Alarming revelation: Women over 50 live in fear
... don't necessarily trust. She said some ideas to alleviate women's perceptions of risk and fears of violence included providing education and information about money management, access to safe transport, and assistance with home security and safety." "There also needs to be recognition of the influence of ...Nap a day makes doctors OK, Stanford study finds
...lly." To determine just how much a nap would help alleviate sleep deprivation, researchers recruited 49 subjects - 24 nurses and 25 doctors - who worked through the night from 7:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. in the emergency room at Stanford Hospital. They divided the subjects into two groups. One group worked straigh...New alzheimer's drug shows promise in clinical trial
... available for Alzheimer's patients are those that alleviate symptoms, but a team of scientists led by Paul Aisen, MD, director of the Memory Disorders program at Georgetown University Medical Center, is testing a new class of drugs that actually target the molecule believed to cause the disease. Aisen and his...Columbia study examines ADHD's role in smoking
...ive or fidgety? Do you find that smoking helps you alleviate these symptoms? Columbia University Medical Center researchers are investigating whether these most common symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) could be causing people to smoke. If that is the case, will treatment for ADHD ...Pilot study successful in taming allergic reactions to food
... method for treating seasonal allergy sufferers to alleviate symptoms. In this approach, called immunotherapy, physicians give patients shots containing small amounts of the troublesome allergen in an effort to build their tolerance to it. The therapy works on a cellular level to alter specific immune system c...Common PTSD drug is no more effective than placebo
Guanfacine, a medication commonly prescribed to alleviate symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, is no more effective than a placebo, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. There was no benefit at all, and there were several adverse side effects, says lead aut...New study finds treatment with certain anti-hypertensive drugs may reduce Alzheimer's disease
...f drugs that are available to delay or effectively alleviate symptoms of memory deterioration or dementia, said Pasinetti. Despite major breakthroughs over the past ten years in understanding the pathogenesis, molecular mechanisms and possible causes of Alzheimers disease, limited progress has been done in th...New angiogenesis inhibitor has promise for treating deadly brain tumor
...inical trial also finds that AZD2171 treatment can alleviate brain swelling (edema), a debilitating symptom in many brain cancer patients that currently can be treated only with steroid drugs. Appearing in the January 2007 issue of Cancer Cell, the study is too preliminary to determine whether this new drug m...New dopamine brain target discovered
... generation of highly specific drugs that may help alleviate the devastating symptoms of schizophrenia."...Emergency Medicaid for immigrants goes to childbirth
... increasing access to preventive care, which would alleviate demand for costly emergency care and improve the health of this population," DuBard said. To understand trends in North Carolinas Emergency Medicaid spending, DuBard and co-author Dr. Mark Wayne Massing of the Carolinas Center for Medical Excellenc...Researchers hot on the trail of brain cell degeneration
...rms of treatment and advance research that aims to alleviate symptoms. The researchers behind the study hope that the results can be used in planning new targets for drugs to reduce the cell destruction signals caused by calcium entry. Finding new targets for medicine development is also significant in terms o...Community-based measures fail to reduce HIV levels, new study shows
...ch larger programmes, based on skills training, to alleviate povertyand strategies that reach into the wider community to stem theepidemic," he added. The study compared six pairs of communities in Eastern Zimbabwe, eachwith its own health centre. Control communities received the standardgovernment services ...'Shrug off' shoulder surgery myth, study suggests
...ked at all arthroplasties performed in Maryland to alleviate osteoarthritis pain between 1994 and 2001, including details of 15, 414 hip surgeries, 34, 471 knee operations and 625 shoulder procedures. "After looking at how all these patients fared, we concluded that, comparatively, total shoulder surgery is ...A new, nanoporous ceramic filter offers hope to kidney-dialysis patients
...ng in the good stuff." The new filter could also alleviate the stress resulting from the fast blood flow required to remove toxins and finish a dialysis treatment in four hours. "To get a session done in four hours," says Van Geertruyden, "you have to be invasive in order to get a fast enough flow. If we c...Chance of hysterectomy predicted by multi-year study
...cal menopause" that doctors sometimes prescribe to alleviate severe symptoms. One symptom alone, such as pelvic pain or bleeding, results in only a 20 percent chance of undergoing a hysterectomy within four years, the study found. Yet a combination of symptoms as well as the two other predictors a lack of ...Clinical studies evaluate potential treatments for mouth ulcers
...mptomatic patients in the best fashion possible to alleviate their discomfort; this is, after all, one of the primary roles of any caring physician," Drs. Bruce and Rogers conclude. "These studies in this issue of the Archives enhance our armamentarium." (Arch Dermatol. 2007;143:519-523. Available pre-embarg...HIVMA opposes The Gambia's unproven AIDS remedy
...ed to save lives." "Any treatment that claims to alleviate this devastating disease must be subjected to rigorous scientific scrutiny," he added. "A growing body of evidence from Africa shows the lifesaving effects of antiretroviral medicines for people living with HIV/AIDS. On the other hand, the remedy Pre...New therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative diseases
...ables, and so on and which, in some way appear to alleviate the damage cause by these illnesses. In short, the goal is to gain more knowledge about the molecular bases of these pathologies, define therapeutic targets (molecules of the cell that recognise a pharmaceutical drug and thus respond to it) and, i...Smokeless cannabis delivery device efficient and less toxic
... in the journal Neurology that smoked cannabis can alleviate the chronic pain caused by HIV-related neuropathy, but a concern was expressed that smoking cannabis was not safe. This study demonstrates an alternative method that gives patients the same effects and allows controlled dosing but without inhalation...Persistent smokers may have higher risk to become depressed than never smokers
...m depressive symptoms smoke cigarettes in order to alleviate their symptoms. According to the second assumption, chronic persistent smoking may have a role in the etiology of depression. The third hypothesis suggests that there is a reciprocal mechanism between smoking and depression. The fourth hypothesis say...