Dog tired? It could be your pooch
...let the dog out and waited up to 15 minutes before returning to bed with her pet. "After hearing that anecdote, I began to wonder how many of my patients were sleeping with pets and how much the pet interrupted sleep," he says. Between February and September 2001, Dr. Shepard surveyed 300 patients seen at the...Mecca pilgrims a priority for meningococcal vaccination
...l disease was seen in 2000 and 2001 among pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia and their contacts. The Public Health Laboratory Service (covering England and Wales) set up enhanced surveillance to monitor spread and virulence of the outbreak strain, and to collect data on case characteristics. The incidence of...'Bird brains' take heart-our feathered friends are no slouch at cognition
...neighbors, whom they've become familiar with after returning to same site year after year. Sedge wrens, however, don't learn other birds' songs; they just make up their own, according to Kroodsma. They live in the grasslands of North America, are unusually nomadic, never settling down long enough to get to kno...Pregnancy and childbirth a major cause of death among Afghan refugee women
...are infrastructure. He concludes: The challenge of returning refugees and the internally displaced to their homes in Afghanistan is great, and the challenge of rebuilding health care formidable. Despite the seemingly vast sums of aid funds pledged for Afghanistan, there is a real danger that, without effective...Testicular cancer - cure rates now so high patients may be more at risk from treatment
...be more at risk from the treatment than the cancer returning say researchers The treatment of testicular cancer has become so successful and relapse rates are now so low that doctors face a problem unheard of 20 years ago patients are living long enough to suffer long term side effects that are potentially li...Stopping statins may cause rebound that triples risk of death
...s causes a rebound phenomenon. Rather than simply returning to normal, the level of nitric oxide released by cells drops below normal. We tried to show that the withdrawal of statins in humans results in a rebound phenomenon and has an adverse impact on patients with acute coronary syndromes, says Hamm. A pl...Study succeeds in closing gaps in heart attack care
...e proven to improve their chances of surviving and returning to a full life. As reported in the March 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the ten Detroit-area hospitals made the gains through a system of reminders, checklists, stickers, standard orders, reference cards and educational...Detecting breast cancer spread by white light - groundbreaking technology
...ther surgery, thus reducing the number of patients returning for a second operation. It is hoped that when the techniques for spectral analysis are refined, it will be possible to get an immediate result from the optical biopsy, although at present, the spectra require careful pre-processing." The UCL team are...Doctors investigating one stop shop radiotherapy at time of surgery
...reatment may prove better at preventing the cancer returning in the breast and also bring breast conservation surgery within the reach of women in developing countries. But, although intraoperative radiotherapy appears promising enough to be tested against traditional external beam radiotherapy in some cases, ...Sexual revolution and teenagers is explored in ASAs magazine, Contexts
...t, is the sexual revolution really over? Are teens returning to conservative sexual values? Are we witnessing the end of sexual liberalism and a new trend toward virginity before marriage? Barbara Risman, North Carolina State University, and Pepper Schwartz, University of Washington, reexamine assumptions as ...Stem cell transplants may be effective for MS patients
...e working against the bodys immune system and then returning the healthy cells back to the body. The hope is that these stem cells will eventually reconstitute into healthy immune system cells and the disease process can be stopped, said study author George Kraft, MD, MS, of the University of Washington Medica...New patient survey puts a human face on overcoming depression
...e who had achieved remission, 69 percent, reported returning to activities they could not do while depressed. Their top five activities, in rank order, were: family life; indoor hobbies (e.g., wood working); community service and volunteering; exercise; and creating art (e.g., painting). Being given hope tha...'SolarScan' for earlier skin cancer detection
...ages of melanomas and non-melanomas in a database, returning advice to the GP. A record of the spot's status can be stored in Polartechnics' 'Body Map' software so that it can be rechecked another time if necessary. The company expects that the device will be in doctors' surgeries anytime from now on and that ...Researchers investigate needs of family members when a patient dies
...left the daughters, ages 11 and 13, with a fear of returning to the home where she died, concern that their efforts to perform CPR were inadequate, and anger that more efforts were not taken to help her. The case study points out that while transporting the woman to the hospital would have been of little if an...New NCI grant will support Jefferson trial to study test to diagnose colorectal cancer spread
...p with recurrent disease and ultimately die of the returning disease," he says. "There's thought to be micrometastases that have escaped histopathological detection." Dr. Waldman thinks there is a better way. He uses a two-pronged approach: a powerful amplification technique called RT-PCR analysis to magnify ...Wake Forest researchers find brain region 'exquisitely' sensitive to alcohol
...e is a significant relationship between alcoholics returning to consumption because of this sleep issue." In other words, one reason they go back to drinking may be an attempt to make their sleep feel more normal, or satisfying. In the animal model, the equivalent of a small bedtime dose of alcohol leads to e...Successful implementation of pilot study for HIV antiretroviral therapy in Uganda
...rted sustainable management of patients. Patients returning for visits reported good adherence to treatment and achieved beneficial virologic and immunologic responses similar to those seen in more developed settings. The percentage of patients surviving and staying on therapy at six months was 63% and at on...Simple method to diagnose the abdominal compartment syndrome following trauma
...in increased airway pressure, restriction of blood returning to the heart, and diminished urinary output. Cedars-Sinai's trauma surgery and critical care specialists insert a Foley catheter into the patient's bladder and apply readily available silk tape to the drainage tubing so that reference points of 1 cen...Reduced breastfeeding in western countries makes major contribution to incidence of breast cancer
...er incidence could be brought about today by women returning to the pattern of childbearing and breastfeeding that typified most societies until a century or so ago is unrealistic. However, even if women were to breastfeed each of their children for an additional six months, this could prevent about 5% of brea......urs into the flight. The condition can recur when returning to Earth's gravity, which, along with takeoff, is one of many critical events during space flight. The medications currently available affect a person's cognitive ability. "Astronauts typically take promethazine, a medication used to treat nausea. I...