Moderate exercise and simple dietary supplements significantly reduce risk of atherosclerosis
...ood for mice is good for humans, said Ignarro, who shared the Nobel Prize for his discoveries in the role that nitric oxide (NO) plays in the cardiovascular system. "It wasn't just exercise, it was exercise combined with two common dietary supplements," he said. "This is the first study that shows that if ...UCI Tobacco research center reports why teens are most vulnerable to smoking addiction
...sor of pharmacology. "We hope that ultimately, our shared research will be applied to tobacco prevention efforts." The report highlights major research findings, including: Age makes a difference. Adolescents are more receptive to the rewarding effects of nicotine than adults, making cigarette addiction ...Women's health research registry aims to improve women's health for future generations
...'identifiable information' is not made public, but shared only with researchers who are investigating diseases or conditions that may impact women," explains Karen Nosakowski, research coordinator. "Only after the registrant consents is her 'identifiable information' given to the researcher." ...Physicians, patients must work together on new electronic relationships
...safety and promote both patient responsibility and shared decision-making." The growth of electronic communi...ord systems and practice guidelines that delineate shared expectations. They also recommend that the medical community learn from online merchants, auctioneer...UCLA study shows Medicaid costs can shrink
...n fellows from around the United States revealed a shared concern: Parents simply lacked the time and basic health-care knowledge to become better informed about their children's health. The fellows, all Head Start directors themselves, believed that if parents could become better informed about fundamental...Are toddlers who can't sleep at higher risk of becoming teens who smoke, drink or do drugs?
... Robert Zucker, Ph.D. "It appears to indicate some shared neurobiological dysfunction whose details we don't yet know. Further studies will be crucial to our understanding." "Taken together with other studies in this area, our findings help make up a chain of evidence linking sleep disturbances to alcohol ...Rapid workplace expansion linked to long-term sickness absence
...from long-term social networks established through shared experience in the same workplace. A young American worker with 2 years of college education, for example, can expect to change jobs at least 11 times during his or her working life, a period of time that is also being compressed because of prejudice ...Breast cancer patients with BRCA 1/2 mutations twice as likely to choose double mastectomy
...mentary role of genetic counseling and testing and shared decision-making between patients and physicians," said Dr. Schwartz. An accompanying editorial by Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD, a medical oncologist at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, noted that the study "provides compelling evidence that, wh...Early life exposure to environmental agents predicts adult tumors in animals
...velopment of these tumors." All of the rats shared a common defect in a tumor suppressor gene and had the same genetic susceptibility to developing fibroids, but exposure to the environmental estrogen changed the penetrance of that tumor suppressor gene, and this could theoretically happen within any...Environmental and dietary influences on cancer risk
...s ADH3*1 genotype, while one-third of the controls shared this genetic characteristic. For the remaining part of the group, 46 percent and 47 percent were heterozygous, while 14 percent and 15 percent were ADH3*2. Examination revealed that heavy drinking increased the risk of oral cancer by a factor o...Mayo Clinic researchers discover gene mutations that 'ignore' stress, lead to heart failure
...m blood samples. Results showed that some patients shared a defect in a gene that makes a stress-reaction-type protein. Says Dr. Olson: "By introducing a conceptually new mechanism for heart failure, our work points out how molecular genetics can provide a very powerful tool to diagnose a defect in a specif...Long term risks of medical radiation often ignored
...e most effective, says the author. In a culture of shared responsibility, any useless risk no matter how small should be avoided....Providing cribs may help protect at-risk babies from SIDS
...t half of the babies in the study -- 41 percent -- shared an adult bed with their mother most nights. More than 30 percent of those babies also slept with at least one other family member. However, once families received cribs, 78 percent used them all or most nights. Kemp called for studies in other cities...Duke physicians predict risks of deadly infections after cord blood transplants
...s" (HLAs) match those of the patient. Children who shared five out of six of the major HLA molecules with their donor suffered fewer life-threatening infections than children with three or four matching HLAs. Szabolcs speculates that increased mismatch of HLA molecules between the patient and donor can ...University of Pittsburgh and French National Institute begin scientific collaboration
...tions between international colleagues to create a shared laboratory that will also encourage and facilitate academic exchange. The agreement was made possible because of the 2003 recruitment of Bruno Peault, Ph.D., a major figure in French biomedical science, to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medic...Pharmacists play role in cholesterol control
...n, and diabetes. In addition, this information was shared with each patient's family physician, and each patient was referred to their family physician as necessary. "We think the 13 per cent reduction of cholesterol would have been even greater if we continued the study for a longer period," Tsuyuki sa...Jan/Feb 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ollaborative care and decision making should be a shared enterprise among physicians, patients and their loved ones; and 5) Comprehensive care should be informed by comprehensive geriatric assessment research literature. In an effort to evaluate the efficacy of the TLC model, the researchers recentl...Pediatricians and parents key to improving quality of children's health care
...s, obtain research funding, and collect and report shared findings. "Across Florida, only 30 practices participate in PROS," Dr. Simpson said. "This is a great start, but we need even more good research by pediatricians at the practice level to provide the basis for new quality measures and to build public...Friendships play key role in suicidal thoughts of girls, but not boys
...nterlocked in other words, where many of the boys shared the same friends. But why do dense friendship networks seem to prevent suicide attempts in boys, but friendship doesn't seem to affect suicidal thoughts? Moody said the question needs more study, but it may be that boys don't share their thoughts abo......ral scientists that cross the institutes of NIH in shared space is a new way of doing business that in my m...create economies of scale by providing access to a shared infrastructure, including sophisticated cognitive and behavioral assessment technologies, statistica...