Post-traumatic stress disorder 10 times higher in New Orleans than in the general public
...le were exposed to destruction, human violence and desperate circumstances. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was likely to be a significant medical issue in the aftermath of Katrina. In a paper to be presented at the 2007 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting, Professor Lisa D. M...Underweight women at greater risk of miscarriage
...commented: 'We speak to thousands of women who are desperate to find out why they miscarried and what they can do to prevent it happening again; that's why we commissioned this research. While we still don't have all the answers, these findings are going to help women who want to reduce their risk of losing a ...Report calls for using heated chemotherapy after colon cancer surgery to optimize patient survival
...prove, and extend the lives of patients who are in desperate need." Patients whose colon cancer recurs, and those with cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, involving the abdomen or peritoneal cavity, are the patients who benefited most from the combination of surgery followed by HIPEC. Althoug...Reversing malnutrition a spoonful at a time
...stribute our Mamba are vulnerable, innocent and in desperate need of assistance. For them it's truly a matter of life or death."...Study elicits 'child's eye' view of methamphetamine abuse and its effects
... requests than we can accommodate from people just desperate for some information," Haight said. They also are conducting weekly sessions, or interventions, in the foster homes of the children who took part in the study, with support from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. They are workin...OHSU brings relief to 'suicide disease' sufferers
...ly diagnosed. "People who have this condition are desperate for answers for what they have, so now, anywhere in world, somebody can log onto our Web site and basically diagnose themselves and go to the right resources," Burchiel said. "And we put the resources right there on the Web site."...Watch not, want not? Packard/Stanford study links kids' TV time and consumerism
...ce? More than one parent has forked over cash in a desperate bid to stop their kids' badgering for the hottest toy or the latest snack. Now researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford's School of Medicine have found that the more time California third-graders spent in front of the tube or pl...The American College of Cardiology calls on Congress to reject cuts to office-based imaging
...ng medical imaging in a thoughtful way, conferees, desperate for savings, simply took an axe to imaging without consideration of what cuts will do to access and, coincidently, volume." The budget reconciliation bill was passed by the U.S. Senate by a 51-50 vote. Due to changes made to the bill by the Senate, i...Pain drives Canadian youth to seek alternative medical treatment
...e for Health Services and Policy Research. "In the desperate situation these families may find themselves having a child in pain, with persistent problems the availability of options is different for well-off kids than it is for poorer kids." Also on the team are Alison James (Centre for Health Services and ...Children's receives one of only two national pediatric rheumatology training grants
...diatric rheumatology, Dr. Hirsch labors in a field desperate for like-minded scientists and answers to the most fundamental questions about juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) and other rheumatic diseases. Dr. Hirsch's NIH-funded laboratory is one of the few dedicated to finding what causes pediatric rheumatic...... efficacy of the drug against its toxicity. It's a desperate disease, and nothing else has proven effective. We feel the benefits outweigh the risks." Next, Dr. Tashkin and his co-investigators hope to study a combination of cyclophosphamide and another drug that will fight the effects of scleroderma's lung sc...