Feeling safe and secure? CUMC scientists find it's all in the caudoputamen
...eurobiology of happiness, which has generally been ignored by researchers as well as physicians, may be equally important in the disorders. "The missing part of our picture of anxiety is the good feelings associated with being safe and secure," Dr. Rogan says. "But positive emotions are harder to study in th...Perceived discrimination linked to coronary artery calcification
...crimination was measured by things such as feeling ignored or treated with a lack of courtesy or respect, she said. "The women reported discrimination in the form of having poorer service in stores or restaurants, being treated as if they were less smart or being treated as if they were dishonest." The discr...Nutrition gene key in regulating immune system
...out mice were exposed to IDO, their T cells simply ignored it. The researchers had found a receiver and possibly more. "No one had known any gene specifically targeted by IDO, and now we have one," says Dr. Munn. "We had not known how T cells were turned off. We didn't know if the T cells just were never ac...National medical and public health groups sue EPA
...lementing a seriously flawed mercury rule, the EPA ignored the counsel of its own Children's Health Public Advisory Committee and ignored nearly 700,000 overwhelmingly negative public comments during the recent public comment period. The...Hey doc, do I still need this catheter?
... researchers excluded the one-third of doctors who ignored the reminders, the numbers got even better: The percentage of patient days spent on a catheter went down by 25.7 percent in the reminder group. The cost of the reminder system, including the nurse's time and the printing of reminders, would be about...MRSA is a global problemperspectives from around the world
...ccording to Harbarth and Pittet, "has more or less ignored this public-health problem for a long time, resulting in some of the highest MRSA incidence rates worldwide". "No mechanism to identify patients within hospitals currently exists in Japan", admits Satoshi Hori, (Department of Infection Control Scienc...NYU Child Study Center launches children's mental health public education campaign
...ty. Tics and Tourette's are very treatable, but if ignored can have a negative impact on a child's self-esteem and development. Most Tic disorders begin around age 6, but can start as early as age 3. Early intervention is crucial." The campaign also directs the public to AboutOurKids.org, the NYU Child St...The Lancet highlights the global burden of foot disease and amputation in diabetic patients
...sk." Unfortunately, however, this simple advice is ignored in many countries. In an accompanying editorial The Lancet comments: "The worldwide prevalence of diabetes now exceeds 200 million, and is predicted to rise to more than 300 million in the next 20 years. Up to 15% of patients with diabetes have a foo...Women are receiving less aggressive treatment for chest pain and heart attacks than men, study finds
...t that once the disease was documented, physicians ignored women and didn't send them to have operations--they did," Dr. Anand said. "But the initial trigger to send them for the catheterization was much lower for women compared to men." Therefore, the rates of invasive procedures that generally follow angi...Dendritic cells offer new therapeutic target for drugs to treat MS and other autoimmune disease
...known as FLT3, targets an immune system cell often ignored in favor of T-cell targets in standard therapies. FLT3, which controls the development of healthy blood cells, was identified as a treatment target in patients with acute myeloid leukemia, a blood cell cancer, several years ago by the same Johns Hop...Johns Hopkins study suggests link between caffeine dependence and family history of alcoholism
...eine dependence and a family history of alcoholism ignored their doctor's recommendation to abstain from caffeine use and consumed caffeine in amounts greater than those considered safe during pregnancy. Women in the study without these dual risk factors were able to abstain from caffeine during pregnancy, G...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center reports advancements and solutions for quality of life assessments
...t perspectives -- which heretofore have often been ignored in the quest for statistical information. "It is as important to address the patient's feelings and physical symptoms as it is to attack the cancer itself," says Dr. Sloan. "We found that literature and anecdotal information supported this over and o...Study highlights distress caused by bladder problems affecting one in six people over 40
... of women and 19 per cent of men said that OAB was ignored by the medical community. 79 per cent of men and 74 per cent of women felt that OAB was just something they had to live with and 76 per cent of men and 67 per cent of women saw it as part of the normal ageing process. OAB had a negative impact o...Controlling neglected tropical diseases will boost fight against HIV, TB, and malaria
...those aiming to control the big three have largely ignored these opportunities."...Experts call for balance in addressing under treated pain and drug abuse
...of balance has broken down. The DEA seems to have ignored the input and needs of the healthcare professionals and pain patients who actually prescribe, dispense and use controlled substances," Dr. Heit states in his commentary. "It is essential that we resume dialogue between the DEA and healthcare profes...Better regulation needed for ethical research in Africa
...dvantage of the lack of local legislation and have ignored rudimentary local statutes, writes Sylvester Chima of Northumbria University. He describes recent cases of unethical conduct and argues that local and regional regulatory frameworks and legislation are needed to protect research participants in Afric...What is the sound of one person talking? New speech collection tells all, syllable by syllable
...their opinions on life in the city, the scientists ignored what the people had to say. All the scientists really cared about was how they said it. In a lab at Ohio State University , researchers recorded 30- to 60-minute casual interviews with these residents, talking about how Columbus has changed over th...Study suggests tension headache may actually be TMJD
...e core functions of that pair of muscles often are ignored when the presenting complaint is "headache," as op...ell established, and consequently, jaw pain may be ignored in the differential diagnosis," Ohrbach added. "This can be most unfortunate for the individual, be...Five surprising facts about starvation that could change the international agenda
...onomic and political development to reach children ignored by the development process." Patrick Webb served as chief of nutrition for the United Nations World Food Programme until August 2005. Previously, he was a member of the Steering Committee of the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition and of ...Include Indigenous communities in MDGs or watch them die a slow death, experts warn
...inority groups such as Indigenous peoples could be ignored because of the way the MDGs work by focusing on big numbers and encouraging targets to maximise health benefits for the majority. This means that the health experiences of minority Indigenous populations will be swallowed up, unnoticed, in the count...