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...equate, midwives are poorly deployed, and they are unable to undertake training and update their skills, they conclude....Study finds music can ease labor pain
...ain they may experience, but are also unwilling or unable to take medication to ease the pain. However, a new study provides hope for those seeking to lessen delivery pain without medications: through the use of music. The study, which appeared in the June 2003 issue of Pain Management Nursing, found that ...Study shows melatonin supplements may make standing a hazard for the cardiovascular-challenged
...ld exacerbate orthostatic intolerance, making them unable to evacuate the shuttle and compromising their safety." Melatonin is a hormone made by the pineal gland in the brain and secreted at night on a circadian, or 24 hour, cycle, to make people feel sleepy. Available in synthetic form, dietary supplements...Empowerment in cyberspace - Electronic discussion helps cancer patients cope
...ering not only isolates, but makes you passive and unable to act but when you tell your story that is a form of action, and being able to act is vital to human existence," said Ms. Hoeybye....Sandia nanolaser may help extend life-spans by rapidly analyzing possible neuroprotectant drugs
...ing a few hundred nanometers, scientists have been unable to study them in vitro with the necessary precision to determine the best possible neuroprotectants. Now a unique laser operating in the nanometer range at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories has demonstrated the first-ever techni...Disrupting two cell mechanisms in combination can suppress aggressive breast cancer in mice
...AG was administered to Id deficient mice which are unable to form functional new blood vessels, tumor growth was completely inhibited. The enhancement of the drug's activity when combined with an anti-angiogenesis model suggests that cells with an impaired vasculature may be more dependent on the Hsp90 chap...High blood pressure does not accelerate age-related cognitive decline
...n a laboratory setting, previous studies have been unable to tease out relationships between elevated blood pressures and age on specific cognitive tasks. The results of the Duke experiments were published today (Sept. 29, 2003) in the September issue of the journal Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition. The...Largest study to date finds radiofrequency ablation is best treatment for benign bone tumor
...Rosenthal said. "These individuals tradionally are unable to participate in any sport or recreational activity and many require round-the-clock medication." Minimally invasive therapies such as RFA have been explored as an alternative to the two traditional treatments for osteoid osteoma: surgery and manag...A dangerous duo: Heart disease and diabetes
...rt disease. However, to date, scientists have been unable to determine how high levels of glucose lead to excess cardiovascular risk. Surprisingly, the treatment of hyperglycemia, exclusive of other heart disease intervention protocols, is currently inadequate to reverse or reduce heart disease. In the Octo...Gastric bypass surgery resolves or improves diabetes in most patients, reports Pittsburgh study
...most common form of diabetes, in which the body is unable to properly use the insulin that it produces. About 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight....Nursing home residents, minorities under-treated for recurrent stroke
...ission" to a nursing facility and researchers were unable to evaluate whether the observed differences indicate treatment patterns in the nursing home or are simply a reflection of prescribing standards within the community or the various hospital settings. "We can only speculate on possible reasons, such ...New research links lung cancer screening to accelerated rates of smoking cessation
... look at people who smoke and assume that they are unable or unwilling to quit," said Lisa Sanderson Cox, Ph.D., assistant professor of oncology at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and principal investigator of this study. "This research shows us that even people at high-risk for lung cancer were a...Could you suffer from psychosis? The nose knows
...hizophrenia and other forms of psychosis are often unable to correctly identify smells. That is, pizza may be mislabelled as orange, or bubblegum as smoke. Before the current findings, however, it was unknown if this difficulty developed later, as a result of the progression of the disorder, or well befor...School clinics best way to get birth control to students
...d Family Support and colleagues. "Although we were unable to examine whether students used the contraceptives they obtained, there is cause for optimism in light of evidence that improving access to contraception increases actual rates of use among those who are already sexually active," Sidebottom and coll...Rochester chosen to focus on rare neurological diseases
...solutely fine for years, and then suddenly wake up unable to move a muscle for hours. Other patients might become paralyzed for a few minutes several times every day. It's much the same with episodic ataxia, except instead of paralysis, patients lose their coordination suddenly and unexpectedly. A person w...Panel: Clinical use of embryonic stem cells jeopardized by Bush's policy on federal funding
...se virus -- which people's immune systems might be unable to combat -- is not a risk worth taking in the face of safer alternatives, the panel unanimously agreed. "Conducting a federally funded clinical trial of human ES cells, under current federal policy, would require using cell lines that none of us fee...Better brain imaging helps surgeons avoid damage to language functions
...of the skull, sometimes fails because patients are unable to respond coherently during the operation. The Washington University fMRI mapping technique also offers improvements over the Wada (WAH-dah) test, another commonly used method of locating critical language and memory regions of the brain prior to s...Teaching hospital physicians report trouble obtaining specialty services for the uninsured
...e questions asked were whether the physicians were unable to admit uninsured patients or had to limit such patients' hospital care; how often they could obtain specialty referrals or advanced services such as organ transplants or cardiac stents for either insured or uninsured patients, and whether their p...Northwestern Memorial helping to define best treatment for congestive heart failure
...ms of heart failure." CHF occurs when the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body's demand for oxygen and other nutrients. This problem often results from the body's effort to compensate for heart muscle damage caused by a heart attack. To compensate for the damage, the heart gradually enlar......the right side of her body paralyzed. She was also unable to speak. After months of physical therapy, she was no longer paralyzed and was able to speak with some difficulty. Her speech gradually improved during the next year until she was speaking with the same fluency as she had before the stroke. However,...