Irrational decisions driven by emotions
... sure option was worded either as the amount to be kept from the starting amount ("keep 20"), or the amount to be deducted ("lose 30"). The two options, although worded differently, would result in exactly the same outcome, i.e. that the participant would be left with 20. The UCL study found that partic...Prebiotics can cut development of skin allergy in babies at high risk
...basis up to the age of 6 months, and their parents kept a symptom diary. Over the six months, only 10 babies fed the prebiotic formula developed atopic dermatitis, compared with 24 fed the normal formula. An assessment of stool samples from 98 of the babies showed a significant increase in bifidobacteri...Radiation-killed bacteria vaccine induces broad immune response in mice
... gamma-irradiated bacteria also may not need to be kept cold; an advantage in settings where refrigerating... of live, attenuated vaccines is that they must be kept refrigerated at all times: if the "cold chain" is broken, the vaccine is liable to spoil and become ...New study shows people sleep even less than they think
... in the home for three days and nights. They also kept a log of their hours in bed. Using the Actiwatch and nightly logs, Lauderdale and colleagues recorded how long people spent in bed (on average, 7.5 hours), how long it took them to fall asleep (22 minutes), how long they slept (6.1 hours), and the...Trouble putting the kids to sleep?
... families for six weeks. During this time, parents kept diaries to record the sleep habits of their children throughout the night. Treatment with a placebo agent or diphenhydramine occurred during one week, and the days before and after treatment were recorded for comparison purposes. The study was blind...Should patients have to opt out of electronic records?
...ctronic records in the NHS and how the data can be kept secure. There are two broad schools of thought. The first (the opt-out model) is for the public to be informed of the NHS care records service and to be given a chance to opt out if they do not want their clinical records shared within the NHS. The ...Eating habits of successful weight losers shift
...g individuals who have lost at least 30 pounds and kept if off for at least one year. On average, the nearly 5,000 members in the Registry have far exceeded these requirements, losing over 70 pounds and keeping the weight off for nearly six years. "Our findings suggest that to successfully maintain wei...Implantable defibrillators save lives but may increase heart failure risk
...llator Implantation Trial-II (MADIT-II). "The ICD kept them alive by preventing sudden cardiac death as their heart disease naturally progressed to heart failure. "Patients who developed heart failure had almost four times the increase in risk of death during follow up. This study should direct more att...Step by step, cancer patients use exercise to feel better
...of steps walked each day. They wore pedometers and kept a diary. Also, they were asked to complete 11 resistance band exercises daily, performing one set of eight to 15 repetitions daily and gradually increasing to three or four sets. Results showed an 82-percent increase in the number of steps walked dai...Hypnotherapy improves quality of life for people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
...iled questionnaires before and after treatment and kept diary cards during the study "The patients involved in this study were typical of people seen routinely in gastroenterology clinics, where up to 50 per cent of the referrals are for IBS" says Dr Smith. "There's no universal agreement about what cause...Deaths from rodent virus raise need for tracking system
...ed three weeks before organ donation and was being kept in the donor's home. Though the donor had no evidence of LCMV, testing of hamster tissues detected the virus. In April 2005, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), operated by the United Network for Organ Sharing, broadened its po...Listening to music can reduce chronic pain and depression by up to a quarter
...eryone who took part, including the control group, kept a pain diary" explains nurse researcher Dr Sandra L Siedlecki from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio. "Forty people were assigned to the two music groups and the other 20 formed the control group. "The first group were invited to choose their own...More careful 'aiming' of CT cuts down on radiation without compromising image quality
...y CT studies. "When other scanning parameters are kept constant, the radiation dose is directly proportional to the scan volume, so limiting the region of scanning will be a practical way of reducing radiation dose in all CT studies," said S. Namasivayam, MD, lead author of the study. "There is a widespr...Melatonin most effective for sleep when taken for off-hour sleeping
...nd melatonin production. "Participants were then kept on a 20-hour sleep-wake schedule, simulating a traveler crossing four time zones eastward every day," explained Dr. Charles Czeisler, Chief of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and senior author of the study. "For the nex...British public supports use of personal data for health research
...ublic health research, provided the information is kept confidential and secure, say the authors. Research across the European Union has also shown that doctors and medical services are highly trusted with regard to their use of individuals' personal information, much more so than tax authorities, banks,...Low folate levels may cut bowel cancer risk
...ing and hardening of arteries, levels of which are kept in check by B vitamins, including folate. The authors conclude that while high levels of folate may indeed protect against the development of bowel cancer, so too may low levels, suggesting something of a bell shaped curve in risk levels....Research team to examine impact of genetics and exposure to secondhand smoke
...children come from a 15-year longitudinal database kept by Dr. Frank Treiber, MCG vice president for research and a GPI child psychologist. Then Drs. Yanbin Dong and Haidong Zhu, MCG molecular geneticists, will perform the genotyping looking for children with variations in the identified genes. Dr. Gaston...JCI table of contents, April 20, 2006
...xpressed in these mice. Persistent Cx26 expression kept wounded skin in a state of hyper-proliferation, which prevented wound healing and triggered an ongoing inflammatory reaction. The authors concluded that Cx26 expression must be downregulated in utero in order for the epidermal barrier to form before ...Harsh famine ahead for NHS, warn experts
...improved services, but these improvements have not kept pace with the spending increases, say the authors. So what went wrong? The fundamental problem was that, as funding flowed into the NHS, many spending controls were relaxed as politicians and managers concentrated on targets for activity and service ...Numerical processing similar in children and adults, brain scans reveal
...watched a cartoon, which would only play when they kept their heads perfectly still. The fake scanner even made the same sounds as a functioning one. Once the children were comfortable in the fake scanner, they were introduced to the real one. And with Cantlon and Carter offering praise and toy rewards, t...