New study in Sleep finds a high level of negativity towards judicial sleepiness
...g to a study published in the May 1st issue of the journal SLEEP. Ronald R. Grunstein, MD, PhD, of Sydney, Australia, conducted an in-depth qualitative review of media and Internet reports on judicial sleepiness. One of the more well-known cases that Grunstein pointed out is a story that was first repor...Animal BiP levels determine amount of recovery sleep needed following prolonged wakefulness
...g to a study published in the May 1st issue of the journal SLEEP. The study, conducted by Nirinjini Naidoo, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, focused on a Drosophila head and brain. The authors discovered that there are substantial increases in the molecular chaperone BiP in Drosophil...Racial disparities in treatment of patients with cirrhosis and complications of portal hypertension
...g to a new study in the May issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). The article is also available online via Wiley Interscience ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/hepatology ). Liver disease is ver...UK researchers find new class of nontoxic cancer treatments
...dy published in the April 30 issue of the academic journal Chemistry & Biology, UK pharmaceutical sciences graduate student Abby Ho mentored by assistant professor Kyung-Bo Kim and ophthalmology and visual sciences assistant professor Royce Mohan describe a compound that acts directly on LMP2, a component of...Culture sculpts neural response to visual stimuli, new research indicates
... information. This study appears this month in the journal Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. This paper and another published by the same group in 2006 are the first to demonstrate that culture can alter the brains perceptive mechanisms. The new finding is the result of a collaboration betwee...Liver stiffness indicates portal hypertension
...study in the May issue of Hepatology, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hepatology is available online via Wiley InterScience at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/hepatology . As liver disease progresses...Jefferson pharmacologist says biomarker discovery bodes well for better cancer diagnostics
...orial about the study appearing May 2, 2007 in the journal JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. "The findings are significant because they seem to represent a large part of the machinery in the cell that regulates the processing of information from chromosome and gene to the protein machi...Government fails sleepy Judge Dodd
...ob". Published in the May edition of Sleep, the journal of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and US Sleep Research Society, the paper asserts that occupational sleepiness in white-collar monotonous workplaces, such as courtrooms and hospitals, is a serious issue and not uncommon. The Woolcock Ins...Simple screening can help decrease teen risk behaviors
...This study appeared in the April 2007 issue of the journal Child Psychiatry and Human Development. Prior research indicates that teenagers who engage in one risky behavior are more likely to be involved in others and that this has an additive effect. The authors note that risk behaviors among teens are pre...Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level
...this week in an advanced online publication of the journal Nature. While still preliminary, the research, could help scientists develop tools for diagnosing such diseases, and potentially for treating them through "structure-based drug design," said David Eisenberg, a UCLA chemist and molecular biologist ...Exercise science principles strengthen swallowing rehabilitation
...by Dr. Burkhead available online in the scientific journal Dysphagia at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00455-006-9074-z. "At present, there remain more questions than answers regarding how to most effectively and efficiently approach dysphagia rehabilitation," Dr. Burkhead and her co-authors write. Historica...Teens with migraine at greater risk of suicide
...he May 1, 2007, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Teens with migraine are also more likely to have other psychiatric disorders such as depression and panic disorder. "Teens with chronic daily headache should be screened for psychiatric disorders so they can ge...Study puts us one step closer to understanding the function of sleep
...d this week in the Early Edition of the scientific journal PNAS, Tononi and colleagues, including Marcello Massimini, also of the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, described the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to initiate slow waves in sleeping volunteers. The researchers record...1 in 3 HIV positive gay men report unprotected sex
... community survey, published ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. And almost one in five HIV negative men said that they do the same, the figures show. The findings are based on a survey of men at gay bars, clubs, and saunas in London, Manchester, and Brighton between 2003 and 2...Review finds ways of helping children of drug and alcohol misusers
A review published in the journal Advances in Psychiatric Treatment suggests how children whose parents have drug or alcohol problems can be protected from the consequences usually associated with parental substance misuse. Drawing on research from around the world, the review high...Costs of treating arthritis on the rise nationwide, study finds
...he May 2007 issue of "Arthritis & Rheumatism," the journal of the American College of Rheumatology. It is also available online at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/arthritis . The study was performed in response to a growing concern about the escalating costs of arthritis care as the U.S. populat...Depression among retired NFL players: Rates mirror the general public, but pain compounds symptoms
...ue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the journal of the American College of Sports Medicine. To obtain the data, researchers sent surveys to 3,377 members of the NFL Players Association, Retired Players Section. Of the 1,594 people who responded, the prevalence of moderate to severe depression wa...Decision making by the growing elderly population is uncharted territory
...ulation, she and colleagues write in the quarterly journal Perspectives on Psychological Science (Volume 2, I...he moment. She noted a just-published study in the journal Psychology and Aging by Corinna E. Lckenhoff and Laura L. Carstensen of Stanford University that fou...Spinal manipulation in children studied
...s of which were published in a recent issue of the journal Pediatrics. They reviewed data drawn from 13 international studies conducted over a period of more than 40 years and found that adverse reactions in children appeared to be rare compared to the numbers of spinal manipulations performed. But those i...New mechanism identified for resistance to targeted lung cancer drugs
...d Tarceva. Their report, which will appear in the journal Science and is receiving early online release, describes a totally new resistance mechanism that may apply to many types of cancer. It also suggests a treatment strategy for patients with these resistant tumors. "We found that, for about 20 perce...