US Latinos may develop Alzheimer's disease symptoms at earlier age than white, non-Latinos
...ribute to the symptomatic expression of AD in this significant minority group."...Misunderstanding real cost a barrier to mammography
...lled in private insurance plans. "This suggests a significant role for private insurers," says McAlearney. "We feel private insurers could be very helpful in reducing the perception of cost as a barrier if they would step up their educational efforts and help these women to become more familiar with details of ...Arm lift surgery generally safe, minor risks need to be considered, Mayo Clinic finds
...e, 76 percent underwent arm lift surgery following significant weight loss, 74 percent of whom had gastric bypass surgery. The surgical technique utilized in all patients involved removal of skin and fat skin from the inner side of the upper arm. The patients' arm lift outcomes were studied an average of 50 mont...Carbonated soft drinks and sleeping pills cause heartburn during sleep
...own to precipitate gastroesophageal reflux. Other significant predictors of heartburn during sleep that were found include increased body mass index (BMI), various sleep abnormalities, hypertension, and asthma. "Heartburn during sleep is indicative of nighttime reflux, which has been shown to be associated wi...Genetic testing divides families
...ving testing, receiving a positive result can have significant consequences on family connections. The data could influence clinical practice regarding genetic testing and what or how to discuss findings with family members....Lack of sleep can affect athletic performance in teens
...travel west, as student athletes may return with a significant sleep-phase delay that is difficult to correct," Carskadon says. Lack of sleep doesn't just affect athletics in teenagers. Studies repeatedly show that reaction time, vigilance, learning and alertness are impaired by insufficient sleep; so students w...Magnetic stimulation treatment for depression helping difficult-to-treat cases at UT Southwestern
...been that generalized neural stimulation can cause significant side effects, such as cognitive or memory loss." N...pressant medication, and not be pregnant or have a significant neurological disorder....Asymptomatic HIV-infected newborns may benefit from early drug treatment, Stanford study shows
...e apparently healthy infected infants. "There is a significant difference in the likelihood of disease progression [with earlier treatment], even though there is only about a month separating the initiation of therapy in the two groups," Maldonado said. "And none of the children who received triple therapy progr...Three-fold risk of sudden cardiac death from some non-cardiac drugs
...to sudden cardiac death, we found no statistically significant increase in our study, although that may have been due to the limited number of cases." The highest risk level was for those using higher daily doses of GI or anti-psychotic medications. Risk also tended to be higher among women than men and among ol...Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century
... hepatitis A, and pneumococcal disease have led to significant reductions in disease in young children, including...sses, the U.S. vaccine system is fragile and needs significant improvements, the authors report. Since 2000, vaccines against nine of the twelve vaccine-preventab...Study: Americans willing to pay more for greater vaccine coverage
...ut "private gain" and "public good" did not play a significant role in participants' decision-making process. However, participants who selected comprehensive versus basic coverage were more likely to strongly agree with information that indicated that childhood and adult vaccines are effective, and that vaccine...Study: Physicians need to be more vocal about encouraging diabetic patients to exercise
...nd live in a rural area. "Physical inactivity is a significant problem in rural diabetic populations," Deshpande said. "Understanding the role of the environment may result in increased physical activity for persons with diabetes."...OHSU study says national injury prevention program working
...ion Foundation, created in 1986, and found it made significant strides in preventing injury by combining educatio...aking. ThinkFirst for Teens showed a statistically significant increase in knowledge of injury prevention among middle and high school students. Data from an early...Leprosy genome tells story of human migrations, French researchers report in Science
...he oldest known human diseases, leprosy is still a significant problem in parts of the developing world, especially India. According to the World Health Organization, roughly 500,000 new cases were detected in 2003. ( http://www.who.int/lep/stat2002/global02.htm ) "Leprosy is still very real and devastating to p...Active vaccine prevents mice from developing prion disease
...monstrating that active immunization can protect a significant percentage of animals from developing symptoms of ...iewski. "But if, for example, there is ever a more significant outbreak of chronic wasting disease and if this disease were found to be transmissible to humans, th...Older adults with insomnia report falling asleep faster with ramelteon
...who received ramelteon 4 or 8 mg had statistically significant decreases in estimates of time to fall asleep. In addition, after patients discontinued the use of ramelteon, there was no rebound insomnia, nor did patients exhibit symptoms of withdrawal. The incidence of adverse events for both ramelteon 4 mg and ...Many HIV patients are not diagnosed early enough
... that treatment may have been delayed. "We found a significant number of missed opportunities for earlier diagnosis of HIV infection," say the authors. There are well recognised advantages of early diagnosis of HIV and starting appropriate treatment with highly active antiretroviral therapy, they write. To impro...Melbourne trailblazer scoops medical research award
...Griffiths Research Foundation Medal, honouring his significant contribution to medical research. The annually awarded Medal honours Victorian scientists and health care professionals who make an outstanding contribution to research in the areas of palliative care or progressive neurological diseases. In additio...Study shows doctors and patients think differently about clinical trials
...nd lead author of the study. "However, there is a significant discordance in perceptions of psychosocial barrier...ients ranked 2). Other non-practical barriers with significant discordance included the lack of trust in medical establishment (doctors ranked 2, patients ranked 6...New kidney cancer drug response rate is more than double that of standard treatment
...gents have a response rate of 15 percent and cause significant side effects for virtually all treated patients. The orally administered agent SU11248 is a multi targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor, which works by simultaneously blocking two growth factor receptors, a vascular endothelial growth factor receptor, ...