Benchmark fetal surgery study finds timeliness to be critical factor in success of treatment
...ped referring patients. The American investigators asked that the trial be stopped. Unbeknownst to investigators at that time, the trial oversight committee found significant differences between the two treatment modalities and recommended that the trial be stopped, which it was in May of 2005. The tria...Revealing secret intentions in the brain
...either add or subtract two numbers. They were then asked to hold in mind their intention for a while until the relevant numbers were presented on a screen. The researchers were able to recognize the subjects intentions with 70% accuracy based alone on their brain activity - even before the participants had...Assessing the cost of juvenile arthritis
...pecifying any particular disease. Researchers also asked parents about time loss from their work and days missed from school for the children. The study was the first to quantify an association between JIA disease activity and health care costs and found that the difference in annualized average direct ...Exercise has no effect on risk of knee osteoarthritis
...few studies have been conducted where patients are asked about physical activity and followed to find out w... later (1993-1994) had knee X-rays. They were also asked questions about knee symptoms such as pain, aching or stiffness. Between 2002 and 2005 they were cal...Link found between muscle damage during childbirth, condition causing fallen bladder, uterus
...e (55 percent compared with 16 percent). When they asked women to contract their muscles, the muscles were 40 percent weaker in women with prolapse. In addition, about 52 percent of the women in the study with prolapse recalled having forceps used during childbirth, nearly twice the amount (about 27 perc...Space technology benefits medical community
... of the country's leading scleroderma experts, who asked the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md., to develop the device after reading about APL's work developing miniature devices for spacecraft. "Until now, Raynaud's research has been crippled without such a device." ...Study in recent issue of Clinical Pediatrics helps pediatricians to understand discipline practices
...e before their child's well-child exam. The survey asked about the use of common discipline practices, about the perception of discipline effectiveness, and the surrounding factors of each type of discipline. The researchers found several factors that went into the types of discipline used, such as: the ch...Hard to tell who can best advise medical journals
...er. In a recent survey, experienced reviewers were asked about training they had received in peer review and about other aspects of their background. The results, published in the latest issue of PLoS Medicine, show there are no easily identifiable types of formal training and experience that predict revie...New UWS study to shed light on women and recovery from alcoholism
...e helped women to maintain sobriety are also being asked to take part in the study, which will be in the form of a survey and interviews....RAND study of Los Angeles County neighborhoods and their impact on children enters second phase
... phase of the study. Families that enroll will be asked to complete an interview covering topics such as n...d care, and residential mobility. They may also be asked to participate again in future rounds of the study. To assess the health status of a portion of adu...HIV medical providers unite to advocate for patient care
.... "For this," she added with frustration, "we were asked to take an $8,000 cut in our Title III base funding levels." The Title III Coalition will advocate for funding for medical providers to respond to the full scope of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. People with HIV very often have complex medical and other ne...Can epilepsy patients predict their seizures?
...year, but not more than one per day. Patients were asked to keep a daily log in which they predicted how likely they were to experience a seizure in the coming 24 hours. Fifty-seven patients experienced seizures during the study. Of these patients, the study found they correctly predicted about 32 percent...Bioterrorism alerts induce anxiety and may pose health risk, Einstein study finds
... Einstein and Ferkauf. Potential participants were asked if they would participate in a research study involving the perception of a public health message and its relation to anxiety. The 116 participants (26 men and 90 women) randomly received one of two messages: either a potent bioterrorism message po...New research brings initial find of Alois Alzheimer to fore once again
...veral play a role in constricting the arteries. He asked colleague Joseph Miano, Ph.D., a cardiovascular researcher and expert on the smooth muscle that makes up part of the arteries, to take a look. Miano recognized the group as genes that are all controlled by one of two master regulators of gene activ...Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years
...rviewing neurologist at the first clinic visit who asked patients and their families or caregivers when symptoms were first noticed. The researchers determined that the mean age of onset of dementia symptoms in the monolingual group was 71.4 years, while the bilingual group was 75.5 years. This differenc...Offenders unlikely to seek help when experiencing mental distress
...e then interviewed after their release. All were asked whether they had ever been formally diagnosed with a mental health problem and whether or not they felt they had a mental health problem (regardless of diagnosis). Several reported a formal mental health diagnosis, while many said that they personall...States with higher levels of gun ownership have higher homicide rates
...ents nationwide. Respondents in all 50 states were asked whether any firearms were kept in or around their home. The survey found that approximately one in three American households reported firearm ownership. Analyses that controlled for several measures of resource deprivation, urbanization, aggravate...Education does not protect against age-related memory loss, say USC researchers
...m the list. Five minutes later, participants were asked how many of the words they could recall. Data came from the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study, a nationally representative longitudinal study of older Americans. Participants, born in 1923 or earlier, were interviewed up t...Hopeful nurses are more comfortable, confident in caring for dying children
... 2005 with a web-based, written survey. The survey asked the nurses whether they were comfortable working with dying children and their families and inquired about their knowledge, attitudes, practices and experiences regarding aspects of palliative and end-of-life care. The team also used questions from a...New Congress should focus on covering the uninsured, reducing health costs, according to new survey
... IT Use Considered Top Ways to Control Costs When asked about approaches to control the rising cost of health care, three of four health care leaders said that reducing inappropriate care would be effective, with the greatest support coming from business/insurance/other health industry leaders (83%). Othe...