Urban neighborhoods affect how people think about health
... Ind. - The number of days people stay home ill is influenced by neighborhood poverty and whether they receive subsidized health care, such as Medicaid, says a Purdue University urban sociologist. "As state policy-makers decide whether to cut or invest in their state health insurance programs, such as Medicaid,...Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease reduces uncontrolled movements
...sts that selection of a stimulation site should be influenced by symptom profile. Although GPi stimulation may be better for the patient with dose-limiting dyskinesia, STN stimulation may be better for the younger patient with prominent bradykinesia."...News briefs from the journal CHEST, April 2005
...early mortality. Other factors that significantly influenced the mortality rate in this population were pneumonia severity of illness score, site of care, and consultation by a respirologist or infectious disease physician. The study appears in the April issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the Americ...Study shows statin use before or after stroke improves recovery
...e after stroke." The results of the study were not influenced by the severity of the stroke which, along with post-stroke complications and prior cerebrovascular disease, were independent predictors of an unfavorable outcome. This preliminary finding requires further research to confirm the results, according t...HIV treatment not affected by hormonal birth control
... out to investigate whether hormonal contraception influenced response to HAART," said Stephen J. Gange, PhD, corresponding author of the study and an associate professor in the Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Epidemiology. Data from the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), the largest, ongoi...Simple questions may determine children's exposure to smoke
..., measures exposure over several months and is not influenced by short-term exposure. Hair samples were collected from 291 healthy children, two weeks to three years of age, at a primary care clinic and the children were divided into three groups based on level of cotinine: low, medium and high exposure. The ...Study examines influence of celebrity endorsements of cancer screening
...h adults of screening age had seen, heard, or were influenced by celebrity endorsements of various types of cancer screening--screening mammography, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, and sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy--Robin J. Larson, M.D., of the Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center in White Rive...Stroke drug still meets resistance from doctors wary of its risks
...id that their own personal experience with tPA had influenced their answers on the survey -- including 30 percent of those who said they'd be likely to use tPA in an ideal setting, and 29 percent of those who said they wouldn't. "It appears that individual anecdotal experience is influencing decision-making, wh...Genetic testing divides families
...ell as the individuals' perceived need to prepare, influenced the timing of disclosure to family members. Some were selective in the information they revealed as well as with whom they shared the information. Hamilton reports that even when family members are in agreement about having testing, receiving a po...Medical journals are an extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies
...otal of 86 studies that the results of a trial are influenced by who funds it. "The evidence is strong that companies are getting the results they want, and this is especially worrying because between two thirds and three quarters of the trials published in the major journals are funded by the industry." Smith...Improvements in critical care decrease risk of post-injury multiple organ failure
...e also occurred over the last decade that may have influenced our results. Each of these advances has influenced our approach to trauma and critical care although the relative effect of any one advance on postinju...Research shows upbringing affects discipline choices
...about their current discipline strategies and what influenced their choices for their preadolescent children in a survey. The results showed that 42 percent of parents used time-outs, 41 percent removed privileges, 13 percent used yelling and 9 percent used spanking to discipline their children. In the survey,...Nature as important as nurture in developing ability for flexible self-control
...s thanks to the way your pre-teen life experiences influenced the development of your brain. Individuals deprived of normal life experiences may lack this ability to control their behavior in novel situations, a new computer model suggests, providing insight into how nature and nurture may interact in the devel...Umbilical cord-blood transplants save lives of babies with rare genetic disorder
...and normal cognitive development, except for areas influenced by gross motor development. In contrast, the infants treated after symptom onset showed some stabilization of neurologic disease, but remained severely impaired.......clean air in the study showed that semantic labels influenced judgment, even when the absence of odor was paired with the labels. Whether the words caused subjects to imagine a smell or simply affected their brain's processing of odors, "the important new point being made in this paper is that high-level cognit...Combating fatigue associated with liver disease
...realized they were taking the drug, which may have influenced how they perceived their fatigue. For this reason, the researchers judged the results of period 2 to be invalid and used only the results from period 1 to evaluate the effects of ondansetron. They conclude that "ondansetron did not have a fatigue-red...Boston University psychologists find neurological mechanism for subliminal learning
...n, subliminal learning occurs when individuals are influenced by a stimulus they are unaware of, like words played back below the threshold of hearing or images flashed on screen faster than the eye can perceive. Watanabe's recent findings grew out of his team's previous work in which they established that sub...Diabetes, hypertension and obesity negatively effect joint replacement outcomes
...s. They also will investigate whether outcomes are influenced by health care delivery factors, such as the volume of cases performed by individual surgeons and hospitals, or patient characteristics such as age, gender and race. The analysis was supported by Duke's Center for Excellence in Surgical Outcomes (CES...$3 million NIH grant focuses on workplace obesity
... spend many hours at work, where their behavior is influenced by well-established communication systems, cafeterias and opportunities for physical activity." Fernandez's team will measure the diet and activity levels of Kodak employees who volunteer to participate. The URMC team expects to carry out the study b...Doctor 'report cards' may keep some heart patients from getting angioplasties
... that the public reporting of mortality statistics influenced their decisions about performing angioplasties on critically ill patients, such as those with cardiogenic shock. And 83 percent agreed that patients who might benefit from angioplasty might not receive the procedure because of the effect of public re...