Parents of children with rare diseases benefit from intensive support programmes
...study led by a team at Gothenburg University. This aimed to measure the effect of a series of five-day prog...The series of programmes the families took part in aimed to help them to handle everyday problems more effectively. They included: Discussions and lectures...Higher optimism levels associated with lower risk of cardiovascular death in elderly men
..."It is yet to be established whether interventions aimed at improving an older individual's level of optimism may reduce the risk of cardiovascular mortality."...Multiple sclerosis research into reparative cells offers new avenue for fighting disease
...estigations into strategies for treatment that are aimed at promoting preservation of tissue architecture (neuroprotection) and even potentially neurorestoration," said Dr. Frohman, who directs the Multiple Sclerosis Program and Clinical Center at UT Southwestern and holds the Irene Wadel and Robert I. Ath...Efficiency, not more doctors, is the prescription for aging population
...ned, Goodman and his team write, efforts should be aimed at increasing the efficiency of medical practice and directing resources to care that has been proven to be effective. They point to large interdisciplinary (or multispecialty) group practices, a structure that has been in place in many parts of the...Refinements and innovations enhance safety, effectiveness
...plus a GPI. The study is part of ongoing research aimed at improving clinical outcomes in ACS therapy while limiting the risk of serious bleeding. Acute coronary syndrome is an umbrella diagnosis that encompasses both unstable angina and a type of heart attack known as non-ST elevation myocardial infarcti...Endocrinologist-directed intervention aimed at primary care physicians improves diabetes care
...ry care setting can be improved by an intervention aimed at physicians. The intervention was individualized...nique partnership of generalists with specialists, aimed at improving the care of patients that the specialists did not see. The partnership differs from ty...Cutting-edge procedures cut costs, time associated with cardiac episodes
...6) -- Scientists presented a novel diagnostic tool aimed at cutting the time and costs needed to evaluate acute chest pain, as well as updated pre-hospital protocol to quickly diagnose and treat heart attacks today at the American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session. ACC.06 is the premier card...Jon Epstein, MD, of Penn, wins Outstanding Investigator Award
...to fostering medical research and support programs aimed at developing the careers of physician scientists....Heart disease in women worse than previously thought
...ams. In the patients in the study, drug treatment aimed at relieving angina (nitrates) was prescribed solely on the basis of symptom history. In the study, angina in women was also associated with increased death rates, where women diagnosed without the confirmatory test had significantly higher death ...Defective immune system response to smallpox vaccine detailed in new study
... in 2004 to integrate clinical and animal research aimed at reducing the risk of eczema vaccinatum, a potentially deadly complication of smallpox vaccination. Eczema vaccinatum occurs almost exclusively in people who have a history of atopic dermatitis, a common, non-contagious skin disorder also known as ...Vol. 42, No. 5 JRRD tipsheet: Focus on spinal cord injury and prosthetics
...d injury (SCI) are needed to help monitor programs aimed at meeting the recommendations of public health initiatives for increased physical activity. Thirteen individuals with SCI underwent exercise testing, followed by heart rate and metabolic testing during five activities of daily living (ADL). Data rev...U-M study: Program to boost elderly flu vaccination could save lives
...ces were to lead a 10-year flu vaccination program aimed at elderly people with the same intensity as pharm...iveness of an intense federal advertising campaign aimed at vaccination, appears in the March 2006 issue of Preventive Medicine. Annual vaccination is the si...Growing body of research links lead to osteoporosis
...nvironmental Health Sciences with a clinical study aimed at better understanding the deceptive role lead initially plays in bone development, growth and loss and how this all might lead to earlier onset of osteoporosis in those exposed to high levels of lead as a child. A metabolic bone disease that pred...UQ scholars win Fulbrights for nursing and cancer research
...r Turner, 42, from Albany Creek said her own study aimed to collect information about workforce factors that affected nursing recruitment and retention as well as their physical and mental health. Dr Whiteman is a Senior Research Fellow with the Cancer and Population Studies Group at the Queensland Instit...HIV infection rates down one-third in south India, University of Toronto study
...t, the World Bank and other external agencies have aimed intervention and awareness programs at the sex industry and their efforts appear to have contributed to a drastic decline. "There have been many predictions, mostly based on guesswork, that India's AIDS problem will explode -- as it did in southern A...5 finalists compete for Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research
...ere has been an outpouring of support for measures aimed to increase the security of the air transport system. However, in an era of limited resources and with airlines standing on the brink of bankruptcy, it is vital government decision-makers have the right information to help them implement measures tha...Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine theme issue on children and the media
...bsence of regulations restricting food advertising aimed at children, reduction in television viewing is a promising approach to reducing excess energy intake." (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2006;160:436-442.) Children Who Watch More TV May Have Sex Earlier A large national study indicates that among ado...UPMC joins Italian government to create $398 million biomedical research center in Sicily
...s, vaccines, devices and other biomedical advances aimed at improving the health of its citizens and sparking economic development throughout the region. "We have finalized all details in record time. In little more than 11 months, we have managed to find the necessary funds for what can become a financia...Explaining how the brain recognizes faces
...thesized neuronal circuitry would work. This model aimed at predicting how the circuitry could give rise to the perception of faces. Such perception includes the shape of specific features--eyes, noses, and mouths--as well as the "configuration" of those features--their position on the face. The researcher...Rutgers College of Nursing Professor premieres video to reduce HIV risk
...emiere her video vignettes for hand-held computers aimed at reducing young women's HIV sexual risk behavior before community members, AIDS experts and caregivers at John Cotton Dana Library on the Newark campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey April 25. The video vignettes will be shown in t...