Learning skills greatly limits stress for family caregivers, says Stanford study
... developed to assist caregivers in coping with the stresses of their responsibilities, and the REACH study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of various interventions. Each participating site in the five-year REACH study developed its own intervention program; the Stanford portion, called "Coping w...Smoking linked to osteoporosis in women
...d with positive effects on bone density. The study stresses the importance of a healthy lifestyle when young but also the significance of continuing to be active and healthy later in life. The study also suggests that sporting activity in earlier years may be associated with residual benefits in later life. I...Appreciation of humor doesn't change with age
...st in stress management, and help us cope with the stresses of aging." However, results from the study also suggest that the ability to comprehend more complex forms of humor may diminish in our later years. Why? The cognitive abilities required for humor comprehension include abstract reasoning, mental flexi...Job stress may be missing link between workplace exercise and heart risk
...t appears from our findings that the psychological stresses associated with physically active jobs overcomes any biological benefit of the activity itself. It's also possible that physical activity in the context of a body activated by psychological stress does not have the same benefits as exercise conducted...Study shows long-term stress appears to damage caregivers immune systems
...re of chronically ill loved ones over long periods stresses caregivers, as everyone knows, but a new study provides strong new evidence that such continuing stress boosts the risk of age-related diseases by prematurely aging caregivers' immune systems. Levels of a damaging compound known as a proinflammatory ...Endografts help prevent deaths from abdominal aortic aneurysms
...dovascular repair, we're able to avoid some of the stresses of conventional surgery, such as clamping the aorta," Dr. Williams said. "Because patients experience less anesthesia and less blood loss, they are able to recover and return to their customary activities more quickly." Endografts are also a potentia...Robo-thespians help mothers of kids with cancer
...ficial intelligence can help mothers cope with the stresses associated with caring for a child who has cancer. In the first clinical trial, 26 mothers of children being treated for malignancies gave "uniformly positive reviews" of the system, called "Carmen's Bright IDEAS," (CBI) developed by the University o...Children's Hospital Boston finds capacity can be increased by smoothing scheduled patient flow
...ospital capacity could be increased and systematic stresses reduced simply by smoothing scheduled patient flow." In this one-year study, information was collected prospectively on all aspects for admission to the Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit of Children's Hospital Boston, an 18-bed, multi-disciplinar...Exercise, talk therapy may help relieve some symptoms of Gulf War veterans' illnesses
...l-defined, or even accepted by many experts, Clauw stresses the importance of trying to address veterans' symptoms with effective therapies, no matter what the origin of the symptoms....Men more dependent on exercise than women, UF study shows
... percent of Americans regularly active, Hausenblas stresses the number of people who become addicted to exercise is relatively small. "Exercise is beneficial, and it becomes a negative thing in very few people," she said. "However, even a good thing taken to an extreme can be bad." The study also looked ...'Virtual stomach' reveals pill's path
... the stomach. For example, Pal measured the shear stresses or the "rubbing" the tablet undergoes from fluids ...at these wave-like motions underlie both the shear stresses that contribute to the breakdown of the tablet and the mixing of the medicine.Pal also found that ex...Nighttime is the right time to prevent preterm labor with aspirin
...pirin in the morning instead of at night." Hermida stresses that women should not take aspirin during pregnancy without a doctor's supervision. Although the low dose used in this study appears safe, higher doses such as those used in pain relief do carry a risk of increased bleeding at delivery."Despite pote...Still mulling over last night's argument? It could affect your heart
...eater potential harm to cardiovascular health than stresses that lack emotion, even though both types of stress may have provoked the same initial responses," Glynn said. "Preventing the damaging effects of stress may involve not only reducing exposure to stressors, but also reducing opportunities to ruminate...Don't overlook terrorism's long-term effects on elders
...research showing "some clinicians believe that new stresses may trigger memories of past traumatic events as well as new symptoms of loss, stress, and grief." In the editorial, the authors list eight lessons that health care professionals can take from 9/11 and for the future. These range from awareness that...Team care improves stroke outcomes
...ombosis. In a related commentary, Dr. Michael Hill stresses the benefits of stroke units and multidisciplinary stroke teams and urges other centres to follow the Halifax example....Cigarette tax hike could save millions of lives
...ts of the three tobacco control strategies. Ranson stresses that the authors were careful not to assume "best case" scenarios in their calculations, in order to avoid inflating expected benefits and underrating actual costs. Instead, he explains, all of the researchers' assumptions intentionally "err on the c...Almonds have cholesterol benefits
...rican Heart Association. However, the association stresses that the potential benefits of nuts may be negated if they are added rather than substituted for other foods in the diet. While nuts and seeds tend to be very high in fat and calories, most of the fat is polyunsaturated or monounsaturated (e.g. almo...Intensive care treatment may be bad for your health
... quality of life to those patients who survive. He stresses that more research is needed to make these decisions with confidence. An example of research into how well or badly patients fare after they have left the intensive care unit is the study by Dale Rublee and colleagues. It examines the long-term effe...'Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day' -- Really?
...at least" in 8 x 8 refers to. At the same time, he stresses that large intakes of fluid, equal to and greater than 8 x 8, are advisable for the treatment or prevention of some diseases, such as kidney stones, as well as under special circumstances, such as strenuous physical activity, long airplane flights or...USC researchers develop new way to measure cultural adaptation of youth
...h immigrants adapt to their new culture, can cause stresses for those in the U.S. from different cultures or t...ts from other countries, and teen-agers under such stresses may become involved in risky behaviors such as smoking. Measuring acculturation is important to unde...