University of Chicago receives grant to study connections between religious beliefs and health
...iversity work on aging supported with $7.5 million from the National Institute on Aging of the Department ...Hispanics and whites between the ages of 50 and 67 from Chicago and the suburbs. The researchers are gathering extensive medical histories, health assessmen...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
...inventors and the U-M stand to benefit financially from the device's sale. The GeoForm ring has been appr...returns the heart to a pointy, or ellipsoid, shape from a rounded shape." He likens the effect to turning a basketball shape into a football shape. Bolling ...Will cancer vaccine get to all women?
DEATHS from cervical cancer could jump fourfold to a million a... developing countries, where 80 per cent of deaths from cervical cancer occur, social taboos may be even more powerful. The head of the Indian Council of Me...Bugs in the gut could help doctors develop individualised healthcare
...nteract with different medicines report scientists from Imperial College London and Astra Zeneca. Personal...duals and populations. Professor Jeremy Nicholson, from Imperial College London, and an author of the paper comments: "The discovery that these gut microbes...Smoking doubles risk of degenerative eye condition
...ve sample of over 4,000 people, aged 75 and older, from 49 general practices across Britain. The participants all underwent a series of detailed eye tests and were asked about their smoking habits, and if they had given up, how long ago. After taking into account other risk factors, such as alcohol consum...Prenatal sonography has no effect on the intellectual capacity of the developing child
... scientific journal Epidemiology, is based on data from approximately 180,000 boys born in the 1970s, when routine ultrasonic examinations of foetal development were first introduced in Sweden. Almost 20 years later, the young men were given intelligence tests on signing up for their military service. Whe...Smart plastics change shape with light
...s really a new family of materials that can change from one shape to another by having light shined on the.... The work was funded in part by a BioFuture Award from the Bundesministerium fr Bildung und Forschung, Germany, and a fellowship from the Alexander von Hum...Study challenges current treatment for mild asthma
...ptoms flare up." About 20 million Americans suffer from asthma, with most experiencing symptoms that are considered "mild intermittent" or "mild persistent" -- requiring occasional use of beta agonists to relieve symptoms but causing few emergency department visits or hospitalizations. Opinion has been di...Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's may be delayed, says major clinical trial
...y the end of the 3-year study there was no benefit from the drug. Vitamin E was also tested in the study a... study when compared with placebo. These findings, from the Memory Impairment Study, are the first to suggest than any agent can delay the clinical diagnosi...Delay in Alzheimer's disease onset seen for first time
...ing effect -- though limited -- on the progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease. ...on Aging funded this study with additional support from Pfizer, Eisai and DSM Nutritional Products....Study shows symptom-driven therapy may be ok for some adults with mild persistent asthma
...mmatory medication daily, according to new results from the Improving Asthma Control Trial (IMPACT). Condu... For those with mild persistent asthma, guidelines from the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) currently recommend daily long-term con...Pathological gambling associated with brain impairments
...essment of possible reward and punishment outcomes from the various response options, and the selection of the option that one thinks will be best." Dr. Roca's study examined 11 pathological gamblers and 10 control subjects, using decision-making tasks, inhibitory control and attention tasks, and other me...Scientists identify protein that controls cancer cells
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine have ide...mors. On the other hand, when Fra-1 was eliminated from cells that were already tumor-producing, they stopped forming tumors. "It is a powerful biological f...Spirituality, religious practice may slow progression of Alzheimer's disease
...ligion Index and the Overall Self-Ranking subscale from the NIH/Fetzer Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality. These methods collected information on the patients' practices such as attendance at religious events and private religious activities. "We learned that the patients with hi...Ovary removal elevates risk for Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism
...nted to a role for estrogen in defending the brain from attack as a woman ages. "We conducted a previous s... during aging. "Also, there is biological evidence from animal studies that estrogen is protective for the specific part of the brain that is involved in co...Public leadership in neurology award honors Leeza Gibbons for Alzheimer's awareness efforts
...note speech at the meeting's awards luncheon, held from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. in the Miami Beach Convention Center on Wednesday, April 13. "I am extremely honored to receive this prestigious award which will allow me to broaden the message of the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation. So many families and their ca...Institute of Medicine advisory: April 19 public briefing on HIV/AIDS crisis abroad
...DING TO THE HUMAN RESOURCE CRISIS IN HIV/AIDS, new from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, offers the federal government a plan to mobilize U.S. health professionals and other experts who can train and work alongside their counterparts in developing countries to tackle the pandemic. Th...The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners hosts 20th Annual National Conference
... what the nurse practitioner role will be 40 years from now. While the conference has been shortened to four and a half days, the new format offers more clinical and expert faculty presentations, workshops and special programs than ever before. In addition, an exhibit hall filled with a variety of pharma...APA applauds new California regulations for inpatient psychological services
...., April 14, 2005 -- California patients suffering from serious mental illness will now have the benefit o...already on the books. The new regulations resulted from recent negotiations between DHS and Psychology Shield, a non-profit organization devoted to improvin...NMDP welcomes IOM recommendation for fully integrated cord blood system
...reful about diverting scarce public resources away from the important task of increasing the inventory of ...verned by an independent board with representation from cord blood banks, transplant centers, transplant medicine and patient advocacy organizations. In add...