Pilot studies to look at how mind drives or prevents disease
...eople may be less likely as they age to respond to blanket treatments meant to protect against the diseases of aging. Tailored treatments are urgently needed, and mind-body approaches may be part of the solution. "Our mission is to better understand age-related diseases on the way to improving the health o...Tsunami raises questions about disaster mental health, Science reports
...r a natural disaster that inflicts broad trauma, a blanket offer of Western-style mental health therapy may not always be appropriate in other cultures. Was it appropriate in the areas you visited? Why or why not? Was it effective? A big part of the problem is that there's not a lot of good research on what...UVa scientists discover new type of nerve cell that could be target for drugs to ease pain
... know is that, for some people, just lying under a blanket is painful as well. They have neuropathic pain--annoying, chronic pain that comes from a diseased nerve cell rather than a specific stimulus. Feeling phantom pain in a missing limb is another, more famous, example. Experts say up to two percent of t...Launch milestone achieved: Last-ever look at CryoSat
...d the outer fabric-layer of the thermal insulation blanket had been adjusted, the final 'red-tagged' items were removed from the spacecraft before the fairing was carefully closed. This was time for the ESA and Astrium engineers at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome to take a step back and take one last look at 'their'...Cool therapy reduces brain injury and death from oxygen loss in newborns
...y temperatures were lowered by placing babies on a blanket initially filled with circulating 41-degree water. Both groups received standard newborn intensive care including monitoring of vital signs. When the infants were examined to assess their outcome at 18 to 22 months of age, 44 percent of those in t...Cold treatment protects against infant disability and death from oxygen loss
...ants were cooled by placing them on a soft plastic blanket through which water circulates. The blanket's tem...first 6 hours of birth, and remained on the cooled blanket for 72 hours. After 72 hours had passed, they were gradually warmed to a normal body temperature. I...Largest study of in-hospital cardiac arrest suggests how to improve outcomes for children and adults
...tations to a patient's situation, and not follow a blanket protocol based only on the patient's age." The research appears in the January 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The American Heart Association's National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (NRCPR) collected data from...Community-wide health program slows creep toward heart disease
A five-year push to blanket a Dutch community with healthy heart programs and education curtailed three major risk factors for heart disease: body mass index, waist circumference and blood pressure. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeted residents of Limburg, a pro...Warm blanket lessens chances of false-positives in cancer scans
ST. LOUIS Placing a warm blanket on patients undergoing PET/CT scans to detect canc...onth suggests that covering patients with a heated blanket before the scan can reduce the brown fat uptake by 62 percent. Researchers currently suggest fightin...Reduced antibiotic prescribing is associated with increased hospital admissions
...ropriate use of antibiotic prescriptions and not a blanket limit on the use of antibiotics. "The increase in hospital admissions for respiratory illness in the US is consistent with similar findings in Britain," he said. Professor Mainous said further research on ecological and individual level analyses was...U of M professor explores spooning, snoring and sheet stealing
...ars sprawled out across the bed or wrapped up in a blanket and suddenly they have to adjust to sleeping with someone," Rosenblatt said. "As life changes, people have to learn how to sleep together and not just once, but again and again," Rosenblatt said. If onepartner has an injury or chronic illness o...Molecular medicine comes to the rescue
...nected her insulin pump--the lifeline and security blanket she had relied on for years--for the last time. "She is so proud," said her mother, Laurie Jaffe, "so happy, so excited. She's just thrilled, for the first time to be like her friends and her brother and sister." "It is a miracle," she added. "...IceSAR campaign provides glimpse of future Sentinel-1 images over ice
...r role in climate forecasting as it both acts as a blanket of insulation between the water and the atmosphere and, unlike open water, strongly reflects incident sunlight. Consistent information on sea ice conditions over large areas and over long time periods are required which is exactly what the Sentinel-......actor. Chlorhexidine gluconate is part of the VA's blanket purchase agreement, so that might facilitate its use." Communication within the VA could also help make good practices more widespread, she added. "Infection control practitioners within the VA have their own website and email list, so ...