Landmark study finds adult Delawareans with disabilities in only 'fair' to 'poor' health
...roubling, nearly a third (31 percent) of the women responding to questions about sexual assault indicated that they had been sexually assaulted or had experienced an attempted sexual assault (27 percent). The perpetrators included acquaintances, neighbors, former significant others and strangers. "These data ...Are parking garages safe during hurricanes?
...eeds it is safe for emergency vehicles to continue responding to emergencies during hurricanes. Schmidlin has studied severe weather including hurricanes, tornadoes, storms and lightning for more than 15 years....Research shows survival benefit for leukemia patients treated with arsenic trioxide
... with APL who had not responded to, or had stopped responding to, standard first-line therapy. Approximately 81 percent of patients with APL who received arsenic trioxide were alive and remained in remission -- free of leukemia -- three years after diagnosis compared to 66 percent of patients treated with t...Exploring better ways to determine when to change the course of treatment
...f we had a way to know early on that a tumor isn't responding to a particular drug, we could switch to a different treatment before growth of the cancer is seen on a CAT scan," said Neal J. Meropol, director of the gastrointestinal cancer program at Fox Chase Cancer Center and lead investigator of the study. "...E/Tablet technology may provide benefits to patients, researchers
...o navigate and were a comfortable weight, and that responding to questions using the tablets was easy. Nearly three-quarters of the patients reported that using the tablets made it easier for them to remember their symptoms. "The symptom assessment tool provided on the E//Tablet is tailored specifically to ca...New mothers often not asked about depression, UNC survey finds
...h Carolina at Chapel Hill. Of the 228 physicians responding to the survey who said they had seen women for postpartum visits in the previous three months, 79 percent said they were unlikely to formally screen the patients for depression. An estimated 13 percent of new mothers are affected by postpartum depres...Doctors have key role in preventing and detecting child neglect and abuse
...kness. No clinician can opt out of recognising and responding to abuse."...Brain activity reflects differences in types of anxiety
...be that is believed to be involved in tracking and responding to information signaling danger. Other studies using electroencephalographic (EEG) methods had found that patients diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder had heightened activity in the left brain, whereas pati...Treating HIV in war zones -- Public health emergencies need rapid advice from WHO
...s. In a related editorial discussing how WHO is responding to global public health threats, the PLoS Medicine...ation: The PLoS Medicine Editors (2007) How is WHO responding to global public health threats" PLoS Med 4(5): e197. IN YOUR ARTICLE, PLEASE LINK TO THIS URL, WH...Aggressive treatment for whiplash does not promote faster recovery
... after the injury. However, it may be that doctors responding to pressure from patients use treatments, schedule follow-up visits and refer patients to specialists when not medically needed. "This in turn may lead to adverse outcomes and even prolong recovery by legitimizing patients fears and creating unnecess...Research highlights from Thoracic Society Conference
...hma attack is detecting it in its early stages and responding before it gets out of control. But National Jewish psychiatrist Frederick Wamboldt, M.D., and his colleagues found that asthma patients with a history of severe asthma attacks had not only more twitchy lungs, but also were less able to perceive incre...Ulcerative colitis sufferers find UC quite disruptive to many aspects of daily life
...our ulcerative colitis (UC) sufferers (73 percent) responding to a new nationwide survey say not feeling well has become a normal part of life. Furthermore, they describe UC as disruptive when it comes to their relationship with a spouse (64 percent), their sexual relations (75 percent) and their emotional stat...Will the healthcare workers go to work during disasters?
...rs said "Yes," they would report to work, with 42% responding "Maybe" and another 8% responding "No, even if I would lose my job." The author believes that this may still represent an overestimati...Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia
...th and gain information about how an individual is responding to a particular therapy." In a report presented Friday, May 18, at the Society of Biological Psychiatry annual meeting, in San Diego, Kaddurah-Daouk said that chemical signatures measured by metabolomics were different for schizophrenia patients th...Is the UK prepared for pandemic flu?
... clear the primary responsibility for planning and responding to any major emergency rests with local organisations. But the author questions whether timely and effective implementation in a time of crisis can be achieved under a devolved system and whether the documents offer enough guidance for local plann...A frown or a smile? Children with autism can't discern
...what another person is thinking, Davies said. When responding to someone looking straight at you, as compared to someone whos looking away, the brain discerns a difference. When the other person looks away, the brain quiets down. For instance, with angry expressions, the brain may quiet down, because when a ...Researchers identify new therapy for patients with Crohn's disease
...ic reaction, need higher doses, or completely stop responding to the therapy," says William J. Sandborn, M.D., the lead author and a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic. "Our goal with this study was to determine if adalimumab was a safe and effective alternative for these patients." Like infliximab, adalimuma...Why losing money may be more painful than you think
...g money activated an area of the brain involved in responding to fear and pain. "Many everyday financial decis...d a system that they had previously identified for responding to pain, which they believe allows the brain to predict imminent harm and allow immediate defensive ...Depression among retired NFL players: Rates mirror the general public, but pain compounds symptoms
...or the U-M Depression Center. For example, those responding to the survey whose scores indicated moderate to severe depression were 11 times more likely to report trouble sleeping than those rated as not depressed or mildly depressed. Similarly, those in the moderate-to-severe depression category were near...New mechanism identified for resistance to targeted lung cancer drugs
...ents whose tumors became resistant after initially responding to Iressa revealed that MET was amplified in resistant samples from 4 of 18 patients. Although treating resistant cell lines with either Iressa or a MET inhibitor did not stop tumor growth, treatment with both agents did induce cell death. "This ...