Study shows reduction of inflammation helps heal heart
... heart more easily. Patients administered the drug themselves by injection. In comparison with etanercept, traditional heart failure medications can be difficult to give, since they affect blood pressure and require the doctor to continually adjust the patients dosage, Mann said. Etanercept may give doctors an...Depression turns generation gap into a chasm
...ports produced different results. When adolescents themselves were surveyed, 12.1% of them claimed to suffer fro... them as having clinical depression did not report themselves as being depressed. "Parent reports and adolescent reports largely identify different adolescents as...Having a regular doctor protects children from a variety of ills
... considerably less likely than their peers to find themselves in an emergency room or admitted to a hospital. "Having a regular doctor is good medicine," says Dr. Dimitri Christakis, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the UW School of Medicine and associate director of UW's Child Health Institute in Seattl...Family important source of support for HIV-positive men
...tisfying sex lives and not put themselves or others at risk, Serovich said. But they often discover ways to help them do so only after disclosing their HIV status, she said. In a recent issue of the Journal of Marital and Family ...Researchers build on discovery of potent potential antibiotic
... have numerous functions---helping bacteria defend themselves against host immune responses, for example. The new research focuses on the target enzyme, KDO 8-P synthase. Collaborating with Prof. Domenico L. Gatti at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Woodard's group had previously determined the cry...Brain's efforts to save itself during Alzheimer's may backfire
...s could be the result of many parallel events that themselves create complications. Crawley said that galanin will need to be studied along with other possible factors that may underlie the development of this disease. Steiner is a neuroendocrinologist who developed the transgenic mouse that overexpresses galan...South Pasadena chemist wins national award for designing new catalysts
... molecular structures, one after another - without themselves being incorporated into the assembly. His starting materials are usually molecules containing at least one carbon atom double-bonded to another. "I work with [these] olefins because they're often building blocks for polymers, pharmaceuticals and petr...Blood medicine may ease cocaine withdrawal
...ion, offering new hope for patients unable to wean themselves off cocaine through traditional, psychotherapeutic counseling. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia believe the results of a recent study show that the...Hopkins researcher finds retroviral 'footprint' in brains of people with schizophrenia
... natural part of the human genome, having inserted themselves into the human genome millions of years ago, in some cases. Scientists are just beginning to understand how these retroviruses may be involved in human diseases, Yolken says. "While our report doesnt explain why the retrovirus becomes active in ......ended surgical guidelines, and that the guidelines themselves are inconsistent with the evidence regarding the benefits of adjuvant surgery in young children. "But these findings should not be interpreted as a recommendation for the routine addition of adenoidectomy to the treatment of ear infections in childre...Smoking prevention programs may miss minority teens
...e of 13. Hispanics and teenagers who identified themselves as having multiple ethnicities were the most likely to have smoked within the past 30 days (22 percent each), white teenagers were in the middle (18 percent) and African American and Asian American teenagers were the least likely (12 percent each) to......od, resulting diseases are more likely to manifest themselves over time in these patients than in people with type 2, who normally develop diabetes in adulthood. During the 10-year period, 67 subjects died, 105 developed coronary artery disease, 92 developed lower-extremity arterial disease, 52 developed overt ...Physicians miss opportunities to improve care for oldest asthmatics
...the asthma guidelines, and patients need to remind themselves that asthma care involves more than just taking medications." The shortcomings, she says, may explain why almost one in five older people studied ended up in the hospital. To examine how older individuals are coping with asthma, the Hopkins team r......has shown. Furthermore, the music-listeners rated themselves significantly less anxious and significantly better at coping with the experience than their non-music-listening colleagues. Results of the study, previously presented at a meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, appear in the current issue o...Failure at nonconscious goals explains negative 'mystery moods'
...ery consciously thinking about how to best present themselves to others, and carefully moni... memory with the goals of presenting themselves well. In time, the goals become nonconscious and are triggered automatically ev...Explosion in numbers of advice calls to hospital since introduction of NHS Direct
...ring 999 themselves. Patients who made 999 calls themselves tended to be admitted and followed up, but say the authors, that most likely reflects their older age and seriousness of their condition rather than any other factors. Furthermore, the NHS Direct 999 referrals amounted only to a couple of patients a ...Examining The Science Behind Nutraceuticals: Proceedings of the AAPS Dietary Supplements Forum
...r provides guidance to consumers on how to protect themselves from potentially dangerous or possibly ineffective products. A key issue discussed includes whether vitamins or herbal remedies can lose their effectiveness. They can, but consumers dont know when products expire because the FDA, which regulates the ...Psychotherapy can help suicidal patients
... emergency department after deliberately poisoning themselves were included in the study. Patients were randomly allocated to two groups. The intervention group received four sessions of psychological therapy at their home. The control group received routine care, which in most cases consisted of referral back ...Researchers closer to delivering new insulin pill for diabetics
...nt diabetes must take insulin, either by injecting themselves with a needle at least twice a day or by using a battery-operated "insulin pump." The pump is worn outside the body on a belt or in a pocket and delivers a steady supply of insulin through a tube that connects to a needle placed under the skin. Becau...... their blood sugar. Some of these people must give themselves three injections a day to control their diabetes. Because the injections are painful, however, people who feel well will sometimes skip their shots. To avoid the stress of needles, some researchers are working on insulin that can be delivered to the ...