Patient-centered approach can backfire
...t decisions. Some patients prefer that style and respond very well to it. But new research at the University of Iowa suggests that it doesn't work for everybody. In fact, some patients are significantly less likely to follow doctors' orders and feel satisfied with their care when physicians take the patien...Some women benefit more from exercise when emphasis is on health, not appearance
...ent groups of people, and understanding how people respond to different approaches to exercise is key to doing so, Focht said. We chose a very specific sample of women that we thought would be sensitive to the comments made by instructors. The study's results appear in a recent issue of the journal Psychol...Stanford researchers find culprit in aging muscles that heal poorly
...ibroblasts. The stem cells weren't just failing to respond to the garbled instructions, they were actually giving rise to daughter cells that turned into the wrong thing. The consequence of muscle stem cells producing fewer muscle cells (myoblasts) and more fibroblasts is that the healing muscle had more sca...NIH scientists target future pandemic strains of H5N1 avian influenza
...o anticipate how that jump might occur and ways to respond to it. Now we can begin, preemptively, to consid...h a structure-based vaccine design may allow us to respond to this future threat in advance of an actual outbreak....Hormone regulates fondness for food
...e brain - known collectively as striatal regions - respond to pictures of food. These areas have previously been linked to pleasant and rewarding emotions and desires. When the patients were treated with leptin, responses to food pictures in these areas were reduced. One of the striatal regions - the nucl...Miniature implanted devices could treat epilepsy, glaucoma
...opulation, and of that 1 percent, 30 percent don't respond to any drugs. There is no cure or treatment for those 30 percent." New technologies being developed aim to change that by predicting the onset of seizures and immediately dispensing a chemical called a neurotransmitter directly to the area of the b...Electrical implant steadies balance disorder in animals
...ar the three branches of the vestibular nerve that respond to changes in head rotation. These branches normally carry signals from the inner ears three semicircular canals. In the chinchilla tests, pulses lasting less than a millisecond were delivered with timing patterns that mimicked normal nerve acti...UGA study explains why anti-smoking ads backfire or succeed
...that it doesnt necessarily matter how your friends respond to the ads, but how you think your friends are responding. Paek said many health campaigns assume that anti-smoking messages have a simple, direct and strong impact on individuals. She said that by understanding the indirect route that messages of...Damon Runyon renews its $2.25 million investment to support young clinical cancer investigators
...-cell leukemia virus and a subset of ATLL patients respond to therapy with interferon, commonly used in the treatment of a number of cancers. Little is known about how or why interferon kills cancer cells. Under the mentorship of Dr. William Harrington, Jr. and Dr. Glen Barber, Dr. Ramos works to clarify t...Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
...outs are all great. But in the end, I think people respond more to visceral, emotional factors." Carr and Khodyakov based their analyses on data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), a unique 50-year study of more than 10,000 men and women, now in their mid-60s, who graduated from Wisconsin high sch...U-M study finds lymphoma drug effective over long term
...traditional treatments. Even if patients initially respond to treatment, the disease almost always comes back and becomes more difficult to treat. The study followed 76 patients with follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system, who received the radioimmunotherapy drug Bexxar as their fi...After epilepsy surgery, quality of life related more to seizures than memory
...t of people with temporal lobe epilepsy who do not respond well to medications. But surgery leads to memory problems in 25 to 40 percent of people. New research helps doctors and patients weigh the risks and benefits of surgery. The study, published in the June 5, 2007, issue of Neurology, the scientific j...Low doses of ecstasy associated with decline in verbal memory
...arm the brain. Ecstasy may damage nerve cells that respond to the hormone serotonin, which is involved in mood, thinking, learning and memory. Thelma Schilt, M.Sc., of the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues recruited 188 volunteers (average age 22) who h...Genetic variations may predispose some men to suicidal thoughts during treatment for depression
...journals. Although most patients with depression respond favorably to antidepressant medications, a very small subgroup may experience worse symptoms after beginning treatment, according to background information in the article. Regardless of treatment specificity, nearly all antidepressant medication stud...Antipsychotic drugs increase risk of death in older people with dementia
...or if symptoms, such as wandering, are unlikely to respond to antipsychotic treatment. This study shouldn't lead to a panic about these drugs, said Dr. Gill. The risk for an individual patient is relatively small. But our results are clinically important. I hope this study encourages discussion between...Tony Hunter receives Robert. J. and Claire Pasarow Award for Cancer Research
...timuli, acts as a signaling mechanism for cells to respond to their environment, and in particular to respond to factors that promote cell proliferation. Dr. Hunter discovered that phosphorylation of tyrosine, ...Phase II study shows combination improves survival of metastatic melanoma patients
...most deadliest of skin cancers because it does not respond well to chemotherapy. About one melanoma patient dies every hour (8,000 every year) in the United States, and 60,000 new cases are diagnosed annually, Dr. Markovic says. People who have been diagnosed with metastatic melanoma generally live between...GSK's Pazopanib shows positive results in patients with advanced RCC and ovarian cancer
...motherapy. Although the majority of patients will respond initially to first-line therapy, recurrent disease remains a considerable problem....Gene variations point to why lung cancer drugs work better in Japanese vs. US patients
...t genes may explain why Japanese and U.S. patients respond differently to EGFR inhibitors such as erlotinib, a relatively new targeted therapy that is another important class of drugs for lung cancer....... had returned. Melanoma patients who initially respond well to treatment with interferon are at high risk of their cancer recurring, said John Kirkwood, M.D., principal investigator of the study, professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of the Melanoma Center ...