Grandparents, older adults encouraged to seek help for a sleep disorder
...s in older adults include: Insomnia affects almost half of adults 60 and older. Obstructive sle...gs every 20-40 seconds during sleep, is evident in almost 40 percent of older adults. Not sleeping well can lead to a number of problems. Older adul...Stomach cancer rate set to fall further 25 percent over next decade
...period covered the years 1991 to 2005 and included almost 98,000 patients who had a routine tissue sample (b...were intestinal metaplasia, which was diagnosed in almost 66,000 patients during the monitoring period. The figures showed that the rate of new cases fell ...1 of 2 pediatric kidney disease research centers in world established
...ypertensive and diabetic patients that account for almost one-third of the adult population....Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's
... healthy people, and the sLRP that was present was almost three times as likely to be damaged compared to the same protein in healthy people. As a result, the Alzheimers patients had on average three to four times as much loose, unbound amyloid-beta floating in their bloodstreams high levels that would lik...Hispanic drug use rises in US culture
...earch also showed that acculturated Hispanics were almost twice as likely as non-acculturated Hispanics to report current binge drinking and more than three times as likely to report drinking continuously for days in a row without sobering up, also known as bender drinking. When people immigrate to the U...Women with migraines and visual symptoms may have higher stroke risk
... with visual symptoms (within the prior year) were almost seven times more likely to have a stroke compared to women with no history of migraine, said Steven Kittner, M.D., M.P.H., senior author of the study and staff physician at Baltimore Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center. Eight percent of stroke case...Using MRI for diagnosis could help prevent breast cancer progression
...RI, but only 46 (52%) by mammography. Accordingly, almost half (48%) were missed by mammography but diagnosed by MRI alone. They also found that age, menopausal status, personal or family history of breast cancer, and breast density of women with MRI-only diagnosed disease did not differ significantly from ...Metabolic study in mice could lead to 'good cholesterol' boosters
...n both directions, we were able to reduce HDL-C to almost nothing or double it. That wide range of effects suggests that it may be theoretically possible to manipulate good cholesterol levels to whatever point you like. He emphasized, however, that the new findings represent basic research in animals. Fur...Novel candidate biomarker for heart failure also strongly predicts risk of death
...d blood samples from the PRIDE study participants, almost 600 individuals who had come to the MGH Emergency Department with shortness of breath. In this study, the single largest ST2 analysis to date, the researchers confirmed ST2 as a novel marker of heart failure, finding the highest levels among parti...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Aug. 7, 2007, issue
...equency with age (Article, p. 156). At aged 65, almost half (49.9 percent) had one or more geriatric conditions. Some conditions were as prevalent as common chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, and presence of geriatric conditions was strongly associated with disability. Most geriatri...World's largest respiratory health study launches next phase
...g such an important studythat has been running for almost 40 years all the way back to 1968. We look forward to theoutcomes of the follow-up studies including that of the siblings of those originally involved. We hope the ongoing TAHS will provide a detailed description of respiratory health and diseasein t...Medical residents score poorly in diagnosing and managing tuberculosis
...edical residents in Baltimore and Philadelphia get almost half the answers wrong, according to a survey by TB disease experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere. In the survey, published online Aug. 2 in the British journal BMC Infectious Diseases, 131 medical residents were asked to answer 20 basic question...HealthGrades study: Bariatric surgery patients have fewer complications at high-volume hospitals
... five stars by HealthGrades performed, on average, almost twice the number of procedures during the three ye...rated hospitals. Among the 19 states studies, almost half of all the procedures were performed in just four states New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Flo...National quality agenda, payment reform, care integration keys to improving quality, patient safety
...works. This likely stems from the recognition that almost everybody stands to benefit from widespread use of health information technology. The survey of leading health care experts with a diverse range of professional and ideological perspectives is the eleventh in a series from The Commonwealth Fund, an...Takeda responds to the FDA advisory committee recommendation
.... Since the introduction of ACTOS in August 1999, almost 70 million prescriptions have been written, covering more than 8 million patients and 4.5 million patient years. Takeda has consistently emphasized the importance of physician education and patient safety in all communications involving ACTOS and h...Nottingham center to help UK to meet its carbon targets
... the main culprit in global warming and in the UK almost a third of these emissions come from power stations. The storage method to be developed at CICCS could cut such CO2 releases to zero in a safe and reliable manner. The Centre will work on research at the interface of science and engineering, indus...Trials underway for 'essential' new TB vaccine
...gency recorded over 8,000 cases in 2005, including almost 3,500 in London alone. The vaccine has been developed by Dr Helen McShane, a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellow, working with Professor Adrian Hill, a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, both at the University of Oxford. Dr McShan...Landmark study finds adult Delawareans with disabilities in only 'fair' to 'poor' health
... satisfied" or "satisfied" with their lives, while almost 20 percent are "dissatisfied" or "very dissatisfie...caregivers who were present during the interviews, almost 40 percent indicated that caregiving responsibilities do not leave enough time for themselves, are a...Investigating the causes of Parkinson's disease
...nt more than 30m on research since 1969, including almost 4m in 2006. Studies funded use basic and applied science as well as health and social care projects to investigate the causes, treatment, prevention and cure for Parkinsons....UD scientists invent novel hydrogels for repairing, regenerating human tissue
... the ability to regenerate itself quite easily. If almost 70 percent of it is lost to disease and removed, that remaining 30 percent can grow back, affording a functional liver. We want to use the hydrogels to deliver hepatocytes to the liver, he noted. These could be used to beef up the liver's function pr...