Carnegie Mellon, Pitt demo technology to help elderly at CAST exhibition in Washington
...cial activities. The devices we will be showcasing reflect a wide range of the aging population's interests: for instance, maintaining and expanding mobility through active lifestyles. This generation is more accustomed to adopting technology than previous generations." "The Pittsburgh area is a wonderful te...Racial minority participation in clinical trials increase with information and access
... used. If the participants in these studies do not reflect the diverse nature of the population, then it won't be clear whether new treatments that may have been promising in the study setting actually work in the real world." According to lead author Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., chair of the Department of Clinic...Nov/Dec 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...re delivery and reimbursement must more accurately reflect health care professionals' work. Physician Activities During Time Out of the Examination Room By Valerie Gilchrist, M.D., et al In a related study also using direct observation methods, Gottschalk and Flocke find that primary care physicians spen...Disruption of gene interaction linked to schizophrenia
...ty in the frontal cortex of the brain. "This might reflect a response to the increased dopamine activity caused by PRODH deficiency," Zakharenko said. "And it shows that when PRODH is lost, the additional loss of COMT due to the 22q11 mutation may worsen the symptoms of schizophrenia by allowing dopamine lev...Police data unreliable source for identifying trends in violent crime
Police records do not accurately reflect the true levels of violent crime and should not be used to pinpoint underlying trends in violence, say leading experts in Injury Prevention. "Police records, rather than representing a reliable measure of trends in violence, are a product of police a...Researchers use brain scans to predict behavior
...ntrol of visual attention. "These activations may reflect the degree to which subjects variably directed attention on each trial to the location of the stimulus prior to its presentation," says Maurizio Corbetta, M.D., the Norman J. Stupp Professor of Neurology and senior author of the study. Regardless of ...Link between exposure to pollutants and type 2 diabetes
...he main by-product of DDT. Levels of both residues reflect exposure to POPs. Rylander et al.'s results show that 6% of men and 5% of women who took part in the study have diabetes. Those that were found to have type 2 diabetes have significantly higher blood levels of both CB-153 and DDE than non-diabetics i...... makers and the public need to be engaged so plans reflect what most people will accept as fair and good for public health. "A shared set of ethical values is the glue that can hold us together during an intense crisis," says Peter Singer, M.D., Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethic...Older women who receive pelvic irradiation for cancer have increased risk for pelvic fracture
...acture after radiation therapy for anal cancer may reflect the radiation therapy technique used to treat this disease. In the treatment of anal cancer, it is usually appropriate to treat the inguinal [pertaining to the groin] nodes because of the risk of disease at this site. Because of the location of these...Mental stress may be another culprit in raising cholesterol levels in healthy adults
...rol responses that we measured in the lab probably reflect the way people react to challenges in everyday life as well. So the larger cholesterol responders to stress tasks will be large responders to emotional situations in their lives. It is these responses in everyday life that accumulate to lead to an ...Higher placental weight associated with increased maternal breast cancer risk
...etween placental weight and breast cancer risk may reflect that exposures to elevated levels of pregnancy hormones influence the risk of breast cancer. The role of estrogens in breast carcinogenesis is well established, and serum estrogen levels are at least 10 times higher during pregnancy compared with oth...Eating out often may add to kids' cardiovascular risk
...ess frequently," Olson said. "But this might just reflect that the dietary patterns have not yet had their full impact on body weight. However, their diets and exercise patterns differed significantly from the children eating at home more often." Researchers questioned children about their activities and, ...No link found between caffeine intake and development of hypertension in women
...lid and accurate, and coffee intake was updated to reflect changes in individual behavior. We found strong evidence to refute speculation that coffee consumption is associated with an increased risk of hypertension in women," the authors write. Concerning the link found between colas and hypertension, the re...ERS altimeter survey shows growth of Greenland Ice Sheet interior
...by the radar altimetry survey does not necessarily reflect a long-term or future trend. With natural variability in the high-latitude climate cycle that includes the NAO being very large, even an 11-year long dataset remains short. "There is clearly a need for continued monitoring using new satellite altime...Studies clarify risk factors for mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis C virus
...an authors, who hypothesized that their result may reflect hormonal or genetic differences between men and women in susceptibility or response to infection. Other risk factors significantly associated with transmission were the time in labor (a risk factor in both studies) and use of internal fetal monitorin...Academy conference examines how our brains view art & the dynamic interface between art and science
...epth and color, and the aesthetics of art directly reflect brain function and brain specialization. It takes science, then, to understand art, and both disciplines require creativity and a thirst for knowledge. To explore how our brains process art and reveal how the collaboration between artists and scie...Decline in breast cancer deaths explained by use of screening and adjuvant therapies
...Berry stresses that the differences in conclusions reflect uncertainties in the interpretation of available information and differing modeling approaches, rather than contradictions among the models. "These are seven top modeling groups applying their efforts to the best data that we have available in this c...Largest survey on depression suggests higher prevalence in U.S., reports Mailman school
...viduals aged 18 years and older and questions that reflect diagnostic criteria established by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Findings conclude that five percent of U.S. adults experienced MDD during the 12 months preceding the survey and 13 per...Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent is cost effective vs. bypass surgery
...osts and event rates from ARTS-II were adjusted to reflect the number of a patient's diseased vessels and whether or not the patient had diabetes. Savings related to the avoidance of death, heart attack, revascularization and stroke were examined. Initial hospitalization costs, accounting for physician fees...Insurance company rewards to doctors and hospitals may not improve care
...will work out well. Any incentive program needs to reflect the underlying complexity of the system in which it is used, or it could have no impact at all, or even unintended negative consequences." Dudley cites the early results from a pay-for-performance program in Great Britain, in which doctors were giv...