More evidence of cannabis-induced psychosis
...d delusions. They were described by one subject as worse than those experienced after smoking cannabis. One subject was given dronabinol, a synthetic THC that has been in medical use in the USA since 1985. The other subject was asked to drink a decoction of natural THC. The authors hypothesise that the eff...Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
...easures. They indicated that HRQOL is consistently worse in patients who fail to achieve sustained viral response. Six studies examined HRQOL by neuropsychosocial effects, such as cognitive dysfunction, depression, emotional distress and stigmatization. These studies revealed large HCV-related HRQOL differ...African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
...umors than Caucasian women, potentially leading to worse outcomes. Specifically, the investigators first performed a retrospective study of data from four treatment trials carried out by the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) in a clinical trial setting where patients receive similar care, to determine if ...Donor age has no affect on long-term liver transplant survival
...atitis C was an independent factor associated with worse fibrosis. "Donor age did affect survival, but only during the early critical post-operative period, but not survival after 3 months, despite having in our cohort 30 percent of donors over 50 years," the authors state. They found maintenance azathiopr...Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
... for those who had a longer hospital stays and was worse for older children. The extremely low refusal rate suggested that parents were willing to share personal data. These results reinforce the view that the logistics of obtaining consent for sharing information presents substantial challenges requiring ...Doctor suggested cannabis for pain relief, says one in six medicinal users in the UKMUHC study
...n on side effects, said that prescribed drugs were worse than cannabis and 34 per cent said the side effect...76 respondents said their symptoms returned or got worse when they stopped using cannabis. "To our knowledge this is the most extensive survey of med...Researchers say breast cancer in Africa may provide clues to the disease in African-Americans
...h nodes and, therefore, higher stages disease with worse prognoses. Poor prognosis is compounded by resource poor healthcare infrastructure, which offers limited treatment options and underutilizes effective treatments. Still, the incidence of breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa is small at 20 per 100,000 ...Mountain life spells longer life
...men and women living in the mountain village had a worse coronary heart disease risk profile than their peers living in the lowland area, with higher rates of circulating blood lipids and higher blood pressure. In 1996 the researchers assessed the number of survivors. Over the 15 years, 150 men and 140 wom...Obesity among African-American stroke survivors increases risk factors for recurrent stroke
... survivors, as this group has been shown to have a worse risk factor profile than their non-African-American counterparts, putting them at high risk for recurrent stroke. Furthermore, the high morbidity [illness] and mortality [death] due to stroke in African-Americans should make this an increasing area o...Binge drinking can impair both mood and cognitive performance
...ers. In addition, female binge drinkers performed worse on the working-memory and vigilance tasks than did the female non-binge drinkers. "Binge drinking is associated with a negative, [as in] depressive, mood," said Duka. "[It is also associated with] an impaired performance in a working memory task, w...Cigarette smoke worsens respiratory infections in infants
...ation in their windpipes, so they would tend to do worse with RSV," Castro says. "But we found that even in the kids who came from the homes with the highest allergen levels, there was no increased risk." Having a mother with allergies or asthma also tended to have a protective effect. Those children whose...Even mild depression increases long-term mortality in heart failure
...ies have demonstrated links between depression and worse outcomes for patients with cardiovascular disease,...atients, depression alone predicts a significantly worse progrnosis after one year. Jiang is currently investigating whether the use of anti-depressant medic...English-speaking Hispanic youth more likely to have sex early
... higher prevalence of risk factors associated with worse health outcomes, such as poverty, lack of health insurance, and fewer visits to health care professionals." "A greater understanding of the healthy immigrant effect has the potential to help to improve the health and health outcomes of all children,"...Older women can benefit from chemotherapy to treat breast cancer
...free survival. Overall survival was significantly worse or patients aged 65 or older because of death from causes other than breast cancer. Thirty-three deaths (0.5 percent of all patients) were attributed to treatment, and older women had higher treatment-related mortality. Older women and younger wome...When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
... timing problem may be anywhere from 2 to 50 times worse detecting such gaps, which are crucial though unconscious for properly hearing consonants and vowels. "To a person with a timing problem, conversation sounds like everything is spoken through a drainpipe," says James Ison, professor of brain and c...Unemployed women at higher risk for cardiovascular disease
...ular disease and mental health, the reason for the worse health outcomes cannot be determined with the cross-sectional data in this study. The data was drawn from 34,879 black and white American women, ages 2564 years, from the 2003 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey. They categoriz...Feb. 15, 2005, Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet
...ound that older or more experienced physicians had worse measures of health care quality or medical knowledge than younger physicians. Only one study showed that older physicians had better quality measures than younger physicians. The negative association was consistent across medical specialties and mea...Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
... time, and that their moods were not substantially worse than those of the healthy people." "This is further evidence that people adapt emotionally to serious adversity, such as end-stage kidney failure," says senior author Peter Ubel, M.D., a U-M professor of internal medicine and psychology, and a staff ...Effects of autism reach beyond language, new research suggests
...r stress levels were presumably at their peak, and worse on the problem-solving tests. A week after the exa...nitive tests. This time, the students did slightly worse on the memory test, but had improved on the word and shape tests. "There was a clear relationship be...Older people get the big picture faster, and they are less inhibited
...g-held belief that older people perform slower and worse than younger people has been proven wrong. In a study published today in Neuron, psychologists from McMaster University discovered that the ageing process actually improves certain abilities: Older people appear to be better and faster at grasping t...