Music improves sleep quality in older adults, researchers find
...icipants in the study were older adults with sleep difficulties who lived in central Taiwan. Those with certain medical conditions were excluded, as were people taking sleep medication, drinking high levels of caffeine or using existing relaxation techniques such as meditation. The music group was able to choose ......motional and sexual health of people with learning difficulties who are gay, lesbian and bisexual is being jeopard...rriers were put in the way of people with learning difficulties exercising their human rights to consenting same sex relationships. The barriers included: Expe...Better referral training for emergency doctors helps improve patient care
...a further 42 doctors. When asked did they have any difficulties with referrals, 56% said yes, although further que...ing practices for which we strive. 'Communication difficulties cannot be allowed to compromise patient care. Telephone referrals can be the source for misunderstan...Fatal brain disease holds clues to dementia
...oblems. These include: jerky arm or leg movements; difficulties with speech, swallowing, concentration, memory and learning; and depression and personality changes. Huntington's disease is caused by a mutation in a single gene. When this defective gene is passed from parent to child, 50 percent of the offspring ...UT Southwestern lead site for study of a new multiple sclerosis drug
...slow, steady onset, usually beginning with walking difficulties and steadily worsening with motor dysfunctions and increased disability. People with primary progressive MS don't respond as well to traditional drug therapies as patients with other, more common forms of the disease, such as relapsing and remitting ...Specific behaviors seen in infants can predict autism, new research shows
...ths. At one year, these same children also showed difficulties with language and communication they used fewer gestures, understood fewer phrases and had lower scores for both expressive and receptive language. It is not known whether these risk markers constitute an early manifestation of the disorder, or are ...Lack of sleep can affect athletic performance in teens
...g break) of a week or more may experience schedule difficulties on the return home. "This scenario is most problematic for teams on the east coast that travel west, as student athletes may return with a significant sleep-phase delay that is difficult to correct," Carskadon says. Lack of sleep doesn't just affect...Younger is better when implanting cochlear implants, IU study finds
...treatment, including the use of anesthesia and the difficulties in accurately diagnosing profound deafness. The findings regarding the youngest patients may be due to sample size, Dr. Svirsky said, because only just six of the patients were in the six-to-12-month age group. The children's language development ski...Surgery to treat vocal-cord spasms shows high success rate
...cation and job interviews become impossible. The difficulties are especially pronounced in the elderly, whose friends may have difficulty hearing even without the challenge of interpreting spasmodic speech....Mayo Clinic researchers report on effectiveness of treatments for hot flashes
...d benefit a very broad group of women experiencing difficulties with hot flashes. Dr. Loprinzi and his colleagues note that recent reports of large clinical trials linking hormone therapy to an increased risk for cancer have caused concern about the use of estrogen therapy, given with or without progesterone. "Gi...Investigating the appropriateness of current alcohol-use disorder criteria for adolescents
..., obtaining or recovering from alcohol may reflect difficulties in obtaining the substance rather than compulsive patterns of drinking. These data suggest that these two symptoms may be over-diagnosed in adolescents, which would lead to higher rates of dependence diagnoses in these age groups." Results also indi......ad to memoryimpairment in the elderly and learning difficulties in young adults. "Stress has become more commonplace and accepted in our everyday lives,"says Sonia J. Lupien, PhD, lead author and director of the Laboratory ofStress Research at the Douglas. "Many studies show the negative impact ofstress ...NYU Child Study Center presents third Annual Adam Katz Memorial Lecture series
...day, May 20, 2005. The series focuses on learning difficulties and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD...r Howard Katz, who suffered from ADHD and learning difficulties throughout his life. The goal of the series is to help educate the public on these mental disorders...Facial trauma may cause significant social and behavioral problems
..."The increased incidence of drinking, occupational difficulties and relationship problems in the trauma population would correspond with the inability to keep appointments and participate in this study," Persing said. Persing said he next will look at the psychological impact of body deformities as a result of ...Risk factors associated with elderly hospital deaths: Dependence on others and being too thin
... Thomas found that a declining body mass index and difficulties caring for oneself are closely connected. As an elderly person who has problems performing some daily activities loses weight, he becomes increasingly unable to care for himself....Despite alternatives, addictive drugs most often prescribed for sleep problems
...uded in the data set sought help for sleep-related difficulties in outpatient physician offices. Balkrishnan and his colleagues gathered six years of outpatient office visit data from 1996 to 2001 from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). The NAMCS includes information on patient demographics, t...NIH convenes panel to assess evidence on chronic insomnia
...es), including depression, alcohol and drug abuse, difficulties with concentration and memory, and various cardiovascular, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal disorders. In addition to reduced quality of life and increased health care use reported by insomnia sufferers, the large number of people experiencing insomni...Goals for TB control reachable for most of world
...n countries," the authors write. They add that the difficulties of managing TB in Africa and Eastern Europe are closely linked to HIV/AIDS and drug resistance, and specific solutions will be needed for these problems in these regions. The authors write that the vigorous implementation of an enhanced strategy for ...Shrinking brains but healthy memory - does brain matter matter?
...n found to predict the development of major memory difficulties and the recognition of dementia in previous work. However, little is known about whether education is protective of brain changes in the general population. "Our findings do not support the role of education in protecting against either brain chang......raction. I would rather that I could overcome such difficulties without GHB, but I am not sure how. Although psychotherapy may help with my anxiety, in the UK it is not readily available on the National Health Service. And it is not within my means to pay for it privately. By comparison, GHB costs me about 15 per...