Catastrophic events can affect a person's sleep
... the quality and the quantity of a person's sleep, according to a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS). Denise Sharon, MD, PhD, of the Comprehensive Sleep Medicine Center in New Orleans, divided the parti...Advocates ask fashion industry to support braille clothing tags; talking Web site
...te technology is expensive, costing around $2,000, according to Brill. The advocates hope to make the technology available to more people by offsetting the cost with White Cane Label proceeds. Once White Cane Label is operational, Brill and Abushagur plan to extend the Web site to become a global communit...Night shift nurses more likely to have poor sleep habits
...y of themselves as well as their patients at risk, according to a research abstract that will be presented Monday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS). Arlene Johnson, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, surveyed 289 licensed nurses while they w...Physician-researchers often less successful in obtaining NIH funding
... degree or those with both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, according to a study in the June 13 issue of JAMA. "Declines in the number of physician-scientist applicants and recipients of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research and training awards in the 1970s generated concerns that physician clinical investiga...Children with sleep disorder symptoms are more likely to have trouble academically
...ng than peers without symptoms of sleep disorders, according to a research abstract that will be presented Monday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS). The study, authored by Alyssa Bachmann, of Chappaqua Public Schools in New York, was focused on the p...Sleep Slide-Rule improves children's understanding of the importance of sleep
...ng of the relationship between age and sleep need, according to a research abstract that will be presented Mond... bar displaying the appropriate wake-up time range according to age. The aid was used as part of a lesson plan on sleep in a group of nine-to-11-year-olds. Re...Rising skin cancer rates are more likely to affect wealthy people, says 12-year review
...er people and those living in more affluent areas, according to a study just published in the June issue of British Journal of Dermatology. Researchers who looked at official cancer statistics for nearly 23,000 patients over a 12-year period, reported a 20 per cent increase in patients and a 62 per cent incr...Avian influenza on people's minds
... and cooked food is the key to safety. However, according to William K. Hallman, director of the Food Policy...propriate precautions to prevent an outbreak. Yet, according to the study, only about two-thirds of Americans seem aware that the majority of chicken sold in the...Simple test predicts 6-year risk of dementia
...ementia within six years with 87 percent accuracy, according to a study led by researchers at San Francisco VA ...re the first tools to accurately predict dementia, according to lead author Deborah E. Barnes, PhD, a mental health researcher at SFVAMC. Barnes described the te...Alzheimer's disease to quadruple worldwide by 2050
...ated to be living with Alzheimers disease in 2006, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers also concluded the global prevalence of Alzheimers disease will grow to more than 106 million by 2050. By that time, 43 percent of those with Alzhei...CAM-oriented primary care providers result in cost savings, high patient satisfaction
... patients treated by conventional medical doctors, according to a study published in the Mayissue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics that tracked data from a uniqueIndependent Physicians Association (IPA) where chiropractors serve as first-contact, primary carephysicians. The escal...Aging stem cells in mice may hold answers to diseases of the aged, Stanford study finds
... of blood diseases that strike people as they age, according to work done in mice by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. "This and our previous work points out why older people are more likely to get blood diseases, such as leukemia or anemia, and are less likely to make new antibodies...Researchers develop criteria to detect bone mass deficiencies in children with chronic diseases
...ncies, fracture or osteoporosis as they get older, according to a new study whose lead author is a researcher a...warf said. Now, pediatricians can monitor children according to the chart we developed and determine if they are normal or if theres something that needs to be i...Metabolic syndrome points to heart health
...ted with compromised heart structure and function, according to a paper published in the online open access journal BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. Ana Azevedo and colleagues, from the University of Porto Medical School, Portugal, investigated the possibility of a graded association between the number of featu...Borderline personality disorder shows improvements with intensive psychotherapy
...g symptoms and improving their social functioning, according to an article in the June issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, a premier psychiatry journal. BPD, a chronic and disabling condition affecting about 1% of the United States population, has long defied psychologists and psychiatrists seeking ...Low libido in menopause linked to trouble sleeping
...rbed sleep, depression symptoms, and night sweats, according to Group Health research in the June American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. To the best of the research teams knowledge, this marks the first time that sleep disturbance has been independently associated with diminished sexual desire durin...UK and other European countries should introduce universal childhood hepatitis B vaccination
...te the major public-health impact of this disease, according to a Review published in the June issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Infection with hepatitis B causes between 500,000 and 1.2 million deaths per year worldwide, with around 22,000 of these deaths occurring across Europe. Hepatitis B is also ...Smokers given more help to quit since GP performance pay introduced
...ce-relatedincentives for UK general practitioners, according to new researchpublished today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. "Pay for performance" incentives, introduced in April 2004, mean thatgeneral practitioners are paid more if they succeed in meetingperformance targets set by the government...Folic acid supplements do not appear to reduce risk of colorectal tumors
...ease the risk for some types of colorectal tumors, according to a study in the June 6 issue of JAMA. Some previous studies have suggested that folate supplementation may help to prevent colorectal tumors. Bernard F. Cole, Ph.D., of Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H., and colleagues evaluated the effect ...Performance-related financial incentives for hospitals not linked with improved quality of care
...ses of care or outcomes for heart attack patients, according to a study in the June 6 issue of JAMA. "The concept of providing financial incentives to health care givers to improve quality of care, known as pay for performance, has received national attention as a potential means of narrowing well-documented...