New evidence suggests reconsidering causes and treatments for schizophrenia
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...na Rose, an assistant professor of economics, also reviewed the data by the offspring's gender, they found a significant gap between fathers of boys and girls that left them astonished. "This type of finding is not unusual for, say, rural India," said Rose, who has studied the economics of gender and the fa...First pivotal studies for new alzheimer's treatment published in Neurology
...ials programme for galantamine which are now being reviewed by regulatory authorities worldwide. Reminyl was recently approved for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease in Sweden and Switzerland. "There are at least two victims in this illness: the patient and the caregiver," says lead author...Cancer specialist elected to Royal College of Medicine
... Progress Review Group on Colorectal Cancer, which reviewed and issued recommendations to NCI Director Dr. Richard Klausner on the state of research in the field. He serves as one of seven scientific advisors to the Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, a nationwide initiative spearheaded by NBC's Katie Couric...... cabergoline in the daily clinical routine use was reviewed in patients with advanced PD. All studies were looking at adverse events, efficacy, dosing and interactions with other medications. The largest study, the Optimised Parkinson's Therapy in Long-Term-Use Study (OPTiL) involved 721 patients with advanc......ell as surveyed the child's primary oncologist and reviewed their medical charts. They asked when parents and physicians became aware that the child had no realistic chance for cure; what factors were associated with a greater similarity in the timing of parent and physician awareness that the child was term...Heart attack help: Program helps boost use of key therapies in hospitals
...ed the program in the mid-90s. For the paper, they reviewed records for 497 patients treated at the U-M in a two-year period after the program began. Patients ranged in age from 20 to 99; 67 percent were male. The initial results had been so positive that the American College of Cardiology, which helps issue ......y rather than to test it." In his article, Shulman reviewed recent research done with colleagues at Yale which enabled imaging results to be interpreted in terms of a specific neuronal activity, the release of the neurotransmitted glutamate. The glutamate fluxes showed that the...... 30 New England Journal of Medicine that the group reviewed when they met in Washington, D.C. on November 27 and 28. In the weeks since, the group has refined the draft proposals developed at the meeting and is submitting them this week to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which has formed a commi...First medicinal cannabis studies approved by research center
...arch Advisory Panel of the State of California has reviewed and approved the proposals. They have been submitt...w boards of both campuses, and they are also being reviewed by a scientific review group within the Office of Public Health and Science of the Department of Hea...Many children improperly measured in doctors offices
...nt and the Pediatric Endocrinology Nursing Society reviewed the measurement of 660 children in primary care pr...rine nurses as site coordinators. The researchers reviewed linear measurements of children and found only 30 percent of children were measured precisely. After...Physicians miss opportunities to improve care for oldest asthmatics
...dividuals are coping with asthma, the Hopkins team reviewed information from 237 insured men and women 70 or older. They found that their lackluster care fell significantly short of care described in the National Asthma and Education Prevention Program (NAEPP) guidelines. Twenty percent did not use an inhaled......h. In the past year, more than 150 cases have been reviewed using the static image telepathology system, reported Yukako Yagi, at ATA 2001, the annual meeting of the American Telemedicine Association. "This rapid and interactive telepathology system not only helped to avoid misdiagnoses, it allowed the on-sit...Uninsured, medicaid patients more likely to die from heart attack
... Health Services Research . The investigators reviewed records from 95,971 heart attack discharges from hospitals in 11 states with primary diagnosis of either heart attack or presumed heart attack complication. In addition to insurance coverage, the researchers examined the relationship between...News tips from the care and outcomes meeting
...farin, are also known to reduce risk. Researchers reviewed the records of 23,434 heart failure patients with known coronary artery disease. They found that 65 percent of the patients were advised to take aspirin or warfarin. However, the drugs were used significantly less frequently in African-Americans, w...Psychologists identify best aggression-prevention programs in schools
...ology Review, the Childrens Hospital research team reviewed 34 school aggression prevention programs throughout the nation. The five most promising programs were then carefully evaluated on criteria including research design and outcome evaluation. Through this evaluation, researchers were able to identify s...Study: Dental sealants for children on Medicaid can reduce dental costs
...h, especially chewing surfaces on molars. The team reviewed subjects experiences over eight years. Researchers analyzed what happened to the childrens teeth using information on costs of fillings and extractions in dentists claims filed for reimbursement. In high-risk children who did not get sealants, resto......ns with proposals for research schemes, which were reviewed by the DFG Senate commission for clinical research. Fourteen initiatives were selected and requested to submit detailed applications. Twelve Clinical Research Units have now been approved:molecular mechanisms of opioid analgesia in inflammatory pain,......hns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who reviewed the publics response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, the recent anthrax mailings, and other disasters concluded that the public does not react with panic but with effective and adaptive action and can be an valuable response force and tha......enter for Health Services Research, and colleagues reviewed the five previous large trials of aspirin in adult...benefit from preventive aspirin therapy. They also reviewed multiple investigations of aspirins possible ill effects. We found that aspirin was beneficial for ...