Anxiety good for memory recall, bad for solving complex problems
...all memorized facts, but that stress also makes it tough to solve more complex problems. Researchers at Ohio State University gave a battery of simple cognitive tests to 19 first-year medical students one to two days before a regular classroom exam a period when they would be highly stressed. Students wer...Rare heart problem decreases in clot-busting era
...urs when fluids or blood fill the pericardium, the tough sac enclosing the heart. After an acute heart attack, heart muscle can rupture leading to bleeding into the pericardial sac. Fluids filling the pericardium can cause a rapid drop in blood pressure, leading to loss of consciousness or death. Often a m...The NIH funds network to study drug-induced liver injury (DILIN)
...le in clinical presentation, making causality very tough to assess," explains Hoofnagle. At present, DILIN has developed protocols for both retrospective and prospective studies of drug-induced liver disease. The retrospective study will establish a registry of patients who have taken one of four specif...2004 Science-in-Society Award winners announced
...ulated Schwerin for highlighting some particularly tough cases now wending their way through the legal system concerning assisted reproduction. As many as five individual players-the egg and sperm donors, the surrogate mother, and the prospective parents-can be involved in an in vitro fertilization procedu...Pharmaceutical marketing tactics hold little sway with prescribing physicians
...s readily persuaded by salespeople, but rather are tough sells as evidenced by the minimal influence of sales activities on their prescribing behavior. According to Jacobson, the most important factor explaining the limited effect of sales representatives is that physicians know they have other sources of...Genetically targeted therapies create opportunities to do business in new ways
...entious in any industry but it presents especially tough challenges in health care, where change presents complex ethical, social, and community concerns, the authors note. Even when change is beneficial for the industry as a whole, there can be windfall gains and losses for individual stakeholders, and pr...Inflammatory cells highly promising target in NF 1
...ent patients from walking. "Those are particularly tough problems. They're very challenging to treat surgically, and radiation and chemotherapy don't help," said Dr. Clapp....Effects of autism reach beyond language, new research suggests
...all memorized facts, but that stress also makes it tough to solve more complex problems. Researchers at Ohio State University gave a battery of simple cognitive tests to 19 first-year medical students one to two days before a regular classroom exam a period when they would be highly stressed. Students we...New trials for counseling caregivers and patients with Alzheimer's begin
...ifferent from the person you used to know. This is tough on their adult children," says Dr. Mittelman. All participants in this study will receive written self-teaching materials and the opportunity to contact an NYU counselor for further information. Half the participants will also participate in two wor...