Staying alert during class: Self-applied acupressure may reduce sleepiness
...nsufficient rest the night before, students at all ages and grade levels sometimes have trouble staying awake in class. Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have found a way to combat the sleepiness and to keep students awake during class, and it doesn't have anything to do with caffein...Survey finds many Katrina evacuees had chronic health problems and no health insurance
... based on a sample of 680 randomly selected adults ages 18 years and older, staying in the Houston Reliant Park Complex (which included the Reliant Astrodome and the Reliant Center), the George R. Brown Convention Center, and five smaller Red Cross shelters in the greater Houston area. Interviews were con...Breast cancer screening trial shows digital mammogram benefits
...l had no signs of breast cancer. Volunteers of all ages the median age was 54 took part. Each woman was given both digital and film screenings. Then they were randomized so that half had the digital exam first, the other half had the film exam first. Two different radiologists independently interpreted ...Artificial cervical disc replacement offered for neck and arm pain problems
...urgery. Qualified participants must be between the ages of 18 and 65; have been diagnosed with disc degeneration or disk herniation in the cervical spine and have arm or shoulder pain and weakness or other symptoms or nerve compression. In addition, they must have been treated by a physician for more tha...CAD helps detect smaller potentially more aggressive breast cancers in younger women
...pecially in younger women," he said. "The average ages of mammography screening detected cancers in the CAD group was more than five years younger than in the pre-CAD group," Dr. Cupples said. In the study, the radiologists reviewed each mammogram and then activated the CAD system. The CAD system "m...Lead exposure plus high blood pressure may impair mental ability
...re also assessed. NHANES III involved 4,835 people ages 20 to 59, (average 35.8). Fifty-one percent were female, 35.4 percent were Caucasian, 31.4 were percent Black and 29.7 percent were Hispanic. "The interaction of pulse pressure and blood lead levels on performance of the digit task was significant ...Supportive spouse may reduce effect of job strain on blood pressure
...ar. The study population was 77 percent Caucasian; ages ranged from 40 to 65 years. Physicians, nurses, administrators, maintenance workers and others working at the University of Toronto Health Sciences Center represented about two-thirds of the study group. Visitors to the university accounted for the ...'Healthy weight, healthy shape' key in preventing heart disease
...ez, obesity is increasing in both sexes and at all ages in nearly all European countries due to a steady increase of total caloric intake and absence of sufficient daily exercise. In Southern Europe, Professor Sans Menndez said that a departure from traditional Mediterranean diets toward manufactured food...Beauty queens urge girls not to sacrifice their bones
...ens, is changing. They urged women and men of all ages to take responsibility for their bone health, to r...ment takes place in girls and boys roughly between ages 11-17. By building peak bone mass during this period, young people "invest in their bones" and reduc...Updated guideline: Carotid endarterectomy beneficial for stroke prevention in some patients
... recent symptoms of stroke. For people between the ages of 40 75 years with moderate to severe narrowing, but presenting with no symptoms of stroke or disease, carotid endarterectomy may be considered if the patient has at least a five-year life expectancy and if the surgery can be done with a low compli...NASH clinical research network launches trial for treatment of liver disease in children
...dren (TONIC) trial will enroll 180 boys and girls, ages 8-15 years with NAFLD. The participants will receive vitamin E, or metformin (an insulin-sensitizing drug), or placebo over 2 years. There are no weight cut-offs or percentiles for the children participating in TONIC. However, more than ninety percen...Smoking seems to increase brain damage in alcoholics
...rch, compared 37 recovering alcoholics between the ages of 26 and 66 with a control group of 30 healthy light drinkers. The researchers used magnetic resonance imaging, a safe, non-invasive imaging technique, to measure brain volumes of the study participants. They discovered that the more severe the tob...Children whose parents smoked are twice as likely to begin smoking between 13 and 21
...in smoking cigarettes on a daily basis between the ages of 13 and 21 than were children whose parents didn...or this study, the individuals were interviewed at ages 13, 14, 15, 16, 18 and 21. The group was nearly equally divided among males and females. Forty-six...Long-term smoking is associated with up to 40 percent increased risk of breast cancer
... and breast-cancer risk in older women between the ages of 65 and 79. Those who did smoke had much longer histories of smoking than women in previous studies, so we were able to look at the effects of long smoking durations on breast-cancer risk," said Li, an assistant member of the Hutchinson Center's Pu...Married women have more sexual difficulties than single women or married men
...00) involved over 11,000 men and women between the ages of 16 and 44, who were asked about their sex lives between 1999 and 2001. Older age was associated with reporting sex life problems for both men and women, but otherwise there were considerable differences between the sexes. Women were significantly ......'t know their LDL level. Aspirin use among the men ages 50 and older (the group most likely to get the hea...t,though. That number gets larger with age; in the ages 70 and older group, exactly half answered yes. The faculty members are conscientious about cancer sc...Only one-third of women take vitamin to help prevent serious birth defects, survey finds
... those of other organizations, two-thirds of women ages 18-45 are not taking all the necessary steps to he...times since 1995. In 2005, 2,647 women between the ages of 18 and 45 were asked about their awareness and knowledge of the benefits of folic acid and their ...Obesity, history of weight gain could help predict prostate cancer progression
... first to associate a man's body mass at different ages and adult weight gain with the risk of progression after his prostate cancer has been surgically treated. "These findings support the view that the development of aggressive forms of prostate cancer may be influenced by environmental effects that occ...Vast majority of adults at risk of becoming overweight or obese
... study in Framingham, Massachusetts. Participants ages 30 to 59 were followed for 30 years, from 1971 to 2001. The results appear in the October 4, 2005, issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. "National surveys and other studies have told us that the United States has a major weight problem, but thi...... (e.g. high glycemic load). "Many of my patients, ages 8 to 12 years old, frequently eat foods prepared away from home, sometimes up to four times a week. If these early eating patterns persist throughout their adolescence, our findings suggest that these children will be heavier and perhaps be more at r...