US specialists call for heart patients to be screened for psychological distress
...h. "It may be that there are additional sources of stress in individuals in these groups." The findings suggested that psychological distress was a significant co-morbidity (associated condition) of cardiovascular disease, according to co-author Dr Binkley. "All the symptoms of psychological distress measur...Lowering resistance to insulin may delay or prevent onset of type 2 diabetes
...betes in PIPOD was closely associated with reduced stress on the beta cells that results when physicians tre...nediones-but to the general mechanisms of reducing stress on beta cells by treating insulin resistance," Buchanan says. "Theoretically, weight loss and some o...Social support linked to prognostic marker for ovarian cancer
...metastatic disease. Because depression and chronic stress are commonly associated with ovarian cancer, and IL-6 levels are responsive to psychosocial factors, Erin S. Costanzo, M.A. from the University of Iowa and colleagues investigated whether IL-6 levels were linked to psychosocial factors in 61 women wi...Design of neonatal intensive care units critical to infant health
... Modifications to NICU environments can reduce stress among staff members by allowing them to better car...music, have been shown to be effective in reducing stress in infants by reducing cortisone levels in the brain that are associated with stress, she notes. ...New memory aid helps dementia sufferers remember as time goes by
...ility to hold normal conversations causes a lot of stress and frustration. Helping them access their memories will make living with dementia more bearable and less distressing for sufferers and their carers."...Good friends, rather than close family ties, help you live longer in older age
...siological effect on the body in the same way that stress confers a negative effect....Cedars-Sinai medical tipsheet for June 2005
...aving blockage of those arteries, as detected on a stress imaging test. The findings, reported in the June ...ls will help physicians identify patients who need stress testing so that effective treatment measures can be taken. Daniel Berman, M.D., the Director of Car...New topical pain cream reduces pain
...eir parents and health-care workers will have less stress during procedures as well." The study was a double-blind randomized control trial in the Sick Kids Emergency Department, where children aged one month to 17 years who required an IV insertion received either the liposomal lidocaine cream or a placebo...Cancer researcher Susan Horwitz wins Alpert prize for Taxol work
... stages including mitosis, which leads to cellular stress resulting in eventual death. In fact the drug has become a valuable tool in basic cancer research to help delineate the function of microtubules. Work from Dr. Horwitz's laboratory revealed that Taxol binds specifically to beta-tubulin in the microt...Brain's own marijuana-like chemicals play key role with stress-induced pain relief
...ute side effects." Scientists have long known that stress gives injured athletes or evengunshot victims a period of time in which the body's pain reaction isdelayed, an effect called stress-induced analgesia. Researchers alongthe way have found two kinds of stress-induced analgesia mechanisms,opioid and non...Evacuation not automatically best for health during chemical incidents
...n as someone with at least 4 symptoms. The authors stress that there were several limitations with this study, including a lack of data on whether the level and nature of the smoke exposure could have been different between the groups. Sheltering may have been a better protective action than evacuation in t...Determining prognosis in patients with chest pain now easier and more accurate
...l grant (Hubbard Foundation), performed dobutamine stress echoes in 158 patients presenting with chest pain ...better than wall motion analysis during dobutamine stress echo for detecting coronary artery disease and predicting patient outcome. This study suggests that ...The impact of weight loss on osteoarthritis of the knee
...ct relationship between weight loss and knee-joint stress while walking. Featured in the July 2005 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/arthritis ), their findings indicate that moderate weight loss results in knee-joint load reduction of a cumulative amount with cons...Study shows how sleep improves memory
...em, the region that controls for emotions, such as stress and anxiety. "The MRI scans are showing us that br...med both more quickly and accurately and with less stress and anxiety." The end result is that procedural skills for example, learning to talk, to coordinat...Harvard scientists report public health impact of 1990 Iraq invasion of Kuwait
... in 1993 and also in 1998, rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were substantially higher among adults who remained in Kuwait during the invasion and occupation than among those who were outside of Kuwait. Preliminary investigation of the data from HSPH's cohort of older adults supports the hypot...USC researchers link cellular stress to drug resistance in tumors
...ar and anti-angiogenesis agents through a cellular stress response that activates a pro-survival protein cal...te combination therapies using drugs to counteract stress proteins like GRP78."...The building blocks of schizophrenia and drug addiction
...uch as complications during birth, drug abuse and stress may have long-lasting effects on behaviour according to researcher Cecilia Flores PhD, of the Douglas Hospital Research Centre. She is using a variety of techniques to better understand how these changes occur in the brain and is particularly inte...Could exercise protect older people from hip fracture?
...these cross sections, they estimated the amount of stress that each region could tolerate before becoming un...cal thickness fell by 64% per decade, and critical stress by 132% per decade in the region most compressed by a sideways fall. Similar, but significantly smal...Bedsharing, even with non-smoking parents, may increase risk of SIDS
...ased risk. Sleeping between parents may put extra stress on the infant and could position the baby too close to or underneath pillows or blankets. Dr. Tappin reminds caregivers of the advice given by the U.K. Department of Health: "The safest place for your baby to sleep is in a cot [crib] in your room fo...Molecular ballet unravels, links proteins so cell can direct own movement
As a cell moves forward, physical stress on its skeleton triggers molecular fingers and arm...grin that is inside the cell. When the cell moves, stress on the "foot" part of the integrin outside the cell is transmitted into the cell to the other end of...