Cancer patients may lower their expectations
...erious disease like cancer may inspire patients to sharply redefine their goals and roles in order maintain a sense of life satisfaction, suggest the results of a study. These findings may help explain previous research that cancer patients are not significantly more anxious and are only slightly more depre...Accountability in Clinical Research: Balancing Risk and Benefit
... Media interest in biomedical research also has sharply increased, often focusing on controversial incidents involving health outcomes of patients. David W. Crabb, M.D., chairman of the School's Department of Medicine, and members of Indianapolis' news media will discuss and analyze real and hypothetical ...Poor hearing common among elderly people in the UK
...d the test (3795 [26%]), the proportion increasing sharply with age. Nearly half the participants who wore a hearing aid at the time of testing failed the whispered voice test (998 of 2180 [46%]). More than half the people who failed the test did not own a hearing aid. 2200 (only 60%) of 3846 people who owne...Hunger hormone may be key in weight loss
...eting raises ghrelin, while gastric bypass surgery sharply reduces it, almost to undetectable levels. The research is the first to document the effects of low-calorie dieting versus gastric bypass surgery on ghrelin levels. According to lead author David E. Cummings, MD, the findings not only shed light on ...U-M artificial lung showing promise, as need grows
...lung or heart-lung transplant, a number that rises sharply each year. About 1,000 lungs are transplanted in the U.S. each year, alone or in tandem with a heart transplant. Technology to keep lung failure patients alive during a crisis has steadily improved. But the search for a long-term option to "bridge" l...Women with ovary disease may also have high risk for heart disease
...loping type 2 (adult onset) diabetes, and diabetes sharply increases a person's risk of heart disease. Previous research has estimated that these risk factors can cause up to a 7.4-fold increased risk of heart attack for women with PCOS compared to those without it. There was no significant difference in ag...Prostate cancer incidence trends reveal extent of screening-related overdiagnosis
... Concurrently, prostate cancer incidence increased sharply and had more than doubled by 1992 before going back down. This apparent surge in incidence prompted concern over prostate cancer overdiagnosis. To estimate the extent of prostate cancer overdiagnosis that would have resulted in the incidence patterns...UCLA AIDS Institute scientists show antiretroviral drugs can eradicate AIDS epidemic
... the findings in its August edition. "Our findings sharply contrast the gloomy predictions that came out of the International AIDS Conference in Barcelona last month," said Sally Blower, UCLA professor of biomathematics and a member of the UCLA AIDS Institute. "Those statistics calculated that AIDS would cla...Mutation in 'elastic' gene linked to early coronary heart disease
...rlands. "The R1141X mutation is associated with a sharply increased risk of coronary heart disease." In their study, Trip and her colleagues enrolled 441 patients younger than age 50 who had suffered a heart attack, undergone a procedure such as angioplasty to restore blood flow to their hearts, or whose an...Brain study of back pain sufferers yields intriguing results
...tensity. But the squeeze's force must be increased sharply to cause healthy people to feel the same level of pain -- and their pain signals register p in different brain areas. The results, which will be presented Oct. 27 at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in New Orleans, may help ...Prenatal stem cell transplants may open door to organ transplants, treating genetic diseases
...of transplanted, healthy stem cells in mice, while sharply reducing a hazardous side effect of cell and organ transplants called graft-versus-host disease. By combining prenatal transplants of blood-forming stem cells with manipulations of blood cells after birth, researchers at The Children's Hospital of P...Rutgers researcher: Brains in dyslexic children can be 'rewired' to improve reading skills
...xperiment who struggled with the task contrasted sharply with those of the 12 normal readers in the experiment's control group. The dyslexics' scans showed a lack of activity in the language-critical temporal regions of the brain. The training program, which included dyslexic children aged 8 to 12 years,...Another US airport travel hazard dirty hands
...t every time. US airport observations contrast sharply with an August 2003 Wirthlin telephone survey of 1,000 Americans, in which 95 percent said that they wash their hands in public restrooms. The same phone survey which found only 58 percent of people say they wash their hands after sneezing or cough...Deaths after fracture have not declined in 20 years
...urther in the past 20 years. Death rates also rose sharply with increasing age, were higher in men than women, and were higher in lower social classes. In the first month after fracture, death rates were 16 times higher in men and 12 times higher in women than in the general population of the same age. It is...Low and high birthweight increase risk of cerebral palsy
...rder in childrenborn at low birthweights increased sharply around 1980, but the cause of the condition is still poorly understood. Previous research has indicated that low birthweight in term babies is associated with increased risk of cerebral palsy. Stephen Jarvis from the University of Newcastle, UK, and...US DoE awards $4 million in funding to Stevens' Center for MicroChemical Systems
...hance human life. Over the past two years, BMS has sharply increased its R&D effort in the research and development of microchannel reactor-based pharmaceutical processes. BMS's long-term technical guidance and commitment, as a corporate end user, will be critical to the success of the second project. Dr. Sa...NHLBI study finds hostility, impatience increase hypertension risk
...e high blood pressure and its prevalence increases sharply with age: The condition affects about 3 percent of those ages 18-24 and about 70 percent of those 75 and older. "Although high blood pressure is less common among young adults, young adulthood and early middle age is a critical period for the devel...PET scan predicts Alzheimer's more accurately
... dementia. The study showed that use of a PET scan sharply increased the ability of physicians to predict whether the condition of patients with early memory complaints would significantly worsen in the years after their initial examination. "Adding PET to the diagnostic evaluation of patients with mild cogn...Study finds subtle brain damage in some HIV patients on drug therapy
...her neurological problems associated with HIV have sharply declined. But the drugs do not eliminate the virus: they merely suppress it. And while HIV can make its way through the blood-brain barrier (the body's natural defense mechanism that prevents many blood-borne substances from passing into brain tissue......reating schizophrenia. But he did say the findings sharply challenge the perception that olanzapine, while costlier at the pharmacy, more than pays for itself by lowering overall health-care and social service costs for its users. In the study, olanzapine was associated with $3,000 to $9,000 in greater annua...