Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
... reward the attainment of goals, but, instead, you reinforce all of the steps along the way." "Scott developed ...plement it." Contingency management is designed to reinforce small steps, especially at the beginning, like celebrating each attendance at a group meeting or eac...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...ods. She detailed 10 steps [5] to be considered to reinforce and improve surveillance. "It's essential that we acknowledge the problem of counterfeit and substandard drugs and recognise it without embarrassment. It is a serious problem, particularly in the case of life-saving medications used to treat common d...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...aimed to help people take control of food stimuli, reinforce good behaviour, develop methods of self-monitoring and problem solving, as well as learning to set realistic goals for themselves. The authors concluded that, when combined with dietary and exercise strategies, behavioural and cognitive behaviour the...Officials simulate bioterrorist attack to test APL-developed disease surveillance
...rtant one." The purposes of the exercise were: to reinforce existing partnerships for an integrated response, including strengthening communications between NCR public health jurisdictions; to familiarize jurisdictional leaders with how public health officials use ESSENCE to apply knowledge in the early detec...HIV treatment not affected by hormonal birth control
...se before HAART initiation. The study results also reinforce the strong effects of HAART on HIV disease progression. The researchers found that women who used HAART continuously were almost 3 times more likely to experience a CD4+ cell-count increase of 50 cells/mm3, over 3.5 times more likely to achieve a CD4...Obese workers' pay lower due to health costs, Stanford study finds
...efits to different types of workers. "Our findings reinforce that these market forces are powerful," she said. The findings also shed light on the question of who bears the cost of obesity-related health care. While it is often assumed that obese workers' medical expenses are passed on to their employers and n...Biologic therapies for bowel disease show promise in clinical trials
... study. "The positive results found in this study reinforce previous adalimumab findings and are highly encouraging because they bring one step closer to identifying a new treatment option for people with Crohn's disease." A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Infliximab Therapy for Active Ulcerative Col...Colonoscopy: A woman's best defense against colon cancer
...e need to rely on colonoscopy." These results also reinforce two key messages: "First, medical research conducted in men cannot routinely be applied to women. Women may be at a disadvantage if medical research is focused on men because women have unique biological differences that may require different diagnos...New study questions benefits of aspirin for the over 70s
...must be resisted, say the authors. These findings reinforce the need for a clinical trial to establish the true benefit or harm of aspirin in elderly people, and underscore the importance of targeting preventive treatment to those who are likely to benefit most, they conclude....Data further examines Seroquel (quetiapine fumarate) treatment for bipolar depression
...L. "The results of this analysis are exciting, and reinforce the importance of additional investigation of SEROQUEL in managing depressive symptoms associated with bipolar disorder." ABOUT BIPOLAR DISORDER Bipolar I disorder consists of recurring episodes of mania with or without depression. Bipolar II diso...Mayo Clinic creates 'Office of the Future'
...rt projections are seen on at least three walls to reinforce the concept of activity.* Employees can strap on plastic carpet skates, and slide from meeting to meeting for a change of pace.* All keyboarding, phoning and thinking are done during some form of motion.* Coffee and healthy snacks are available ne...Skin infections caused by MRSA are cured more often when treated with Pfizer's ZYVOX
...he Medical College of Wisconsin. "These data also reinforce the value of having a pill for patients which may allow patients to leave the hospital sooner on oral therapy." Because of the oral availability of ZYVOX, patients in the ZYVOX arm had up to five fewer days on IV therapy than patients treated with ...Pfizer's antifungal VFEND provides significant cost advantages when used as initial therapy
... formulations of amphotericin B. "These results reinforce the importance of using an initial treatment that is both effective and tolerable in order to significantly reduce the need for other therapies, which drive total treatment cost," said Dr. Lewis. About VFEND VFEND was discovered by Pfizer researc...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for June 2005 (first issue)
...our years. The authors pointed out that their data reinforce the importance of efforts aimed at further research into the prevention and early treatment of primary graft dysfunction. The study appears in the first issue for June 2005 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respirat...Diabetic retinopathy occurs in pre-diabetes
...or development of type 2 diabetes. "These findings reinforce the recommendation that patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes should be screened for retinopathy," said Emily Chew, M.D., of the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the U.S. Department of Health and H...Design of neonatal intensive care units critical to infant health
...n these units, Shepley says, should be adjusted to reinforce natural daily light variations, and the lighting level should be controlled in a way that allows for gradual changes in the level. Light levels should be no brighter than needed to complete a task, and individualized lighting should be available at e...Revealed: The true cost to the nation of multiple pregnancies
...le birth babies than in singletons. These figures reinforce the necessity of preventing their occurrence with an adapted policy on ART and stimulation regimen in other fertility treatments. "Research shows that for healthy women, under the age of 40, who are ovulating normally, single embryo transfer, maybe o...Children in chronic pain need better support, say researchers
...g them for the child's pain and the labels tend to reinforce their need to move from doctor to doctor in search of a different diagnosis and cure." Research by the Pain Management Unit has shown that even for children and adolescents with the most severe pain and disability, it may be possible to reduce the im...Molecular ballet unravels, links proteins so cell can direct own movement
...discovery is important because without vinculin to reinforce its skeleton, the cell would move rapidly and rand...n the skeleton. "It's this ability of vinculin to reinforce the connections between alpha-actinin molecules and the actin rods of the skeleton that keeps the sk......the presence of metabolic syndrome and, therefore, reinforce the need for bariatric surgery," said study co-author Dave H. Schweitzer, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Hospital Reinier de Graaf Groep. Further assessments revealed that women performed better on exercise endurance a...