Preventive treatments in elderly people needs rethinking
...dd, but the best interests of elderly people might lie in investing the money in health care that will genuinely relieve suffering, such as cataract operations, joint replacement surgery, and personal care of people with dementia. They believe that a more sophisticated model is needed to assess prevent...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...tiplexing CT scanner, but engineering difficulties lie in front of the ultimate goal, a scanner with approximately 1,000 x-ray pixels. According to team leader Jian Zhang (jzh@physics.unc.edu), the cost of these machines would not rise significantly, as new technology enables hundreds of x-ray cathodes t...Late weekend sleep among teens may lead to poor academic performance
...king naps after school if you can. If you need to lie down, do not do so for more than an hour. Keep a regular schedule. Don't read, write, eat, watch TV, talk on the phone or play cards in bed. Do not have any caffeine after lunch. Do not go to bed hungry, but dont eat a big meal before bed...Gene variations point to why lung cancer drugs work better in Japanese vs. US patients
..., a follow-up study suggests the reasons appear to lie in subtle variations in certain genes that govern how the body metabolizes chemotherapy drugs. David Gandara, M.D., a University of California, Davis researcher who led the recent Southwest Oncology Group study, will present the results Saturday, Jun...Leading prevention researchers meeting in Washington, D.C., May 30-June 1, 2007
...imilar incidents in the future. Some answers may lie in research on preventing violence among youth in general. Researchers from one of the largest tests of violence prevention efforts to date will present some of the early results of their work. One of the key questions is how to focus violence preve...Chronic disease management quality improvement efforts yield better care delivery
...e difficult to achieve because of factors that may lie beyond the control of the provider, such as age of the patient or whether the patient complies with medication instructions. Experts therefore also gauge progress by measuring improvements in the processes of care as well as intermediate outcomes. ...AHA statement recommends doctors change approach
...ance that helps doctors see where individual drugs lie on the continuum of COX-1 versus COX-2 selectivity. Selective COX-2 inhibitors have been in the news since the FDA removed the selective COX-2 inhibitor, rofecoxib, from the market in 2004. Since then, other COX-2 selective drugs have been removed f...Sleep disturbances affect classroom performance
...king naps after school if you can. If you need to lie down, do not do so for more than an hour. Keep a regular schedule. Dont read, write, eat, watch TV, talk on the phone or play cards in bed. Do not have any caffeine after lunch. Do not go to bed hungry, but dont eat a big meal before bedtime eith...Two-thirds of nursing students believe it's wrong to lie to patients, twice as many as in 1983
...t in the 2005 survey felt it was unprofessional to lie to a patient, compared with 33 per cent in 1983. About a fifth of the students in both surveys were unsure about whether keeping the truth from a patient was acceptable. (18 per cent in 2005 and 20 per cent in 1983). 54 per cent of the 198...Media coverage of autism differs dramatically
...orts of the scientific community to explore autism lie predominantly in brain and behavior research. This disconnect between the scientific community and the popular media is starkly laid out in a study published in the February issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience by researchers at the Stanford Univer...Why are Danes the world's happiest nation?
...or the year to come. So the key to happiness may lie in the fact that if you lower your expectations enough you might feel a bit better next Christmas, they conclude....Call for data on reuse of surgical instruments to allay fears over vCJD transmission
...total scale of the epidemic through this route now lie in the low hundreds. However, concern has been raised that transmission could, in theory, occur directly from one person to another via routes such as blood transfusions and surgical operations, despite instruments being decontaminated routinely b...Experts present strategies to address adolescent violence and bullying
...ociety for physicians whose expertise and interest lie in disease prevention and health promotion ( www.acpm.org ). ACPM's more than 2,000 members are engaged in preventive medicine practice, teaching and research. Medscape from WebMD is the leading provider of online information and educational servic...Poorest children face highest risk of death from injury
...riod. Explanations are speculative, but probably lie in different exposure to risk, they add. For example, the higher risk of dying in house fires may reflect the quality and type of housing, with the greatest fire risks for those in temporary and poor housing. At the beginning of the 21st century, t...Taking medicine regularly (even placebo) is good for you
... She points to research showing that healing may lie not in the treatment but rather in patients' emotional and cognitive processes of "feeling cared for" and "caring for oneself." And she suggests that practice based on these hypotheses "could yield extra value in treatment regimens that patients agre...REM sleep behaviour disorder is an early marker of neurodegenerative diseases
...or in the future. The importance of these results lie firstly in the future possibility of administrating neuroprotective drugs to patients with the REM sleep behaviour disorder who have still not developed a degenerative disease. Furthermore, the monitoring of these patients will permit an early admini...Identification of role for proteins in children's muscle disease could open up new treatment options
... an inflammatory process of the blood vessels that lie under the skin and muscles. Some of the symptoms include skin changes around the eyelids and over the knuckles and finger joints, as well as weakness in muscles, mainly affecting the large muscles around the hips and shoulders resulting in increased ...Study elicits 'child's eye' view of methamphetamine abuse and its effects
... to get high, told to steal from loved ones and to lie to authorities, and they had seen their parents "hyper" and delusional. They had been traumatized, many of them, but they had also been resourceful and resilient. All had been taken from their rural homes and were now in foster care, with some strugg...Hispanic 3-year-olds more likely to be obese than black or white children
...se differences begin to appear. Their origins may lie in the preschool years because eating and exercise habits develop early and because a mother's obesity before and immediately after birth may influence her child's risk. Robert C. Whitaker, M.D., M.P.H., and Sean M. Orzol, M.P.H., of Mathematica Poli...Bone research in Space Symposium, June 2, IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis
...s," i.e. healthy, young Earth-bound volunteers who lie flat without exercising for extended periods of time. These studies have shown that completely immobilized bones can lose up to 15% of mineral density within three months. Buckley says bone cell formation depends largely on the effects of weight, bo...