Pioneering treatments for irritable bowel syndrome, post traumatic stress disorder
...veloping a treatment program for sufferers of PTSD specifically related to the aftermath of motor vehicle accidents (MVA). Some studies suggest that 45 percent of accident survivors who seek medical attention will develop PTSD within one year of the event, and an additional 15 to 30 percent will develop less over...Study shows United States may have more pediatricians than it needs for the next 20 years
...The study is one of the first published that looks specifically at the number of physicians who specialize in caring for children and uses a statistical model to assess outside forces that could impact the work force. The study, "The Expanding General Pediatrician Workforce," will be published in the March issue ...Major agreement reached at heart health conference
...ddress their lifestyle and health behaviours; this specifically pertains to smoking; diet and being active. Countries should actively encourage further advances in tobacco control policies. It was agreed that, with the increase in obesity levels, that countries need to develop comprehensive and integrated Eur...UCL study questions basis for treatment of diseases including cancer and arthritis
...ed to look at other potential treatments, and that specifically treatments should move towards the regulation of enzymes released from neutrophil leukocytes, the most numerous of the white blood cells. "White blood cells produce oxygen free radicals, and the process by which they do so is essential for the effic...Scientists find HIV-blocking protein in monkeys
...ting. Called TRIM5-alpha, it is the first found to specifically target HIV's capsid. With the identification of a specific protein that powerfully inhibits viral uncoating, says Dr. Sodroski, comes the possibility of manipulating and enhancing its activity. For example, he notes, humans have a version of TRIM5-al...Depression on College Campuses conference
...es across the country will lead workshops designed specifically for other students, to help foster an idea exchange and to train future advocacy group leaders. The event will also feature mental health and neuroscience experts, and student counseling leaders, from U-M and other campuses, and speakers from the Sui...UF professor: Living choices need new terms for aging baby boomers
...o a condominium or subdivision that's not marketed specifically to older people," he said. "The draw is often the social ambience of living with others at the same stages in their lives and who enjoy similar lifestyles. They also like the prospects of moving into a smaller abode that is easier to maintain and may...ESC in partnership with EU to strive for European consensus on CVD treatment and prevention
...pean cardiovascular health. A second meeting, specifically addressing the need for European standardisation of databases in clinical cardiology practice, will be held from 10-11 May 2004, also in Cork, Ireland. Entitled Cardiology Audit and Registration Data Standards (CARDS), this meeting will continue the...Survey shows impact of psoriasis is more than skin deep
... survey is the most comprehensive study to date to specifically examine the social and emotional effects of psoriasis. It also illustrates the need for a public education and support program for people with psoriasis. Beyond PsoriasisSM: The Person Behind the Patient, is a unique collaboration of health provider...Corkscrew device retrieves clots, quickly reverses stroke damage
...orkscrew-shaped MERCI Retriever is the only device specifically designed to remove clots from all major cerebral vessels. Once the device "captures" the blood clot, the device and clot are withdrawn into a larger catheter with a balloon. During the evacuation process, the balloon is briefly inflated to momentar...Sandia-developed foam likely would stop SARS virus quickly, Sandia/Kansas State team shows
...red with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) specifically for killing the SARS virus on surfaces. Two commercially available versions of the Sandia formulation also were effective in inactivating the virus in the tests, she says. New protocols for viral inactivation A second significant outcome of the joi...Most men over 40 take steps to try to prevent prostate cancer, Jefferson survey shows
...a general lifestyle or whether these behaviors are specifically to protect themselves against prostate cancer," she says. Next, the researchers will investigate "how the role of the physician interfaces with this behavior in terms of what suggestions physicians make that influence decision-making." Future studies...Virtual reality helps breast cancer patients cope with chemotherapy
... study examined the effectiveness virtual reality, specifically in breast cancer patients." Schneider and researchers at Case Western Reserve enrolled 20 breast cancer patients, between the ages of 18 and 55, who were scheduled to receive chemotherapy. Participants alternatively received chemotherapy treatments w...Predicting risk of poor outcomes in patients with heart disease using certain biomarker
.... Since the proinflammatory effects of PlGF can be specifically inhibited by blocking its receptor, ... these findings may also provide a rationale for a novel anti-inflammatory therapeutic target in patients with coronary artery disease," the authors conclude.(JAMA. 2004;291:435-441. Available post-embargo at J...Improving informed consent for children in cancer treatment studies
...ions? Does understanding improve if physicians are specifically trained in communicating these concepts before the conference with parents? What kind of special training for physicians and nurses is most effective? "When faced with a cancer diagnosis for their child, parents are always going to feel anger and ...Heart patients want more information from their doctors
... wanted more information than men, in general, and specifically more information about angina and high blood pressure. Men wanted more information about sexual function. Among both genders, however, "the amount of information the patients perceived that they had obtained from their health care providers ab...UF research adds to evidence that unborn children hear 'melody' of speech
...tly reported research, Gerhardt and Abrams focused specifically on the kinds of sounds fetal sheep hear. Their method was unique: They implanted an electronic "pickup" inside the inner ear of a fetal sheep, then played 64 recorded sentences on a loudspeaker in the open air near the mother sheep. The sounds the pi...Emotion-regulating protein lacking in panic disorder
...at abnormal function of these receptors appears to specifically impact the cortical circuitry involved in the regulation of anxiety."...Scientists identify cell defects that limit immune system's impact on late-stage tumors
...e T cells responding to a tumor are believed to be specifically reactive to that tumor antigen, it has been assumed perhaps incorrectly that the T cell defects were in some way related to antigen-specificity and reactivity. "We placed non-activated and non-tumor-specific T cells into tumors and found that they ...One dose of 'designer' gene therapy may target specific body area
...ith two new peptides, or small proteins, that bind specifically to ECs. They inserted these peptides into the virus to create endothelial cell-selective proteins to make, essentially, a designer virus, Baker said. The peptides are called msl and mtp. The unmodified form of AAV is called the "wild type," or AAVw...