Study Reveals Prominent Fears Of School-Age Children
...t the boys harbored fears related to animals, supernatural phenomena and safety, while the girls tended to fearnatural phenomena. This seems to counteract the stereotype of what girls are typically afraid of. ...Early Heart Repair For Marfan Syndrome Patients Critical To Survival
...rwentemergency repair. Marfan syndrome and related connective tissue disorders affect some200,000 people in the United States. Marfan syndrome is a disorder of theconnective tissue that normally makes blood vessels and other organs strong andelastic. Usually inherited, it affects the skeleton, eyes......ulate that a "nitricoxide production threshold" is related to the initiation of labor at term....New Type Of Artificial Surfactant Shows Promise In Treating Lung Disease
...g, major trauma, pulmonaryinfection, complications related to cardiac surgery, and accidental aspirationof stomach contents. In these forms of acute lung injury, blood or meconium interferes with normalsurfactant function, making breathing and oxygenation of the blood moredifficult. For example, if capill......re are medications that do relieve some conditions related to autism, such as hyperactivity and repetitive behaviors. Dawson and Unis said that if the initial round of tests show secretin is beneficial, a larger study would follow to examine such important questions as the proper dosages of secretin and poss...Community Plays Key Role In Preventing Teen Suicide, UF Scientist Says
...ins said, while girls' thoughts ofsuicide were not related to school, whether they attempted suicide was, infact, related to the lack of a positive school climate. The study showed that alcohol use is a stronger predictor ...... the functional differencesappeared to be directly related to the interventions. "For example, the control group showed significant decline in the FIMwalking item, from 5.43 to 4.77, while treatment group participants who receivedambulation equipment and instruction did not show a significant decl...Research Shows Religion Plays A Major Role In Health, Longevity
...ortality risk. Researchers also found distinct and related patterns when looking at causes ofdeath. For example, those who never attend services are about twice as likelyto die from respiratory disease, diabetes or infectious diseases. Rogers said this research established the importance of religious involv...Biological Markers Found That Correlate To Esophageal Cancer Treatment Success
... Thoracic Surgery. Five markers weresignificantly related to survival. A prospective study in lung cancer is underway to verify those results. The researchers also plan to study the important esophageal cancer markers=effects prospectively -- to see if predictions based upon their new modelscorrespond with ...Alga-Based Compound Promises Less Bleeding On The Battlefield
...ncluding emergency vehicles at accidentsand sports related injuries. Further application of the technology ma...f bleeding associated with cardiac catheterization related toangioplasty and angiography, as well as in kidney dialysis. Pending full review and approval by th...New book on osteoporosis covers preventing and treating 'The Aging Disease' in consumer language
...orcalcium absorption in the gastrointestinal tract related to aging andtestosterone deficiency. "Over the past decade we have begun to hear a lot more about osteoporosis as asilent disease and what can be done about it, which is a very positive step. The down side is that there is a lot of misinformation c...Stress Hormone Tied To Depression And Conduct Disorder In Pregnant Teens
...hould be monitoredclosely during pregnancy. CRH is related to fetal lung maturation in laterpregnancy and lower concentrations of CRH may delay lung maturation. Inaddition, adolescents who are depressed or exhibit conduct disorder symptoms maybe less compliant with good health behaviors during pregnancy....Less Toxic Bone Marrow Transplant Technique May Have More Powerful Anti-Cancer Effect
...d in themonths following their procedure of causes related to their illness, studies oftheir marrow showed a level of mixed chimerism had been achieved. The fifthpatient died from a cause unrelated to the transplant (pulmonary hemorrhage) 12days after the procedure, too early to judge whether or not the don...Stress Speeds Progression To AIDS
... According to the report, depressive symptoms were related to fasterprogression to AIDS. "However, that dropped out when stressful events and socialsupport were in the equation together," Leserman says. "The stressful event andsocial support variables seemed to be more robust in relation to progression toAID...Stress speeds passage from HIV to AIDS, support retards it
.... Major depressive episodes were not significantly related to AIDS progressionin the study itself, and few men were depressed at testing times. But therewas a trend for men who developed AIDS to be twice as likely to have havehad one or more major depressions before the onset of AIDS than those whodid not d...UI Study Yields Encouraging Results For New Breast Cancer Treatment
...he reason our study shows different results may be related to our differentapproach," Gingrich said. "The key difference between our technique and thosetested elsewhere is that we have chosen to use a more intensive pre-transplantregimen of chemotherapy and radiation. Our treatment involves a four-drugregime...Women, men view and judge childhood sexual abuses cases differently
...e and cases involving these issues issignificantly related to how they judge cases. Men's familiarity with thesetopics is less predictive and there was little relationship between thatfamiliarity and how they were judging a case."......as a manifestation of psychological stress hasbeen related previously to eating disorders in non-athletes but...ch, andto look good playing before a crowd are all related to eating and exerciseissues for female athletes," she adds. The Penn State researcher in th...... alertness, judgmentand motor and cognitive skills related to operating an automobile can also beused to assess fitness-for-duty in the space shuttle, Vercruyssen says."Thedemands on the nervous system are similar." Clark and Arakaki receive stipends from UH's Space Grant Fellowship Program toinvestigate iss...