Many Medical Screening Tests May Be Unnecessary.
...Inaccurate, false positive results which can cause profound anxiety and require additional testing that can be increasingly invasive and costly. Depleting society's limited medical resources. The article asserts that physicians have a responsibility to inform patients of the limitations and risks of scre...Intervention can help reduce risky sexual behavior, according to results published in Science
...one-year improvement in risky behaviors can have a profound publichealth impact, according to the authors. Adds Stover, "Our study is a good startin terms of identifying an intervention that reduces risk, but we areencouraging new investigators to extend the follow-up period in future studies."The NIMH study ...Forum Urges Medicare Reform To Emphasize Health Promotion
... seniors who show this responsibility could make a profound change in future health policy. It is an idea worth advancing as part of short and long term Medicare reform."...Drug Prevents Hearing Loss Caused By Brain Tumor Therapy
...an, 15 (79 percent) of 19 similar patientssuffered profound hearing loss caused by carboplatin treatment. Thes...d that our carboplatin-treated patientsexperienced profound high frequency hearing loss," Neuwelt said.Many of thebrain-tumor patients treated with carboplatin ...Now Is Time To Design Brain-Saving Drugs Specifically For Children, UCSF Neurologist Says
...someone knows afamily whose child must live with a profound loss of brain function, it may notbe clear how urgent this issue is."...NIA Launches National Study To Treat Mild Cognitive Impairment
... dementia, even in a fractionof people, would have profound effects socially, financially, and otherwise." The Memory Impairment Study is sponsored by the Alzheimer's Disease CooperativeStudy at the University of California, San Diego with grant funding from theNational Institute on Aging and contributions fr...Neurobiologists Show How The Brain Processes Signals From Pheromones
...ronasal organ is removed from animals,they undergo profound changes in mating behavior and aggression. In the Cell paper, Ivan Rodriguez, Ph.D., and Paul Feinstein, Ph.D., along withMombaerts used genetic manipulation techniques to determine the wiring diagramof the accessory olfactory system and found prono...Component of aspirin prevents antibiotic-induced deafness
...riment. Guinea pigs receiving gentamicin alone had profound hearing loss, up to 70decibels at some wavelengths, and almost complete destruction of the outer haircells in the cochlea. Animals receiving gentamicin and salicylate had minorhearing impairment of less than 20 decibels and minimal hair cell damage....Sleep plays role in managing childhood chronic pain
...ioral Pediatrics. Sleep disturbances can also have profound effects on children's mental wellbeing. Increased sleepiness and fatigue may sap children's motivation toexercise or partake in other activities that help distract them from the painthey feel. They also may become more irritable, more easily frustra...First medication to target PCP addiction is reported by Arkansas researchers
...ens said. This fast-acting therapy could make a profound difference in the way PCP addictsare treated, enabling doctors to offer addicts an effective anti-addictionmedication that works immediately. By contrast, antibody-based approaches tocreating vaccines entail weeks of waiting before benefits appear, ...100 years of Freud's interpretation of dreams
...on, schizophrenia, and psychosis. Perhaps the most profound effect of the Interpretation of Dreams is that it isthe foundation of all modern psychotherapies. In his effort to understand themeaning of dreams Freud developed psychoanalysis, which has led to myriad otherkinds of therapies. Without the Interpreta...Reducing the costs of diabetes in Europe: Preventing complications is the key
...ack and stroke. The CODE-2*results demonstrate the profound effect that these macrovascular complicationshave on healthcare costs. New oral treatments, the thiazolidinediones (also known as glitazones), may holdthe key to reducing these costs. The thiazolidinediones reduce insulinresistance--the failure of ce...Depression, anxiety and stress can hinder diabetic's ability to control blood sugar
Psychological factors can have a profound effect on the ability of people withdiabetes to control their blood sugar, according to scientists at the MedicalCollege of Ohio. Among diabetic patients who learned relaxation techniques withbiofeedback, those with the highest levels of depression,...Lack of sleep alters hormones, metabolism
...xth day of deprivation and of recovery. They found profound alterations of glucose metabolism, in some situationsresembling patients with type-2 diabetes, during sleep deprivation. When testedduring the height of their sleep debt, subjects took 40 percent longer thannormal to regulate their blood sugar level......a half years. "The results show the presence of profound cognitive deficits in the amphetamine-treated anim...n early adolescence or early adulthood can produce profound cognitive deficits that may persist for a couple of years or more after amphetamine use has ended," ......ion. Buckley argues that revalidation will have a profound effect on the practice of medicine but that hard effort will be required to prevent it becoming an empty chore....Revalidation - The international experience
...ion. Buckley argues that revalidation will have a profound effect on the practice of medicine but that hard effort will be required to prevent it becoming an empty chore....Scientists identify new pathway of antidepressant action
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