Small-bowel injury in children more common in abuse than accident cases
...ll is the explanation." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper)...Distant prayer does not improve clinical outcome for patients undergoing coronary procedures
...o guide future trials." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper) In an accompanying editorial The Lancet comments: "Do the results of the MANTRA II study rule out the use of noetic therapies in modern scientific medicine? Such a conclusion would be premature. The contribution that hope and beli...Are some medicines so good they should be free? In diabetes, the answer may be yes
...dings, based on a sophisticated computer analysis, appear in the July 19 Annals of Internal Medicine. Right now, cost or lack of awareness keeps many older diabetes patients from taking ACE inhibitors, which reduce blood pressure and cut the risk of diabetes-related problems in the cardiovascular system an...Other highlights in the July 20 JNCI
... conclude that administrative Medicare claims data appear to be a valid source of information for chemotherapy administered to elderly Medicare beneficiaries with cancer and thus may be used for studies of chemotherapy use and outcome in the elderly. Contact: Emily Parker, Massachusetts General Hospital Pub...Doctors should stop prescribing antibiotics for the common cold, review advises
...ystematic review of current evidence. "Antibiotics appear to have no benefit in the treatment of acute upper respiratory tract infections," conclude Dr. Bruce Arroll and Dr. Timothy Kenealy of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. "The implications for practice are that prescription of antibiotics should...Secretin should not be used to treat autism, researchers say
...by Levy and others found. Autism disorders usually appear during the first three years of life, and may be four times more likely to occur in boys compared to girls. The prevalence of autism is disputed. A 2003 study estimated that 40 out of every 10,000 children in the United States might have an autistic ...Wife influences husband's marijuana use during first year of marriage
... their wives' expectations. Although wives appear to influence husbands' marijuana use, wives do not necessarily have that influence in other areas of the relationship. Previous research by Leonard and colleagues found that husbands' drinking influenced wives' drinking during the first year of marri...Bone loss after liver transplants can be prevented
...mineral density (BMD). The results of this study appear in the August 2005 issue of Liver Transplantation, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS). The journal is published on behalf of the societie...Injuries higher among obese people, study finds
...k of injury in the general population. The results appear in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The researchers categorized study participants based on individual body mass index (BMI) measurements, which relate a person's weight to their height. The National Institutes of Hea...National Institutes of Health accept clinical study of Zestra(TM) for women
...mproves sex for women. Testosterone and blood flow appear to be of secondary importance to sensation. 1,2 Seven years ago, QualiLife Pharmaceuticals recognized the critical role of sexual sensation in triggering the entire cascade of events involved in female sexual response and pleasure. The role of sens...Study identifies fat-secreted protein linked to insulin resistance
...elopment of drugs to treat diabetes. The findings appear in the July 21, 2005, issue of the journal Nature. According to senior author Barbara B. Kahn, MD, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at BIDMC, these findings in both mice and humans represent the first evidence that ele...Quality of care in hospitals varies among regions and within individual hospitals
...did not do as well in pneumonia care. The findings appear in the July 21, 2005 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. An accompanying editorial also appears in this issue of the journal. Until now, there has been no national database on the quality of care at U.S. hospitals. The Centers for Medicare ...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 3
... diets and increased physical activity, but do not appear to have radical impacts on reducing overweight and obesity gain. The epidemic of child obesity demands serious action, and around the world many people have looked at ways of helping children eat less and exercise more. In preparing this review, the ...Single dose of chemotherapy is as effective as radiotherapy for testicular cancer
...ad of hemi-castration." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper)...Possible exposure to nerve agents and brain cancer deaths in Gulf War veterans
...arch 1991 weapons demolitions in Khamisiyah, Iraq, appear to have a higher risk for brain cancer death than veterans who were not exposed. Researchers compared the causes of death in a group of 100,487 possibly exposed U.S. Army Gulf War veterans with those among 224,980 Army Gulf War veterans who were not...Study on female twins finds occupational class influences adult health, above early life conditions
...l attainment influences adult health. The results appear in the July 26, 2005, issue of the Public Library of Science Medicine, ( www.plosmedicine.org ). Studying the health status of twins as adults, particularly identical twins, can provide unique insights to the issue of the influence of adult experienc...Vitamin D supplements not effective in preserving bone mineral density in black women
CHICAGO Vitamin D supplementation did not appear to prevent bone loss in postmenopausal black women, according to a study in the July 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Although there is general agreement on the optimal calcium intake recommended for reduc...Combination scanner may increase accuracy in detecting spread, recurrence of head, neck cancer
... North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, appear in the July issue of the medical journal The Laryngoscope. The whole-body PET/CT also is highly accurate for detecting head and neck cancer recurrence, the researchers said. "PET/CT is very helpful in determining where we should pinpoint our biopsies...Opiates better than sedatives for treating newborns in withdrawal
...o used heroin or methadone while pregnant. Opiates appear to better "ameliorate the withdrawal, facilitate f... diazepam to reduce treatment failure. The reviews appear in the July issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an internati...Neuroscientists identify how trauma triggers long-lasting memories in the brain
..., the connections between neurons. The study will appear in today's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Emotionally neutral events generally are not stored as long-term memories," said Christa McIntyre, the first author of the paper and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department...