Different antipsychotic medications may have different effects on brain volume
CHICAGO After a first psychotic episode, patients who were treated with ... either haloperidol or olanzapine at the time of a first psychotic episode (baseline). Patients underwent neurocognitive testing and magnetic resonance imagi...In treatment of depression, cognitive therapy and medication both effective
...p attended 50-minute sessions twice weekly for the first four weeks, once or twice weekly for the middle eight weeks, and then once weekly for the final four weeks. At eight weeks of treatment, response rates were 50 percent in the medication group, 43 percent in the cognitive therapy group, and 25 percen...Angiogenesis factor may help tumors prepare the way for spread to lymph nodes
...tic vessels. The 2001 study focused on VEGF-C, the first factor identified to promote lymphatic vessel grow...arch fellow Satoshi Hirakawa, MD, PhD, the study's first author developed a strain of transgenic mice in which skin cells express a green fluorescent protein...Education program reduces incidents of shaken baby syndrome
...ief education reminder for parents at the infant's first visit with pediatric care provider. "Although we may never be able to completely eliminate abusive head injury from shaken baby syndrome," Dias said, "we hope that a systematic approach to prevention will at least reduce it to a fraction of its pres...Six organizations vie for INFORMS 'science of better' innovation prize
...icult-to-treat cancer mesothelioma - ALIMTA is the first and only drug approved - and, with initial chemoth...pplier of choice while providing a 200% ROI in its first year of production. The Edelman Award recognizes outstanding implemented operations research that ha...Differential heart-attack risks among blacks, whites remain mystery
...adhesive property causes a chain reaction in which first LDL cholesterol and then calcium builds up on the inner walls of blood vessels. Although African-Americans typically have two to four times the amount of Lp(a) in their blood as whites, the Lp(a) proteins in whites tend to be shorter and stickier tha...ALLHAT findings are 'color blind' in showing diuretics work better for high blood pressure
...lockers, or beta blockers should be preferred as a first therapy for most patients. The multi-center ALLHAT study is conducted under a National Institutes of Health contract with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Barry R. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., professor of biostatistics in the UT Scho......ualization algorithms turn into 3D images. In the first set of experiments using the HUTT system, the Marmarelis team easily located a set of small metal balls smaller than a millimeter in diameter embedded in agar medium. Many critical refinements occurred during the five-year process of development, as...Metabolic side effects of antipsychotics are known, but rarely monitored
...He started his studies in healthy animal models to first determine the drugs' impact on cognition, with behavioral tests as well as to analyze the drugs' impact on different circuitry involved in memory function. The early findings he's presenting in Savannah show a modest reduction in this circuitry with ...Golf-related head injuries in children increasing along with sport's popularity
...ork in the three-month period following Mr. Woods' first Masters Championship showed of the eight children ...wherever he plays, a precaution recommended in the first paragraph of the "Rule of Golf Handbook," published by the U.S. Golf Association and The Royal and A...Physicians, researchers to talk about new treatments for oral, head and neck cancers
... for oral head and neck cancer research. It is the first organization in the United States to do such. Patients will be on hand to talk about their experience fighting the disease. Reporters are invited to attend the media availability in room 518 of the The James Cancer Hospital at The Ohio State Uni...Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs and Dan Haney receive public service awards
...ering cancer research. Randy "Duke" Cunningham was first elected to the United States House of Representati...ers. Among his many honors, in 2000 Haney won the first Howard L. Lewis Achievement Award, given by the American Heart Association and the Victor Cohn Prize...West Africa: meningitis epidemics driven by the wind
...versity of Paris-VII researchers ( 2) produced the first quantified description of this relationship using ...e IRD and partner institutes (2) have just for the first time quantified this link between the epidemics cycle and climate variations. Statistical methods br...Injectable drug, combined with counseling, shows promise in treating alcohol dependence
...ated with a reduction in heavy drinking within the first month of treatment, and this response was maintained over the six-month treatment period. In addition, long-acting naltrexone was generally well tolerated and side effects were predominantly mild and decreased over time. (The three most common side ...Exercise, stress management show physiological benefits for heart patients
...s. According to the research team, this may be the first randomized trial to demonstrate that a non-pharmac...usual medical care. "To our knowledge, this is the first study to show that stress management might reduce cardiovascular risk in part through beneficial eff...ALLHAT study findings for racial sub-groups show diuretics work better for high blood pressure
...emphasizes that diuretics should be preferred as a first therapy for most patients with high blood pressure...f the American Medical Association. ALLHAT is the first large scale trial--with 33,357 participants--to compare diuretics, calcium channel blockers, and ACE...Antioxidant may have adverse effects in head and neck cancer patients
...in the general population who are at low risk of a first primary cancer. Nevertheless, our results suggest that caution should be advised regarding the use of high-dose alpha-tocopherol supplements for cancer prevention," the authors write. In an editorial, Edward S. Kim, M.D., and Waun Ki Hong, M.D., of t...Maternal iron deficiency disrupts mother/child interaction
...her/infant interactions." The study, which is the first to focus on the effects of maternal iron deficiency on mother/child interactions, will be detailed April 5 at the Experimental Biology conference in San Diego, Calif. The paper is titled, "Maternal Iron Deficiency Impacts Mother-Child Interaction." ...Music improves sleep quality in older adults, researchers find
...p reported a 26 percent overall improvement in the first week and this figure continued to rise as they mastered the technique of relaxing to the sedative music." Participants in the study were older adults with sleep difficulties who lived in central Taiwan. Those with certain medical conditions were excl...US service academies to collaborate with UNC, Andrews Air Force Base, Duke in knee injury study
...pants showed one sustained ACL injury during their first year of follow-up (summer 2003-June 2004). "Ultimately, this research will make a significant contribution to our understanding of the causes of ACL injury, with particular regard to those risk factors that appear to predispose women to those injur...