Diabetes drug improves metabolic changes associated with HIV combination therapy
...ondition are becoming more significant as patients spend more time on HAART," says Colleen Hadigan, MD, MPH, of the MGH Neuroendocrine Unit and Program in Nutritional Metabolism, the report's lead author. "For example, we now know that 14 percent of men on this therapy may develop type 2 diabetes, which i...Celebrities are root cause of rush to dentist
Celebrities who spend thousands of pounds perfecting their smile are making image-conscious young adults worry about the health of their teeth, research carried out in Britain and Australia suggests. Even though statistics show younger generations enjoy better oral heal...New research shows reasons for smoking vary
...), response to other smokers (most of the people I spend time with are smokers), smoking to relieve stress, smoking for mental stimulation (I smoke to keep my mind focused), and smoking automatically (I smoke without thinking about it). The 68-question measure was developed by the University of Wisconsin ...People with low incomes more likely to develop brain tumors
...er combined with the Medicaid requirement that you spend your assets and be disabled for at least 12 months may make it difficult for a middle-class person to become eligible for Medicaid during the two-year period of the study," said study author Paula Sherwood, RN, PhD, CNRN, of Michigan State University...Parkinson's caregivers at risk for deteriorating health
...etween the patient and spouse - how much time they spend together, how much they enjoy each other, care for each other, how easy it is to be with each other," Carter explained. "We think high mutuality is protective against experiencing a lot of strain." Carter said the lesson to be learned from the study ...Generics slow rising cost of prescription drugs in 2003
...g. Growing 23.8% from 2002, the annual per-member spend for the class represented almost 14% of the total ... On the other hand, the annual per-member spend for estrogens and antihistamines decreased by 23.2% and 20.9% respectively because of the introducti...AIDS toll in African heartland isn't always what people think
...s also in three critical things that women have to spend time on: carrying water, carrying firewood and preparing food. If you can reduce labor needed for these three things, that would make more sense and it would benefit all families, not just those with deaths." The group also found the need to focus on...UW to lead most comprehensive study of air pollution and cardiovascular disease
...esearchers will look at how much time participants spend outside in various activities throughout the day, and how that affects their exposures. By employing state-of-the-art scientific methods, this study will result in a tremendous amount of new information on the effects of air pollution, and contribut...Why is Ian Kennedy's healthcare commission damaging NHS care?
...responsible for submitting data to your commission spend enormous amounts of time on these bureaucratic exercises, time that would be better spent improving the quality of services. The perverse incentives your commission has introduced encourage manipulation of figures to meet targets that may bear little...Seniors reduce or discontinue medications when faced with gap in drug coverage, UCLA study shows
...annual dollar "cap" on drug benefits. Members who spend past this cap, like seniors in the study, face a "donut hole" because they pay for medications out-of-pocket until new drug benefits kick in the following year. "We found that patients were making some pretty big financial trade-offs between paying ...Children with ADHD benefit from time outdoors enjoying nature
...tention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) should spend some quality after-school hours and weekend time outdoors enjoying nature, say researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The payoff for this "treatment" of children, 5 to 18 years old, who participated in a nationwide study, w...Privacy rule builds biomedical research bottleneck
...inical research involving human subjects now must spend months compiling registries of patients who have given their doctors permission to share their medical records with researchers or devising other complicated alternatives. Some researchers at the University of Pittsburgh do direct mail solicitati...Child health improvement through computer automation
...wever, the majority of health care providers can't spend sufficient time with the patient and family to learn enough about many factors such as parental behavior, which may affect the child's health. CHICA solves both the information overload and cost problems while helping the pediatrician focus on the sp...Universit de Montral study shows superior sound-location skills in the blind
...portant to blind people so it's possible that they spend proportionately more time developing this sense. It's also possible that their superior performance reflects cross-modal cortical reorganization." Professor Lepore's research team has long been interested in cross-modal cortical reorganization and...Doctors miss chances to provide diet, exercise counseling to patients at risk of heart disease
...ggests that as physicians prioritize the time they spend with patients, they're putting less emphasis on counseling activities. One possible explanation is that physicians feel they don't have the training or the tools to provide diet and exercise guidance that will have a lasting effect on their patients,...Stanford to test effects of drug widely used for pediatric hypertension
...ntract awarded to Stanford, Hammer and Drover will spend three years conducting clinical and laboratory tests to determine the safety and effectiveness of sodium nitroprusside. This drug works to control blood pressure during anesthesia and in the intensive-care unit. The FDA listed it for testing because ...Summa study finds portion control induces greatest weight loss
...e study is the first to document that patients who spend a longer time in the action and maintenance stages...e weight. The reverse was also true. Patients who spend less time in the action and maintenance stages for portion control or planned exercise were more lik...UGA researchers receive $1.3 million CDC grant to study workplace physical activity intervention
...s to increase their physical activity. Most adults spend half of their waking hours at the workplace, providing opportunities for individualized and mass reach interventions to be implemented, UGA researchers say. "Evidence suggests that workplace fitness programs can be cost-effective, possibly reducing e...New insights into hormone therapy highlight when estrogen best aids brain
...e with good memory for the original objects should spend more time examining the new object. Again, mice in the control and continuous groups outperformed the cyclical HT mice. "These results suggest that treatment regimen can influence the extent to which estrogen affects memory in aging female mice," Gr...University of Pittsburgh researcher gets CDC grant to study youth violence
...versity of Cambridge, England. Dr. Fabio also will spend one semester at Cambridge next fall as part of his training grant. According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, juvenile violent crime arrests increased substantially through the late 1980s through 1994, and then decreased...