Depression, anxiety in girls linked to higher body mass index in women
...s more than a non-depressed woman by the time both reached age 30 years. Depression during childhood was associated with an initially lower BMI among boys, but over time, the weight difference in depressed and non-depressed men disappeared. Anxiety disorders did not appear to be linked to men's BMIs at any...Diabetes epidemic could erase reductions in deaths & hospitalizations due to heart disease
... and heart-attack deaths in the U.S. "Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., and the leading cause of death among people with diabetes is coronary heart disease," notes Dr. Michael Alderman, professor of epidemiology and population health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and senior auth...New study evaluates impact of smoking cessation aids and mass media
...ses or inspirational quit tips. Because the TV ads reached many more smokers, these ads helped more people to quit (30.5%) than any of the other methods. NRT helped 20.8%, professional help affected 11.1%, and telephone quit lines helped fewer than one percent of the quitters. Lead author Lois Biener, PhD, C...Stroke patients regain ability to communicate through use of speech generating device
...rged from previous treatment programs after having reached a plateau, and no longer being candidates for further significant gains. Nonetheless, assessments showed that, in the mean, those clients made further significant gains after use of the device, and such gains were found in every diagnostic category ...Most effective anthrax treatment: VA-Stanford study finds
... "Even with our modern intensive care, once you've reached the advanced stage of this disease, you're probably going to die. That's why it's crucial to start antibiotics within the first few days," said lead author Jon-Erik Holty, MD, a fellow in pulmonary and critical-care medicine at Stanford, who did the ...Men in their 50s have more satisfying sex lives than men in their 30s
...recorded an average of 2.77. Men in their 30s only reached 2.55 and men in their forties averaged 2.72. After...erections averaged 2.83, dropping sharply once men reached their fifties. Men in their twenties scored 3.63, men in their fifties 3.03 and men in their seventi...Farmworkers' paradox: Stanford study shows field laborers not eating what they grow
...or camps. All populations, both men and women, had reached 60 percent rates of being overweight or obese by the year 2000. There was an increase in obesity of 90 percent within the labor camps. The majority of the Mexican-American population in Salinas has now been living in the United States for at least 10...Basic research leads to a novel cancer therapy
...izer. SUTENT (active ingredient Sunitinib) has now reached the market as a multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor, which blocks both the building of blood vessels in tumours as well as other illness-related enzymes in tumour cell signalling networks. Clinical studies with GIST patients looked into their ab...Study finds room for improvement in angioplasty, shows what can be done to cut risks
...ect. "The technology used in these procedures has reached such a point that patients' outcomes today depend more on practice variations than on limitations of technology," says Mauro Moscucci, M.D., the U-M cardiologist who leads the project with BCBSM's David Share, M.D., MPH. "It is crucial that we unders...ELBW infants appear to be reaching functional outcomes as young adults similar to NBW infants
...arly postneonatal intensive care era have only now reached young adulthood. Although some aspects of longer-term outcomes on VLBW young adults have been reported in a few studies, details of certain functional outcomes of former ELBW infants at young adulthood are unknown. Saroj Saigal, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., of ...Researchers study multi-purpose drug
...h cholesterol and coronary artery disease have all reached epidemic proportions to become leading causes of death despite being largely preventable," said Frederick S. Ling, M.D., director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, associate professor of Medicine at the medical center and principal investiga...International HIV/AIDS trial finds continuous antiretroviral therapy superior to episodic therapy
...tatistician for the trial, notes, "The SMART trial reached a conclusion much earlier than we expected. That is the significant value and potential power of conducting such a large trial." The SMART study was coordinated by four international centers: the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit in Lond...Most behaviors preceding major causes of preventable death have begun by young adulthood
...hy practices declined by the time the participants reached young adulthood." For the current analysis, the re...sexually transmitted disease worsened as the youth reached adulthood, Dr. Harris said. "These trends are quite stunning," Dr. Harris added. "Whether or not t...GroPep starts Phase 1 infertility trial
...n that potentiallycauses 50% of all miscarriages - reached a major milestone today withcommencement of recruitment of healthy women volunteers into a Phase 1trial of its infertility drug, PV903. The drug is targeted to treat recurrent miscarriages caused by an abnormalimmune response to the foetus a conditi...Doctors at UVA health system search for new treatments for diabetic kidney disease
...nstance, in 2002, nearly 154,000 diabetic patients reached end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and were living on chronic dialysis or with a kidney transplant, according to the American Diabetes Association. That's more people than live in the entire city of Hampton, Va. Currently, the number of people in the Uni...Initial results help clinicians identify patients with treatment-resistant depression
... of side effects. About a third of participants reached a remission or virtual absence of symptoms during the initial phase of the study, with an additional 10 to 15 percent experiencing some improvement. Subsequent phases of the trials will help determine successful treatments for the nearly two thirds o...Effective government/industry collaboration bolsters flu vaccine supply
...duct. The clinical trial was rapidly initiated and reached capacity enrollment within five days of its launch in December 2004. "The Fluarix study is an excellent example of what government and industry can accomplish in a short timeframe when faced with a serious public health need," says NIH Director Elia...Rapid emotional recovery of breast-cancer survivors surprises researchers
...that consisted of other breast-cancer patients and reached and then exceeded that number at the time of follow-up and later times. "Previous studies had never looked at breast-cancer survivors so soon after treatment, and we were surprised that most improvement happened so quickly," says Deshields, who dire...MSG-2 will advance long-term monitoring of Earth's energy balance
... a Venus-like hothouse. However once the Earth has reached balance, this energy is actually returned back to space, either as short-wavelength light or else longer-wavelength heat energy. It is the subtle variability of this balance, at different locations and times, that needs to be understood. As light, s...New studies identify advances in treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia
...maining disease in some patients with CML who have reached a maximum response to imatinib. After a median ti... six patients with persisting, progressing disease reached a complete response, with three of them achieving an undetectable level of BCR-ABL transcript. In a...