July/August 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... Preventive Services Task Force issued a statement strongly recommending that pregnant women and people who are at higher risk for syphilis infection receive screening tests for the disease. The Task Force recommends against routine screening of people who are not at increased risk for syphilis infection and...AIDS toll in African heartland isn't always what people think
...ways nor necessarily in the fields. "We feel very strongly that it would be a serious mistake to put all of the agricultural research resources into labor saving crops and technologies," Weber said. "The most important thing from a labor-saving standpoint is not about agriculture production alone. It's also ...National Center for Children Exposed to Violence begins annual conference today
... and with referral for ongoing services. "We are strongly committed to furthering the program's goals of nurturing child development in the face of psychological trauma," said Marans. Conference topics include recent developments at individual sites, challenges to the work, and ongoing activities to encour...EDCTP welcomes G8 support for HIV/AIDS vaccine development
...ess and poverty in the developing world. The EDCTP strongly believes that ultimately the outcome of this initiative and others will depend on the ownership and commitment to this vision by the partners, and by having the concerned countries play a central role. Adapted interventions are essential to reduce th...How brain gives special resonance to emotional memories
...ce that the memories of emotional images were more strongly encoded than the neutral ones. And importantly, the brain scans showed that the emotional memories evoked activity in the amygdala as well as the "medial temporal lobe memory" structures. Specifically, these structures include the hippocampus and ass...Patients not sticking to cholesterol drugs -- and the higher their co-pay, the lower their use
... Fendrick adds, "This impressive finding strongly supports a process that lowers or eliminates co-pays for those at highest risk for heart attacks. The value of statins and many other medical interventions should not be determined solely on the purchase price." In all, the researcher...'Safe' levels of lead, cadmium
...y," he said. Peripheral artery disease is strongly associated with smoking, which is confirmed in the...tals were highest in smokers, but smoking was more strongly associated with cadmium, Guallar said. Researchers suggest the findings need to be confirmed in ...Highlights of June Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...ases and conditions. Therefore, the ADA and the DC strongly support research, health promotion activities, health services and advocacy efforts that will enable women to adopt desirable nutrition practices for optimal health." "In general, good nutrition is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. That applies to...Mouse study could aid vaccine designers
...cted cells that make the most peptides should most strongly stimulate cross-priming. Conversely, fewer peptides should mean less cross-priming. To test this prediction, Dr. Yewdell and his colleagues created virus-infected cells that were genetically or chemically prevented from producing peptides and injecte...May/June 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
.... The authors found that the diagnosis of pain is strongly influenced by the severity of the pain reported by the patient, patient sex and physician practice style. Click here to view a pdf of the complete article. Medical Management of Intimate Partner Violence Considering the Stages of Change: Precont...National Academies news: vaccines and autism
...lth, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. "We strongly support ongoing research to discover the cause or causes of this devastating disorder. Resources would be used most effectively if they were directed toward those avenues of inquiry that offer the greatest promise for answers. Without supporting ev...Body fat and its role in breast cancer
...identified. Results showed that body size was more strongly associated with breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women than premenopausal women. Height was linked to breast cancer risk in both groups, but more significantly in postmenopausal women. The reasons for this are not well understood, but may be expl...Elevated rates of trauma may put urban American Indian women at increased risk for contracting HIV
...dded. Of the women surveyed, 36 percent agreed or strongly agreed that AIDS is another form of germ warfare against Indians. This means any community-based HIV program will have to assume high levels distrust. "Despite the high rates of traumas and other negative findings, there are a number of healthy beh...Medical residents report sleep loss and fatigue take toll on learning, work and personal lives
...e." Ninety-five (64 percent) residents either strongly agree or agree that "Sleep loss and fatigue have major impact on my personal life." Papp adds, "Although residents were very worried about sleep loss and fatigue on their decision-making, on errors in prescription writing and placing incorrect medi...Study shows human milk may prevent serious infection in extremely low birth weight infants
...lt for mothers to provide their own milk, but they strongly encourage them todo so. "We encourage mothers to pump and collect their own breast milk and bring it to the hospital to be fed to their baby," says Edward Donovan, MD, a neonatologist at Cincinnati Children's and a co-author of the study. "It's not ...Red palm oil as a means of combating vitamin A deficiency
...ortion of mothers and children who had presented a strongly deficient serum retinol rate, lower than the recommended threshold (0.70 mol/l), at the beginning of the study had fallen, going from 62 to 30% for women, from 84.5 to 67% for children. As the oil was made available only for the pilot project, these ...Controlling pain with your brain
...although the researchers have yet to determine how strongly and for how long. The volunteers could not explain how they did it. The researchers ruled out other explanations for the effect through a series of controls. They gave people false feedback data, no feedback at all, or feedback from a part of the bra...HHS launches diabetes prevention campaign
...tes or diabetes. Those over 45 and overweight are strongly recommended for testing. Those who are younger than 45, overweight, and who have one or more of the other risk factors could be at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes and should also consult their health care provider about testing. Risk facto...Blood pressure drug helps delay ischemic brain damage in stroke patients
...nce of white matter lesions increases with age, is strongly associated with hypertension, and has been shown to increase the risk of dementia, severe cognitive impairment, or gait disturbances. "Overall, the volume of new white matter lesions in the patients who took the placebo was 5 times higher compared to...... of this maternal (also called "chimeric") cell is strongly associated with a particular genetic makeup of the mother. Children with JDM may suffer organ failure in the same way transplant patients often do. Because of this resemblance to a type of organ rejection disease, the Mayo Clinic team investigated t...