Memory problems at menopause: Nothing to forget about
...But three years ago, scientists announced that HRT slightly raises the risk of developing dementia. Those results came soon after other results where scientists said that HRT brings with it increased risk of breast cancer, heart disease, and stroke. When it comes to memory, a study in 2003 of more than 800 wo...UNC nutrition researchers dispute claims that obesity problem is exaggerated
...he said. Mortality among rats that lost weight was slightly higher but significantly lower than the consistently obese animals. While no one would say that significant weight loss is an easy goal, that does not make it impractical, Stevens wrote. "...There is ample evidence to support that adoption of a lifes...Significant number of emphysema patients would find lasting benefit from lung surgery
...exercise and quality of life. Naunheim says he was slightly surprised by how well the upper-lobe emphysema patients with a lower ability to exercise did after the surgery in comparison to similar patients in the study who did not undergo surgery. "Based on our earlier findings, we knew those with upper-lobe ...Alzheimer's drugs offer modest improvements, equal effectiveness
...f recent studies. Although the three drugs work in slightly different ways, the few head-to-head studies of th...that a 5 milligram a day dose of the drug was only slightly less effective than a 10 milligram a day dose, with fewer side effects. In another, newly updated Co...Pay cuts lead to worker insomnia, but supervisor training helps
...to fall, to the point where their levels were just slightly higher than those nurses whose pay had not been cut at all. Those nurses with untrained supervisors saw small decreases in insomnia levels, but they were still significantly higher than all other nurses. Greenberg said he believes the training was s...For orthopedic injuries, a robot that follows patients as they move
...the robots to hone in on and track the joint. In a slightly spooky demonstration, using a graduate student instead of a patient, the camera-tipped hand followed the student's thigh as he walked and otherwise moved normally. While the hand appeared accurate to the untrained eye, Banks said the video image, whi...Half of active children pursue non-traditional physical activities
...n to use the car between activities, but were also slightly more likely than all other ethnic groups to participate in recreational physical activity (biking or walking around a neighborhood or playing in organized sports). Hispanic children were the least likely of any ethnic group to use the car to access a...One in five patients on commonly prescribed diuretics have abnormal sodium and potassium levels
...69, while the average age of untested patients was slightly lower at 67. Only 30 per cent of females had their electrolytes tested, compared with 36 per cent of males. "Patients taking higher doses of thiazide diuretics are at particular risk of low potassium levels and elderly patients are at a particul...Patient safety monitoring at Hopkins Hospital finds law of unintended consequences at work
...ection rates increased from a low in the spring of slightly more than four days for every 1,000 days patients spent with catheters in the ICU, which is the relative norm, to a high of 17.3 days by the end of the summer. Infection rates stayed relatively high to the end of the year, at 11.9 days. But, accordi...Smoking while pregnant causes finger, toe deformities
...imes more common in African Americans and are only slightly prevalent in boys. Nevertheless, the majority of these defects occur without any family history and most causes are unknown which has lead researchers to investigate environmental causes, such as smoking, for these anomalies. "The results of this st...Blacks' lower rate of lung cancer surgery not just due to access to care issues
...likely to be offered lung cancer surgery, and were slightly more likely to refuse it than were whites. Overall, the study found that blacks who had equal access to care were 45 percent less likely than whites to have lung cancer surgery. These findings point to a subtle and complex "communications problem" u...Adults with lazy eye can improve
...an average of 70 percent. Another 10 subjects in a slightly different training program showed an average improvement of 46 percent. Eight subjects in a control group showed no improvement. "Detecting simple visual patterns turned out to be quite useful for improving visual acuity for amblyopia patients, typic...Toward the future of cancer prevention
...h an increase in cardiovascular problems. Later, a slightly increased risk of cardiovascular disease was also found in one of the polyp prevention trials using Celebrex. Another multi-center international trial of Celebrex was also halted; this one evaluated the role of the agent in preventing recurrence of p...Visually impaired people prefer to watch television enhanced with special processing
...ced video. However, personal preferences were only slightly higher for those individual settings than for the arbitrarily enhanced images. According to Peli, these results mean that enhancement levels could be selected that will be acceptable to most people, simplifying the type of device needed. Peli envis...High intake of dietary fiber not associated with reduced risk of colorectal cancer
...d with the lowest. This association was attenuated slightly but still remained statistically significant after adjusting for nondietary risk factors, multivitamin use, and total energy intake. Additional adjustment for dietary folate intake further weakened the association. In the final model, which further a...Nursing home quality stagnates, says HealthGrades
...t, the third most frequently cited complaint, rose slightly from 2003 to 2004, from 13 percent to 15 percent. Although food services was the most frequently cited by surveyors in annual inspections, it was the source of only two percent of the complaint investigations. The findings echo the conclusions of...Arsenic discharged from landfills, says Dartmouth research
...other contaminants decreased, the level of arsenic slightly increased. The researchers detail their calculations regarding the geochemical processes at this site over the last ten years in a paper published online on Nov. 23, 2005, by Environmental Science and Technology, a journal of the American Chemical S...Hospitalization rates for infectious diseases increase among older adults
...ively. "The hospitalization rate for IDs increased slightly among the older adult U.S. population during the 13-year study and was associated with the aging of the older adult population," the authors write. "The reduction of ID hospitalization rates among older adults could help attenuate the anticipated inc...No risk of heart attack associated with short-term use of traditional painkillers
...han one year, however, some traditional NSAIDs can slightly increase the risk of non-fatal heart attack. This does not apply to ibuprofen or naproxen, two of the most widely-used NSAIDs. Luis A. Garca Rodrguez and Antonio Gonzlez-Prez from the Centro Espaol de Investigacin Farmacoepidemiolgica in Madrid, Spa...Older women who receive pelvic irradiation for cancer have increased risk for pelvic fracture
...ber of deaths due to pancreatic cancer and is only slightly lower than the number of deaths due to breast cancer. It is well recognized that therapeutic radiation can result in bone damage and may increase fracture risks. However, the risks have not been well studied. Because of the high baseline incidence ...