Second-generation antipsychotic medications appear to offer little advantage over older drugs
..., one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The findings run contrary to the widely held perception that second-generation antipsychotic agents are safer and more effective in treating patients with schizophrenia than the less-expensive first-generation class of medications. For almost 50 years, antipsychoti...'Living While Black' index measures variety of stress factors for African Americans
...products of the difficulties of obtaining funds to run their businesses effectively. Such relationships, which are the products of data from state-level measures, warrant additional investigation, Gabbidon noted. "In the interim, though, states might investigate the level of discrimination claims involvi...Surveys find outright hunger among Latino immigrants in North Carolina
...ts in each study reported worrying that food would run out and that food bought would not last," said Quandt, the lead author. That combination, less severe than "hunger," is viewed as "food insecurity" and includes such actions as relying on just a few kinds of food and cutting meal size for children an...'No time to exercise' is no excuse, study shows
... pace of life offers no time to exercise have just run out of another excuse, unless of course they can't spare three minutes to exercise. The "catch" is that the exercise consists of short bursts of intense effort separated by a few minutes of recovery, meaning a single training session lasts about 20 ...Test can predict spread of eye cancer to liver
...r's team needed to learn whether it is possible to run the molecular test on tumor samples gathered with a fine needle biopsy. And the answer was "yes." "Even with the small amount of tumor tissue you get from a needle biopsy, the accuracy of the test is comparable to what we found when we had the enti...AAFP, ACP and AOA meet with Congress on Medicare reimbursements to physicians
... inflation for medical practice costs. These cuts run the risk of destabilizing the Medicare program and may risk Medicare beneficiary access to physicians. "Our organizations, representing nearly 275,000 primary care physicians nationwide, are in Washington to express our ongoing concerns about the i...Childless women risk poorer health in later life
Childless women run the risk of earlier death and poorer health in later life. A new study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) finds that not only childless women but also mothers of five or more children, teenage mothers and mothers who have child...Frontline NHS staff should be trained to tackle alcohol misuse
...r more specialist alcohol units, which are usually run by psychiatrists and largely deal with complex problems. These are controlled by mental health trusts, which are separated administratively from acute hospital trusts, so services tend to be fragmented. In many areas voluntary agencies also provide...Muscle cells self-destruct rather than grow with use
...ted." Myofibrils, thin, cylindrical filaments that run the length of muscle cells, then begin to degenerate. He first cloned BAG1 as an antiapoptotic protein more than 10 years ago while looking for a way to kill cancer cells. "BAG is one of the things that helps cancer cells survive," says Dr. Takaya...Speedsters' traffic fines fund new research on spinal cord injury
...ar through the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program run by the New York State Department of Health. The program, created in 1998, uses fines paid by speeding motorists to fund research into spinal cord injury, whose number-one cause nationwide is motor vehicle accidents. In Rochester this year the grants ...Scientists learn more about how roughage keeps you 'regular'
...ke their way down the gastrointestinal tract, they run into cells, tearing them and freeing lubricating mucus within. More mucus is good, says Dr. Paul L. McNeil, cell biologist at the Medical College of Georgia and corresponding author on the study published online Aug. 21 and scheduled for the Septe...Survivors of childhood polio do well decades later as they age
... of spinal and bulbar polios. The effects of polio run the gamut from a complete return to normal function to paralysis of limbs to acute death. Following the illness, most patients are worried about their long-term prognoses, according to Dr. Sorenson. To conduct this study, the researchers randomly s...UK hospitals poorly prepared for a 'major incident,' say researchers
... Most of the hospitals (82%) had carried out a dry run within the past five years, but only around a third (35%) were planning to do so within the next 12 months, despite the need for regular rehearsals. And one on four of the hospitals said that they did not include any incident planning teaching in i...SWAN system to help blind and firefighters navigate environment
...am is currently revamping the SWAN applications to run on PDAs and cell phones, which will be more convenient and comfortable for users. The team plans to add an annotation feature so that a user can add other useful annotations to share with other users such as nearby coffee shops, a location of a puddl...Violence at work significantly boosts clinical depression risk
...s subjected to real or threatened violence at work run a major risk of becoming clinically depressed, indicates research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The magnitude of the risk was in direct proportion to the amount of workplace violence experienced, the study shows. The find...More than 3 percent of US teens have exchanged sex for money or drugs
...the authors. Those who were depressed or who had run away from home in the past year were also significantly more likely to have sex for drugs or money. Larger numbers of adolescents who had used sex in this way had had a same sex experience and had been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infectio...Big companies should provide HIV treatment to employees
...eaders need to realise that their responsibilities run deep and extend well beyond profit and loss." ...Is it time to give the NHS more independence?
... Editor Fiona Godlee called for an independent NHS run by a board of governors responsible for managing health care within a set budget and a broad political framework. In this week's BMJ, four opinion leaders give their views on whether it is time to give the NHS greater independence from government....For-profit research ethics committees: How are they performing?
...eview board, or IRB. Traditionally, IRBs have been run by volunteer committees of scientists and clinicians working in the academic medical centers where the studies they review are being conducted, but for-profit organizations are increasingly being hired to conduct ethics reviews. A provocative "for a...Aggressive heart pacing may work best in some spinal cord patients
...seem to be reliable in these patients and patients run into a lot of problems." Ironically, regular activities these patients need to survive, such as suctioning secretions, drawing blood and even bowel movements, can trigger activity of the vagus nerve, which mediates the parasympathetic system's infl...