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...ts. "When you see a physician, you are routinely asked a lot of background information already, often including patient preferences such as whether you prefer a male or female doctor," Christensen said. "Our research shows that taking this a step further and considering a few straightforward questions ab...Even low levels of weekly exercise drive down blood pressure
...three days of the week. And the remainder were not asked to change their current lifestyle. Pedometers were used to help participants monitor their walking and every participant recorded how long they walked for. Blood pressure, blood cholesterol, weight, hip and waist girth, and overall fitness (funct...Some women benefit more from exercise when emphasis is on health, not appearance
...e anxiety. Only those women with the disorder were asked to participate in the study. The average age of the 99 participants was 19. Their average body mass index was 24.7, which is within the ideal range for body size. The women reported that they worked out at moderate or vigorous intensity about 3.3 t...Most seniors now have drug coverage, U-M study shows
...s that they used few or no drugs. The study also asked people about the difficulty of the decision process, and whether they were confident that they had made a good choice. Only about one in six people reported that their decision about whether to sign up for Part D was very or somewhat difficult. The v...Hormone regulates fondness for food
... the MRC and the Wellcome Trust, the patients were asked to look at a series of pictures while brain activity was recorded using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI for short)). The fMRI scanner shows which parts of the brain are activated or light up in response to different pictures. The pattern ...Baby DVDs, videos may hinder, not help, infants' language development
...ff said. In my clinical practice, I am frequently asked by parents what the value of these products is, sa... was used. Parents of the 8 to 16 month olds were asked how many of a list of about 90 words their child understood. Typical words on this list included ch...Refusal of medical and surgical interventions common among chronically ill elderly
... or initiation of hospice services). Patients were asked whether they had refused or undergone any treatmen...ecommended by their physicians, and why. They were asked to estimate their own longevity, about their desire for prognostic information from physicians, and ...Rutgers professor Bart Krekelberg is named 1 of 20 US Pew Scholars for 2007
...be seen as moving. But look at someone else who is asked to look right, then left and then right again and you will clearly see his or her eyes moving back and forth. You know your eye is going to move before you move it, and the brain tells you, Its just your eye moving; its nothing to worry about; igno...Maternal obesity prior to pregnancy associated with birth defects
... six weeks and 24 months after the babys birth and asked for their height and weight before pregnancy, along with other demographic and medical information. These women were compared with 4,065 women who had babies without birth defects during the same time period. Mothers of babies with the following se...Old McDonald's has a hold on kids' taste buds, Stanford/Packard study finds
...ut the McDonald's logo. The children were randomly asked to taste first one and then the other of the five ... age," said Robinson. He and his colleagues also asked the children's parents to complete a questionnaire that asked, among other things, how many TVs they...ADHD appears to be associated with depressed dopamine activity in the brain
...ich drug they had received. Participants also were asked to report the severity of their ADHD symptoms, whether they could detect the drug, if they liked or disliked it, and if it made them feel high, tired, alert, anxious or restless. In individuals with ADHD, methylphenidate caused less of a decrease i...Backache sufferers who fear pain change movements
...s less afraid of reinjury. The researchers next asked the participants to perform a series of three reaching tasks designed to simulate everyday activities, such as bending to open a mailbox or leaning to ring a doorbell. Sensors attached to the study subjects recorded their muscle movements. The stu...Why women get more migraines than men
...reated with memantine for at least two months were asked to fill out a survey describing their experience with the medication. The majority, 36, reported a substantial reduction in estimated headache frequency. These were all patients who had previously tried other treatments without success. While Char...Medical residents score poorly in diagnosing and managing tuberculosis
...MC Infectious Diseases, 131 medical residents were asked to answer 20 basic questions about the contagious lung disease, recently made the subject of international concern when a traveler was believed to have its most severe form. According to researchers, the overall median test score for the training......d Meston conducted two studies. In the first, they asked more than 400 men and women to identify reasons people have sex. In the second, the researchers asked more than 1,500 undergraduate students about their experiences and attitudes. The Texas psychologi...Brief motivational interviews work best long term for college students sent to alcohol counseling
...udy's corresponding author. "The ADAPS clinicians asked me to evaluate their program. Given that some studies ... had found that written feedback was efficacious, we decided to use the written personal feedback condition (WF) as the comparison group for this study." White and her colleagues tracked 348...Landmark study finds adult Delawareans with disabilities in only 'fair' to 'poor' health
...ess than $15,000 per year. The participants were asked a series of survey questions by trained interviewers. Among the findings of most concern, Riddle said, were the number of respondents (72 percent) who reported that they are overweight or obese. Almost 50 percent do not engage in any type of physical...Medical students respond positively to simulated patient experience
... the Emergency Departments simulation program, was asked by James Johnson, Ph.D., who directs the neuroscience courses taught to first- and second-year students, to develop a simulation to help teach basic science principles. Many medical schools use such computerized simulated patients to teach clinical s...Childhood sun exposure may lower risk of MS
...r MS in which only one twin had MS. The twins were asked to specify whether they or their twin spent more time outdoors during hot days, cold days, and summer, and which one spent more time sun tanning, going to the beach and playing team sports as a child. The study found the twin with MS spent less tim...Threats to hope -- Desperation affects reasoning about product information
...se phenomena. For example, the first experiment asked ninety-nine undergraduates in the midst of mid-ter...out getting good grades. The students were then asked to participate in an unrelated study that asked them to evaluate a new product a memory booster. Th...