Society Of Actuaries Issues Proceedings From Symposium, 'Managed Care In A Time Of Transition'
...lansponsors and health care providers. Results and related presentations were givenat a symposium held May 4-5, 1998, in Minneapolis. Proceedings of the symposium were recently published in a monograph of the samename, 'Managed Care in a Time of Transition.' Presentations addressed suchquestions as: Is ...Heart Valve Abnormalities Examined In Relation To Duration Of Diet Drug Use
...mined that the prevalence of this valve problemwas related to the duration of time the drug was used. Among those who used thediet drug combo for less than six months, there was no increase in mild orgreater aortic regurgitation, but "the longer people in this study took thedrugs, the greater the likelihood ...Study Highlights Flu Risks For Women With Chronic Illness
...high-risk, 23 had cardiopulmonary hospitalizations related to influenza eachyear. Among 10,000 women aged 45-...rdiopulmonaryhospitalizations and four deaths were related to influenza each year. Incomparison, hospitalizations and deaths among women with no identified hig......ypes of alcohol and periodontal-disease risk. In a related study, Grossi's team examined serum levels of antioxidantnutrients and their relationship to periodontal disease, using data from 9,862subjects between the ages of 20 and 90 who participated in NHANES III. To establish an antioxidant profile, resear...NIA Launches National Study To Treat Mild Cognitive Impairment
... can use information from Dr. Petersen's study and related studies to identify peoplewith MCI and to develop ways to prevent or delay the onset of AD in thishigh-risk population. To delay or prevent the slide from mild cognitive impairment to dementia, even in a fractionof people, would have profound effect......the molecular basis ofsleep disorders and problems related to natural light cycles, such as seasonalaffective disorder (SAD). The research focuses on an area deep in the brain called thesuprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), which is about the size of a pinhead. The SCN isknown to regulate the circadian rhy...Fifteenth Anniversary Of The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
...to try andunderstand the full spectrum of the AIDS related diseases. More than 5,000volunteers came forward to join the study. Of the cohort in Baltimore, 109 have come to every clinic visit for thepast 15 years. More than 600 articles have been generated from the MACSresearch ranging from the r...Possible Mechanism For Estrogen Memory Enhancement Found
...archers are studying compounds that are similar or related to estrogen inthe hope of finding a drug precisely targeted for the treatment of disease whileavoiding unwanted side-effects. USC neurogerontologist Victor W. Henderson, M.D., who was among the first toconduct epidemiological studies finding that est...Tip Sheet: Citrus Limonoids Versus Cancer, Cholesterol And Insects
...ard off insects. More than a dozen researchpapers related to these compounds are being presented during the nationalmeeting of the American Chemical Society, the world=s largest scientificsociety, in Anaheim, Calif., March 21 - 25. Selected samples of the researchbeing discussed are included below. All pa...Should Doctors Urge Patients To Take Breaks From Their Drugs?
...ultsback this theory. Animals infected with SIV, a related virus, have kept it atundetectable levels in their blood for 145 days after several stop-start tripletherapy treatments. However, anecdotal reports and animal experiments aren't enough tooverturn the AIDS orthodoxy. "We now need randomised c...News Tips Thursday, March 25, 1999
...learly defined. Muchof the beneficial effects are related to increases in HDL-cholesterol, the "goodcholesterol," and perhaps to beneficial effects on platelets, that initiateblood clots in arteries leading to heart attack and stroke. One puzzlingfinding in some studies has been that a PAI-1, a blood facto...... spend less than 1hour a week for on-line sexually related activities. Most people appear to usesexual material on the Internet as a source of entertainment more than forsexual release and reported that on-line experiences were satisfying but notparticularly arousing. Honesty on the Net and regarding In...Can We Prevent Hearing Loss In Elderly Women?
...esearch shows that age-related hearing loss may be related to nutritional status. A recent assessment of 55 women between 60 and 71 years ofage found that women with impaired hearing had lower blood levels of vitamin B-12 and folate than women with normal hearing. This study,published in the American Journal...Researchers Uncover Clues About Gateway To The Brain
...erebrospinal barrier, todetermine whether Pgp or a related transporter was there. Both Pgp and themultidrug-r...transporter or as a way toregulate cholesterol and related compounds inside the central nervous system. Hewill use animal models lacking one or both transporte...People With Brain Injury To Frontal Lobe Don't Get Punch Lines -- Prefer Slapstick Humor!
... Damage to the frontal lobes has been historically related to changes inpersonality, with striking effects on a personrquote s ability to tell jokesand respond to humor. Such individuals often exhibit silly euphoric behavior,inappropriate laughter, and have an addiction to telling jokes that are usuallyinapp...Tip Sheet: Think About Your Health In April
... of aging. People believe that aging isinvariably related to disease, disability and dementia," Kaplan said. Kaplanand colleague William J. Strawbridge, a research scientist at the HumanPopulation Laboratory in Berkeley, found the cumulative experience (threedecades) of heavy drinking, smoking, lack of ph...Cervical Screening Has Reduced Incidence And Mortality From Cervical Cancer
...ears in women aged over 54 years, however, are not related to the screening programme, say the authors, as few of these women would have been screened. Contact: Dr Mike Quinn, Director, National Cancer Registration Bureau, Office for National Statistics, Demography and Health Division, London mike.quinn@ons....Experts Meet In Canada To Discuss Vaccine Progress
...Americas polio-free, research on new vaccines, and related topics. Regional vaccine campaigns save the lives of more than 200,000 children in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean each year, according to PAHO. Currently over 80percent of children in the Americas under 1 year old are vaccinated againstdiphtheria, pe...Study: Among Heart Failure Patients, Women Survive Twice As Long As Men
...d otherconditions that weaken heart muscle cause a related illness known asnon-ischemic heart failure. Adams and his colleagues tapped data from the Flolan InternationalRandomized Survival Trial (FIRST) to analyze and compare 331 men and 99 womenwith advanced heart failure. They adjusted for age, gen...To Drive Or Not To Drive? New Criteria For Those With Epilepsy
...of crashing, asdid people with fewer non-epilepsy- related accidents in general before theywere diagnosed. Surprisingly, reducing the number of anti-epilepsy medicines orswitching them lowered the accident risk. That's probably because patients atthat point have better control of their illness, says Krauss...