Women's health suffers under welfare reform, study says
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Women who are current and former welfare recipients suffer a whole host of health problems---and getting a job doesn't always help matters. "Everyone says welfare reform is working because welfare rolls are dropping and this reverses a decades-long trend," said George Kaplan, profes...Poly/mono balance important to cholesterol-lowering diet
...isk Factors." The authors are Dr. Amy E. Binkoski, former Penn State doctoral student, Dr. Penny M. Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor of nutritional sciences, Dr. Thomas W. Wilson, assistant professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Margaret L. Mountain, dietitian, University of Pittsburgh Medical...Treatments for prostate cancer may affect employment
...f them attributed their inability to work at their former capacity to cancer treatment-related symptoms. After 12 months, the gap in employment status disappeared. However, some men with cancer continued to report that treatment-related symptoms interfered with their ability to perform physical and/or cogn...MCG faculty contribute to textbooks on geriatric, pediatric hypertension
...Patient Dr. Prisant and Dr. Thomas W. Jackson, former MCG geriatrician now in practice in Columbia, S.C., Clinical Evaluation of the Elderly Hypertensive Dr. Carlos M. Isales, endocrinologist, Hypertension in the Elderly: Endocrine Causes of Secondary Hypertension Dr. Prisant and cardiologists D...Red and Charline McCombs contribute $30 million to M. D. Anderson research effort
...ations and of McCombs Energy in Houston. He is the former owner of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings and the NBA's San Antonio Spurs and Denver Nuggets. In addition to his volunteer leadership at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Mr. McCombs has led many national, state and local organizations including the San Anton...Majority of ALS patients are not depressed
...004 and turned over the reins to Lomen-Hoerth, his former student. The AAN presented Olney with a special Public Education Award for his efforts to raise awareness of the disease and money for research by sharing his story as a researcher/doctor turned patient with the national media. "The resiliency of peo...Women report various symptoms after stopping hormone therapy
...ng study pill use were reported by 21.2 percent of former CEE + MPA and 4.8 percent of placebo group respond...iffness symptoms more than twice as likely, in the former CEE + MPA group than in the placebo group. Both vasomotor and pain or stiffness symptoms were more l...Poland loses record numbers of doctors to the UK
... their skills elsewhere. The healthcare systems of former communist countries may have changed, but the working conditions of Poland's doctors have not improved, conclude the authors....Study reveals potential for new treatment of paralysis and brain disease
...said Dr. Liesi, head of the Brain Laboratory and a former visiting scientist at the National Institutes of H...pon an original discovery by George Martin, Ph.D., former scientific director for the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Ma...Arts program provides services, guidance to HIV/AIDS patients
...or an annual one-day workshop, on Aug. 20, open to former students and anyone interested in participating in...nts share: the need to pick up the pieces of their former lives out of the ashes, and to construct new realities, new narratives. Art provides the context for...Penn named a 'Breast Cancer Center of Excellence' by Department of Defense
...r of Radiology at Penn, and Ruth Muschel, MD, PhD, former Abramson Cancer Center member, are co-Principal Investigators of the grant. The Center, which is based at Penn, includes two dozen investigators at Penn, the University of California Davis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, McGill University, and ...Chronic sinus infection thought to be tissue issue, Mayo Clinic scientists show it's snot
.... David Sherris, M.D., and Eugene Kern, M.D., both former Mayo Clinic ear, nose and throat specialists who now work at the University at Buffalo, also participated in the project. The team found that in chronic sinus infection patients, activated white blood cells (eosinophils) cluster in the nasal and si...PTSD, depression epidemic among Cambodian immigrants
...red two-hour interviews with 490 randomly-selected former refugees, ages 35-75, in their Long Beach, CA homes, beginning in 2003. They used standardized questionnaires for gauging levels of violence exposure and alcohol use disorder and standardized diagnostic interviews to determine the prevalence of PTSD ...UK Center for Research on Violence Against Women director to receive national justice award
... the other honorees this year is W. Mark Felt, the former FBI official who earlier this year revealed that h...as "Deep Throat" in the Watergate investigation of former President Richard M. Nixon's administration. "I am deeply honored, not just by the award, but by the...LSUHSC innovation in patient safety training to improve surgical outcomes
...alists, and a second-year medical student who is a former commercial airline pilot. The training is so realistic that teams tend to forget that they're in a virtual environment. The goal is to sharpen team performance and optimize patient outcomes through improved communication and situational awareness, te...UCI neurobiologists find treatment to block memory-related drug cravings
...n trigger overwhelming memory-based cravings, many former drug users often relapse into drug-taking behavior. But a study led by John F. Marshall, a researcher in UCI's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, shows that memory for places associated with cocaine use can be strikingly altered by...Surprising new study shows periodontal disease affects young adults, boosts pregnancy problems
... out," said study leader Dr. Raymond P. White Jr., former dean and Dalton L. McMichael professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the UNC School of Dentistry. "Part of the reason was that research at UNC and elsewhere showed that the inflammation in the mouth that periodontal infections cause promoted i...Pfizer unites cancer care leaders to introduce novel tool to improve cancer outcomes
...h Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention and former President of the American Cancer Society Daniel Sisto, President, Healthcare Association of New York State Patrick Kelly, President, U.S. Pharmaceuticals and Vice President of Pfizer Inc WHY: President George W. Bush rece...Jefferson scientists design method to fight artificial implant infections with antibiotics
...rchers, along with co-authors Binoy Jose, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral fellow now at SK Biopharmaceuticals, and M.D./Ph.D. student Valentin Antoci, Jr., report their results September 23, 2005 in the journal Chemistry and Biology. In the work, the scientists fastened the antibiotic vancomycin to titanium po...Eating foods with 'weak estrogens' may help reduce lung cancer risk
...s of food with phytoestrogens - as men do - or why former smokers did seemed to benefit less. The investigators caution that much more research is needed to prove a definitive chemoprevention effect. For example, for reasons the researchers do not understand, even a high consumption of phytoestrogens did n...