Research shows way to boost morphine's pain-killing benefits
...o trigger endocytosis, so the discovery suggests a practical way to boost the duration of morphines pain-killing benefits without having to increase dosages continually, said Jennifer Whistler, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of neurology at the Gallo Center and senior author on the Cell paper. What Id like to s...Chronically ill kids put up defenses to hide depression
...fensiveness may help children better deal with the practical demands of their illness. But the repression of their feelings may also result in the children ignoring important signs of disease progression, says Phipps. The consistency in adaptive styles across the variety of illnesses sampled in the current stu...Energy balance, not exercise, key to athletic menstrual disturbance
... or unconsciously. "Our goal is to test whether practical guidelines can be developed regarding the optimal balance between calories of food taken in and calories expended through exercise in order to maintain ovulation and regular menstrual cycles," says Williams. "This would then ensure that estrogen lev...New report links birth defects, premature birth to being overweight before pregnancy
...tes and worldwide. "This report is a blueprint of practical answers for a healthier tomorrow for people in the United States and around the world," says Dr. Deckelbaum. We hope it will inspire health providers, community leaders, and policy makers at all levels. The March of Dimes Task Force on Nutrition and...Devices that emit sounds to track medical status or pinpoint military targets may cause mistakes
...on. Neuhoff et al. remark that their results have practical significance, especially in light of the interactions magnitude. Distortions of the data underlying an auditory display, they write, could have grave real-world consequences. They urge researchers to further study perceptual interaction, in order t...Human Factors/Ergonomics contributes to combating terrorism
...of security personnel and presents "science-based, practical approaches that can and should be taken now to improve threat detection at airports." The third article, "Emergency Vehicles: Responder or Victim?" concerns a related topic, that of ensuring that emergency personnel (specifically firefighters) arrive...Document destruction practices obliterate tobacco company defenses in critical Australian decision
...Liability Project noted that, "BAT may be, for all practical purposes, defenseless in Australia. In fact, wherever BAT does business, this decision is likely to haunt them both in the courts and in Parliamentary chambers where government investigations are likely to follow." "In the US, where tobacco litigatio......tructural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the practical assessment of dementia, Philip Scheltens and colle...views Structural magnetic resonance imaging in the practical assessment of dementia: beyond exclusion Philip Scheltens, Nick Fox, Frederik Barkhof, and Char...The brain risks of binge drinking
... in this case - loses its excitable cells, for all practical purposes they are gone for good. In the day-to-day life of an alcoholic, this means a decreased ability to learn, to recall, to make decisions, and perhaps to sense and appreciate life in its fullest." According to some estimates, said Collins, alco...Clinical depression may have negative effect on periodontal treatment
...dealt with their financial strain in an active and practical way (problem-focused) rather than with avoidance techniques (emotion-focused) had no more risk of severe periodontal disease than those without money problems. Periodontal diseases are serious bacterial infections that destroy the attachment fibers ...New study explores pulmonary rehabilitation in women with emphysema and chronic bronchitis
...y 2020. Dr. Casaburi hypothesizes that developing practical methods to reverse muscle dysfunction will improve quality of life and decrease health care resource utilization. His previous study of men with COPD demonstrated that testosterone supplementation acted much like a strength-training program, increas......nderstands this problem from both the academic and practical sides---he is a clinical associate professor of epidemiology, and he serves as chief epidemiologist at the Michigan Department of Community Health. Program participants must come to U-M having completed medical school and clinical training, and the p...Institute will study how worker health affects productivity and profit
...ntellectual leadership of Cornell faculty with the practical experience of applied researchers at MEDSTAT," says Stapleton....Understanding cancer patients' needs, concerns, is key to improving clinical trial participation
...or the studies. Paterniti found that patients need practical information about how participation in a clinical trial will fit into their lives: Can a particular patient, for example, realistically participate in a study that requires a drive to a cancer center four times a week? Patients need enough informat...Eisenhower Mem. 1st CA hospital to use Bridge barcode system to prevent medication errors
...urth was designed to give healthcare professionals practical tools and approaches to move us to new levels of action, explained Kaminsky. We plan to present the error-reduction results we expect to achieve with MedPoint at Annenberg V so we can demonstrate how barcode technology is helping hospitals raise the ...Meta-analysis of zinc supplementation shows positive growth effects for infants and children
...increases are routinely used in field studies as a practical indicator that supplements have been delivered, consumed, and absorbed by the recipients. Martorell, in an accompanying editorial, points out that in poorer countries where dietary quality is uncertain, the nutritional needs of young children are u...Simple questions may help predict death risk for heart patients
...recommend it in lieu of other tests, but it is not practical to give patients a nuclear stress test every month. However, filling out this questionnaire every month or every three months is a very cost-effective way to monitor patients' health." In an accompanying editorial, John S. Rumsfeld, M.D., Ph.D., dir...Largest study of Hmong shamanism prompts new patient care guidelines
...," said Plotnikoff. "Our study offers clinicians a practical guide to working with this community and suggests that practitioners consider referring Hmong patients to shamans just as they would to clergy." As a result of the research, a new set of patient interview questions was drawn up to improve the medical...Adaptive optics technology provides powerful tools for eye doctors
...allenge, according to Cox, is to make that process practical and affordable in comparison with current manufacturing processes, which produce high volumes of low-cost disposable contact lenses based on a limited set of standard corrections. In an adaptive optics system, the output from a wavefront sensor is u...