Remembering Your Medications: Older Are Wiser
...n younger adults, Parks found. Fully 47 percent of those over the age of 55 made no mistakes, compared withonly 28 percent of those between the ages of 34 and 54. What usually led to mistakes was being too busy, Park notes. Being s......kely to be discharged receiving beta-blockers than those admitted bygeneral or other types of physicians, demonstrating that opportunities forimprovement are not equal among physician groups," the researchers reported. The use of beta-blockers varied throughout the country, with the NewEngland regi...Study Captures Images Of Memories Being Formed Within The Human Brain
...g differs between experiences later remembered and those laterforgotten," Wagner said. Wagner and c...le differences in the magnitude of activity within those regions. "It's interesting that the people in our study ostensibly had verysimilar experienc...Brain Regions Identified That Influence What We Remember Or Forget
...f the picture, butthe level of activity in most of those regions does not predict whether thephotograph will be remembered or not," Brewer said. Activity in one region of the right prefrontal lobe and several areas on theright and left inner aspects of the temporal lobes -- called the medial temporallobe s...New "Body-Friendly" Fat Substitute Can Help To Transform
...ir LDL cholesterol by 36%--reductions thatexceeded those achieved in a control group in which the animals w...hich had more moisture and better consistency than those prepared withunmodified oat bran. Dr. Warner said she also used Nu-Trim to produce non-dairy"milksh...Sunlight Poses Universal Cataract Risk
...rrent finding shows that even the general public-- those who work indoors and only get sunlight during leisure activities in theyard or on vacation -- may be at increased risk for cortical cataract ifprecautions aren't taken. The Hopkins study, conducted in Salisbury, Md., determined the amount of...Guidelines Not Necessarily Guiding Physician Behavior, Study Says
...e guidelines were created tohelp physicians screen those at high risk for heart attack and who may benefitf...erol-lowering drugs topatients. Frolkis says that those measurements alone are not enough and thatNCEP guidelines rely on risk factor status as well in orde...Health Promotion: Can Scare Tactics Work?
...een the women who received the fear literature and those who didnot. But, when they looked more closely, t... HPV were more likely to change theirbehavior than those who did not believe they could modify their risk. The findings, they say, suggest that sca......ant done following delivery, doctors tend tofollow those wishes. Resuscitation of such premature in... wereresuscitated; 59 percent died, Doron said. Of those born at 24 weeks gestation,83 percent died, and of those born at 26 weeks, 25 percent died. ...Study Shows Potential For Quelling AIDS Nerve Pain
... helpsmaintain certain nerve cells. It also prods those nerve cells to grow and to communicate with other cells. In the study, presented at this year's International AIDS Conference inGeneva, the patients got injections of either a moderate dose of lab-createdNGF, a higher dose or a placebo. Thro...Jefferson Physician Warns Further Study Of DHEA's Safety Needed
...e risk of developing prostate cancer, particularly those over 60, whose blood levels of IGF-1 were higher than normal. And Dr. Goldberg reports supplements of DHEA, even as small as 25 milligrams a day, significantly raise IGF-1 levels. Writing in the August issue of the journal Emergency Medicine , ...Magnetic Hearing Aid Could Open New "Window" For Hearing Impaired
...ed with our magnetichearing device are very nearly those of natural acoustic sound," said Spindel. The uniq...ce, for example, bygenerating sound waves matching those of the voice as it reaches the ear. What ultimately reaches the brain and what the user actually hea...New Data Show Evista Reduces Spinal Fractures
...es of newly diagnosed invasive breast cancers than those women takingplacebo with approximately 33 months of follow-up. These effects will befollowed over the longer term. In addition, Lilly will partner with the NationalSurgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project and the National Cancer Institute tosupport......nce of uterine bleeding and breast tenderness than those whotook a placebo. The two-year analysis demonstra...ss likely to experience a new spinal fracture than those women who receivedplacebo. The drug did not reduce the risk of other types of fractures, such as fr......prevalence of "silent" spine fractures, defined as those that increase awoman's risk of subsequent fracture...men at the highest risk for GI problems, including those age 75 orolder, with a history of upper GI disease, or those who used aspirin ornon-steroidal anti-i......rienced 36 percent fewer new spinal fractures than those takingplacebo. All participants took supplemental calcium and vitamin D. There was noincrease in side effects overall compared with women receiving placebo. "The study results should provide encouragement to the millions of womenwho have suff...DNA-Based Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise To Successfully Treat Melanoma In Mice
...ice, they found that the tumors were widespread in those who had receivedthe mouse DNA and could not detect an immune response. However, the tumors had regressed by 86 percent in the mice injected withhuman DNA and the researchers found a marked immune response. In addition to inducing an immune attack ...Study Pinpoints Effectiveness Of Prostate Cancer Therapies To Patient Populations
...g treated with the seed implanttherapy compared to those who underwent either radicalprostectomy or externa...suggest that a particular population ofpatients -- those we can pre-therapeutically determine to be"high risk" -- don't do as well with the seed therapy as j...The Visible Humans: Coming Of Age
...lums and innovative clinical procedures, including those with life-saving potential." Lindberg noted, "Next week, the public will see how the world's first 'computerized cadavers'--referred to as the Visible Human Project--are changing how anatomy is taught and medicine is practiced in the U.S. and through...Some CFS Patients Benefit From Low-Dose Steroid, But Side Effects Too Risky
...3percent of placebo recipients and 66.7 percent of those who received treatmentjudged their symptoms as improved. The hydrocortisone recipients experiencedsignificantly greater average improvement (6.3 vs. 1.7 points on a 100-pointscale), and more of them improved by at least 5, 10 or 15 points. Moreover...