Psychologists glimpse biological imprint of childhood neglect
...oung child's neurobiology in ways that potentially influence emotional behaviors. The work is reported online i...e duration or severity of childhood neglect, might influence types of child behavior. Why hormone levels vary between children who've suffered similar neglect pa...Swimming with dolphins can alleviate depression
...but in the absence of dolphins, to control for the influence of water and the natural setting. All participants discontinued antidepressant drugs or psychotherapy at least four weeks before entering the study, and were not allowed to take drugs during the study. Depression scores were measured before the study...ESC issues policy statement on reperfusion therapy
...hia Antipolis, France, 25 November 2005: A pivotal influence on patient outcome in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), reperfusion therapy is the most important component of STEMI treatment. A paper by the ESC on its policy with regard to this topic will be published online today in the Europea...Brain structure associated with fear inhibition also may influence personality
...ity to recover from traumatic experiences also may influence overall personality type, according to a study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers. In a followup to earlier findings that an area of the brain called the medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC) appears thicker in those who can better co...A wake-up call: Smoking after cancer diagnosis affects care and research
...imental health effects of smoking could negatively influence overall results. The authors are not suggesting that patients who use tobacco should be excluded from these studies, but that smoking should be seen as another critical variable that could have an impact upon study outcome. Both reports ...Can healthcare systems afford Herceptin for early breast cancer?
... be free from political, special interest or media influence no matter how well-meaning[3]. We face the same situation in Belgium where the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre will be evaluating Herceptin."...Coffee jump-starts short-term memory
...just yet. "We can demonstrate that caffeine exerts influence on the function of the normal brain, but we still need to learn more about caffeine's effect on mental resources." Caffeine is currently the most widely used stimulant in the world, and is mainly found in coffee, tea, soft drinks and chocolate. Daily...Study demonstrates role of exercise in modifying melatonin levels
...ight and other factors, such as physical activity, influence the production of melatonin a hormone released mainly at night in the absence of light and believed to protect against breast cancer. The findings of the study have been published in the December 1, 2005 edition of the American Journal of Epidemiolo...Cannabis almost doubles risk of fatal crashes
Driving under the influence of cannabis almost doubles the risk of a fatal road crash, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. However its share in fatal crashes is significantly lower than those involving alcohol. The study took place in France and involved 10,748 dri...Heparin antibodies may pose risk in heart surgery patients
...sure that patients' baseline health status did not influence results, the researchers assessed each patient's predicted surgical risk using a standardized risk scoring system called the Parsonnet risk score. This system is based on 19 factors known to be associated with death or other complications after heart...Chemical used in food containers disrupts brain development
...naling at a critical time during development, will influence later life. In the face of more than 100 studies published in peer-reviewed journals showing the detrimental effects of BPA, Dr. Belcher said, the chemical industry and federal regulatory agencies have resisted banning BPA from plastics used as food ...UCSD researchers report results of children's backpack study
...w back pain. The researchers hope their study will influence and improve future backpack design. The research team, led by Principal Investigators Brandon Macias, B.A. of UCSD's Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Gita Murthy, Ph.D. who was a fellow in UCSD's Department of Anesthesiology during the time of ...Nov/Dec 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ionships, more satisfaction with family time, more influence over management decisions, better satisfaction with being a physician, better perceived quality of the care they provide, greater ability to achieve professional goals, and lesser intention to leave the practice. Given the trend toward more physician...Mountainous plateau creates ozone 'halo' around Tibet
...bove the mountainous region. Because the plateau's influence extends into the upper troposphere and the lower stratosphere -- where the Earth's layer of UV-protectant ozone resides, Moore suggests that the plateau forms a halo of ozone-rich air in the upper-troposphere around Tibet. "As far as we know, this is...Patients who trust their doctors more have better outcomes
...nce status and poverty, and race-ethnicity factors influence the interaction level aspect of trust and its associations with unmet needs and delayed care." The researchers measured the association of trust with unmet health care needs and delayed care in patients from a variety of ethnicities and income levels...New study shows successful aging a question of 'mind over matter'
...unteer activities were not found to exert the same influence on participants' self-reports. Factors that were not correlated with high self-report ratings included age, gender, education, marital status and income. "For most people, worries about their future aging involve fear of physical infirmity, diseas...Rein for pain lays mainly in the brain, Stanford researchers find
...high-tech imaging equipment, subjects were able to influence their pain by controlling activity in one of the pain centers of the brain through the use of mental exercises and by visualizing their own brain activity in real time. Compare it to exercising your muscles in a top-of-the-line weight room. After rep...Prostate cancer test affected by demographic and lifestyle factors
...ant, were considered minimal and would have little influence on clinical interpretation of PSA value. While the authors considered the impact of demographic and lifestyle factors on the clinical interpretation of a single PSA concentration was negligible, the clinical impact on interpreting PSA velocity was co...Cataract surgery rates and costs related to physician reimbursement methods
... journals. A variety of studies have evaluated the influence of physician incentive and reimbursement systems on the provision of services. Many of those studies have evaluated practice patterns in the primary care setting, and the majority of them confirmed expectations that financial incentives to provide l......search shows that vitamin D may also have a strong influence on lung health, with greater levels of vitamin D associated with greater and more positive effects on lung function." Researchers from the University of Auckland examined the relationship between vitamin D and lung function using participants from t...