Different antipsychotic medications may have different effects on brain volume
... authors conclude. "Future clinical studies should attempt to verify whether the early stage of psychosis is associated with brain volume changes and whether antipsychotics can neurobiologically alter the course of the disease."...AACR celebrates 20th anniversary of minority scholar awards
...cancer researchers. The program was created in an attempt to address the serious problem of lack of minority participation in cancer research by offering young minority students and trainees the opportunity to attend and participate in the annual meetings and special conferences of the AACR. By attending th...West Africa: meningitis epidemics driven by the wind
...ngitis epidemics in this region of West Africa and attempt to limit their impact. However, these results do not provide a way of defining a possible link between the intensity of winter and the size of the epidemic. Moreover, the climate model used is founded on a period of only nine years, and possibly larg...Breakthrough in national diseases
...ave also been observed to influence the gene in an attempt to evade the immune defence system, a strategy employed, for example, by the viruses that cause AIDS, herpes and hepatitis. The article, entitled "MHC2TA is associated with differential MHC molecule expression and susceptibility to rheumatoid arthrit...New treatment 'roadmap' improves odds for unusual brain aneurysm
... make the separation from the normal vessel. In an attempt to develop better ways to treat patients with thrombotic aneurysms, the research team studied 68 patients with the disorder. The researchers developed a classification system of six different types of thrombotic aneurysms and the best way to treat e...Measuring enzymes at end of cancer pathway predicts outcome of Tarceva, Taxol
...indle assembly - CDK will become more active in an attempt to correct the problem. Working with the Sysmex Corporation of Kobe, Japan, the researchers devised a test to measure CDK activity and the expression, simultaneously. They found that monitoring of two isotypes of CDK activity accurately predicted whi...No strong evidence linking mercury levels with worse neurobehavioral performance in older adults
...ly vulnerable to neurotoxicants, this study was an attempt to examine whether this rapidly growing group is sensitive to even lower levels of exposure. Since the blood mercury levels in our study did not appear to be associated with adverse neurobehavioral effects, our results suggest that these levels of ex...American Academy of Neurology sums up scientific highlights from 57th annual meeting
...elp patients with medication-overuse headaches who attempt to stop using headache drugs. [S59.005] Neuropathic pain is a common and dreaded complication of spinal cord injury, and has proven very hard to treat. Researchers in Germany, Australia, and the United States showed that pregabalin, a drug used for d......ake a closer look at the utilization of CTA; every attempt should be made to consider using tests that are less expensive and use less radiation dose," Reed said. Anna Rozenshtein, MD, and John Austin, MD, mentored Reed on the project. The study will be part of an electronic exhibit at the ARRS Annual Me...Pilot studies to look at how mind drives or prevents disease
...nd to vaccine the older they get. Researchers will attempt to bolster the immune systems of 50 local nursing home patients by increasing "mindfulness," or attention to what is taking place in the present. Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) has been shown in past studies to strengthen immune systems. T...Boys, too, suffer long-term consequences of childhood sexual abuse
...fe -- in both men and women. A history of suicide attempt was more than twice as likely among both male and female victims as among nonvictims. Similarly, sexually abused adults of both genders faced a 40 percent greater risk of marrying an alcoholic. Until now, most research on the effects of child sexual ...Little change in suicidal thoughts, plans or attempts in US
...t vs. 92.8 percent) and among ideators who made an attempt (49.6 percent vs. 79.0 percent). The authors add that " we found that risk of suicide-related behaviors is consistently elevated in several vulnerable subgroups, including the young, women, individuals with low education, and individuals lacking sta...New data show the efficacy of EQUETRO in patients with Bipolar I Disorder
...c compounds. Because the possibility of a suicide attempt is inherent in bipolar disorder, close supervision of high-risk patients should accompany drug therapy. Notes to editors APA Poster # 309: Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 12:00 PM ET Georgia World Congress Center, Level 3, Rooms B302-B305Efficacy of Switch...Medical privacy vs. health care quality?
...spitals might take a conservative approach and not attempt quality-improvement research, or allow researchers...gulations on important research. In a far-reaching attempt to legitimately protect patient privacy, HIPAA has made it very difficult to do critical health care...Easy access to nicotine patches could help more smokers to quit
...rventions to encourage large numbers of smokers to attempt to quit smoking." In an accompanying comment Mike Murphy and Paul Aveyard (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK) state: "Miller assessed outcomes in the softest way at 6 months: namely, without verification (so respondents could deceive if they wished), ...May/June 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...extent of comorbidity within the population in any attempt to reengineer primary care. PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO PROVIDE RECOMMENDED CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC DISEASES Current practice guidelines for only ten chronic illnesses require more time than primary care physicians hav...Prevalence and severity of mental illness in the United States
...be defined by criteria including a serious suicide attempt or substantial work limitations as result of the disorder; moderate, which might defined by criteria including suicide ideation or substance abuse without serious impairment of functioning; and mild. Based on data obtained from 9,282 adult respondent...Mental illness exacts heavy toll, beginning in youth
... daily activities or work disability, or a suicide attempt with serious lethal intent, or psychosis. The serious group reported a mean of 88.3 days -- nearly 3 months of the year -- when they were unable to carry out their normal daily activities. Unfortunately, say the researchers, individuals with one ...New hope for treating heart rhythm irregularity that often follows surgery
...esearchers will continue their studies in dogs and attempt to block inflammation of the heart tissue while preserving the normal inflammatory response in the rest of the body. "Our hope is that we can soon bring this treatment to the operating room and eliminate one of the major complications of heart surge......CEPH). The college earned this honor on its first attempt and was granted a five year accreditation, the maximum term possible for a first accreditation. The UK College of Public Health was designated as the 37th accredited college of public health in the United States by the council. CEPH is an independen...