Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
...e Journal of Experimental Psychology: General by a team led by University of Michigan Health System resear...ferences. In addition to Ubel and Riis, the study team included George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon University, Jonathan Baron and Christopher Jepson of ...Brain synapse formation linked to proteins, Stanford study finds
...id, exactly. However, in past work, Barres and his team devised a way of keeping the neurons alive without...ll paper addressed these questions. Barres and his team found that when they added various glial proteins to neurons grown in a lab dish without glia, only ...Newly identified gene cluster on mouse X chromosome provides insights into fertility
...e reproductive tissues in adult mice. Although the team cannot yet say that the discovery has any corollary to human biology, they already have found two versions of mouse Rhox genes on the human X chromosome - they are both expressed in human testes. "Little is known about the causes of human infertility...Boosting HIV screening can increase survival and is cost effective
...eat value of expanded screening." Paltiel and his team developed a mathematical model of HIV screening an...., of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, and his team at the VA, Stanford and St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, led another study in NEJM, which strongly...Routine HIV screening should be expanded, study finds
...l Institute of Drug Abuse. For their analysis, the team used a model that accounts for a wide variety of v...Mark Holodniy, M.D., and Douglas Owens, M.D. Other team members included Ahmed Bayoumi, M.D., from University of Toronto and S. Pinar Bilir, Christopher Neu...'Broken heart' syndrome: Real, potentially deadly but recovery quick
...d Journal of Medicine online Feb. 10, the research team found that some people may respond to sudden, over...versible muscle damage. Of greatest surprise, the team says, was that recovery rates were much faster than typically seen after a heart attack. Stressed p...Early HIV screening prolongs life and is affordable, Stanford study shows
... with first author Gillian Sanders, PhD, and their team at the VA, Stanford and St. Michael's Hospital in ...s for patients whose infection was identified. The team used its model to determine the benefits of screening due to reduced transmission of HIV and early i...Study shows protective equipment not very effective for rugby players
CHAPEL HILL-- Rugby union, a full-body-contact team sport played in the United States but more popular...l across a goal line while preventing the opposing team from doing likewise. And, of course, frequent injuries, a small percentage of which are catastrophic...Elderly people cared for by spouse are at greater risk for abuse, Pitt researchers find
... ones who know them best--their spouses. But, as a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh report in this month's issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society , being married to one's caregiver could be a prescription for abuse, especially if the caregiver is also suffering from hi...Carrot component reduces cancer risk
... to have an effect on the development of cancer. A team of researchers, from the University of Newcastle u...ld prevent the development of cancer. The research team carried out tests on 24 rats with pre-cancerous tumours in laboratory conditions. They divided them...Gender bias in child growth evaluations may miss disease in girls
...xpected among the referrals. Instead, the research team found that boys outnumbered girls by 182 to 96, nearly a two-to-one margin. The gender discrepancies were more pronounced starting at age 9. Although girls were less likely to be referred than boys, the girls' height deficits were greater than those ...New breast cancer test could save lives
A team of researchers at the University of Bristol is developing a revolutionary new test to detect breast cancer at an early stage. If successful, this test will be effective for women of all ages; given that breast cancer is the largest killer of women b...Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
... decisions, jargon could be used to 'exclude' some team members from contributing fully to discussions. Us...ticular identity they had brought with them to the team from previous mainstream work. Those who were part-time, seconded, or not employed by a lead agency ...Infectious agent linked to mad cow disease found in organs other than the brain
...ion. After the mice were infected with prions, the team detected prion accumulation in the inflamed organs. They concluded that the spectrum of organs containing prions might be considerably increased in situations of chronic inflammation. "The study suggests that the current prion risk-classification of ...Yale opens Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) in India
...nal field relief and development organization. The team will also work with other partners receiving suppo... Health and Director of CIRA at Yale, is leading a team of investigators affiliated with CIRA to monitor and evaluate activities for the program. Nalini Tar...Special imaging study shows failing hearts are 'energy starved'
...eating human heart." Specifically, Bottomley and a team of cardiologists and radiologists at Hopkins used ... normal, stressed and failing human hearts. Other team members include Robert G. Weiss, M.D., and Gary Gerstenblith, M.D., both in the Cardiology Division ...Optimal treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome
... course for carpal tunnel syndrome's sufferers? A team of researchers in Madrid recently set out to find the answer. The results of their clinical trial, published in the February 2005 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/arthritis ), suggest that local steroid inj...Rheumatoid arthritis linked to excess risk of congestive heart failure
... Working with a team of cardiologists, rheumatologists, and nurses, the researchers reviewed the medical records of every study participant, with attention to personal and family history of hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and atherosclerotic heart disease, incl...Rheumatoid arthritis patients at higher risk for unrecognized heart disease and cardiac sudden death
...o cardiovascular disease. The Mayo Clinic research team conducted this study to discover exactly why. "We suspect that the systemic inflammation that characterizes rheumatoid arthritis also promotes cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular death," says Sherine Gabriel, M.D., the study's senior author an...Early supported discharge services can reduce long term dependency for stroke patients
...mostly provided by a specialist multi-disciplinary team (comprising physiotherapy, occupational therapy, a... trials evaluating a coordinated multidisciplinary team and stroke patients with mild to moderate disability. Five of the 11 trials reported an economic ana...