Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member co-edits book for teens with special needs
...dividuals with health care needs and disabilities, family members and health professionals. The experts writing in this book provide their opinions and expertise on how to manage this transition successfully....Chronic family turmoil and other problems cause physical changes
Adolescents who are chronically exposed to family turmoil, violence, noise, poor housing or other chronic risk factors show more stress-induced physiological strain on their organs and tissues than other young people. However, when they have responsive, supportive mothers, they do not experience the...Malaria-infected mice cured by 1 dose of new drug
... by themselves," Posner said. "Older drugs in this family of peroxide antimalarials also are known to be fast-acting, but they are unfortunately short-lived and not curative when used by themselves." Though they say their results are very promising, the researchers caution that the new compounds must be t...NeuroArm: Navigating the future of surgery
...ance that had to go into it," Doc Seaman says. The family realized that a project like neuroArm would place Calgary on the leading-edge of surgery worldwide. "The best surgeons in the world can work within an eighth of an inch. NeuroArm makes it possible for surgeons to work accurately within the width of...MS patients not receiving medications to slow disease progression, research shows
... "When we looked at patients who are being seen by family practitioners and by neurologists, we were surpris... O'Donovan and his team studied patient visits to family practitioners, neurologists or internists between 1998 and 2004 across the United States. There were...Change in neuroticism tied to mortality rates, researcher says
...), an associate professor of child development and family studies at Purdue University, compared neurotic and non-neurotic men over time and tied change in the trait with mortality. "We found that neurotic men whose levels dropped over time had a better chance at living longer," Mroczek said. "They seemed...Johns Hopkins develops pancreas cancer risk model
People with a family history of pancreas cancer now have a way to accur..., they can estimate high risk based on clusters of family members with a history of pancreas cancer. We know how genes behave, and coupled with information a...Strong marriage helps couples deal with tempermental baby
...y and assistant professor of human development and family science at Ohio State University. "Couples who don't have a strong relationship with each other are more likely to undermine each other and get into conflicts when they have to deal with a particularly challenging baby." Schoppe-Sullivan conducte...USC study identifies factors attributed to later stage cancer diagnosis
... medical care low priority because of busy work or family lives demonstrated a higher risk for late diagnosis. "Our study also demonstrated that people who spoke little to no English and lived in an area where few people spoke English, had a higher risk compared to someone with poor English skills livin...Neurosurgery robot unveiled April 17
...gion, federal and provincial partners, the Calgary family who provided ongoing funding for the project, members of the neuroArm medical team, and neurosurgery patients who have benefited from advanced technology already developed at the University of Calgary / Calgary Health Region. The event takes place ...Richard Mayeux awarded AAN Potamkin Prize for Alzheimer's research
...by the philanthropic contributions of the Potamkin family of New York, Philadelphia, and Miami. The goal of the prize is to help attract the best medical minds and most dedicated scientists in the world to the field of dementia research. The Potamkins have been the Academys single largest individual donor...Carnegie Mellon professors question advice for nuclear attacks
...at it would cost about $240 per year for a typical family to maintain such a stock, including the value of storage space and the time needed to tend to it." Their research also suggests that many families who could afford to follow the stocking guidelines might think twice about whether t...Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work, Stanford ophthalmologist says
...f modern art that emphasize optical illusions. His family donated works of art to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford. "I've also spent years talking to patients about the symptoms of their eye diseases. This was a natural outgrowth of my science and art interests." One museum curator, Richard Kendall, cal...Report reveals estimated high prevalence and heavy cost of type 2 diabetes complications
...ated 40 percent of adults with diabetes reported a family income of less than $35,000 per year in 2005. Re...lth problems independent of their diabetes, due to family history or other underlying medical conditions. "Beyond the impact on quality of life, health comp...Study recommends universal newborn screening for cystic fibrosis
...ich suggests that indirect costs and disruption to family life will also be less. Furthermore, the potential cost savings to the yearly treatment budget could offset some, if not all, of the costs of a newborn screening service". ...Northwestern chemists develop new method for synthesizing anti-cancer flavonoids
...can Chemical Society (JACS). Flavonoids, a broad family with more than 2,000 reported compounds, provides many different structures for chemists to investigate. In addition to those with anti-cancer activity, researchers could mimic flavonoids with beneficial properties such as anti-inflammatory, anti-vir...Pediatricians rarely provide translation services for patients with little English proficiency
...urveyed said they relied on the patients bilingual family member to relay health information. Pediatricians ..., 70 percent reported using the patients bilingual family member to relay health information, 58 percent reported using bilingual staff for assistance. Only 4...Kennedy Krieger Institute launches first national online autism registry
...ion, race and ethnicity, to significantly increase family participation. In the long-term, this new research approach may impact not only autism research, but how other disease states are studied as well. To protect participant confidentiality, the data collection and management processes throughout the...Study finds lack of health insurance may be associated with increased rates of stroke
...male and non-white with lower education levels and family incomes. People with insurance were more often male and white with family incomes greater than $25,000 and having at least a high school education. The study found a signific......ng the staff or from within their community (imam, family relation, teacher) and improved coordination of the activity of medical posts from the district centres. To test the effectiveness of this action, a randomized controlled clinical trial was run between June 2003 and January 2005 on 16 district he...