Urban neighborhoods affect how people think about health
...as continued to increase during the past 20 years, remains central to urban living," said Barnes, whose next book provides an in-depth look at economic costs incurred and decisions faced by the working poor in Gary, Ind. The book will be released this summer. "It is more difficult for people to focus on thei...Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
..." Behrmann said. Behrmann and Galia said that much remains to be learned from the individuals in their research. They have begun to examine the anatomical details of the brains of their participants, and preliminary findings show that some brain structures are smaller in the region known to control face reco...Genetic link to cervical cancer
...tly how inflammation might promote cervical cancer remains unknown....Antioxidant may have adverse effects in head and neck cancer patients
...emoprevention. "The field of chemoprevention still remains an exciting area of research, yet many challenges are ahead," they write. "Risk stratification factors must become more specific and scientific. This, in turn, will allow us to treat the patient in a more biomarker-integrated approach. Only then will...Studies examine menopausal hormone therapy and risk of breast cancer recurrence
...nd quality of life for patients with breast cancer remains an important unsolved problem," the authors write. "Because doses of estrogen and progestogen and treatment regimens may be associated with the recurrence of breast cancer, there is an urgent need to identify safe and effective strategies to manage m...Nutritional supplement reduces need for traditional ulcerative colitis treatment
...reatments that are safe, effective and inexpensive remains and physicians should consider adding this combination of active ingredients as an adjuvant therapy for ulcerative colitis," said Seidner. More information about ulcerative colitis is available at www.gastro.org ....PSA screening for prostate cancer to be debated at annual meeting forum
...nely performed today in men middle-aged and older, remains a source of controversy. Questions continue about the test's overall effectiveness and its ability to actually save men's lives. For example, elevated PSA levels don't necessarily equate with clinically significant prostate cancer. Some men faced wi...Depression overtakes back pain for incapacity benefit claims
...s currently delivered, as the longer an individual remains off work, the more difficult a return becomes. If the government is serious about tackling the consequences of common mental disorders then innovative policies, including a major expansion in occupational health and psychological therapy services in ...Lupus and the role of Epstein-Barr virus
...ells of the immune system called B cells, where it remains for life, mostly dormant, with occasional bouts of reactivation and replication. Maintaining EBV infection in a latent or quiet state primarily depends on the power of another kind of immune cell, known as T cells. T cells play a major role in keep...Competition in health care may not result in better quality
...EDIS and CAHPS measures. "Since public reporting remains voluntary, consumers cannot make informed decisions if comparable data for plans is not available," Scanlon says. "Therefore, health plan report cards should list those plans that don't make public disclosures." For-profit plans performed similarly w...Data show cyclosporine inhalation solution improves long-term survival in lung-transplant patients
...ween January 1998 and June 2002, one-year survival remains about 75 percent. At five years, survival remains approximately 45 percent, essentially unchanged since the late 1980s and early 1990s, and is signifi...ACHRI study finds CellCept improves survival in pediatric heart transplant patients
...ved an organ transplant. However, organ rejection remains one of the leading causes of death in transplant recipients, with only half of recipients living longer than nine years. Morrow and his colleagues in the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Group compared the incidence of rejection and survival in 395...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...vantage for exercisers. According to Stewart, it remains unclear why the systolic blood pressure dropped nearly as much in non-exercisers as the exercising group. Among non-exercisers, it may be due to the placebo effect, which is common in blood pressure studies, says the researcher. The smaller than ex...To boost efficiency, hospitals borrow principles from factory floor
...o treat an illness, called the 'clinical pathway,' remains a significant challenge in the medical profession, industrial engineers can assist hospitals in improving their efficiency with detailed statistical analysis that identifies the root cause of many problems," he said. While Lin characterized th...Anxious and pessimistic personalities linked to Parkinson's disease later in life
...e didn't find is the explanation for that link. It remains unclear whether anxiety and pessimism are risk factors for Parkinson's disease, or linked to Parkinson's disease via common risk factors or a common genetic predisposition." Though the findings demonstrated a higher degree of risk for Parkinson's la...Ibuprofen may lower risk of Parkinson's disease
...en has an effect on the development of Parkinson's remains unclear. "The mechanisms as to why ibuprofen protects against the disorder are not clear, and this is the area where we need more research," said Chen. Age, gender, and smoking status known risk factors for Parkinson's disease could not explain th...Mesotherapy not proven as a safe alternative to liposuction
...ole technique is shrouded in mystery. Liposuction remains the only proven method to safely and permanently remove fat." Touted as a non-surgical alternative to liposuction, mesotherapy involves injecting medications and plant extracts into layers of fat and connective tissue under the skin. The injected ing...Newborn's first week may be critical period for developing obesity in adulthood
...h a critical role in affecting lifelong physiology remains an open question. "Animal studies have shown that overfeeding in the first few days of life lead to long-term obesity, possibly from programming in the developing brain or the endocrine system," said Dr. Stettler. "We don't know how this effect may o...Gastric bypass patients fare better as surgical programs' experience increases
...ractable morbid obesity for more than 30 years, it remains a technically difficult operation that is performed on a high-risk patient population. "As most bariatric surgeons are well aware, morbidly obese patients do not tolerate complications," the authors write. "Complications, such as leaks [of the staple...Variant in gene associated with telomeres predicts longer survival of deadly brain tumor
...S variant genotype of hTERT showed better survival remains unknown. But some forms of hTERT may be less destructive than others because they may be expressed at a lower level, Wang says. For instance, the SS variant genotype is more likely than the SL or LL variant genotype to produce an antisense-like molec...