RAND finds cases of undiagnosed diabetes drop sharply
...ink between obesity and diabetes has received wide attention only in recent years, it may take more time for physicians to routinely test the obese for the disease, Smith said. Diabetes is a serious illness that occurs when the body cannot properly produce or regulate insulin, which controls the level of glu...Grandparents, older adults encouraged to seek help for a sleep disorder
...me sleep are more likely to have a depressed mood, attention and memory problems, excessive daytime sleepiness, more nighttime falls and use more over-the-counter or prescription sleep aids. In addition, recent studies associate lack of sleep with serious health problems such as an increased risk of obesity, ...Some women benefit more from exercise when emphasis is on health, not appearance
...She made comments throughout the classes that drew attention to appearance, such as Stand tall, you'll look five pounds lighter or Work it, let's get your legs toned so they look good! About five to 10 minutes after class each woman filled out the Exercise-Induced Feeling Inventory. This questionnaire measur...Sports concussion research using fMRI provides insight for safe return-to-play decisions
...o their performance on neuropsychological tests of attention and memory and to their report of symptoms such as headaches, said principal investigator Mark Lovell, Ph.D., asssociate professor in the departments of orthopaedic surgery and neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. ...ADHD appears to be associated with depressed dopamine activity in the brain
...ne receptors in areas of the brain associated with attention than it did in those without ADHD. Since levels of methylphenidate in the blood were the same in both groups, this suggests that those with ADHD released less dopamine in response to the drug than controls. This blunted response was associated with s......he series. The test demands a good memory, focused attention and other executive skills, butunlike the WISCit doesnt require much language. The idea was that the autistic kids true intelligence might shine through if they could bypass the language deficit. And thats exactly what happened. The difference betw...Heat-related deaths in middle, high school football players spikes in 2006
... said. The heat-related injuries warrant special attention because they are preventable, he said. These and other indirect deaths and injuries were the highest since 1936, when there were 18. Mueller said there still exists a hard-core mentality in some football circles, where kids feel pressured from coac...AASM to school-bound: Sleep is the right ingredient for academic success
... the impact sleep loss has on their ability to pay attention during the course of a day. Research examining the impact of sleep in school-age children suggests that even mild sleep loss produces marked deficits in their cognitive development and functioning. Sleep restriction can alter childrens initial...New grant fulfills wish of late Baltimore Orioles team photographer
...rry Wachter, who recognized the need for increased attention to a rare but dangerous form of skin cancer that took his life in 2005. The $30,000 two-year grant to University of Washington School of Medicine investigator Paul Nghiem, M.D., Ph.D., will enhance efforts to educate the public, patients, and physici...New study examines effectiveness of tailored health messages
... So how does a person choose which messages to pay attention to and why" With messages relating to health, p... their motivational orientation were paying enough attention to notice the difference between strong and weak messages, says Updegraff. Particularly, strong mess...Lower mortality rates associated with hospitals that rank highest on quality of care indicators
...dation of the HQA efforts and suggests that paying attention to the quality measures matters. Because care varies from hospital to hospital, Jha says consumers should use publicly available data such as the HQAs when choosing a hospital, since getting treated at higher-performing hospitals can increase their...Threats to hope -- Desperation affects reasoning about product information
...idely recognized in psychology, has received scant attention in the consumer behavior literature, write the authors. Weight loss products, alternative medicines, and dietary supplements, are examples of product categories for which reduced confidence may be relevant and for which this illusion of control may b...UT study reveals inaccuracies in cardiac PET-CT imaging, finds fixes
...ng its severity but have to be done correctly with attention to technical details....Where is the most dangerous place to travel over the holiday?
...rural roadways. We are right to focus significant attention and resources on preventing things like AIDS, SARS, e coli poisoning, and skin cancer, but we cant forget that this public health problem is even more deadly....Needle-stick injuries are common but unreported by surgeons in training
... believe that reporting and getting timely medical attention wont prevent infection. Residents also say reporting takes too much time and interrupts their work. The fact that we have so many residents who fail to understand the importance of timely reporting of needle-stick exposures in order to protect them...Children's brain responses predict impact of sleep loss on attention
... the impact sleep loss has on their ability to pay attention during the course of a day, according to a researc... component of the human brain wave associated with attention control) from children between the ages of four and eight who experienced a minor sleep reduction fr...Advocates ask fashion industry to support braille clothing tags; talking Web site
...of soliciting the kind of support that has brought attention to prominent causes like AIDS awareness, breast ca... on underweight models and eating disorders gained attention worldwide. Previous roundtable participants have included designers Anna Fendi, Pierre Cardin and...NIAID releases MDR/XDR Tuberculosis research agenda
...h agenda outlines those areas that need additional attention to enable public health officials to more effectively combat all forms of tuberculosis, he says. He notes that the agenda is a Web-based living document that can be updated as scientific and public health needs and opportunities evolve. NIAID colla...UGA study finds that violence costs nation $70 billion annually
... of violence because many people dont seek medical attention for violence-related injuries and often attribute injuries from domestic violence and suicide attempts to accidents. She added that economic costs provide, at best, an incomplete measure of the toll of violence. Victims of violence are more likely...Performance-related financial incentives for hospitals not linked with improved quality of care
...nown as pay for performance, has received national attention as a potential means of narrowing well-documented gaps between health care guidelines and clinical practice," the authors write. In 2003, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the largest pay-for-performance pilot project to dat...