16-MDCT can efficiently scan ER patients; repositioning patients may improve image quality
...nitiation of treatment have an especially profound influence on the patient's outcome," said Jan Gralla, MD, of the department of diagnostic and interventional radiology at the University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland, and lead author of the study. The study included 497 emergency room patients. In 350 patients...Quitting smoking could save your teeth, study shows
...r your teeth, because losing them will have a huge influence on your life. Not only will this affect your appearance, it can also impact on your confidence, lifestyle, and so much more. "For example, losing teeth could prevent you from eating a healthy diet. You are less likely to chose to eat something lik...Recent use of antibiotics doubles your chances of being resistant
...months prior to obtaining the urine sample did not influence the resistance of organisms presumably because the time period in question is too long. However, the more recent use of antibiotics within 2 months led to a near doubling of the likelihood of resistance. The team also found that over a 12 month ...Diabetes drug controls blood glucose, cardiac risk
...f metformin, but that the company did not have any influence on the review process or conclusions....Fun foods and exercise may reduce childhood obesity
...rop in the ocean" in terms of all the factors that influence children's health behavior. TV and video games, for example, are here to stay, she says. "It's important to build in time that children can do that and also to build in some time when they can do really fun things around physical activity." Obesity ...Wife influences husband's marijuana use during first year of marriage
...'s the husband among newlywed couples who has more influence on whether the couple engages in heavy drinking, i...s not true in either case; husbands do not seem to influence their wives' marijuana smoking. Kenneth E. Leonard, Ph.D., principal investigator on the stud...Healthy weight means healthier blood lipid profile in children, study finds
...ve bad lipid profiles and that fitness and fatness influence those profiles. They wanted to know whether this also is true in children. Their study indicates that while fatness and a bad lipid profile seem to have a direct correlation, especially in white teens, fitness likely has an indirect role because it i...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 3
...ly being broken down and rebuilt, but bone tumours influence the rate and balance of this cycle. Bisphosphonates slow the process that breaks down bone material. By searching the world's databases, the Cochrane Review Authors identified 21 high-quality studies that looked at the use of bisphosphonates and met...Special issue of Yale journal analyzes environmental impact of consumption
...les consider the strategies advocacy groups use to influence global production and consumption, and explore the role of the "rebound effect"--the possibility that reduced purchase of one set of products can, by saving the consumer money, lead to increased consumption of other goods and services with their atte...Government policy changes lead to dramatic drop in heart disease deaths in Poland
....4kg/year by 1999 - the increase was not enough to influence death rates by more than 1 or 2%. These results concur with other studies which show that partly substituting polyunsaturated fats for saturated fats in the diet, while maintaining a low intake of trans fatty acids, can reduce deaths from heart disea...'Good' bacteria helps ease pain of colitis
...lls that, when ingested, are thought to positively influence the composition of microbes in the gut and improve the health of the intestine. While "bad" bacteria have been flagged as potential culprits in the cause of inflammatory diseases of the bowel, in this case, the ingestion of supplemental "good" bacter...Study on female twins finds occupational class influences adult health, above early life conditions
...s, can provide unique insights to the issue of the influence of adult experiences, above and beyond early environment and genetics, to health outcomes later in life. Identical twins share not only similar genetics but the same environment while in childhood. Comparing the health of identical twins who have the...Mental health following stroke, spinal cord injury; sensory evaluation tools
... interaction that occur during therapy-which often influence a participant's hope for future physical progress-are an important part of CIMT. One-third of veterans recovering from stroke suffer from depression, pg. 277 This study describes early poststroke emotional recovery in veterans. One hundred and tw...Mental-state reasoning is universal milestone in child development
...ews, such as a Western concept of mind, profoundly influence this very basic aspect of early mental-state reasoning, and strengthens a claim of universality," the authors wrote....Anti-inflammatory function of Alzheimer's disease drugs revealed
...atory material, interleukin-1, and its destructive influence in the brain." "The discovery of this mechanism in the anti-Alzheimer's Disease medicines points the way towards development of new forms of these medicines which will block even more efficiently and specifically the inflammatory and destructive ac...Do free drug samples influence residents' prescribing decisions?
...s of residents as a form of marketing, how does it influence their prescribing behavior? To what extent are treatment decisions based on which samples are available and further, what are the implications for patient care as well as resident education? While this is a frequently debated issue, there has been li...Knee pain often linked to pain elsewhere in the body
...ee. A standard health survey used to determine the influence of pain elsewhere on general health was also completed, as well as an index to measure pain and disability specifically related to the knee. Obesity, anxiety and depression, all of which are linked to widespread pain, were also measured using various...Many body-conscious teens use supplements to improve physique
...indings also indicate that the media have a strong influence on adolescent supplement use and that body-image concerns are well established among boys: Girls who said they wanted to look like women in the movies, magazines, or on TV were more than twice as likely as their peers to use supplements at least w...Prenatal exposure to famine increases risk of schizophrenia
...n may perturb prenatal neural development so as to influence risk for schizophrenia. The most pressing question from a public health and interventionist perspective is whether the relevant nutritional restriction of interest constitutes a global nutritional deficiency or a specific micronutrient deficiency. ......re not associated with PTSD, likely reflecting the influence of cultural factors. The study did not assess the extent to which participants sought treatment for their disorders, but the interviewers gave them information about local mental health clinics. Still, the study "raises questions about the adequacy...