ESA experiments with spaceflight participant Ansari to ISS
...e to microgravity. Ansari will complete a daily questionnaire during her flight reporting on back complaints. The results will be compared with similar pre-flight and post-flight ground measurements, in order to obtain a better understanding of the correlation between muscle use/disuse and back pain, which woul...Low vitamin E intake during pregnancy can lead to childhood asthma
...others at 12 weeks gestation. In addition, symptom questionnaire data was later obtained for 1,253 children. From that group, 478 children were able to provide a lung function test measurement. In light of the new findings, the authors concluded that the relationship shown between mothers' vitamin E intake durin...Obesity in men linked to infertility
...ry. The men reported their weight and height on a questionnaire about their health. The analysis was limited to couples with a pregnancy attempt during the four years before enrollment, and to women under the age of 40. The researchers divided the couples into infertile and fertile groups. The infertile coup...JRRD tipsheet: Focus on stroke
... therapy and AAT. Results of a client-satisfaction questionnaire indicated the participants were motivated, enjoyed the therapy sessions more, and felt the atmosphere of the sessions was less stressful during AAT. An unexpected benefit included an increase in the number of spontaneous communicative initiations pro...Preoperative brain mapping alters tumor surgery
...ment plan. Surgeons also completed a postoperative questionnaire to confirm whether the post-fMRI plan was followed and to determine if fMRI findings affected surgical approach, the amount of time they spent in surgery and the surgical extent. The researchers found that in 19 of 39 patients (49 percent), the sur...One in 10 teenage girls have self-harmed, study shows
... 2001. Pupils were asked to complete a 30 minute questionnaire which explored issues surrounding self-harm and suicidal thinking together with other personal factors such as depression, anxiety, impulsivity and self-esteem. Those who reported self-harm were asked to provide a description of the act, its motiv...High-fat, copper-rich diets associated with increased rates of cognitive decline in older adults
... one year after the study began, they filled out a questionnaire about their diets. The dietary recommended allowance of copper for adults is .9 milligrams per day. Organ meats, such as liver, and shellfish are the foods with the highest copper levels, followed by nuts, seeds, legumes, whole grains, potatoes, ch...Pigments in corn, squash and other vegetables may help protect against age-related vision loss
... beginning of the study, participants filled out a questionnaire to evaluate what their diets were like 15 years before the beginning of the study. Blood samples were taken to assess levels of carotenoids and color photographs of the retina were used to determine the presence and progression of AMD. A higher in...Two-thirds of pregnant women with depression aren't getting treatment for it
...five Michigan obstetrics clinics, using a standard questionnaire that detects signs of depression. Of the women in the study, 276 met the criteria for being at risk of depression. All of these women had follow-up interviews with trained mental health workers who assessed them using the standard criteria used to...When pregnancies fail early, many woman choose office procedure rather than OR
...room. Participants completed a self-administered questionnaire at the time of enrollment. Immediately before discharge, they completed a second questionnaire addressing pain, bleeding and satisfaction with care. The findings "dispute the notion that curren...Newsbriefs from the journal Chest, August 2006
...ical records, pulmonary function test results, and questionnaire responses of 197 adults with newly diagnosed asthma at a California VA hospital. The questionnaire was administered while patients waited to perform the pulmonary function test and included questions...Elevated rates of mental health problems among survivors of tsunami
...a were collected using an interviewer-administered questionnaire on handheld computers. Participation rates for displaced and nondisplaced in the survey were 69 percent and 58 percent, respectively. A follow-up survey was conducted in September 2005. The researchers found that symptoms of PTSD were reported by 1...Screening method can play role in disclosure of intimate partner violence
...n vary, depending on the screening method, type of questionnaire used and health care setting, and women prefer sel...lt of least missing data by written self-completed questionnaire is worth noting, especially for research applications, but also when considering clinical policies f...Diagnosis and referrals for kidney disease fall well short of need, Johns Hopkins study shows
...f doctors between August 2004 and August 2005. The questionnaire described a hypothetical scenario in which a primary care doctor was evaluating a patient with moderately reduced kidney function progressing to severely reduced kidney function. After reading the scenario, which included detailed medical information...Carotid stenting the new anti-depressant?
...ents. Four weeks after carotid stenting, the BDI questionnaire was administered again. This time only 9.8 percent of the patients with carotid stenosis exhibited depressive symptoms compared with 13 percent of the patients who had undergone angioplasty. "Our findings suggest that opening the carotid artery and...New mothers should be screened regularly for postpartum depression
...m a pediatric clinic that uses a common postpartum questionnaire to screen mothers, Chaudron and the research group found that of women who scored high on a depression screening scale sometime in the postpartum year, 26 percent did not develop high symptom levels of postpartum depression until after three months a...Estrogen plus testosterone therapy may increase risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women
...beginning in 1976. The women completed an initial questionnaire and follow-up surveys every two years that included questions about menopausal status, medical conditions and the use of postmenopausal hormone therapy. For those who reported a diagnosis of breast cancer, medical records were reviewed for verificat...New UF tool measures heart implant patients' anxiety
...istered the Florida Shock Anxiety Scale, a written questionnaire developed with help from doctoral students Robyn Walker and Neha Dixit, to 72 ICD recipients. The patients rated the frequency of anxious thoughts, such as "I am afraid of being alone when the ICD fires and I will need help" and "I am afraid to touch...New research addresses taboos around the impact of rheumatoid arthritis on patients' sex lives
...08 (10.9) years, female 78%) responded to a postal questionnaire in 2004 comprising several health status measures. Out of the 1041 respondents, 830 patients answered question 15 in the Health Utility Questionnaire 15D, which addressed the perceived level of problems with sexual activity. Pain and fatigue visual a...Tocilizumab study offers new hope for children with arthritis
...R and CRP) and through a parental heath assessment questionnaire (CHAQ). 68% of the children had an improvement rate of 70%, while more than 85% had an improvement rate of 50%. Treatment was generally well tolerated, though two patients experienced serious adverse events; one anaphylactoid reaction and one gastroi...