Fiber intake from fruits and cereals may reduce risk of coronary heart disease
...nger for coronary deaths than for all events, with reductions in risk of 25 percent for cereal fiber and 30 percent for fruit fiber for each 10 gram per day increment," write the researchers. "In contrast, vegetable fiber was not associated with CHD incidence or mortality [death]." "In conclusion, our result...New study demonstrates key benefits of RISPERDAL(R) CONSTA(R) in young adults with schizophrenia
...ificant improvements in symptom control as well as reductions in side effects when switched to RISPERDAL® CONSTA® (risperidone long acting injection) 1. The most common reasons for switching those patients to risperidone long-acting injection were non-compliance with previous medication, side effects o...Trouble sleeping in the hospital? Maybe it's that jackhammer
...arent to nursing staff. But it's worth the effort; reductions of even a few decibels can improve sleep and help patients get the rest they need to heal." Co-authors of the paper include Dana Karr, Dawn Gasser, Loretta Oliphant and Amy Neveau. The original leader of the sleep promotion team was Jean Henderson, n...Distance to hospital affects heart attack survival
...thin in rural areas, however, and further capacity reductions would likely jeopardize patient safety in these days of managed care," O'Neill adds. Coronary heart disease takes more than 500,000 lives a year in the United States, making it the nation's leading cause of death. "Speed is of the essence in the trea...Intervention program helps reduce television viewing in preschool children
...ow that a preschool-based intervention can lead to reductions in young children's television/video viewing," the...to determine the long-term effects associated with reductions in young children's television viewing."...Dieters decrease heart risk on moderate fat program
...total fat intakes may have adverse consequences on reductions in the risk of CVD, even in response to weight loss."...Virtual reality helps breast cancer patients cope with chemotherapy
...straction interventions and how to achieve lasting reductions in symptom distress and fatigue for patients after they have left the clinical setting....Study finds no causal link between testosterone replacement, prostate cancer or cardiac disease
...er. It has been known since the 1940's that severe reductions of testosterone can cause shrinkage of metastatic prostate cancer, and therefore there has been a concern that raising testosterone levels might cause growth of any hidden prostate cancers. However, the study by Ernani L. Rhoden, M.D., and Morgentale...Study finds most pediatric residents satisfied with primary care training
...o residency programs facing fiscal constraints and reductions in residency training hours in the coming years," she adds. "Hopefully this information can help residency programs identify and prioritize components of the continuity experience while striving to maintain and improve educational experiences." The ...Emotion-regulating protein lacking in panic disorder
...tracer, Drevets and colleagues found less dramatic reductions of the receptor in the anterior and posterior cingulate, but a 41 percent reduction in the raphe. These findings add to evidence for overlap between depression and anxiety disorders. Although animal experiments have shown that cortisol secretion t...Exposure to carcinogens not proportionally decreased by reduction in smoking
...er day by 55% to 90% during weeks 4 through 12 had reductions of only 27% to 51% in total NNAL. Even when smokers reduced their cigarettes per day from a mean of 24.7 at the beginning of the study to 2.60 at week 12 (a reduction of 90%), the average level of total NNAL was only reduced by 46%. The authors sugge...Major risk factors identified for sudden infant death syndrome
...s strongly suggest a basis for further substantial reductions in SIDS incidence rates."...Modest exercise can prevent weight gain
...ants in the high dose/vigorous intensity group saw reductions in all measures when compared to the two lower exercise and control groups. Specifically, the high dose/vigorous intensity group experienced a 3.5 percent weight loss, while the two low-dose exercise groups experienced slightly greater than a 1 pe...Cobblestone mat walking shows health benefits for elderly
...ments in mental and physical well-being, including reductions in blood pressure and pain levels. An article pub...improved perceptions of control over falls and had reductions in resting diastolic blood pressure. "These are very exciting results," notes John Fisher, Ph.D.,...Study finds fewer than half of early stage breast cancer patients get full chemotherapy doses
...e than a week and 37 percent had chemotherapy dose reductions due to common side effects of treatment, says Gary... The primary cause of chemotherapy delays and dose reductions is neutropenia, a shortage of infection-fighting white blood cells. This is a common, potentially s......m the University of Warwick, said: "Despite recent reductions in child poverty, child poverty rates in the UK remain amongst the highest in rich nations, and this is especially concerning as childhood disadvantage stretches into adult life, as well as affecting health and well-being during childhood itself." "T...... rats that received the agonist showed significant reductions in serum markers of liver damage accompanied by improvements in liver histology. Treatment with the FXR agonist increased expression of the bile transporters, bile salt export pumps, and multidrug resistancerelated protein 2 and repressed key genes i...Mental health of asylum seekers deteriorates with longer detention
...s assessed after release from detention had marked reductions in all psychological symptoms, but those still detained were more distressed than at initial assessment. Allen S. Keller (Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine and the study's principal investigator) comments: "...Brain-imaging study sheds more light on underlying cause of attention-deficit hyperactivity syndrome
... of attention-deficit hyperactivity syndrome, with reductions in size of some brain areas and an increase in grey matter proportions being characteristic of children with the disorder. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a serious neuropsychiatric problem in schoolchildren (an estimated 3-6% of U...Experimental drugs reduce neuron death in rats following insulin shock
...eived PARP inhibitors experienced 85 to 90 percent reductions in brain cell death. Rats that received the drug o...the end of glucose deprivation experienced minimal reductions in cell damage. Six weeks after these tests, rats that had been immediately treated with PARP inhibi...