Refusal of medical and surgical interventions common among chronically ill elderly
...dialysis, and transplantation. Hospitalization was rarely refused. The most common reasons given for treatment refusals were fear of side effects. Patients who refused treatments were more likely to have congestive heart failure, to rate their own longevity at less than two years, and to want their phy...New research discovers independent brain networks control human walking
...dapt while those with damage to the cerebellum are rarely able to. This body of work sheds light on the specificity of walking adaptations and demonstrates that patients with certain types of brain damage can store a new walking pattern in the short term. Based on these findings, Bastians goal is to learn...... Why people have sex is extremely important, but rarely studied, Buss said. Surprisingly, many scientists assume the answer is obvious, but people have different reasons for having sex, some of which are rather complex. ...New book guides boomers through retirement maze
...ing is a departure from most legal prose, which is rarely fun to read, as its accessible to the layperson with no legal background. Hegland believes that family members, especially children of baby boomers, also have a responsibility to initiate conversations about sensitive issues relating to health, fin...Organic farming can feed the world, U-M study shows
...thetic nutrient cycling processes; that exclude or rarely use synthetic pesticides; and sustain or regenerate the soil quality. Perfecto said the idea that people would go hungry if farming went organic is "ridiculous." "Corporate interest in agriculture and the way agriculture research has been condu...New survey uncovers how insomnia affects job performance and safety
...ficant effects that were reported, the insomnia is rarely being addressed. Survey Findings Medication dispensing errors were reported more frequently in nurses experiencing difficulty staying asleep, characterized by nighttime awakenings, (29.67%, p<.01) than those who were good sleeper...Aging stem cells in mice may hold answers to diseases of the aged, Stanford study finds
...ging in blood-forming stem cells because they very rarely divide, and most mutations crop up during division...do accumulate DNA damage with age even though they rarely divide, and that damage is passed on to the blood and immune system cells they make. Weissman said t...Vaxfectin-formulated measles DNA vaccine elicits long-term protection in nonhuman primates
...nda Gates Foundation. "Sterilizing immunity is a rarely achieved ultimate goal in vaccination," said Vijay B. Samant, Vical's President and Chief Executive Officer. "The ability to provide such complete immunity with no adverse events offers proof of concept for Vaxfectin-formulated DNA vaccines. We look ...Doctors have key role in preventing and detecting child neglect and abuse
... maltreatment is inherently difficult, since it is rarely seen directly by people outside the immediate family, and is often unreported." Many risk factors usually interact to place a child more at risk of abuse or neglect examples include a child's disability and a parent's depression. Violence between ...Innovative device to treat brain cancer shows promise in early studies
...tead of dividing and growing. Healthy brain cells rarely divide and have different electrical properties than cancerous brain cells. This allows the device to target cancer cells without affecting the healthy cells. At the time of publication, researchers found that among the 10 patients with recurring...Predicting the quality of life for older adults
...w barriers to activity. "Replication studies are rarely undertaken to further validate models of quality of life, yet the results are so important," said Dr. Gail Low, University of Alberta researcher. "To fully understand what predicts a persons quality of life, further explorations of the influence of s...Panel offers guidelines on skin reactions to new class of cancer drugs
...tions had better survival. The skin reactions are rarely so severe that the dosage is reduced or treatment stopped. Until recently, there was no strong scientific data to guide the treatment of skin reactions to EGFRIs. To address this issue, the authors propose a simple system for classification and tre...Antifolate therapies found effective against certain type of malaria
...cent of all malaria cases outside Africa. Although rarely fatal, it is a major cause of illness. P vivax malaria was thought to be resistant to treatment with antifolates, an affordable antimalarial class. The study included 767 patients (315 from Pakistan and 452 from Afghanistan) with P vivax malaria. The...Hexavalent chromium in drinking water causes cancer in lab animals
...cant increases in tumors at sites where tumors are rarely seen in laboratory animals. Male and female rats had malignant tumors in the oral cavity. The studies conducted in mice found increases in the number of benign and malignant tumors in the small intestine, which increased with dose in both males and...Procedural changes may reduce cardiac arrests outside pediatric ICUs
...ck or electric malfunction of the heart. Children rarely have a primary cardiac arrest. Most often, their arrests evolve from respiratory problems, researchers said. Tortoriello joined the 411-bed hospital's CPR Committee as co-chair in late 2003. She became convinced that the data it had collected could...Gender, ethnic differences may hamper eating disorder diagnosis
...ating disorder. "There is a perception that boys rarely get eating disorders," said Peebles, "and many boys undergo pretty extensive medical workups for other conditions, like gastric problems or brain tumors, before their physicians hit on the right diagnosis." Ethnic differences may also play into the...Johns Hopkins begins aggressive screening for 'superbugs' in children
...m. Though infections caused by these bacteria are rarely fatal, carriers of either bug are at greater risk for more dangerous infections. Results from the study, to be presented April 16 at the annual meeting of the Society of Health Care Epidemiology of America (SHEA) in Baltimore, are believed among ...Therapy is not one size fits all
...g techniques. However, these specific orientations rarely coincide well with the needs of clients," said Glenn Good, associate professor of educational, school and counseling psychology in the MU College of Education. "Complex theories often have very limited application." Only about a third of all peopl...Study finds antibiotic resistance in poultry even when antibiotics were not used
...to streptomycin, a common human antibiotic that is rarely used in poultry and was not used on the farms the researchers studied. Bacteria swap genes relatively easily, and Lee explained that the concern is that drug resistance genes from bacteria that infect poultry could be passed on to bacteria that ca...... HSPH, believe that making drug safety data public rarely presents a risk to a pharmaceutical company's confidential research and development efforts. "The legal question is whether the information will give other drug companies an unfair competitive advantage," said Mello. "But it is strange to argue that ...