Media invited to international conference on bipolar disorder June 16-18 in Pittsburgh
...ssues that affect the more than 2 million American adults with the disease. Media are invited to attend. The first two days of the program will consist of scientific sessions, including 10 presentations of late-breaking research. Saturday's program will be geared toward both clinicians and individuals who h...Hidden costs and invisible contributions of adults characterized as dependent
...on the hidden costs and invisible contributions of adults who are older or living with disabilities is being...y characterized as 'dependent,' specifically older adults and adults with chronic illness or disability. Co-investigator and local organizer Dr Jim Struthers ...Testicular cancer gene in mice may offer clues to origins of cancer in men
...rize that testicular cancer that develops in young adults may also originate from a genetic mutation during fetal development - perhaps by inheritance of a single dead end mutation - and tumor development occurs later due to environmental exposures or other genetic susceptibilities and losses. "Extrapolatin...Boys, too, suffer long-term consequences of childhood sexual abuse
...ms as among nonvictims. Similarly, sexually abused adults of both genders faced a 40 percent greater risk of marrying an alcoholic. Until now, most research on the effects of child sexual abuse has focused on female survivors, and little information was available on male victims. The new study shows that be...Arthur Frommer tells America where to stop when they need to go
...ty may replace anticipation for the one out of six adults over age 40 with a condition called overactive bladder (OAB). To help people with OAB avoid embarrassment when they head outside their homes, world-renowned travel expert Arthur Frommer has partnered with Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation to devel...UCLA study tackles aging issues of adults with developmental disabilities
... developmental disability. As people live longer, adults with developmental disabilities are no exception, ... for Rehabilitation. The research team studied 201 adults with disabilities who were living in non-institutional settings without nursing care. Their ages ra...Ramelteon demonstrates no abuse potential according to study results
...o-controlled, crossover clinical study of fourteen adults with a history of polydrug or multiple-drug abuse. These subjects were entered into a 7-day double-blind treatment period, comparing behavioral effects and abuse potential of ramelteon and triazolam, a benzodiazepine sedative-hypnotic. During the t...Lifestyle, rather than fetal or childhood factors, critical for adult bone health
...north eastern England. Of the original cohort, 832 adults were traced at the ages of 49 to 51. Of these, 389 (171 men and 218 women) completed a detailed health and lifestyle questionnaire and underwent tests to gauge bone mineral density (BMD) of the hip, spine, and top of the thigh bone (femur). For men, ...Study shows Philip Morris pursued tobacco regulation to enhance its image
...ng tobacco use as an individual choice by informed adults to take a risk, which allowed the company to portray itself as a reasonable and responsible manufacturer of a risky product." The plan was to divide public health groups and to set Philip Morris apart from other companies in an effort to achieve fav...Psychologist: Make culture part of the new collaborative science
...rsity of Michigan plan to survey a large sample of adults in Tokyo to gather extensive socio-demographic and...ological and social trends in more than 7,000 U.S. adults between the ages of 25 and 74. Notably, working with a different culture does mandate a modified res....... "We hope that this place of kindness will do for adults andtheir families what the Children's Inn has done for our pediatricpopulation." Patients from every state in the U.S. and from around the world visit NIH toparticipate as partners in medical discovery. In the more than 50 yearssince the Clinical Ce...Emory study finds health care use, work productivity linked to health levels
While most American adults may not be patently sick, a vast majority of them ...valence of mental and physical health issues among adults between the ages of 25 and 74, and how varying levels of health correlated to healthcare use and wor...Corticosteroids do not help head injuries
...ears. Last year, the CRASH trial, involving 10,000 adults with head injury, found that treatment with corticosteroids increased the risk of death at two weeks when compared with a placebo. (Lancet 2004; 364: 1321-28) In this final 6-month follow-up the CRASH trial investigators found the risk of death or se...Association between depression severity and poor glycemic control among Hispanics with diabetes
...ral, depressive disorders are more prevalent among adults with diabetes. However, the relationship between depression and glycemic control in patients with diabetes is less obvious. Hispanics have high rates of diabetes and are more likely to have poor glycemic control. Diabetes ranks fifth among the leadin...Queen's poll - Ontarians don't want to close institutions for those with intellectual disabilities
...ieve that institutions are the best place for most adults with intellectual disabilities to live; 81 per c...ts, which represents 1 in 284 households, 1 in 626 adults across southeastern Ontario. Most results were either within +/-3 or 4 % 19 times out of 20, althoug...Sickle cell and protection against malaria
...he immune system. Studying a group of children and adults in the Kilifi District of coastal Kenya, they foun...d age-specific malaria in a sample of children and adults in the Kilifi District of coastal Kenya. Protection against mild malaria increased up to 60% at age ...In those genetically predisposed, 'developmental reprogramming' could explain cancer risk
...ited BRCA1/2 gene defects develop breast cancer as adults while other women with the same genes remain disea...ur eyes to the notion that cancer that develops in adults may have been put in motion before a person is born," says the first author, Jennifer Cook, a gradua...New complicated grief treatment holds promise for millions, Pitt researchers report
...n, a new treatment approach could help millions of adults who needlessly suffer. Complicated grief treatment (CGT), which was developed by the study authors specifically to address complicated grief symptoms, was found to be significantly more effective than a comparison psychotherapy, interpersonal psychot...People with diabetes more sensitive to cardiovascular effects from air pollution
...lood vessels to control blood flow was impaired in adults with diabetes on days with elevated levels of particles from traffic and coal-burning power plants. The researchers evaluated several kinds of fine particles found in urban air pollution. These included sulfate particles, which come mainly from coal-...