Need better social research but it doesn't come cheap
...e people really feel about things and for a better understanding of how they evaluate their experiences. "But they may be a reason why such research, however successful, may not find an easy passage through to impacting upon policy and increasing people's wellbeing." Professor Loomes says: "Politicians usually ha...From town planning to intimate sex: Understanding the risks in our lives
...ation ago. "We have made considerable progress in understanding risk and how people respond to it, but much of our...ment of what the social sciences can contribute to understanding all this, and to government planning to manage new risks, is overdue. This conference will help to ...Animal study shows link between nicotine and atrial flutter
...ueuzian hopes the study will give smokers a better understanding of the mechanisms of nicotine-induced heart disease and that they will take a second look at reducing their habit or stopping it entirely and permanently....Mayo Clinic researchers identify new form of muscular dystrophy in adults
...help contribute to a cure because it increases the understanding of the muscular dystrophy disease process and the role genes play in it. They say their research is a crucial first step toward discovering treatments, because genes offer a promising target at which aim new therapies. The report on the discovery wil...National Academies news: Academy honors 17 for major contributions to science
...t, in thebroadest sense, contributes to the better understanding of the naturalsciences and to the benefit of human...is was chosen "for hisfundamental contributions to understanding the neural mechanismsunderlying stereoscopic vision: the discovery of a disparity mechanismand how i...Activity not out of the question for people with chronic pain
...opes that the research will provide a new level of understanding of patients with these conditions. One possible outcome, he says, is a better insight into how much activity the patients can sustain without increased pain, based on information from evidence-based research rather than questionnaires. "Exercise and ...Thinking of prepositions turns brain 'on' in different ways
...rolinguist, has yielded important breakthroughs in understanding how the brain operates language, due to the unique perspectives that these researchers bring to a common research agenda." Three of the patients in Kemmerer's recent study also had damage to their brains' left hemispheres, in an area known a...Early seizures after epilepsy surgery predict more seizures
The prevailing medical understanding of seizures in the weeks just after epilepsy surge...nseling, but they are also interesting in terms of understanding epilepsy," said lead author Anne M. McIntosh, Ph.D., of the University of Melbourne in Australia. "W...Sildenafil effectively treats enlarged hearts, mouse study shows
...nd reversed. Overall, the results provide a better understanding of the biological pathways involved in hypertrophy and heart dilation, leading contributors to heart failure. They suggest possible therapies in the future, including sildenafil, which has the added benefit of already being studied as safe and effec...JCI table of contents, January 20 2005
...nfluence of a molecule known as RANKL. However our understanding of what triggers RANKL expression and its full effects on the osteoclast remains limited. Steven Teitelbaum and colleagues from Washington University now demonstrate, in mice, that tumor necrosis factor (TNF) induces bone marrow stromal cells to prod...Pharmacist review does not keep older people out of hospital
...lt is not clear, they add. It may be that a better understanding by patients of their conditions led to more hospital admissions. Alternatively, patients may have adhered better to their drugs, with a resultant increase in side effects or drug interactions. Either way, more effective forms of medication review nee...The role of ethnicity in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
... origins in NAFLD patients may lead to an improved understanding of the natural history and treatment of the disease. While they acknowledge that differences in healthcare-seeking behavior in people of different racial-ethnic groups may affect the rate at which NAFLD is diagnosed, they suggest that the higher prop...CPR performance does not follow guidelines
...us during training needs attention. Through better understanding of the mistakes made in a real-life cardiac arrest situation, training courses might be designed to focus on these aspects. Another approach would be to develop online tools that prompt the rescuer to improved performance. Audiotapes giving instructi...Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
...nome Project will lead to dramatic advances in our understanding of health and behavior. "This special issue takes a comprehensive look at the concept of race and its usefulness in the genome age," says Norman B. Anderson, PhD, editor of the American Psychologist and CEO of the APA. "It reports on the potential re...Innovative WSU graduate program deals with mental health, deafness
...ng mental health professionals and interpreters in understanding the characteristics, needs, culture and communication aspects of deaf clients and providing these individuals with equal access to mental health services," he said. Basil, who has been working with deaf individuals since 1989 and is fluent in America...New network of gastrointestinal immune cells discovered
... January 14 issue of Science, could lead to better understanding of how the immune system recognizes and responds t...ria and other antigens, giving us a new target for understanding the immune response," says Hans-Christian Reinecker, MD, of the MGH Gastrointestinal Unit, the study...Study identifies predictors of HIV drug resistance in patients beginning triple therapy
...pleted. We have more and better drugs and a better understanding of how to give them. We are working to make taking them as simple as possible."...Researchers to put changing public services under the microscope
...er the microscope in ESRC-funded research aimed at understanding the key ongoing problems involved in providing essential facilities such as health and education, as opposed to 'currently fashionable pre-occupations'. Recent years have seen major changes in public services attempted or called for at national and ...Baby talk: Infants have much to say if adults will only listen
...om adults and the world around them. It is through understanding how infants and toddlers develop life-long languag...muli, the researchers hope to gain a more in-depth understanding of how language is learned and why children who hear from birth respond differently to noises and sp......her with patients, despite their different ways of understanding the world."...