Elderly people cared for by spouse are at greater risk for abuse, Pitt researchers find
...the care--they wear down," said Beach. "This study shows that that's not good for the person they're taking care of." Beach and colleagues studied 265 pairs of caregivers and care recipients. Caregivers were primarily responsible for an impaired family member 60 years or older who needed help with at least...African-Americans may need more medication to control asthma
...f the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), shows that asthmatic and nonasthmatic African-Americans required higher doses of glucocorticoids to suppress lymphocytes, which play an important role in airway inflammation. As a result, researchers speculate that African-Americans may have a predispositi...News briefs from the journal CHEST, February 2005
...ovascular mortality and morbidity, and a new study shows that active cigarette smoking and poor lung fuction heighten systemic inflammation, both separately and when combined. Researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, administered pulmonary function testing to 7,685 adults ...Bone density returns when teens stop using Depo Provera, Group Health study finds
... the popular injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera shows that teenagers' bone density recovers after they s...ng women aged 18 to 39. However, the current study shows that teen women who discontinued using Depo-Provera appeared to regain their bone density faster tha...Bone density appears to recover after adolescents discontinue injected contraceptive
...racture or osteoporosis later in life. "This study shows that after adolescents stop using DMPA, their bone density can increase to levels comparable to those of other women in their age group," said Duane Alexander, M.D., Director of the NICHD. The study authors wrote that 10 percent of female U.S. female...New evidence of retroviral involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
...achusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, shows that 47% of ALS patients have reverse transcriptase activity detectable in their serum. "This is a very exciting finding that points towards the possibility of retrovirus involvement in ALS. However, much work remains to be done and we are very mu...Emergency department study supports giving dehydrated children fluids by mouth
...tly caused by infection with rotavirus. "Our study shows that oral rehydration therapy is as effective as intravenous fluid therapy in rehydrating moderately dehydrated children," said Philip Spandorfer, M.D., a pediatric emergency physician at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and primary researcher...UCI study uncovers how plaque in neck artery leads to stroke-inducing blood clots
...to stroke." The work of Fisher and his colleagues shows the importance of several pathologic features of the plaques that produce stroke symptoms. Extensive analyses were performed on surgical specimens from two of the most important clinical trials in the history of stroke research: the North American Sy...Aetiology of congenital heart disease explained
...ic part of the Ro protein known as p200. The study shows that the level of p200 antibodies in the mother correlates with the degree of damage to the heart. The results have been further confirmed in studies on rats and in cell cultures. Cultivated heart cells, cardiomyocytes, were seriously affected in the...New survey finds red dress symbol prompts women to take action to care for their hearts
...f Health and Human Services, a new national survey shows that more women are taking action to reduce their risk of heart disease. The survey was conducted by Harris Interactive in January 2005. It found that 60 percent of all the women surveyed agree that the Red Dress makes them want to learn more about...Varicella vaccine effective on chicken pox; Impact on herpes zoster unclear
...ogy and Public Health at Yale, note that the study shows a significant decline of 66 percent in mortality due to varicella. "These findings are relevant because they emphasize the importance of continuing the varicella vaccination program," said Vazquez. "It is possible that varicella vaccine may be useful...Pathogen-mimicking vaccine as strategy for cancer therapy
...n the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The paper shows that the CpG 7909 DNA sequence is safe, and increases the immune system's ability to recognize and destroy cancer cells. The Phase I study was conducted by the Lausanne Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) at the Lausanne Univers...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...to evidence-based medicine by providing tools that shows how well the staff is meeting stroke treatment goals. A stroke system could magnify such quality improvement measures by expanding them to the regional level, Schwamm said. "This is the first time that anyone has undertaken such a comprehensive anal...Rat whisking may provide insight into debilitating eye disorder
... added that their finding is just one example that shows the growing trend to fund research on diseases at the expense of basic science may be unwise and counterproductive. "We need to understand how a system works when it is normal in order to understand what goes wrong when it is broken," he said....Male surgeons report highest rate of mistakes in patient care
...ty and Safety in Health Care . But the study also shows how difficult doctors find it to criticise the ethics and professional conduct of their colleagues, to their own and their colleagues' detriment. The findings are based on a survey carried out by the Research Institute of the Norwegian Medical Associ...Smoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
...7.5 years young baby boomers typically have smoked shows that the average baby boomer has spent more than $5,300 during their adult life on this habit. This figure is roughly right between the amount net worth falls for light smokers vs. heavy smokers, he said. Zagorsky noted that the participants in this ...New way to block pox shows promise in lab study
...ety laboratories. "This is noteworthy research. It shows that it is possible to block temporarily a cell signaling pathway and thereby inhibit activity of a virus," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. Current antiviral drugs target the virus itself. "In contrast, our approach short-circuits a cellul...Neoadjuvant and adjuvant systemic therapy for breast cancer give equivalent survival, study finds
...l, disease progression, and distant recurrence and shows that an increased risk of loco-regional disease recurrence is associated with neoadjuvant treatment, especially when primary systemic treatment is not accompanied by any surgical intervention," the authors write. "Consequently, we recommend avoiding ...Sunlight reduces risk of lymph gland cancer
... from Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University shows that, contrary to previous belief, sunlight reduces the chances of developing tumours in the lymphatic glands (malignant lymphoma). The study is to be published in the next number of The Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The number of new cas...Calcium and vitamin D most effective for treatment of Crohn's-related bone loss
...'s disease is not beneficial. Moreover, the study shows that calcium and vitamin D treatment alone can improve bone mineral density (BMD) in Crohn's patients by 3 to 4 percent per year. "Patients with Crohn's often suffer loss of bone mass and an increased number of bone fractures due to treatment with ...