New study examines effectiveness of tailored health messages
...tional orientation were paying enough attention to notice the difference between strong and weak messages, says Updegraff. Particularly, strong messages created more favorable attitudes towards flossing than weak messages, and were more effective in changing behavior. When messages were relatively weak or c...Study finds difference in survival rates among white and black women with advanced breast cancer
...he researchers hope that health policy makers take notice of the growing disparity and implement steps to make all breast cancer treatments more accessible. Giordano and Dawood also intend to expand upon their research and determine the causation of these racial disparities. ...Tiny newborns face higher risk of death at community hospitals, Stanford/VA study finds
...le around the clock can also respond at a moment's notice to any signs of trouble, for example. Although low-level community neonatal ICUs are required to partner with higher-level centers, the study suggests that the relationships offer little benefit to tiny babies unless the laboring mother is transfer...Employee health program improves blood pressure, diabetes control
...acilities. "Over the years, the company began to notice benefits to helping workers stay fit," Clark said. "The program has grown to where it is now part of the company's strategic plan." For the study, JEA teamed up with its healthcare provider, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Florida and with Pfizer Global P...Culture sculpts neural response to visual stimuli, new research indicates
...s in a picture than are Westerners, who more often notice physical features or groupings of similar subjects. More recent research, which analyzed the eye movements of East Asians and Westerners viewing identical images, found that Westerners were more attentive to central, or dominant, objects, while Eas...Drugs for Parkinson's disease may ease stroke-related disability
...n as spatial neglect that hampers their ability to notice things on their left side. Patients may seem to be... on their left side. How to separate slowness to notice a stimulus (spatial neglect) from slowness to act on a stimulus (motor neglect) has been a persisten...New asthma inhaler propellant effective, but costlier
...to 24 months, Hendeles said. Consumers will also notice that only the Ventolin brand of HFA inhaler comes with a counter to track how much medicine is left. For that reason, Hendeles suggests keeping a backup inhaler handy if physicians prescribe a device without a counter. "There isn't any reliable way...UW launches study testing adult stem cells for heart damage repair
...heart attacks that, while they may be too small to notice at the time, in aggregate cause significant long-term damage to the heart muscle and disability to the patient. While cardiologists can restore blood flow in some cases, the heart muscle can be irreversibly damaged, leading to significant disability...Two-thirds of nursing students believe it's wrong to lie to patients, twice as many as in 1983
...nurse should be prepared to change shifts at short notice to help out. By 2005 this figure had fallen to 23 per cent. 1983 students were much more decisive about their attitude to shift changes. Only six per cent were unsure of their response, compared with 25 per cent in 2005. Five per cent of the ...Athlete's 'rituals' important for overcoming performance anxiety
...ball player at the free throw line, you will often notice a certain routine being repeated. That is when negative thoughts are being replaced by positive thoughts, relaxation occurs and mistakes are minimized." According to Cox, who just published the sixth edition of his book "Sport Psychology: Concepts...Novel brain areas associated with the recognition of gender, ethnicity and the identity of faces
...nicity and age. In contrast, small children barely notice if a person is wearing eyeglasses. We wanted to see what was happening in the brain." The experimenters relied on an adaptation technique. Over a period of three minutes subjects were adapted to a series of male Asian and female Caucasian face imag...Planning for surge of disaster victims? Discharge the healthiest from every hospital, experts advise
...prognosis. That number would put them at a moments notice into risk groups that would rapidly inform decisions to discharge them or send them to another facility should a major disaster occur. There is consensus among health care officials that, whether dealing with a natural disaster like Hurricane Katri...Heart Rhythm Society publishes final recommendations for heart patients
... with their patients how to respond to an advisory notice that a device malfunction has been identified. Manufacturers: Should use expanding wireless and remote monitoring technologies to identify abnormal devices earlier and automatically. Should establish independent, standing committees of outsid...Doctors cut repeat LASIK visits dramatically
... their eyes to some extent; while most people dont notice them, they hurt our quality of vision in subtle ways.Since Williams' discovery, several companies have introduced technology that makes possible a technique known as customized ablation, a form of LASIK that corrects these imperfections, bringing abo...JRRD tipsheet: Focus on stroke
...ional bias, pg. 337 Spatial neglect (a failure to notice or respond to a stimulus on the opposite side of space from a brain injury) often happens after a stroke and may predict loss of independence. We examined whether eye patching primarily affected awareness or motoraction planning in people with spatia...Doctors know best when it comes to treating chronic coronary artery disease
... that judgment. "In other words, a physician may notice a lot of little things that add up to one big thing," Dr. Ben-Yehuda said. "This big thing may go against the scientific formula routinely used to determine the patient's care. In the final analysis, this research shows that even in this day and age,...Experts add to growing warnings about asthma drug
.... Patients should contact their physicians if they notice their response to a 'rescue' inhaler such as albuterol is lessened when they're taking salmeterol as part of a regular maintenance medication," he said. Weinberger said that many primary care physicians, partly in response to heavy drug marketing, ...Study finds MRSA most common cause of skin infections in patients presenting in nation's ER's
...ss, warmth and swelling. See your doctor if you notice signs of infection; don't try to drain a boil yourself at home. If you have a skin infection, keep the infected area covered with a clean, dry bandage until it is healed; wash your hands thoroughly after changing the bandage and put used bandages ...One drink can make you blind drunk
...e US) were heavily compromised in their ability to notice an unexpected visual object when they were focused on another simple task. The phenomenon, known as 'Inattentional blindness' where unexpected, yet salient objects appear in the visual fields but fail to be detected while subjects are focused on an......f driver behavior." The study first gained public notice after Strayer presented preliminary results in July 2003 in Park City, Utah, during the Second International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design. It took until now for the study to be completed, underg...