped pioneer "solid phase synthesis" techniques for performing combinatorial chemistry reactions on the surfaces of small glass chips. However, "the DAQ molecule is not particularly amenable to synthesis while its pieces are attached to a solid," he said. Fortunately, Pirrung noted, "the principles of combin...Researchers to test skeletal muscle as replacement for damaged human heart muscle in humans
...ither to making the remaining heart work better or performing a heart transplantation," Taylor said. "You are born with all the heart cells you'll ever have. Once you damage the heart muscle, it's gone forever." Based on the pre-clinical studies carried out in Taylor's lab at Duke, as well as others in Europ...UCSF begins clinical trials for new bionic ear for profoundly deaf adults
...ren as chief of pediatric otology and neurotology, performing surgery for cochlear implants in both adults and children. Most insurance companies including Medicare cover all or a percentage of the costs for the implant, externally worn processor, surgery, programming and follow-up office visits. The Clario......s of fluid into a patient's abdominal cavity or by performing more patient exchanges of fluid each day, which has often been difficult for patients, physicians, and nurses to achieve. This practice, in turn, has resulted in increased treatment cost, generally more complex prescription management, and may also ...Effective surgery fails to attract patients unless costs are low
...could be provided locally. The additional cost of performing all surgeries at the local level rather than at regional clinics was $110; the total costs of moving the 59 surgeries done at regional clinics to local clinics was $51, for a total of $161. But just two additional surgeries would provide gains in lif...Lung cancer surgery patients have better outcomes at high volume hospitals
...nly 2 of the hospitals were high volume providers, performing five to ten times as many surgeries (67 to 100 per year). "The study confirms growing evidence that the quality of cancer surgery is related to the experience of the hospital, said Colin Begg, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and ...Poor reading skills have both physical, environmental causes
... area that processes auditory information. Poorly performing children had more symmetrical temporal planes, compared with a left-weighted asymmetry which is more commonly seen. Eckert and colleagues also found that although children from low-income families performed more poorly on the reading tests, brain asy......rners in the study, a respected community hospital performing 1,200 cardiac operations a year. At this hospital,...e can accept input." In contrast, one of the worst performing hospitals is a large, nationally renowned academic medical center. This hospital picked team members...Pelvic floor exercises can reduce incontinence in women
...in the treatment group were also more likely to be performing pelvic floor exercises. These findings show that conservative treatment provided by specially trained nurses seems to be effective in reducing both urinary and faecal incontinence in women 12 months after childbirth, say the authors. The benefit for ...Tourettes, other tic disorders far more common than once thought
...s among teachers and doctors that children who are performing poorly in school and who have tics may need medical treatment, and that such treatment could ease school difficulties for these students. Most people view Tourettes as a very rare, unusual disorder with bizarre symptoms, but its really very common, ...Anxiety over breast self-examination may lead to low compliance, UCLA researchers find
...rt to help them feel more comfortable and adept at performing self-examinations, women at high risk who are anxious about self-examinations may benefit more from being advised to receive more frequent clinical breast exams by a health professional. Time and again, we hear from high-risk patients, I dont perform...Deaths at Bristol not explained by low volume of operations
...ound strong and consistent evidence that hospitals performing a higher number of open heart operations in children aged under 1 year tended to have a lower death rate. For instance, a hospital carrying out 120 operations per year during this period would be expected to have a 25% lower death rate than a hospita...Researchers find correlation between older adults' use of speech and the ability to gesture
...er to bang a nail") would predict their success at performing the pantomimes. The study is reported in the Feb. ...eak, they spoke an average of about 45 words while performing the pantomime. The more subjects spoke, the lower their scores on the pantomime task. There are at ...Eating breakfast may keep colds & flu at bay
...says Professor Smith. 'Awareness of the effects of performing whilst ill should also be increased and possible counter measures considered' he adds. 'We are now beginning to understand muchmore about the mechanisms underlying these effects and further study of the cognitive process which are impaired, the chang...Biopsies of the internal mammary sentinel nodes may improve patients chances of survival
...ected into the patient. Dr van der Ent said: While performing routine axillary SN scans, which we have been doin...during the same scan? So, since 1997 we have been performing routine IM-SN biopsies whenever the scans detect them. The IM-SN biopsy is more difficult to perform...