Patient-centered approach can backfire
...doctor with attitudes similar to theirs. "A more passive patient who wants the doctor to take the reins is probably not as adaptable to an unwelcome role," Christensen said. "Patients who are highly keyed-in to their own care and motivated to take on responsibility will likely find other ways to accomplish...STAMP system can help professionals to identify potentially violent individuals
...as also an issue and was associated with anger and passive resistance. However, it was noted that there can be cultural reasons for avoiding eye contact and it was important to differentiate these from other cases. Tone and volume of voice was associated with 13 of the 16 violent episodes. Most of the ca...Researchers find deadly prescription drug effects 6 years before FDA
...ns to medications. The FDA is under attack for its passive and inefficient methods of learning about these problems. Why is RADAR so nimble? Bennetts network includes hematologists and oncologists around the country and the world. His phone rings weekly with calls from concerned doctors alerting him to pos...Personality changes may help detect form of dementia
...s, people with dementia with Lewy bodies displayed passive personality changes, such as diminished emotional ...ith Lewy bodies were two times more likely to have passive personality traits at the time of the first evaluation than people with Alzheimer's disease. By the ...Syphilis screening, lithium fights neurodegeneration, monoclonal antibodies against avian flu
...m a different clade. These results indicate that passive immunotherapy with human monoclonal antibodies cou...note of caution, however. They suggest that before passive immunotherapy can help to halt an H5N1 pandemic, additional monoclonal antibodies should be made to ...Aggressive treatment for whiplash does not promote faster recovery
...reatment delays recovery by encouraging the use of passive coping strategies. "Reliance on frequent clinical care, a form of passive coping strategy, may have a negative effect on recovery by reinforcing the patients belief that whip...Parents and schools, major factors in China obesity boom
...bese in urban and suburban areas, due to increased passive transport to school, easy access to fast food and also students in these areas are more likely to spend more time doing homework and have less physical activity." Dr Li added. Parental control of "snacking" was reported to be strongly associated wi...ASU, Walter Reed researchers create prosthesis of the future
...isting technology in prosthetic devices is largely passive and requires the amputee to use 20 to 30 percent more energy to propel themselves forward when walking compared to an able-bodied person, according to Thomas Sugar, ASU assistant professor of engineering at the Polytechnic campus. Once complete, S...Research finds music training 'tunes' human auditory system
...int, the brainstem once was thought to only play a passive role in auditory processing. Using a novel experimental design, the researchers presented the Mandarin word "mi" to 20 adults as they watched a movie. Half had at least six years of musical instrument training starting before the age of 12. The oth...New insights into autoimmunity and depression
...im T-maze test to assess cognitive function; and a passive avoidance test to measure the ability of mice to remember a foot shock delivered 24-hours earlier. Depression-like behavior was strongly observed in the performance of anti-ribosomal P antibody-injected mice on the forced swimming test. The immob...Passive smoke in workplace increases lung cancer risk
...two dozen studies confirms the association between passive smoke in the workplace and an increased risk of lu...nalyzed workers' level and duration of exposure to passive smoke and their risk of lung cancer. The researchers found a 24 percent increase in lung cancer ri...Hybrid molecule causes cancer cells to self-destruct
...to select the sugar partner to serve not just as a passive carrier but as additional ammunition in the fight against cancer." The researchers focused on a sugar called N-acetyl-D-mannosamine, or ManNAc, for short. The team created a hybrid molecule by linking ManNAc with butyrate. The hybrid easily penetra...How your brain helps you become a wine expert
...ifferentiate between similar smells simply through passive experience, shedding light on how we ultimately le...actory expert a person would become as a result of passive learning." "Information about an odor is not static or fixed within these cortical regions, but is...Adolescent girls more active if neighborhoods have parks
...ciated with more physical activity than parks with passive amenities, such as picnic areas and lawn games. The study suggests that communities should make parks a higher priority, particularly ones with amenities like running tracks or walking paths, Catellier said. Previous studies have shown that girls be...Smoking ban associated with rapid improvement in health of bar workers
... documenting the serious adverse health effects of passive smoking provides a powerful rationale for prohibiting smoking in all public places. The time has come to clear the air," Dr. Eisner writes. (JAMA. 2006;296:1778-1779. Available pre-embargo to the media at www.jamamedia.org .) Editor's Note: Fi...Italian public smoking ban leads to fall in hospital heart attack admissions in under 60s
...fall was probably due to reductions in exposure to passive smoking, the researchers, from the University of T...iversity of Turin. He said that both active and passive smoking contributed to the fall, but that only around 1% was likely to be due to active smoking, a c...Arctic summer ice anomaly shocks scientists
...Earth and measures the signals return. AMSR-E is a passive microwave instrument which does not send radar pulses down but receives radiation naturally emitted from the Earth. Passive microwave data contain a certain amount of ambiguity in interpretation of ice types, particularly in mid summer during melting...New tool helps blood specialists improve patient care
... "The hematologists who use these measures are not passive learners. They are not simply reading about how to improve patient care they will be doing it," said Steven Allen, MD, a member of the ASH Committee on Practice, which is developing new parameters for measuring performance on the treatment of severa...Cracking the real Da Vinci Code -- what happens in the artist's brain?
...he reason is that 'neural plasticity' ensured that passive exposure to different natural and manmade environments caused the formation of different visual preferences. Similarly, the new discipline reveals that European artists such as Leonardo stood before vertical canvases while Chinese artists sat befor......nd more than 10,000 dying each year as a result of passive smoking. The Health Act 2006 will make all enclosed public and work places in England and Wales smoke-free environments, but may exclude some mental health settings. This would be a mistake, argue Jonathan Campion and colleagues, as the prevalenc...