Safer estrogen targets painful intercourse in older women
... Vaginal dyspareunia (dis-pa-ROON-ia), the medical term for vaginal atrophy, most often occurs in women after menopause. Studies have shown that more than 40 percent of postmenopausal women experience the condition, which causes thinning of the vaginal wall, dryness and itching, and leads to painful inter...Newer form of 'gold standard' drug helps kidney transplant patients do better in long term
...dney transplant patients fare better over the long term with newer form of "gold standard" drug, study fin...earchers were most interested in the issue of long term kidney, or allograft, survival; patients who lost their new kidneys within 6 months of transplant we...Expert advises annual lung test for smokers during physical exam
...from this potentially crippling disease. COPD is a term used to describe chronic bronchitis and emphysema. A slowly progressive lung disease characterized by a gradual loss of lung function, the illness is caused primarily by smoking in the U.S. and throughout most of the developed world. Victims have a...Care of head injuries falls well short of recommendations
...hem, the regional audit showed. Immediate and long term rehabilitation was poor, and there was no formal system of follow up for patients with apparently minor head injuries. The nationwide A&E survey showed that over half of head injury care was provided by general or orthopaedic surgeons, and not neuros...How 'negative emotionality' can make you feel sick
... alcohol use by teens can have both short and long term health effects. For example, in our studies of youth evaluated over a six-year period, we found that respiratory, and accident and trauma injuries, were particularly more prevalent among youth with alcohol use disorders than among youth with similar...Big plans on a small scale: NSF funds centers for nanoscale research
... together they will provide coherence and a longer term outlook to U.S. nanotechnology research and education." Nanoscale science, engineering and technology are focused on a scale ranging from the size of individual atoms to that of large molecules. The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers will dev...Americans leading healthier lives, reducing risk of death from heart disease, UCSF study finds
... have substantial benefits over the short and long term and be cost-effective. In addition, many smokers tend to quit on their own with very limited medical inputs. Goldman noteed that in addition to saving lives, health care efforts intended to reduce heart disease risk factors were also cost-effective ...Rapid infant weight gain may predict childhood obesity
...lookedat data for 19,000 children who were born at term gestation between 1959 and1965 in 12 U.S. cities. The authors used the presently recommended definitionfor overweight status -- a sex-specific body mass index that is greater than95 percent of the U.S. population at any given age. The study found...Hospitalist care destined to become dominant model of inpatient care in the US, say UCSF researchers
...MA article, and the physician who first coined the term hospitalist in a 1996 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). According to the UCSF study, hospital care provided by physicians (typically internists), who focus exclusively on hospitalized patients and are available throughout the day i...IUD still on the shelf for most women, survey shows
...pical failure rate is only 0.8 percent, and longer term IUDs are as effective at female tubal ligation. The survey of 811 members of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology was conducted in 2000. About 50 percent responded to the study, which showed that 95 percent of the respondents believed...Brief exercise improves mental performance in people with chronic lung disease
...he video. COPD is an umbrella term commonly used to refer to emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Both diseases leave patients prone to frequent upper respiratory infections, restricted airways and shortness of breath. ...Honing the tools to identify clues to surviving cancer
... the same or similar environmental factors. "Long term cancer survivors have something in their biology that isdifferent from those who don't survive. If we can provide the criticaltools that will assist in determining what that is, we may enable scientistsin the not too distant future to figure out how...Robotic physical therapy improves movement long after stroke
...ational therapist is very labor intensive and long term it can be very costly, she says. The robot, by contrast, simply has to be programmed and plugged in and its ready for a therapy session. Moreover, the robot is very compliant and versatile. Although it can be programmed to offer some resistance to...Antidepressant provides a cool choice for hot flashes
...previous study that venlafaxine works in the short term to control hot flashes, says Dr. Barton. This follow-up study provides evidence that venlafaxine continues to be effective and well tolerated over a longer period of time. Hot flashes are a major problem for many postmenopausal women. In women withou...Using cocaine during pregnancy may damage developing fetuses, causing lifelong learning disabilities
...changes in an area of the brain that governs short term memory leading to symptoms that are very much lik... cocaine to pregnant rats and then assessing short term memory in the offspring when they were adolescents and adults. The test animals were placed in a cag...Testicular cancer - cure rates now so high patients may be more at risk from treatment
...go patients are living long enough to suffer long term side effects that are potentially life-threatening and decrease the survivors quality of life. With cure rates over 90% in many cases and nearly 50% in even the most advanced poor prognosis cases, researchers are increasingly concerned about overtrea...Maryland's 1990 'Saturday night special' ban reduced gun homicides in the state, new study shows
...o measure the law's effect on homicide rates. The term "Saturday night special" refers to relatively low-quality, concealable handguns that are commonly used in crime. The Maryland law banning Saturday night specials was passed in May 1988 during a period of skyrocketing gun homicide rates in Maryland an...Patients may overestimate risk of side-effects from qualitative drug information
...escriptions (2% and 0.02%). Participants given the term common rated their personal risk of having a side-effect as 50%, whereas those given the equivalent numerical value of 2% rated their risk as 9.5%; people who were told their chance of side-effects were rare estimated their risk as 21%, compared with...Yale study shows 25 percent of obese children are at high risk for developing diabetes
...around the neck and under the arms. Possible long term complications from diabetes include premature artherosclerosis, often affecting the legs and leading to ulcers of the feet; early coronary artery disease; kidney disorders; eye disorders, sometimes leading to blindness, and nerve problems.......ng researchers to learn whether there is anylonger term advantage to treating amblyopia with either patching oratropine....