Patient-centered approach can backfire
... included the small number of participants and the fact that patients self-reported how well they followed doctors' orders. Past studies have shown that patients generally tend to overestimate adherence, Christensen said. Christensen and other researchers are conducting a similar study on a larger scale...Traditional Chinese exercises may increase efficacy of flu vaccine
...ations including its small subject sample and the fact that it was not a purely randomized controlled trial Yang is confident that further study will yield more substantive proof of a link between Taiji and Qigong and immune function. And he said he was not surprised that this preliminary examination in...RAND finds cases of undiagnosed diabetes drop sharply
...e likely to have undiagnosed diabetes, despite the fact that obesity is the second largest risk factor for the disease following family history. It may be that since the link between obesity and diabetes has received wide attention only in recent years, it may take more time for physicians to routinely ...Regulator of lipid metabolism ensures high quality breast milk
...lin and lowering levels of circulating glucose. In fact PPAR drugs, including Actos and Avandia, belong to the newest generation of anti-diabetic medications. Naturally occurring mutations in PPAR lead to obesity and insulin resistance associated with type 2 diabetes. Unexpectedly, postdoctoral research...Where's the beef? Not enough of it is on elders' plates, muscle-metabolism study suggests
...of reasons, said Paddon-Jones, including cost, the fact that many foods may not taste as good to them as they once did, difficulty chewing, limited menus in nursing homes or assisted living communities, and decline in appetite. Another important contributor to muscle loss in the elderly is a lack of exerc...Baby DVDs, videos may hinder, not help, infants' language development
...y in the Journal of Pediatrics. The most important fact to come from this study is there is no clear evide...e is mounting that they are of no value and may in fact be harmful. Given what we now know, I believe the onus is on the manufacturers to prove their claim......planation for this surprising finding could be the fact that with higher incomes, more travel is likely, which in turn increases the likelihood of motor vehicle collisions. Alternatively, more tourism to the area may have reduced unemployment but caused more road accidents. The study also shows that as...Researchers find vitamin B1 deficiency key to vascular problems for diabetic patients
...zyme and assumed normal levels of thiamine when in fact the normal enzyme activity was due to increased amounts of two proteins THTR-1 and RFC-1 that help transport thiamine into red blood cells. The increased levels of these proteins were a direct response to there being a deficiency of thiamine in the b...Miniature implanted devices could treat epilepsy, glaucoma
..., or locations in the brain, Irazoqui said. "The fact that this circuit can deliver such a vast amount of data and, at the same time, be less power hungry than anything else that's out there is what makes this important," he said. A paper about that work will be presented during the conference on Aug....Sports concussion research using fMRI provides insight for safe return-to-play decisions
.... The lack of studies using fMRI may be due to the fact that studies of this nature are very expensive and equipment necessary to undertake this research is not readily available outside of a handful of academic medical centers. UPMC is one of few such centers with the capability of collecting both neurop...Early-childhood intervention may improve well-being through young adulthood
...lity assistance (4.4 percent vs. 7 percent). The fact that positive results of the program extend beyond educational achievements is not surprising given the links between education, mental and physical health and behavior, the authors note. Because expenditures for the medical care and justice systems ...Old McDonald's has a hold on kids' taste buds, Stanford/Packard study finds
...ged the McDonald's product as tastier, despite the fact that the foods were exactly the same. "The branding effect is very strong, even by only 3 to 5 years of age," said Robinson. He and his colleagues also asked the children's parents to complete a questionnaire that asked, among other things, how ...Fat is the new normal, FSU researcher says
... Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The fact that even the desired weight of women has increased suggests there is less social pressure to lose weight, Heiland said, citing a previous study that 87 percent of Americans, including 48 percent of obese Americans, believe that their body weight fal...U of M report says early-childhood intervention improves well-being through young adulthood
...lity assistance (4.4 percent vs. 7 percent). The fact that positive results of the program extend beyond educational achievements is not surprising given the links between education, mental and physical health and behavior, Reynolds and Temple said in the study. Because expenditures for the medical care...Happier hospitals means healthier patients
...s poor relationships between the two sides for the fact that increased productivity in hospitals has not k...find people fiddling about with structures when in fact its more important to get the actual relationships right. Managers and doctors are always going to...Many heart attack patients still not getting emergency clot-busting treatment
... those who wait longer for angioplasty. But the fact that 10 percent of possible emergency angioplasty candidates still arent even getting the procedure at all is a significant issue of its own, the authors say. Increasing its use in these patients could save up to an additional 30 lives for every 1,00...Mapping mountains from space with GOCE
...r, as a result of a number of factors, such as the fact that mountains and ocean trenches make the surface of the planet uneven and materials within the Earth's interior are not uniformly distributed, the force of gravity actually varies slightly from place to place on the surface of the Earth. Due for...AASM to school-bound: Sleep is the right ingredient for academic success
...later than their internal body clock expects. The fact that their clock must get used to a new routine may affect their ability to be awake early for school at the beginning of the week when they revert back to their old routine. Aggressive behavior and bullying, common among schoolchildren, are li...Study says normal but out-of-control enzyme may be culprit that signals some cells to become cancer
...earchers have been searching, Dong said. Also, the fact that TOPK seems active mainly in cancer cells--not normal ones--means it could make a good target for chemotherapy. How TOPK gets turned on is not known, but it appears to happen as a result of abnormal activity in cells that stems from genetic mut...'SCHIP funding levels too low' ACP tells Senate Finance Committee Leaders
...roposed by Senators Baucus and Grassley. Given the fact that smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the United States and a huge contributor to the growing numbers of patients with chronic diseases covered by federal government, funds from higher tobacco taxes should be applied to the SC...