Mercury's link to heart disease begins in blood vessel walls
...es. New research focusing on a relatively obscure, misunderstood protein suggests mercury's link to heart disease can be traced to activation of this enzyme, which triggers a process leading to plaque buildup in blood vessel walls. The study examined three forms of mercury, matching its characteristics in the en...How low should we go? Researchers find no clear evidence for ultra-low cholesterol targets
...iew suggests that we in the medical community have misunderstood the scientific evidence on whether very low LDL is important, or whether adequate doses of statins are what is really important," says lead author Rodney Hayward, M.D., director of the VA Center for Health Services Research and Development and profe...Parents describe their spiritual needs when facing a child's death
...without being invited, because they fear it may be misunderstood or judged in the scientific culture of the hospital," Meyer notes. "But many parents experience their child's death as a spiritual journey, not only as a medical event." The researchers call on hospitals to be explicitly sensitive to parents' spiri...Sharing clinical trial results strongly favored by participants
...urvey that 33 percent of the respondents initially misunderstood the meaning of the results or were unsure of their significance. Nearly one-quarter -- 24 percent -- were more anxious about their disease after learning the results, while 39 percent responded that their anxiety decreased. The findings will be repor...Parents need help to talk to their children about cancer
...or friends' parents with cancer. Parents sometimes misunderstood their children's reactions and underestimated the emotional impact or did not recognise the children's need for more preparation and information about the illness and its treatment. Parents are often unaware how much their children know and, often re...Stroke patients regain ability to communicate through use of speech generating device
...ivors. They retain their cognition, but are often misunderstood as being mentally incapacitated. Currently 1 million Americans suffer from aphasia. Given the aging of the US population, and improved stroke survival rates, the aphasic population of the US in the year 2020 is projected to double to two million. Tra...New book on bipolar disorder targets 12 million affected Americans, families
...have shed light on what was once a very hidden and misunderstood disease. A new book, Bipolar Disorder For Dummies (Wiley, 340 pages, $19.99) breaks down the barriers to understanding, treating and living with this complex disease. Bipolar Disorder For Dummies is a reassuring guide that explains the brain chemist...Resident physicians report that training often not adequate to treat patients from other cultures
...ckground information in the article. Unexplored or misunderstood sociocultural differences between patients and physicians can lead to patient dissatisfaction, poor adherence to treatment, and poor health outcomes. In an effort to provide health care professionals with the knowledge and skills to effectively care ...Study shows even limited training improves communication with patients from other cultures
...es, where the patient can feel underappreciated or misunderstood by physicians or nurses. "We know, for example, that over a broad range of medical conditions and clinical settings, the diagnostic tests performed, and the quality of diagnosis made and treatment options offered are lower for black Americans and ...Poor understanding of coverage deters breast cancer screening
... cost as a screening barrier. Of these, 40 percent misunderstood their insurance coverage of mammography, regardless of the type of insurance they had. Those women who underestimated or had no knowledge of their insurance coverage were also significantly more likely to identify cost as a prohibitive factor in brea...Connecting to cure spinal cord injury
...will be within reach. To address controversial and misunderstood issues related to SCI cure research, the University of Michigan Health System's Model SCI Care System (part of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation), in partnership with the Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living and the Michigan P......hild's environment. Questions can be ambiguous or misunderstood by the child's caregiver, or the caregiver may be consciously or unconsciously less than accurate with their answers. A report, however, in the May 2 issue of JAMA's Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine says that three significant but simple ...