Showing pictures of admired blacks or elderly can lower levels of unconscious prejudice
...tudes and prejudices are moremalleable than we had previously thought," said Dasgupta. "They also suggestthat images of blacks and the elders portrayed in the media do influence ourunconscious attitudes. Think about all of the negative images we see in themedia that are more vivid than the ones we used. So it...Mayo Clinic study reveals new information about incidence of Parkinsonism
...rkinsonism is three times more common than whatwas previously thought. In addition, the Mayo Clinic study shows...ually 7.5 percent, three times higher thanwhat was previously thought. "This finding highlights the impact parkinsonismwill have on our society as the number of ...Study links body image to athletes' fertility
...ifestation of psychological stress hasbeen related previously to eating disorders in non-athletes but not inathletes," Williams says. "The personal desire to do well in competition, to please the coach, andto look good playing before a crowd are all related to eating and exerciseissues for female athlet...Advance reported in search for skin cancer treatment
...o testthese predictions. Such a framework was not previously available." This research is funded by the National Institutes of Health....Study finds predictors for youth violence and drugs
...nce. Since the group was one in which violence had previously been common,statistical tests were applied to cancel out what Steve Sussman, associateprofessor at the IPR and lead author on both papers refers as the high"baseline" violence of the sample, to see which variables could be viewed aspredictors of cont......esistance." The non-comparative trial, involved 93 previously treated patients who hadreceived prior alkylating agents and failed fludarabine therapy (median of three priortreatment regimens). For these patients, the median life expectancy is usuallysix to nine months. In the trial, patients participating at ...Mitral valve prolapse less common, less harmful than previously thought
... is substantially lesscommon and less serious than previously believed. In a study appearing in theJuly 1, 1999 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, the researchersreport that MVP affects about 2 percent of the population rather than the 5 to35 percent of the population indicated in earlier estimates. ......t and largestsurgical experience in the region and previously participated in three major,national clinical trials. According to Dr. Fontana, TMR is used extensively in Europe and Asia to relieveextreme angina, which is characterized by pain in the chest, arms, neck or backdue to insufficient blood flow in the ...Hormone involved in reproduction may have role in the maintenance of relationships
...s orabandonment. Because massage done on rats had previously been shown toinfluence oxytocin levels, the participants also received a 15-minute Swedishmassage of the neck and shoulders. Blood samples were taken before, during, andafter each of the three events to measure baseline oxytocin levels in thebloodst...NYU researchers uncover the neurobiology of decision-making
...ns in the parietal cortex ofmonkeys that, although previously thought to transform visual signals into eyemovements in a reflexive way, actually carry information about the amount of reward a monkey expects to receive for making the movement. They found that theactivity of these neurons was, like the behavior o...Heart failure deaths reduced by 30 percent
...ons (see indicationsbelow) but had not been tested previously as therapy for reducing deaths inheart failure patients. Known as the Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study (RALES), the trial defiescurrent thinking that spironolactone and other drugs that block the action of ahormone known as aldosterone should no...UI study finds types of decision-making deficiencies depend on area of brain damage
... have trouble attaching emotional significanceto a previously neutral event. For example, walking along a road is a neutral,routine event. However, if a person were mugged while walking along this road,that person would inevitably experience fear when he or she walked along theroad again. Now, imagine that the ...Light physical training best for boosting immunity
...essor. In a comparison of the immune responses of previously sedentary men placed ineither a light or moderate exercise program, Professor Emeritus Roy Shephard ofthe Faculty of Physical Education and Health found that light training has thestrongest protective effect. Blood samplesfrom the men revealed that w...Walking markedly improves mental abilities of those over 60
...otatoes, start walking. A new study has foundthat previously sedentary people over age 60 who walked rapidly for 45 minutesthree days a week can significantly improve mental-processing abilities thatotherwise decline with age. The findings centered not on the benefits of physical conditioning but on thefrontal...Chill out: it does the heart good
...odpressure, the researchers wanted to know if this previously unrecognizedpsychological trait had any effect on ischemia in heart patients. A total of 136 patients (37 with high levels of emotional responsivity,99 with low levels) with documented heart disease underwent two different tests.The results o...Oxygen reduces effects of retinal detachment
...g retina, includingthe retinal areas that were not previously detached and induces their detachmentor prevents photoreceptor recovery," said Lewis. The research described in the second paper shows that providing oxygenduring detachment reduced all aspects of this type of cell abnormality inducedby detac...One in seven adolescents still doesn't have health insurance
... opening upMedicaid to additional children when it previously had been available only tothe very poor in most states. In the same period, however, private coverage ofadolescents slipped to 71.2 percent. That leaves 14.1 percent, or one in seven adolescents, without coverage in 1995-- the exact same percentage ...Risk factors for stroke after heart surgery identified
...searchers found thatheart surgery patients who had previously had a stroke faced the highest risk. They had a 14-times higher risk of having a new stroke during or after surgery. "Stroke is one of the most devastating complications of heart surgery," saysCharles W. Hogue Jr., M.D., associate professor of anest...Cedars-Sinai reports excellent outcomes for its cardiac surgery division
...s or children, and addresses several problems that previously complicatedthe replacement of aortic valves. With the Ross Procedure, the diseased aorticvalve is replaced by the patient's own pulmonic valve, which is replaced by agraft from human tissue. In a child, the "new" aortic valve continues to grow asthe ......genous Retrovirus (PERV) infection in 160 patients previously treated withliving pig tissue. Reported today in ...ed in thestudy had been treated up to twelve years previously with pig skin grafts forsevere burns, pig pancreatic islet cells for diabetes or had their bloodperf...