Landmark study uncovers reasons behind recurring back injury
... because injured people are often unwilling or unable to perform the physical exertions necessary for these tests, Marras said. To solve this problem, the researchers created a mathematical technique to obtain needed information from the parti...New depression and anxiety treatment goals defined
...t people experience. People with this disorder are unable to relax and often experience physical symptoms such as fatigue, trembling, muscle tension, headaches, irritability or hot flashes. Research shows that GAD and depression often coexist....Gasoline additive interferes with alcohol breath analyzers
...eading of legal intoxication. The researchers were unable to create a false positive reading with the newer more advanced Alcotest. This instrument successfully identified the interference invalidating the test. The Breathalyzer may not be accurate under the most extreme conditions. Occupational exposure t...Researchers find better way to predict childhood brain tumor outcomes
...e hearing loss and cataracts, and the majority are unable to live independent of their families as adults. A major goal of current treatment trials, then, is to reduce the level of radiation to lessen toxicity without compromising survival in good-risk patients." Now, risk is defined by clinical criteria, ...Strong relationship between peasant farmers and city-dwellers in Zimbabwe
...rs in the city, the farmers would, for example, be unable to buy seeds and fertiliser. In turn the city-dwellers are strongly connected with their family in rural areas. Family contacts are indispensable for finding work and accommodation in the city. At Christmas almost everybody returns to the village whe...Road skills hint at 'motion blindness' of Alzheimer's
...e brain that interprets motion leaves the patients unable to perceive motion in a way that most people unconsciously do all the time. Relying on your memory to get around is a strategy of the young and healthy, says Duffy. In people with Alzheimers, once they begin losing their memory, the nervous system a...Yale researcher receives $1.4 million grant to study the hypocretin cells involved in narcolepsy
...eptics are conscious of their environment, but are unable to move. Common medications currently used include stimulants employed to keep narcoleptics alert during the day by increasing their neuronal activity. New generations of medications based on the hypocretin neurotransmitter may prove useful in future...Blood pressure drugs relax heart, reduce heart failure risk
... The thickened left ventricle is stiff, making it unable to fully relax. The result is that the left side ...each patient is taking. For that reason, they are unable to predict if one drug is more effective than the other. The American Heart Association estimates t...Young women at greater risk of death than men after bypass surgery
...182,000 in women.Vaccarino and her colleagues were unable to determine why death rates were different between men and women. She says the explanation might be some unknown factor that increases the risk for women who have bypass surgery, or something in the surgical procedure itself that might be subject t...Science backs Cod Liver Oil as cure for arthritis
...stigation of non-drug therapies as many people are unable to tolerate the side effects of drug treatment. We are delighted that something as simple and widely available as Cod Liver Oil has the potential to bring relief and restore quality of life to so many....Folic acid possibly a key factor in Alzheimers disease prevention
...mice fed a folate-deficient diet, nerve cells were unable to repair this DNA damage. "These new findings establish a possible cause-effect relationship between elevated homocysteine levels and degeneration of nerve cells involved in learning and memory in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, said Mark Mat...Patients may overestimate risk of side-effects from qualitative drug information
...sk of 0.02%. Dianne Berry comments: If people are unable to estimate the risk of occurrence of side-effects, they cannot be expected to make informed decisions about medicinal drug taking. Our results strongly suggest that the qualitative descriptions recommended by the EU lead to gross overestimation of r...Baldness induced by dopamine treatments may be reversible
...nerve cells to fire out of control, leaving people unable to control their movements normally. In both cases reported, the women had been started on pramipexole and subsequently switched to ropinirole as dopamine therapy. In the first case, the patient's hair loss stopped within two weeks after she switche...USC researchers define role of protein, discover cause of chromosome damage
... invaders we regularly encounter. Of course, being unable to cut and splice DNA can sometimes actually be of benefit. "What we're going to do next," said Ma, the papers first author, "is try to screen for drugs that inhibit Artemis, because this might be useful from a cancer therapy standpoint. If we could...Lack of inhibition strengthens nicotine addiction
...rate repeated releases of GABA. This renders them unable to reign in the excitation caused by nicotine. They remain disabled for up to an hour. "As a result," said McGehee, "the reward system is turned on right away and it keeps sending reward signals for 60 minutes even though nicotine levels drop off ...Researchers demonstrate direct, real-time brain control of cursor
...ralyzed patients who are cognitively normal people unable to carry out their movement intentions." The research involves use of thin electrodes to record the activity of a few neurons in the brain's motor cortex. This area contains the cells that fire when a hand moves. Activity of the neurons is first reco...Estrogen's role in preventing female cardiac disease
...rug to block natural estrogen production. By being unable to produce estrogen, the female mice had the same kind of cardiac hypertrophy as did the male mice -- indicating that estrogen production protects the females but not the males. Referring to recent evaluations of estrogen replacement therapy for post...New study says people take mental stress to heart
...lness, unstable angina, neurological disease, were unable to discontinue medications that influence cardiac function, or had undergone coronary surgery or angioplasty. An exercise stress test, radionuclide imaging of the heart and a psychological stress test were conducted at the start of the study. In the...High pulse pressure associated with greater death risk in dialysis patients
...ngstanding hypertension may ultimately fail and be unable to generate high blood pressure. Their blood pressures are low because they have weaker hearts, which also puts them at greater risk of dying from heart attacks, heart failure and other causes."Klassen said most dialysis patients have high pulse pres...More patients would refuse treatment if the outcome were impaired quality of life
...nctional impairment was defined as being bedbound, unable to get to the bathroom independently, and requiring help with all daily activities. Severe cognitive impairment was described as not being aware of what is going on around you and not being able to recognize loved ones. When the outcome was death, th...