Inhaled steroids may not be enough for some children with asthma
...thma was taken into account. There may be several reasons for our findings; It is possible that some children are genetically less responsive to steroids, says researcher Gregory Sawicki, M.D. of Childrens Hospital in Boston. In addition to issues of medication adherence and inability to completely control ...Certain combination therapy found more effective for treating malaria in African children
... causes of death in children in Africa. One of the reasons the control of malaria has been difficult is because of increasing resistance to some drugs, leading to changes in antimalarial treatment recommendations, according to background information in the article. Combination therapies have replaced monothe...African-Americans perceive people with extreme health problems as less productive and valuable
...n members of racial and ethnic groups." Possible reasons for this difference include racial differences in risk attitude, which characterizes a person's willingness to engage in risky prospects. These results could also have been influenced by personal or cultural beliefs about health, which in turn, could...Study shows dramatic increase in Caesarean sections
...se could not be explained by increases in clinical reasons for caesareans such as complications in pregnancy ...ors acting throughout the whole community. " The reasons are likely to be multifactorial and reflect a complex social process affected by clinical status, ob...Exercise may lead to improvement in patients with Parkinson's
...tients with Parkinson's Disease but the underlying reasons haven't been fully explored. This new study using treadmill exercise in animal models looked at the effects of dopamine in motor learning and execution. Parkinson's Disease is a chronic and degenerative disease that leads to slowness, balance dis...Patients with 'bleeding' strokes less likely to get prevention treatment
...le. The study didn't collect detailed data on the reasons for not offering intervention." "The Get With The GuidelinesStroke program was developed to improve quality of ischemic stroke care, but many of the risk factors for ischemic stroke are the same for hemorrhagic stroke. The system is also set up to r...New treatments needed for irritable bowel syndrome
...ngham, UK. He says: "IBS is one of the commonest reasons for a consultation. However, because the disorder is poorly understood, many doctors find patients with IBS difficult to treat. "Although extra time and effort may be needed, successful management is rewarding because it can substantially improve ...Study evaluates why blacks do not successfully donate kidneys
...ther races to become living kidney donors, and the reasons are obesity and failure to complete the donor eval...edicine-nephrology. "The other issue is the social reasons for non-donation, including failure to complete the donor evaluation process. This issue is just not...For Iraq veterans, migraines may be sign of other problems
...nd psychiatric conditions in soldiers. The precise reasons for such an association are not fully understood, but may be related to similarities in the mechanisms underlying migraines and some psychiatric disorders." The study also found that those with migraine and depression also had more frequent headac...Doctors ill equipped to confront parent smoking
...fected by exposure to secondhand smoke for several reasons including that children are still developing physically, have higher breathing rates than adults, and have little control over their indoor environments. Previous surveys by Collins team found that over 40 percent of postpartum mothers were either ...Racial disparities in treatment of patients with cirrhosis and complications of portal hypertension
...hypertension in the USA," the authors report. "The reasons for these racial differences are unclear from this study." While non-medical factors such as health care access may play a contributing role, the authors also found that racial differences were independent of type of health insurance. They suggest...Inflammatory system genes linked to cognitive decline after heart surgery
... finding, the team has been investigating possible reasons for this decline. The researchers selected known variations in 37 genes that previous studies had implicated in various impairments of cognitive and mental function. When they looked at more than 500 heart surgery patients and correlated cognitive ...Infection takes high toll in young children
...e research team had discussed a number of possible reasons for the high rate of hospitalisation. "These days young children generally mix with many children at a young age due to an increase in day care and other organized activities for children -- therefore they are also potentially exposed to more infe...Study puts us one step closer to understanding the function of sleep
...tion of their role in sleep, Tononi says. "We have reasons to think the slow waves are not just something that happens, but that they may be important" in sleep's restorative powers. For example, a sleep-deprived person has larger and more numerous slow waves once asleep. And as sleep proceeds, Tononi adds, ......the University of Dundee, UK, decided to study the reasons why people chose not to take part in research proj...to take part in Williams' follow-up study and give reasons for their original refusal. Most were willing to take part, but had refused to do so because of conf...Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain
...ive impact on their overall health as the two main reasons for missing work. Szeinbach suggests that people who suspect they have hay fever get an allergy test, either from a family doctor or an allergist. In previous work, she found that some people with allergy-like symptoms don't actually have allergies...Hebrew University research shows developmental problems for siblings of autistic children
...whose siblings did not suffer from autism). The reasons for this phenomenon, says Prof. Yirmiya, can be traced to the genetic tendency of children in the former group to carry an endophenotype of autism (an hereditary characteristic that is normally associated with some condition but is not a direct sympt...Mayo Clinic solves painful puzzle of UT ligament split tear in wrist
...t's especially gratifying to not only diagnose the reasons for the pain, but also to have such an effective treatment." ...Biopsy may underestimate prostate cancer in obese and overweight men
...0 pounds would be overweight. Freedland said the reasons for the discrepancies are unclear, but could be related to the fact that obese and overweight men have larger-sized prostates, which could mean that the usual number of samples taken during a biopsy is insufficient to reveal the glands actual status....Mayo Clinic study shows drug-eluting stent use in heart patients determined more by insurance type
...e most likely to obtain the drug-eluting stent for reasons that have nothing to do with your medical condition, a new Mayo Clinic study shows. In fact, if you are a heart patient seeking care in an urban center, or a center in the northeastern United States, you are twice as likely to receive a drug-eluting ...