Easing the anxiety of pregnancy after miscarriage
...self think that at all." Ct-Arsenault's research addresses several concerns: the primary emotions experienced by these women; the degree of personhood assigned by the mother to a lost fetus; the amount of anxiety experienced in a current pregnancy; the impact of fetal loss on the woman's concept of self, and...Actor-patients' requests for medications boost prescribing for depression
...an serve a useful educational function. This study addresses this issue of over- or under-prescribing. The researchers randomly assigned actors portraying patients with symptoms of major depression or adjustment disorder to make 298 unannounced visits to 152 family physicians and general internists recruited f...Neuroimaging confirms the greater vulnerability of women's brains to alcohol
... of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research addresses this gap in research, using computed tomography (CT) to examine brain atrophy in the brains of alcoholic men and women. The findings support and build upon a prior hypothesis that women develop alcohol-related brain damage more readily than men. "S...Fluorescence device to diagnose atherosclerosis and tumors described at optics conference
... said Marcu. "Therefore, to be sure the technology addresses particular questions and issues related to brain tumors, we must collect data from patients, analyze the data and define the spectral ranges of particular aspects related to the diagnosis of brain tumors. But those are very different from those relat......tucky physician and researcher, Dr. James Anderson addresses these and other questions in two articles in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition . What is so good about soy? A quick trip through the health-food section of any grocery will reveal several labels touting soy content, ...UCSB professors among team awarded $13 million to mount nano-attack on plaque
...solutions to medical problems," she said. The PEN addresses a critical, unmet medical need. Heart attack remains the number one cause of death in the United States. Of the estimated 60 million Americans who have at least one type of cardiac disease, one million die each year, many without showing signs of d...University of Maryland scientist wins 2005 Kettering Prize
...itomizes the scholar scientist whose work not only addresses fundamental biological issues but also translates into improving the lives of patients with cancer. We are very fortunate to have Dr. Brodie on our faculty, and we salute her ground-breaking efforts in the fight against cancer." "Many thousands...UCI researchers create method for predicting most effective use of cancer-fighting drugs
... resistant mutants inside this colony? The model addresses the question in terms of probability, not certainty. While the model cannot predict at what moment a mutant is generated, it predicts the likelihood that such a mutant will be generated -- a feature that is not a weakness of the model but captures in...Passion for technology: Three UH women honored
...d also was very active in volunteering. "The AWC addresses the critical need for more students to enter what is known as STEM science, technology, engineering and mathematics career fields," said William Fitzgibbon, dean of the College of Technology. "It is gratifying to see our students receive awards of...4D proton therapy, radiation-resistant tumors, interpreting medical images
...and cancer radiation therapy in a single procedure addresses the problem of maintaining accurate positioning while performing radiotherapy over a period of several days or more. A procedure developed by a collaboration of scientists at University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands), Philips Research Hamburg...Patient navigation provide tools to address barriers to care but need standardization and assessment
...on programs are distinct in that they specifically addresses barriers to care encountered by individual, disadvantaged patients. Programs have been developed to address these barriers at a broad range of levels of cancer care, from prevention to survival. The authors also found that while navigation programs o...Swamped city: New Orleans and nature
...s flood control and wetland efforts, the book also addresses the larger topic of how nature and the environment play an important role in how cities function and take shape. Colten said that this is an idea geographers have often overlooked when it comes to their study of cities. "One of the central tenets o...Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member to receive distinguished alumna award
...American Association on Mental Retardation), which addresses the role of nurses who specialize in I/DD. She also edited the book, "Core Curriculum for Specializing in Intellectual and Developmental Disability," (2005, Jones and Bartlett Publishers), in which interdisciplinary authors addressed topics on health...'Secrets' of successful hospitals revealed
...what's actually happening in hospitals, this study addresses the critical practical issue of how practice can be improved. "We don't have much information on how we can improve; and this study begins to bridge that gap by systematically describing what aspects of the approach hospitals take seems to be rela...Aussie blokes dying for a health policy, say UWS men's health experts
...a long-overdue national men's health policy, which addresses the social, cultural and political context for men's health problems. "We are still far to eager to dismiss the worsening men's health statistics as a result of 'men behaving badly' - bad diets, smoking and drinking too much, getting into fights, not...New book focuses on how to market better nutrition
... obesity and targeting nutritional gatekeepers. He addresses each problem with research-based solutions for his targeted readers. These include, for example: how to change eating habits by targeting cooks, not consumers; the best ways to introduce new foods into a diet; how a "clueless cook" can make foods ta...Insurance company rewards to doctors and hospitals may not improve care
...olicy Studies and the Department of Medicine. He addresses this issue in an editorial in the October 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, outlining a strategy for learning more about the effect of paying doctors and hospitals to improve performance. The editorial is titled "Pay-for-Pe...ICSU pursues new initiative that challenges science to do more to prevent natural disasters
...our traditional focus on the physical sciences and addresses how scientific results interact with the policy-making process. "We need to find new ways to communicate science to decision makers so that they understand how to integrate scientific evidence into their political and policy processes," he said. "A ...Asthma home intervention cost-effective for inner-city children, research reveals
...ed intervention is particularly advantageous as it addresses some of the underlying causes of asthma in a cost-effective manner instead of simply treating the disease symptoms," Stearns said. "The analysis probably understates the full benefit of the intervention as we only measured the health effects for each...Evacuation of elders during disasters to be addressed at GSA's upcoming annual meeting
...l Society of America will present a symposium that addresses some of the many physical and mental health issues that confront the nation's aging minority population. The panel will consist of talented junior scholars in the field of gerontology who are committed to understanding and identifying some of the bio...