Study shows light therapy to effectively treat mood disorders, including SAD
...rlier in the day. "The logic here is that it might put people with seasonal affective disorder into remission," Golden said. Still, the exact mechanisms by which light therapy works remain unclear, the researchers said. The studies selected by the authors for inclusion in their meta-analysis were grouped...Consumers not getting accurate information about smokeless tobacco
...hen compared with cigarettes. Estimates typically put the risk of dying from snuff use in the range of 1...f that from cigarette smoking, though some experts put the estimate at or near zero since snuff use has not been definitively linked to any fatal disease....Study shows that a kidney transplant can reverse heart failure
...conventional thinking that a kidney transplant may put additional strain on the hearts of patients with systolic heart failure," says the lead author of the study, Ravinder K. Wali, M.D., a nephrologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at the University of ...US service academies to collaborate with UNC, Andrews Air Force Base, Duke in knee injury study
...es. "This is the largest prospective cohort study put in place to address risk factors for ACL injury," said the study's principal investigator, Dr. Stephen W. Marshall, who is an assistant professor of epidemiology at UNC's School of Public Health and assistant professor of orthopedics at UNC's School ...Vigorously active adolescents are leaner, fitter
... Something has to give." He encourages parents to put children in environments where they can be active and safe, such as after-school and weekend programs. "They can do their schoolwork when they get home; they will just not be able to watch as much television." Dr. Gutin noted that the findings regar...PSA screening for prostate cancer to be debated at annual meeting forum
...y detection is a key to curing prostate cancer. To put this controversy in perspective, a forum on "Controversies in the Screening and Early Detection of Prostate Cancer, will be held on Sunday, April 17, Room 204 Anaheim Convention Center at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer...UPenn receives 2005 Templeton Research Lectures Grant
...s of meanings and values on the agenda. We need to put questions about the universe and the universal back at the heart of the university." Grassie, a sometime visiting lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies, notes that Metanexus and the University of Pennsylvania have many informal connections....OHSU scientist helping explain basis of psychotic behavior
...eceptors, their physical characteristics, how they put themselves into this high-affinity state, and then signal this event in the brain, the closer we'll be to better treating and maybe even preventing the development of psychoses," Grandy said....Blood test can accurately diagnose heart failure in emergency patients
...conditions. Missing a heart failure diagnosis can put patients at high risk of serious problems, including death, but overdiagnosis may lead patients to receive unnecessary treatment. "To date, the way physicians have traditionally evaluated potential heart failure patients has been rather random, with...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...lage in the developing world, a health worker will put a drop of a patient's blood on a piece of plastic about the size of a coin. Within minutes, a full diagnostic examination will be complete including the usual battery of blood work tests, plus analysis for infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV/...Little answers to world's biggest problems
...lage in the developing world, a health worker will put a drop of a patient's blood on a piece of plastic about the size of a coin. Within minutes, a full diagnostic examination will be complete including the usual battery of "blood work" tests, plus analysis for infectious diseases such as malaria and HI...Grandmothers' smoking linked to grandchildren's asthma decades later
...girl, her eggs may be affected, which will in turn put her future children at risk; and second, the fetus's mitochondria may be damaged through subtle changes in which genes are turned on or off-changes that may be transmitted through the maternal line as well. The scientists speculate that these altera...Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
...resents a joint effort by global space agencies to put resources at the service of rescue authorities responding to major natural or man-made disasters. To date the Charter has been activated more than 70 times. Following the UNISPACE III conference held in Vienna, Austria in July 1999, the Charter was ...... Trust and REGARD, found significant barriers were put in the way of people with learning difficulties exercising their human rights to consenting same sex relationships. The barriers included: Experiences of discrimination, harassment and bullying: Virtually every person with a learning difficulty ...Too much water may be as dangerous as too little during long-distance athletic events
...letes who drink too much water during a race could put themselves at jeopardy for developing hyponatremia, a condition marked by a loss in the body's sodium content that can result in physical symptoms such as lethargy, disorientation, seizures and even respiratory distress. In a perspectives article in ...Anxious and pessimistic personalities linked to Parkinson's disease later in life
...hiatric conditions or personality types that might put some people at increased risk for Parkinson's disease. From an initial group of 7,216 people who took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) between 1962 and 1965, the investigators were able to find information on 4,741 of them; 128...Execution by lethal injection is not humane or painless suggests study
...njection is the most common way people are legally put to death in the USA. It has eclipsed all other methods of execution because of public perception that the process is relatively humane and does not violate the US Constitution's Eight Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. Anaesthesia du...College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
...s research has shown that college students tend to put too much alcohol into what is considered a "drink," likely leading to inaccuracies in self-reported consumption, which is a mainstay of surveys on college drinking. A study in the April issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research confirm...Anthrax treatments' cost effectiveness shown in Stanford study
...tack. "We hope the findings in our study are never put to the test, and there's never an attack," Owens said. "At the same time, if this helps get people more prepared that would be a very good outcome."...Researchers identify marker of heart disease in low-birthweight babies
... in apolipoprotein C-1, a blood protein that could put them at risk for heart disease later in life, according to a national study led by Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers. For the study, Peter O. Kwiterovich, Jr., M.D., professor of pediatrics and director of the Lipid Clinic at Johns Hopkins,...