Among elderly, depression more prevalent in Hispanics and blacks
...ugh death or divorce, Dunlop said. "This finding points to the potential importance of providing social su...tions and potentially life-threatening conditions, points to the importance of public health interventions involving disease prevention and management, they s...Report gives NIH-sponsored clinical research a good report card
...still a great deal that needs to be done, but this points to several things to build on." Dr. David G. Natha...." The New England Journal of Medicine review also points to the increased role private foundations and companies have played in providing grant support for y...Childhood obesity and behavior problems linked
ANN ARBOR, MI - In a study that points to the importance of considering both mind and body in children's health, researchers report today that they have found a clear link between childhood obesity and behavior problems. Results published today in the journal Pediatrics show that childre...Study finds classroom study groups more effective when organized by social networks
... to design a health promotion intervention, and it points to the possibility of using the network model in a variety of settings. "Most school-based tobacco prevention programs are based on a social influences model," says Thomas W. Valente, Ph.D., associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck Sc...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for November 2003 (first issue)
...ory and Critical Care Medicine. Decision analysis points up best treatment strategy for ventilator-associated pneumonia In an effort to develop an optimal treatment strategy against deadly ventilator-associated pneumonia, researchers using decision analysis revealed that initial use of three antibiotics, ...The statin wars: Why AstraZeneca must retreat
... marketing tool for the drug; the Lancet editorial points out weaknesses of many of the trials, commenting that 'with no clinical end-point trial yet completed, the company has chosen to market rosuvastatin by applying adventurous statistics to an overinterpreted syllogism.' The editorial concludes: ...FDA approves new HIV protease inhibitor, Lexiva (TM)
...h other antiretroviral medications. The following points should be considered when initiating therapy with ...given in combination with two NRTIs. The following points should be considered when initiating therapy with Lexiva/r in PI-experienced patients: the PI-experi...Repeated alcohol detoxifications can impair cognitive function
...niversity of South Carolina. "This study squarely points out the relevance of multiple withdrawals by demon...ple withdrawals on cognitive function. This paper points out the relevance of clinicians asking patients about past withdrawals, the number of them, and how ...Commentaries question benefit of early breast cancer screening
...behalf of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, points out that the evidence suggesting an early mortality increase is weak and its real importance is unknown. Still, he cautions, screening in premenopausal women may have important harms, including false-positive results, unnecessary biopsies, and possi...Alzheimer's Association cautious about new Alzheimer treatment research with antibiotics
...he antibiotic group declined by an average of 2.75 points less over six months than those who received the placebo (on a 70-point scale). The difference in scores between the two groups was statistically significant. At 12 months, there was still a difference between the two groups, although it was not co...Molecular test proves to be effective in measuring remission and relapse after cancer treatment
... complete cytogenetic remission as well as at time points up to 18 months later. At the time of cytogenetic remission, the median reduction in the levels of bcr-abl was 250-fold in the Gleevec group compared to 220-fold in the interferon/cytarabine group. Thirty-two percent of the Gleevec-group patients in ...Stages of memory described in new study
...le, 4,1,2,3,4) at various intervals and at various points of the sleep-wake cycle. Their resulting data disclosed several important findings, according to Walker. "We first discovered that in order for a memory to be stabilized and therefore become less vulnerable to competing information it requires some...Patient-centered approach just what the doctor ordered for healthcare industry
...asks are necessary to implement this principle. He points out as an example how the Mayo Clinic uses specifically trained non-physician providers for diabetes management after a physician conducts the initial evaluation and develops a care plan. The non-physician providers monitor the patients and involve t...HFES Annual Meeting papers feature work on critical health and safety issues
...nvironment. These researchers identified numerous points leading up to surgery when things can go wrong, such as during the patient consult, when incorrectly marked X-rays are not caught, or when formal cross-checks are lacking. The barriers they found in implementing the guidelines concerned site marking,...Jefferson scientists find anemia drug may help lessen effects of heart attack
... toxicity profiles have been established. Dr. Koch points out the next step prior to clinical trials would be to study thevarious responses to different doses of EPO. "Maybe we can get by with low doses thatwon't significantly raise the red blood cell count but will be effective for cardiac protection."...'Good' chemical, neurons in brain elevated among exercise addicts
...se could be due to less biological reasons, Rhodes points out. "It is possible that they're so focused on running, they can't think of anything else," he said. Rhodes and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of California at Riverside and The Salk Institute also emphasize tha...Nanoneurosurgery, search for E-T life, bioscan technology and home holograms at frontiers of optics
...s of blocking information transmission at specific points in a simple "brain." (Paper ThA1, Thursday, 8 AM) ... of many pictures of the 3-D object from different points of view. The set of pictures is sent to a computer, and mathematically processed with a new algorit...Study links IQ and affluence level to longevity
... a 17 percent greater chance of death for every 15 points of lower childhood IQ. After adjusting for deprivation and social class, this difference was reduced to 12 percent. These adjustments separated socioeconomic effects from IQ and explained some, but not all, of the differences associated with lower IQ...People with chronic eye diseases not getting recommended eye exams
...y appearing in the October issue of Ophthalmology, points to the need for new approaches to enhancing long-term follow-up of those already in the health care system. Ophthalmology is the clinical journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Eye M.D. Association. In this random sample of Medicare b...Ultrafiltration device shown safe, effective and reduces hospital stay for heart failure patients
...derway. Euphoria's primary efficacy and safety end points are to determine whether early System 100 ultrafiltration of diuretic-resistant patients upon hospital admission can completely resolve fluid overload signs and symptoms to achieve hospital discharge within three days without the development of adver...