Urinary incontinence of rural older women dramatically improved by behavioral techniques
... a notebook computer. Signals would appear on the screen that reflected the voluntary contractions of the pelvic muscles and allowed the women to monitor the effectiveness of their exercises. Dr. Dougherty explained the dramatic rise in severity of UI in the control group points to the progressive natur...Re-designed care could reduce postnatal depression
...postnatal depression scale (EPDS) was also used to screen for depression at day 28 and at the discharge consultation. Care plans were made and visits scheduled on the basis of these results rather than on a predetermined schedule. Women in the control group were given conventional postnatal care (six or sev...... Researchers are continuing to work on new ways to screen for prostate cancer in the hope that early detection might save lives. Hunt-Wesson, Inc., a food manufacturer whose products include tomato-based goods, provided funding for this study.......n anticipates that it will take 18 to 30 months to screen an estimated 15,000 women, from whom 3,150 eligible patients will be identified and enrolled in the trial. Dr. Linnea Chap, an oncologist who specializes in breast and ovarian cancers, will be the principal investigator for the UCLA arm of the study....Study finds troubling trends in hepatitis C screening, diagnosis and referral
... Shehab, "General physicians are being expected to screen for more and more diseases, and our results show we need to help them do that in a way that's both efficient and effective." The study is one of the first of its kind, based on actual medical records from patients at several primary care sites. Lok a...Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish helping Jefferson scientists uncover cholesterol genes
...ttern of fluorescence. The scientists subsequently screen for alterations in lipid processing. "A number of ...are the first to use a biochemically based genetic screen like this," he says. To Farber, the zebrafish is the ultimate genetic model and living laboratory. "...Training for doctors improves screening for risk-taking in teens
...es that we need to develop ways to help clinicians screen adolescents for a wide variety of behaviors that can affect their health," Ozer said. Surveys of teenagers who saw doctors and nurse practitioners in the clinic provided data about clinicians' practices prior to the intervention. After the training w...NIDA and partners announce national initiative on prescription drug misuse and abuse
.... Medical personnel must use every opportunity to screen and educate all of their patients." As part of this effort, NIDA and its partners are releasing a research report that highlights the health consequences of prescription drug misuse and abuse. In addition to the research report, NIDA is distributin...Pasadena chemist wins national invention award
...quences on a small plate, and researchers can then screen mixtures for the presence of the particular DNA they wish to study. Instead of the usual chemistry set, Baldeschwieler said, he preferred his erector set as a boy. "I've always really liked to build things," he said. "I enjoy three-dimensional struct...High-tech scan for blocked arteries matches conventional tests in finding root of symptoms
...ans. The study did not address the use of EBCT to screen the arteries of patients without symptoms, an increasingly common use which patients often pay for themselves. Nor did it compare the cost of the scanning equipment or an EBCT scan with the cost of various kinds of stress tests. "This analysis should...Common hearing test for newborns may be wrong up to a third of the time
...orrying ANN ARBOR, MI - A test commonly used to screen newborns for hearing problems may give false posit...ding for the equipment and trained staff needed to screen infants before their short hospital stays are over. Even in states like Michigan where no mandate ha...Annals of Internal Medicine, Tip Sheet, October 17, 2000
...d sigmoidoscopy, is the most cost-effective way to screen for colorectal cancer (Article, p. 573). FOBT detects blood in the stool; sigmoidoscopy allows examination of the rectum and lower colon; colonoscopy allows examination of the entire colon. Using a computer simulation, researchers considered administ...Smoking in later life linked to impaired intellect
...llect. The test used was similar to those used to screen for dementia and Alzheimers disease. Of the 417 people who could be retested at the end of the 12-month period, one in 16 had suffered significant intellectual decline. After adjusting for factors known to affect brain function in older people -- de...National Alcohol Screening Day (April 6) A national wake-up call
...ned to educate people about alcohol use disorders, screen them for a range of problems including risky drinking, and refer those in need to treatment resources. NASD is the result of a collaboration among the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the Sub...New tools for early cancer detection
...a biocavity laser which can quickly and accurately screen cells for cancer. Their tests on normal and cancerous cells show that only a few hundred cells -- equal to about a billionth of a liter -- are needed to detect abnormal growths. Using the Advanced Light Source to produce an intense beam focused on a ...... labs go to SmithKline Beecham, and personnel then screen all the compounds in their banks against our assay...o toxicity associated with it." Orme's team will screen the most promising drugs in vitro and in modeling systems, examining pharmacokinetics, safety and ot...Material that made car bumpers shine finds a role in manufacture of drugs, dyes
...torial chemistry, a field wherechemists create and screen thousands or even millions of compoundssimultaneously for a given application. A paper by post-doctoral researcherAnitha Hari and Benjamin Miller, assistant professor of chemistry, shows howchromium chloride makes it possible to use combinatorial che......stic violence. The studyfound that physicians who screen for domestic violence incorporate thequestions into routine health histories, thus normalizing the issue andreducing patients' discomfort. Some physicians also broached the subjectindirectly by asking patients questions such as how their home and wo...Issues surrounding genetic medicine and the Jewish population to be explored at conference
...ive-to define five toeight potential conditions to screen for than to perform 50 random screenings. "Every human being carries dangerous recessive genes that 'hide' while thedominant gene takes over," explained Dr. Falk. "We can't test everybody foreverything, which leads to a number of important questions.......roduced by Hepatitis C may be the first example. A screen could be developed to identify naturally occurring antiviral agents.The system would identify virus-infected cells by the presence of activated PKRinside the cells. A drug that activates PKR could be combined with broad-spectrum, multi-subtypeinterf...