Home health care devices focus of FDA Conference at UH
... safety of products for home use. Another area examined will be vulnerable populations, such as the very young and the elderly, as well as those patients with complex birth defects, chronic diseases and terminal illnesses. Included in these various subgroups are disabled children with multi-symptom disea...New study examines effectiveness of tailored health messages
...rofessor of psychology at University of Minnesota, examined whether the strength of health messages regarding the importance of dental flossing had any effect on the recipients attitude or behavior. Specifically, recipients received messages that either emphasized the potential benefits of regular flossing (g...Patients with soft tissue sarcomas should be treated at high volume centers
...ize. In an additional analysis, the researchers examined outcomes from treatment of extremity tumours alone to establish whether the volume of surgeries done at a centre affected the likelihood of patients keeping their limbs. A total of 1937 extremity tumours were analysed. At high volume centres, 90.6% o...Environmental inequality study finds no direct links to segregation, income
...nics and whites, and Hispanics and blacks. He then examined whether metropolitan areas with high levels of residential segregation and racial income inequality also had high levels of environmental racial inequality. For example, if residential segregation was the key factor producing environmental racial ...Chemical in brain acts like a fuel gauge
...ssue sections from both groups of animals and also examined blood samples for the presence of hormones released by paraventricular nucleus activity. The same paraventricular neurons lit up in both sets of animals, and the animals displayed similar increases in hormone levels, suggesting that norepinephrine...Smoking may interfere with alcoholics' neurocognitive recovery during abstinence
...g controls (20 males, 2 females). The researchers examined neurocognitive changes that occurred in the two recovering-alcoholic groups during six to nine months of abstinence from alcohol, comparing their neurocognitive performance with that of the controls. Non-smoking alcoholics showed a significantly g...Intensive-care patients with alcohol problems are more likely to require mechanical ventilation
... intensive-care unit. De Wit and her colleagues examined data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a large, all-payer inpatient database representing approximately 1,000 hospitals. For this particular study, researchers analyzed all adult patients with one of the six most common diagnoses associated with...Shoulder tapping -- Young males are most willing to purchase alcohol for underage youth
...ntify effective interventions. For this study, we examined shoulder tapping, where an underage person approaches a stranger outside of an alcohol establishment and asks this person to purchase alcohol for him or her. We had heard that this was a popular strategy in some communities, but no systematic resear...Parents of chronically ill kids are helped by better access to federal and employer leave
... between November 2003 and January 2004. The study examined the availability of paid and unpaid leaves of absence from work, how often parents missed work to care for their ill children, and the length of absences from work. The study appears in the May edition of the journal Pediatrics. Researchers foun...Stevens Roundtable: Health, Technology & Society, July 11
...or the growing number of elderly in the US will be examined during a Stevens Institute of Technology Health, Technology & Society Roundtable discussion, July 11, 2007, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The discussion will take place in Room 104 of Stevens Babbio Center for Technology Management, located at 6th and River...Columbia dentists to improve oral health in sub-Saharan Africa
...l bleeding. Ninety-five percent of the people they examined had significant dental erosion because of the presence of sand in their food as a result of the arid environment and lack of water for rinsing crops. We were surprised by the extent of the oral health crisis in Ethiopia, said Dr. Syrop. In an area ...Late weekend sleep among teens may lead to poor academic performance
...ompensated by late and long sleep on weekends. It examined circadian phase, sleep quality and morning vigilance before and after simulating this weekend sleep pattern. "When teenagers stay up late and sleep in over the weekend, this behavior resets their daily clock to a later time," said Crowley. "This r...Borderline personality disorder shows improvements with intensive psychotherapy
...the Weill College of Medicine, Cornell University, examined three treatments applied to carefully diagnosed BPD patients for a period of one year. The treatments included dialectical behavior therapy, supportive psychotherapy, and TFP, a specialized psychodynamic form of talk therapy, pioneered by Otto F. K...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
... a measure of "fear of death." The study further examined whom people chose as their DPAHC. The overwhelming majority turned to either a spouse or child. But Carr and Khodyakov also recorded more than 25 different choices, including siblings, co-workers, clergy and physicians. Most of these idiosyncratic re...Performance-related financial incentives for hospitals not linked with improved quality of care
...rsity Medical Center, Durham, N.C., and colleagues examined whether hospitals participating in the pay-for-performance program showed improvement in certain process measures and outcomes for treatment of heart attack beyond that in hospitals not participating in the quality-improvement program. The study incl...Low-carb diets' effects linked to rise in newly identified 'starvation hormone'
...nderstood. In the new study, Maratos-Fliers team examined changes in gene activity occurring in mice fed a high-fat, low-carb diet for 30 days. Their comprehensive genetic screen of the animals, which lost weight on the special diet, turned up FGF21. "We saw a dramatic increase in FGF21 in the livers of t...Explaining a link between strokes and Alzheimer's
...earch at the Alzheimer's Society, added: "The team examined the role of cells that support neurones in the brain. This is exciting because rather than focussing on neurones they looked at processes in the brain, which until now have not be researched in so much detail." In another project, the team is inves...Increased rates of methylphenidate use in children following parental divorce
...d in Canada from 1994 - 2000, Dr. Lisa Strohschein examined the use of methylphenidate in 4,784 children initially in two-biological parent households. About 13% of these children experienced the divorce of their parents during the study period. The percentage of children taking methylphenidate at any time be...Drug shows activity against brain metastases
...y, June 3, at 11:15 a.m. (N Hall, B1). The trial examined the tolerability and efficacy of lapatinib in a Phase II study that included 241 patients who had been treated with the drug Herceptin for stage IV HER2-positive breast cancer, and had developed metastases to the brain. About 30 to 40 percent of wome...... were involved in an earlier program of work which examined mental health, chronic illness and multidisciplinary teams to take their work to an international audience, says APHCRI Director Professor Nicholas Glasgow. The work being done in Australia is of tremendous interest to overseas audiences, and of co...