Ethnic disparities in alcohol services: financial and logistical barriers are key
...alized programs for alcohol and drug treatment, we examined episodes of care in mutual aid groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, and help offered for drinking problems through medical settings such as hospitals, ERs and clinics, and from psychologists, counselors, psychiatrists and social-service providers. ...Men with hypertension who drink moderate amounts of alcohol may have a lower risk of heart attack
...iduals with hypertension. But no prior studies had examined whether moderate consumption was associated with n... "This was the first study to our knowledge that examined the risk of heart attacks among men with high blood pressure who drank moderately. Because excess al...Child abuse and neglect associated with increased risk of depression among young adults
...le. But few prospective longitudinal studies have examined the relationship between abuse or neglect in childhood and depression in adulthood. Cathy Spatz Widom, Ph.D., then of the New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, and now of John Jay College of Criminal...PTSD may increase heart disease risk in older men
...rs' knowledge, no prospective studies to date have examined PTSD in relation to CHD risk. Laura D. Kubzansky, Ph.D., of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and colleagues conducted a prospective study to test the hypothesis that high levels of PTSD symptoms may increase CHD risk, using two differen...New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza
...or the current study, Dr. Sette and his colleagues examined 600 different epitopes from 58 different strains of influenza A virus. One of their main goals was to determine how conserved, or similar, epitopes are between different strains of bird and human influenza viruses. Knowing this is important because t...Women on osteoporosis drug can discontinue use with no risk
...llow-up study to the initial randomized trial that examined the effect of daily alendronate, a bisphosphonate or anti-resorptive drug, on bone mineral density and fracture risk in post-menopausal women with low BMD for up to 3.8 years. Alendronate is used to reduce bone loss, increase bone density and red...UCLA study finds a need for services that help homeless youth obtain health insurance
FINDINGS: Researchers examined health care service use among a group of newly homeless adolescents who had become homeless two years prior to see if differences existed among those who had returned home and those who remained homeless. By the end of that period, 63 percent had re...Neurons targeted by dementing illness may have evolved for complex social cognition
... journal of the American Neurological Association, examined brain tissue acquired at autopsy and found that VENs were devastated in FTD. Led by William W. Seeley, M.D., of the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, researchers quantified anterior cingulate cortex VENs in sev...Long-term financial costs associated with prostate cancer treatment
... of California, San Francisco and co-investigators examined patterns of healthcare use over time and compared the interval costs of all prostate-related treatments over five and a half years of 4,553 newly diagnosed men stratified by age, risk, and ethnicity. For the first time, a study identified and include...High levels of blindness in southern Sudan following years of war
...ddle of the village. The people in this house were examined and then other houses were chosen, also at random. Around 2500 people were examined. Children under five years were not included in survey. A very high rate of blindness was found4%. This is more than twice the level that would be expected, given wha...Study explains how NSAIDs halt cancer growth
...Genomics Center and Instructor of Medicine at HMS, examined more than 20,000 genes to identify potential mechanisms for cell death induction. "When we analyzed the genes that were upregulated by NSAIDS, one in particular stood out from the rest," says Zerbini. "And that was MDA-7/IL-24." A cancer specifi...Capture study shows safety of carotid stenting in 'real-world' setting
...d, and at 30 days. In addition, the physicians who examined patients for complications were independent of those who performed the stenting procedure. This latter aspect of the study is one of its major strengths, said Dr. Christopher J. White, editor-in-chief of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventio...Decline in breast cancer cases likely linked to reduced use of hormone replacement
...l cancer incidence statistics are derived. They examined rates of breast cancer in the United States from 1990 to the end of 2003 and found that while incidence increased at 1.7 percent per year from 1990 to 1998, it began to decrease, relative to other years, 1 percent each year from 1998 to 2002. When t...Protein 'fingerprint' in spinal fluid could spot Alzheimer's disease
... diagnosis remains uncertain until brain tissue is examined at autopsy. "Our study is the first to use sophisticated proteomic methods to hone in on a group of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers that are specific to autopsy-proven Alzheimer's disease. Those postmortem tests confirmed that the panel is over 90 pe...Hospital performance measures may not accurately reflect quality of care or predict patient outcomes
...e: the effects of RCTs in clinical practice can be examined in observational studies and observational studies can be progenitors [originators] for new RCTs. Patients, physicians, and policymakers will all benefit from efforts to evaluate rigorously and further understand the relationship between performance ...More people in US dealing with financial burden of health care costs
...ment of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Md., examined the net impact of various trends in costs and coverage and changes in benefits on the percentage of family income devoted to insurance and medical care expenditures among the nonelderly population. The researchers analyzed data from the Medical Expen...Memory improves after sleep apnea therapy
...use of CPAP treatment." Dr. Aloia and colleagues examined the degree to which varying levels of CPAP adherence improved memory in 58 memory-impaired patients with clinically diagnosed OSA. All patients underwent cognitive evaluation involving verbal memory testing prior to initiation of CPAP and at a 3-mont...Nonprofit hospitals, more nurses and greater availability of technology equal better patient care
...their full Medicare payment update. The study also examined what hospital characteristics (such as ownership, ...Landon and colleagues also performed analyses that examined the relationships between the various quality measures. This analysis suggests that rather than exam...Patients' requests for antidepressants can influence physician evaluation of depression
...d investigation of its kind, the research team had examined the clinical behavior of physicians faced with a p...d that the visits were audio recorded and would be examined for content following each interaction. The researchers studied physician history-taking patterns...Breastfeeding overcomes a genetic tendency toward ear infections, scientists discover
...d in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics, examined genetic samples taken from 505 children in Texas and Kentucky, about 60 percent of whom were classified as "otitis media susceptible" because they had suffered an ear infection before the age of 6 months; had undergone three or more episodes of acute...