Study finds antibiotic resistance in poultry even when antibiotics were not used
...at had not been given antibiotics. The researchers examined levels of antibiotic resistance in normal intestin...n study published in May in the same journal also examined levels of drug resistant campylobacter bacteria, a common foodborne cause of diarrhea, cramping and ...Landmark schizophrenia treatment study reveals that medication alone is not always effective
...eatment of schizophrenia. One of two CATIE studies examined the effectiveness of different medications and found that treatment needs to be targeted and individualized for patients. Marvin Swartz, M.D., lead author of the second CATIE study on psychosocial functioning, said this study is unique because man...Computed tomography screening may increase lung cancer diagnosis, but not decrease risk of death
...-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and colleagues examined the effect of CT screening on individuals by comparing the frequency of lung cancer detection, resection (surgical removal of part of the lung), advanced lung cancer cases, and deaths from lung cancer with what would have occurred in the absence of s...Comparison of 4 diet plans shows better outcomes for diet with lowest carbohydrate intake
...y Medical School, Stanford, Calif., and colleagues examined the effects of four diets-3 popular and substantially different diets and 1 diet based on national guidelines-representing a spectrum of carbohydrate intake, on weight loss and related metabolic variables in overweight and obese premenopausal women. ...Both minor and major ECG abnormalities linked with increased risk of cardiovascular events in women
...tion of the trial, which was stopped in July 2002, examined whether in healthy postmenopausal women this combination would reduce CHD and CVD events. The trial found that there was a significant increase in CHD rates among women taking hormone therapy compared with the placebo group. The sample analyzed inc...PET imaging identifies aggressive kidney cancers that require surgery
...e most common clear cell histological subtype when examined under a microscope....Antidepressants improve post-stroke 'thinking outside the box'
...ost-stroke patients, but such therapy had not been examined on executive function in people with clinically diagnosed stroke, said Sergio Paradiso, M.D., Ph.D., the study's corresponding author and assistant professor of psychiatry at the UI Carver College of Medicine. "We found that people diagnosed with s...The link between rheumatoid arthritis and cancer
...w.interscience.wiley.com/journal/arthritis ), also examined the impact of rheumatic disease on overall cancer incidence. Conducted by a team of researchers in the United Kingdom, it focused on 2,105 patients with recent onset inflammatory polyarthritis (IP). Over time, a large proportion of new-onset IP case...RAND study finds walking more likely in neighborhoods with more 4-way intersections
...hers from RAND, a nonprofit research organization, examined survey information from residents in 10 major U.S. cities about their walking habits and compared the results to the characteristics of the neighborhoods where those people lived. Published in the February edition of the American Journal of Preve...Positive results more likely from industry-funded breast cancer trials
...nal Institutes of Health and previous studies have examined the impact on other areas of clinical medicine, but not breast cancer. Our study shines a flashlight on the issue of the rising role and potential impact of the pharmaceutical industry on breast cancer research and highlights important questions th......ymphocyte. Using this method, the researchers thus examined the different protagonists T lymphocytes and tumour cells during two distinct periods of tumour development. In the antigen-devoid tumour, T cells "patrolled" at a consistently high rate (approximately 10 micrometres per minute), at all stages of ...The influence of the menstrual cycle on the female brain
...(fMRI). The brain activity of a group of women was examined twice during their menstrual cycle. Each time they went into the MRI, they were presented with virtual slot machines showing different probabilities of winning. When women anticipate uncertain rewards, they activate the brain regions involved in proc...Strenuous physical activity associated with lower breast cancer risk
...k of in situ breast cancer. The researchers also examined the association between strenuous physical activity and the risk of breast cancer by hormone receptor type, or which hormones can bind to proteins on the surface of the tumor. Strenuous activity appeared to be associated with a lower risk of estroge...Smoking may be a risk factor for tuberculosis
...a-analysis of 24 previously published studies that examined the association between smoking and TB. Six of the publications dealt with the risk for TB infection, 13 with active TB disease and five with death from TB. Across the studies, individuals who smoked had a 73 percent increased risk of becoming inf...USC-led study suggests exercise reduces risk of developing invasive breast cancer
...a reduction in breast cancer, but few studies have examined risk separately for in situ and invasive breast cancers or have characterized risk by hormone receptor status," said Leslie Bernstein, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and primary investigator of the CTS. "This ...Medicalize me: Experts look at how our perceptions of illness are shaped
...escribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs, which examined how depression and anxiety medications were represented in advertising aimed at physicians, and in the entertainment media, in the latter half of the 20th century. Todays ads amplify peoples cultural expectations, or even change them, he says in t...Study links attempted suicide with genetic evidence identified in previous suicide research
...ch issue of Biological Psychiatry, the researchers examined data from 162 families with bipolar disorder. They looked at attempted suicide in this sample because it is an important clinical problem that tends to occur more often in some of these families than in others, suggesting a distinctive genetic basis,...Sleep disturbances affect classroom performance
... of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, examined the results of 238 school district-approved questionnaires, filled out by students attending middle school or high school, which included a high frequency of sleep complaints. According to the surveys, students with lower grade point averages (GPAs)...Children who sleep less more likely to be overweight
...r risk of being overweight." The 2,182 children examined in the study came from a nationally representative sample called the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics.......www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/arthritiscare ) examined direct medical costs of children with JIA and found that the economic impact was substantial. Led by Drs. Ann Clarke, Ciaran Duffy, and Sasha Bernatsky of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Quebec, the study involved 155 children wit...