Ulcerative colitis sufferers find UC quite disruptive to many aspects of daily life
...st the ulcerative colitis community in identifying areas to focus our efforts." "Like many other chronic diseases, there's no medical cure for ulcerative colitis, but with better management of quality of life issues, improved patient communication and by getting patients on effective therapies, we can he...New book provides unprecedented look at role of religion over a lifetime
...ession as their less religious peers. "In other areas of functioning depression, sense of control, and fear of death our data showed a more specific role for religiousness. In particular, among those who were in poor health, religiousness emerged as a strong buffer against depression and the loss of l...Conference to focus on transfer of knowledge from research to practice in emergency medicine
...gency medicine. Apart from identifying appropriate areas of investigation, the conference will determine a plan for advocacy: i.e., means to communicate the importance of this area as a research endeavor to related disciplines, policy makers, and funding agencies. The conference will also identify potentia...Atypical pathogen treatment vital in hospitalized CAP patients
...antibiotics). After dividing the world into four areas and using 2,208 patients listed in the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Organization (CAPO) database, the number of patients who received an atypical treatment regimen in Region I (North America) was 91 percent, with 74 percent in Region II (Europe), 53 ...Pioneering study maps attention, memory and language links in the human brain
...smell) in insects. His research is grounded in the areas of learning and memory, systems physiology and ani...etic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities to map the areas and networks within the brain linked to language, attention and memory. The UA's advanced MRI is a n...Smoking, growing private hospital care for poor and US flu vaccine policies
...e likely to smoke during pregnancy if they live in areas of high segregation or low segregation compared to areas that are moderately segregated, according to researchers at the University of Washington. In highly...Mailman School of Public Health researchers analyze air quality and weather changes by 2050
... sensitivity simulations even for relatively small areas may be of interest to planning organizations that focus on the state, county, or municipal level." While this study was focused mainly on land-use change, earlier research by the team examined the potential impacts of climate change on air quality ...Stenting of abdominal arteries offers welcome relief for 'intestinal angina'
...olleagues recruited 50 patients with a total of 74 areas of narrowing, or stenosis, in the superior mesenteric or celiac arteries. In most cases, the procedure was performed by passing a catheter from the femoral artery in the groin up through the abdominal aorta and into the arteries supplying blood to th...SCAI's 'Therapies in Evolution' showcases exciting future of interventional cardiology
...learn about them month-to-month than in many other areas of medicine year-to-year." Take, for example, ao...catheter-based techniques for regenerating scarred areas of the heart using stem cells. This procedure is performed using a 3-dimensional electromechanical m...Elsevier announces launch of Brain Stimulation
...ingle source for the most important studies in all areas related to neuromodulation, spanning scientific disciplines and medical and surgical specialties. Each quarterly issue of Brain Stimulation will present original scientific, translational, and clinical research in the field. Basic science topics w...Greenberg Prize awarded to Dr. Joseph G. Hayes
...ord system that links clinical data from disparate areas such as from the laboratory, radiology, pharmacy and billing. "Dr. Hayes is also a superlative teacher, greatly revered by residents, medical students and colleagues -- as evidenced by his numerous awards in this area," says Dr. Antonio M. Gotto Jr...Procedural changes may reduce cardiac arrests outside pediatric ICUs
...tal of 274 events. Arrests in noncritical-care areas declined from 2.7 arrests to 1 arrest per 1,000 patients discharged, a decrease of 63 percent. Patients needing escalation of care those who had not suffered an arrest but whose distressed condition benefited from the expertise of the PALS Team ...$30 million boost to dementia research
...rojected increases in spending, particularly inthe areas of health, age pensions and aged care. The projections also show that by 2047, Australia's total population will be 28.5 million, 38 per centlarger than June 2006. At the same time, the proportion of people aged 65 and over is projected tonearly do...Transcontinental wildfire emissions monitored from space
... to find that even over Australian biomass-burning areas still up to 30% of the enhanced carbon monoxide levels from forest fires originate in South America." Forest fires in South America produced much more carbon monoxide in 2004 than in 2003, Gloudemans explained. "These levels correlated to the amou...A frown or a smile? Children with autism can't discern
...o this. They hear and they see, of course, but the areas of the brain that normally respond to such visual cues simply do not respond. Led by Mari Davies, a UCLA graduate student in psychology, and Susan Bookheimer, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscie...Once-yearly treatment significantly reduces bone fractures in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis
...clast reduced the frequency of fractures among the areas of the body that are typically affected by osteoporosis, including the hip, spine, and wrist. Specifically, a 70 percent reduction was achieved in spine fractures. The risk of hip fractures, which are associated with significant mortality, was reduce...Brains scans of symptomatic Gulf War veterans show differences
... fewer) of symptoms. Researchers found that two areas of the brain involved in thinking and memory were significantly smaller in the veterans with a high number of symptoms than in the veterans with fewer symptoms. The overall cortex was five percent smaller in those with more symptoms, and the rostral ...Hurricane Katrina evacuees had deep distrust of public health authorities
...d breaks along the levee to selectively flood poor areas in order to preserve the downtown financial district. Some of the categories of distrust most often mentioned by evacuees involved the competency of authorities in handling the emergency; perceived equity that is, whether authorities treated the ...Culture sculpts neural response to visual stimuli, new research indicates
... East Asians, whose brains showed more activity in areas involved in processing background information. T...x. The most striking finding was that the object areas of the older East Asian subjects responded much more weakly to novel stimuli (that is, the appearanc...... LAMB3 protein expression to normal, and triggered areas of previously affected skin to return to a clinica...ely, suggest that, in the future, skin grafts from areas of an EB patient's own normal-appearing skin could be transplanted to affected skin regions on the s...