Chemical present in clear plastics can impair learning and cause disease
...me pregnant women and that BPA contamination could adversely affect human hippocampal development, with longter... is impaired, as in old age, exposure to BPA could adversely affect hippocampal function and contribute to agerelated neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheime......tion. As seen in this study, premature ejaculation adversely affects sexual satisfaction, and partner distress is a common motivation for afflicted men to seek treatment....No strong evidence linking mercury levels with worse neurobehavioral performance in older adults
...compelling evidence that blood mercury levels were adversely associated with neurobehavioral test scores. There were some consistent associations across models but because of the large number of comparisons and the observation that statistically significant associations were in different directions (i.e., wors...Study finds maternal exposure to parasitic infection may increase risk of schizophrenia in offspring
... While active toxoplasmosis infection is known to adversely affect fetal brain development, this is the first suggestion of a possible association between an elevated maternal antibody to toxoplasmosis and the risk of schizophrenia. "These findings underscore the value of prenatal serologic samples to docum...New NHLBI-sponsored study shows programs can teach children to eat healthier
...made by children in the intervention group did not adversely affect the children's nutritional status, growth, or development. In the latest analysis, researchers analyzed the dietary recalls collected over three days at the beginning of the study and again after three years. They found that the dairy food gr...Higher medicaid payments are good, but not great
...odest pay cuts may also be an option that will not adversely affect users when state budgets tighten. Fees can be reduced by five to ten percent without serious, negative results. "In all cases where we detected significant payment effects, we found that higher rates improved access and use for Medicaid benef...Fitter by degress? Higher education no panacea for adult health
...cea. If policies aimed at improving education also adversely affect any of the other combination of factors involved they will fail, or have far less of an impact on health than was expected." The study warns that as more people obtain degree level qualifications, even the improvements in health now attributed...Breast-conserving surgery underused in Asian American and Pacific Island women
...ulty communicating with their physicians, possibly adversely affecting treatment outcomes. Another explanation for the differences is that foreign-born Asian American women may be less likely to choose breast-conserving surgery. Despite conflicting evidence of the impact of mastectomy on the self-image of Asi...Study: Brain structures contribute to asthma
...dence have shown that stress and emotional turmoil adversely affect people with inflammatory diseases like asthma. And signs of inflammation have been shown to affect the brain. But until now, nobody knew exactly what brain circuits were involved in these seemingly intertwined emotional and immune events or ho...High blood pressure has stronger effect on mental function in blacks
Not only does high blood pressure adversely affect mental functioning, but the correlation appears to be stronger among African-Americans than among whites, researchers report in the current issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. Lead author Michael Robbins, Ph.D., of the University of Maine, said t...Acting to prevent mild cognitive deficit after 60 may hinge on knowing levels of blood factor
...n that high levels of homocysteine may, over time, adversely affect cognitive performance, but, until this study, no research has cleanly teased out homocysteine's link to cognitive functioning. For this study, the researchers were able to focus on homocysteine's effects on cognitive measures because they wer......the 2006 calendar year. "We do not expect this to adversely impact our progress and the achievement of key milestones in the longer term. "The costs incurred in the field exchange program are not material in the context of our overall financial commitment to our global clinical trial program. "Throughout th...Mayo Clinic finds chronic cough patients report a miserable existence
... "We are seeking to understand how chronic cough adversely affects the patient socially, psychologically and physically," says Kaiser Lim, M.D., Mayo Clinic pulmonologist and allergist and lead study investigator. "It's important for people with chronic cough to have empathy and realize that there are physic...Mental health services underutilized by cancer patients
...uch areas as pain control and physical disability, adversely affect treatment compliance and shorten survival. Data suggest that the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in early stage cancer patients is far less than advanced stage cancer patients. However, the prevalence of psychiatric disease in the latter i...Lifestyle modification plus medication more effective than medication alone
...obese patients also have other conditions that can adversely affect their health, physicians should carefully monitor patients enrolled in weight-loss programs that include weight-loss medications. The findings of the study are consistent with the NIH Obesity Clinical Guidelines, which recommend that weight l...Pregnant women with abnormal placentas may have an increased risk of early cardiovascular disease
...l placental syndrome, especially when the fetus is adversely affected. Affected women should have their blood pressure and weight or waist measured about 6 months postpartum, and healthy lifestyle should be emphasisedWe believe the maternal placental syndrome should be considered as an additional risk factor f......benefits are available to staff and their families adversely affected while performing their duties. 3. Governments, hospitals and health regions should develop human resource strategies for communicable disease outbreaks that cover the diverse occupational roles, that are transparent in how individuals are as...Free care by Florida emergency physicians climbs faster as uninsured patient visits increase
... care a consequence that may worsen overcrowding, adversely impact quality of care and lead more emergency rooms to close their doors, University of South Florida researchers found. USF worked with the Florida College of Emergency Physicians (FCEP) on the study, which is published in the October-December 200...Internal medicine organizations survey internists on maintenance of certification
... that allowing their certification to expire would adversely affect their careers, that internists working in direct patient care should be certified, and that peers perceive board-certified physicians to be more competent than non-certified physicians. ABIM's MOC program is designed to evaluate both medical ......n be a debilitating symptom that significantly and adversely affects quality of life and many of the activities of daily living. Fatigue is often experienced by cancer patients for reasons that are not clearly understood, although it is thought to be linked to the disease, treatment side effects, psychosocial ...