Study identifies factors associated with aggression in nursing home residents
...ent) of U.S. nursing home residents are physically aggressive every week--hitting, shoving, scratching or sexual...the study, 7,120 (6.9 percent) had been physically aggressive in the week before their assessment and 10.5 percent had been verbally abusive. After the researche...Hopkins scientists use embryonic stem cells, new cues to awaken latent motor nerve repair
...ry from paralysis after losing motor neurons to an aggressive infection with Sindbis virus -- one that, in rodents, specifically targets motor neurons and kills them. The animals recovered enough muscle strength to bear weight and step with the previously paralyzed hind leg. Kerr likens the approach to electr...Rheumatoid arthritis can be prevented if the timing is right
...CCP) to confirm a diagnosis of RA, one of the most aggressive and debilitating forms of rheumatism. The study concluded that, in the MTX group, fewer patients developed RA during the observed time and more patients reached remission than in the group receiving placebo. "This data is excellent news as it shows ...Queen's-led network looks at FAS aiming to minimize life-long learning problems
...chers can identify early signs of FASD and develop aggressive therapeutic interventions at earlier stages to minimize the effects on a child's development. To understand the underlying mechanisms of this novel hypothesis of FASD, the Toronto team members are studying the effects of formic acid and folic acid on...Children of diabetics show signs of atherosclerosis
...ddition to risk of diabetes. They may benefit from aggressive cardiovascular risk factor modification, including blood pressure and lipid control, weight management and smoking cessation to reduce their risk of heart attack and stroke," Dr. Goldfine said. "Blood sugar levels, even in the non-diabetic range cont...Sequence of therapies not associated with improved survival from inflammatory breast cancer
...ions in the approach to improve survival from this aggressive disease."...African American women need to receive HPV vaccine
...onal level to support the development of early and aggressive intervention programs to avoid similar issues with distribution of the HPV vaccine. The article states that although HPV does not affect all groups equally, it is imperative that the most vulnerable populations be proactively reached from the start t...Define diabetes differently, says U-M expert in speech for national award
... and abnormal results should lead to immediate and aggressive intervention to help individuals control their blood sugar through diet, exercise and, if necessary, medication. This is because studies by Herman and others have shown that tight blood-sugar control can dramatically reduce the chance that a person w...JCI table of contents, June 8, 2006
... of the immune system and in doing so help prevent aggressive immune responses against our own tissues. However little is known about how Tregs themselves are regulated. In a study appearing online on June 8 in advance of print publication in the July issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Irun R. Cohe...Pre-menopausal African American women more likely to have certain type of breast cancer
...cancer. The researchers found that one of the more aggressive subtypes, the basal-like breast cancer subtype, was more prevalent among pre-menopausal African American women (39 percent) compared with post-menopausal African American women (14 percent) and nonAfrican American women (16 percent) of any age, where...Some patients with heart attack shock survive years after aggressive treatment
... by a group led by Judith S. Hochman, M.D., showed aggressive invasive treatment of heart attack patients who de...eating heart attack shock patients. Although aggressive therapy is increasingly used in tertiary care hospitals, which have sophisticated invasive care faci...Study: Breast cancer in younger black women is more likely to be an aggressive variety
...s likely as older women, black or white, to get an aggressive breast cancer subtype, the study found. They are also much less likely to get the least aggressive type. A report of the research appears in the June 7 issue of the Journal of the American Medical As...Neuroendocrinology Congress June 1922 to report new research on brain, hormones, behavior
... may explain why some males tend to be more macho, aggressive and confrontational than others. Female athletes produce more testosterone the male reproductive hormone when they are in the heat of competition, making even greater amounts when they win, according to Portuguese research in female soccer player...Targeted therapy shows significant benefits over standard treatment for advanced kidney cancer
...y its effectiveness in treating patients with this aggressive disease," said Dr. Motzer, who is a leader in the treatment of kidney cancer and conducted the earliest clinical trials on sunitinib (initially referred to as SU11248). Interferon-alpha (IFN-) is one of the standard treatments for advanced kidney c...Sharing clinical trial results strongly favored by participants
...ing treatments for HER2-positive breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease, according to Partridge. "However, some patients may not initially understand the findings," she added. "We are continuing to evaluate the best ways to share results, and make them completely clear so that patients understand them...Terminally ill patients continue to receive aggressive treatment at end of life
... while there were significant variations in use of aggressive treatment, the overall trend has continued, said Earle. "The use of hospice definitely increased steadily over this time period," he said. "But an increasing number of patients were admitted to hospice in just the last three days of life, so the hosp...Public needs to heighten awareness of dangers of elevated TVs that are larger, heavier
... to floors and walls, the researchers noted. "More aggressive education to warn parents about the risk of injury must be implemented so that more families will take the time to display their televisions safely," said study author Dr. Robert Todd Maxson, assistant professor of pediatric surgery at UT Southwester...Fatty diet does not increase risk of skin cancer
...ple who had been diagnosed with skin melanoma the aggressive skin cancer that spreads to other tissues or non-melanoma skin cancers skin cancers that are less likely to spread to other tissues - between 1998 and 1999. They compared these patients with 471 individuals who did not have skin cancer. Both patien...Embargoed materials for Complementary & Integrative Medicine Conference
...atoid arthritis is not known and there is no cure, aggressive treatment for the condition can delay joint destruction. Ongoing research is looking at the potential genetic, environmental, and hormonal causes of the condition. Abstract 248 Effect of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Psychological and Physica...Two very different surgical procedures produce same results in often fatal intestinal disorder
...up of patients. "Since the study compared the most aggressive surgical treatment with the least invasive and found no difference, it appears unlikely that ongoing focus on the details of the operation is likely to improve survival in these patients," he said. Moss also has developed and tested a set of clinical...