Tsunami raises questions about disaster mental health, Science reports
...an cultures, and they tend to put less emphasis on individual self-reliance than we do in the West. Many people I talked to, both locals and Westerners, felt that this collectivist spirit and the strong social ties it fosters were helping people cope. Others suggested that some tsunami survivors are coping bet...Anxiety disorders can compromise success of alcohol-dependence treatment
...nking, and their inter-relations that is, how the individual is using alcohol to self-medicate for their anxiet...h alcohol addiction. Once this process occurs, an individual could begin to use alcohol to self-medicate the very anxiety symptoms that were caused by pathologic...More is better, at least in angioplasty
... test of quality is risk-adjusted analysis of each individual physician's outcomes." The doctors in the two lower quintiles, called "low-volume" for the purpose of the study, accounted for nearly 2,500 (13.6 percent) of the procedures. They tended to use more of the new clot-preventing drugs, called glycoprote...Report reveals high rate of heart attack amongst ethnic minorities in Scotland
...d strict controls to ensure the confidentiality of individual personal information, and to test the methods, the team focused on the example of heart disease. Previous research in England has shown that heart disease is more common in some ethnic groups than others. For example, in England death rates from hear...Penn study shows genes may affect response to different quit-smoking medications
...y of quit-smoking medications that are targeted to individual smokers' needs. "Although these results require confirmation in a larger study prior to translation to practice," said Lerman, "they do suggest that genetic information may be useful in selecting the type of nicotine dependence treatment that will b...Garvan Insitute scientists suggest new approach for treating patients with brittle bones
...alia, treatment is usually only prescribed when an individual has had a fracture - regardless of BMD levels. Individuals with low BMD, despite being at high risk of fractures, are not commonly considered for drug treatment even though experts suggest that they should have preventative medication. One in two wo...South Polar ozone hole makes big comeback
...ozone-reactive radicals that break ozone down into individual oxygen molecules. A single molecule of chlorine has the potential to break down thousands of molecules of ozone. The PROMOTE atmospheric ozone forecast seen here has atmospheric ozone measured in Dobson Units (DUs), which stands for the total thic...GlaxoSmithKline announces FDA approval of Fluarix
...the air by tiny droplets released when an infected individual coughs or sneezes. Most people recover fully within a week or two, but the risk of complications is elevated in very young, very old and chronically ill persons. Although epidemics of flu happen in most years, the beginning, severity and length of...Biosensor reveals new information about suspected cause of Alzheimer's disease
...ne day allow us to determine, based on size, if an individual has ADDLs that will affect his or her cognitive function. However, there are still many hurdles that must be overcome before we can use it as a diagnostic tool." The biosensors developed by the Northwestern team are based on tiny, triangular silver p...Medical students at risk for influence from pharmaceutical companies' marketing efforts
...sicians' decisions are based solely on helping the individual patient achieve the greatest possible benefit," the authors conclude....Researchers recommend multidisciplinary approach of low back pain
...ablish a diagnostic and treatment program for each individual patient, including multidisciplinary and intradisciplinary consultation that would allow for avoiding invasive treatment options where less invasive modalities may still be effective....Children's receives one of only two national pediatric rheumatology training grants
...redict outcomes and even determine which therapies individual patients are most likely to respond to. Gene expression analysis has already led to the discovery of several genes that appear to be involved in the destruction of the joint itself. In another project, delivering gene therapies to diseased synovium o...New study shows SARS can infect brain tissue
...e drugs should be administered carefully and on an individual basis, as they may allow amplification of the SARS coronavirus in the brain. "Superinfection" with other pathogens could also contribute to SARS' harmful effects on the brain. "Physicians should pay more attention to the prevention of brain damage if...National study shows black immigrants' health erodes the longer they live in US
...This study shows the value of breaking them out as individual groups by home region. "These findings point to the persistent black/white health gap in the United States," said Emerson, the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Sociology and director of the new Center on Race, Religion and Urban Life. "What......ion in relation to the rest-activity cycle of each individual subject," wrote the study authors, including Ramn C. Hermida, Ph.D., from the University of Vigo in Vigo, Spain. The researchers called for further studies to see if there are other benefits from taking low-dose aspirin before bed, instead of in the ...NIMH study to guide treatment choices for schizophrenia
... appropriate medication according to the patients' individual needs. The study results are published in the Sept...tudy. An important issue still to be considered is individual differences in patient response to these drugs. Several factors, such as adequacy of symptom relie...Promising diagnostic tools for multiple sclerosis developed at Yale
...iagnostic tools to aid in designing treatments for individual MS patients," said Ruddle, who is also Interim Deputy Dean and Interim Vice Chair of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale....Yale School of Medicine Neuroscientist receives Javits Award
...Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awards the funding to individual investigators who have demonstrated exceptional scientific excellence and productivity in research. The award guarantees funding to neuroscientists for up to seven years. It will enable Strittmatter, who has a particular expertise in axonal guidance ...Scientists develop screening method for pancreatic cancer
...his allows a more accurate estimate of the risk an individual faces of developing cancer in the short term so we can treat the cancer as soon as possible." The team led by Dr Greenhalf has developed a novel method of analysing pancreatic juice, taken from patients in families with a history of pancreatic cancer...Academic medical centers face multiple challenges for conducting medical research
...rm an academic reward structure built to encourage individual scientists to pursue their own ideas into one that... away from the traditional paradigm focused on the individual investigator in favor of one that is more collaborative, team-based, and interdisciplinary," the aut...