Extra cortisol protects women's mood under stress
..., translating to a severe stressor. Experimenters tracked participant mood through self report, and measured their cortisol levels with a simple swab check of their saliva, before and after the psychosocial stress test. Participants were asked to give five-minute oral presentations as if interviewing fo...Penn researchers find that chronic dizziness may be caused by psychiatric and neurologic illnesses
...nown causes. From 1998 to 2004, the patients were tracked from their referral to Penns balance center through multiple specialty examinations until they were given a diagnosis. "All but six patients were diagnosed as having psychiatric or neurologic conditions, including primary or secondary anxiety dis...Drug/intervention combinations offer benefit in severe CVD
...tients received the standard therapy. Researchers tracked the composite rates of cardiac death, heart attack, transplantation or re-hospitalization for cardiac reasons. The study found that patients with poor LV function who received FDG PET imaging yielded fewer cardiac events over the course of a yea...Hospital errors rise 3 percent -- HealthGrades patient-safety study
...st costly. Ten of the 16 patient-safety incidents tracked worsened from 2003 to 2005, by an average of almost 12 percent, while seven incidents improved, on average, by six percent. Patient-safety incidents with the greatest increase in incident rates were post operative sepsis (34.28 percent), post-operati...Change in neuroticism tied to mortality rates, researcher says
...hologicalscience.org . In the study, researchers tracked the change in neuroticism levels of 1,663 aging men over a 12-year period. Using the data gathered in the first analysis, researchers calculated the men's mortality risk over an 18-year period using the average levels and rates of change. By the en...No increased risk of certain cancers from electromagnetic fields among energy workers
... minimum of three months since 1968, and they were tracked for an average of nearly 23 years or until death.. When the data were linked to the Danish Cancer Registry where all new cases of cancer in the country have been recorded since 1942, the researchers found no compelling evidence for an increased ris...New study reports improved treatment and reduced mortality for patients with heart failure
IMPACT: UCLA researchers tracked heart failure in-hospital patient trends from 2002 to 2004 for 285 hospitals nationwide and found significant changes in treatment patterns and quality-of-care indicators that paralleled improvements in clinical outcomes and mortality. The study hig...Panel offers expert analysis on causes, prevention of stent thrombosis
...etal stents. However, several recent analyses that tracked patient outcomes for four to five years after stent placement showed that blood clots were slightly more likely to form inside drug-eluting stents than inside bare metal stents. It is not yet clear how large the difference in risk is, but available d...Unfair treatment boosts heart attack risk
... as "high." Their mental and physical health was tracked for an average of almost 11 years, using validated health and quality of life surveys and data on ill health and death. During the monitoring period, there were 528 new cases of fatal and non-fatal heart attack and angina in people who had had no s...Mediterranean diet halves risk of progressive lung disease
...imary factor in its development. The researchers tracked the health of almost 43,000 men, who were already part of the US Health Professionals Follow up Study. This began in 1986 and involved more than 50,000 US health care professionals aged between 40 and 75, who were surveyed every two years. They wer...Huge waves that hit Reunion Island tracked from space
...f France's BOOST Technologies in Brest located and tracked the swells using standard processed Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ESA products. "Swells are still surprise factors, which can unfortunately be deadly," Chapron said. "The SAR Wave Mode product allows us to locate and systematically track swells g...Adult brain cells rediscover their inner child
...ly replacing dead ones. Song and his colleagues tracked the chemical signals received by newly made nerve cells in the adult mouse hippocampus, a brain structure dedicated to learning and memory, by injecting virus particles to light up nerve progenitor cells. Any freshly made nerves glowed green and beco...Huge waves from 1 storm slam coasts some 6000 km apart
...ccurred south of Cape Town, South Africa, and were tracked across the entire Indian Ocean for some 10 000 kil...f France's BOOST Technologies in Brest located and tracked the swells using standard processed Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ESA Wave Mode products, as shown ...Study tests oral insulin to prevent type 1 diabetes
...ing the disease may enroll in TEDDY II and will be tracked over time to examine environmental risk factors....CAM-oriented primary care providers result in cost savings, high patient satisfaction
...f Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics that tracked data from a uniqueIndependent Physicians Association (IPA) where chiropractors serve as first-contact, primary carephysicians. The escalation of medical expenditures remains an urgent problem in the United States and its becomingquite clear that co...Simple test predicts 6-year risk of dementia
...x years. To develop the tests, the study authors tracked a broad range of physical, mental, demographic and other variables for six years among 3,375 participants in the Cardiovascular Health Cognition Study, a national prospective study sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). A...New heart disease risk score will help minimize health inequalities
...g provider of IT systems to GPs. The researchers tracked the progress of 1.28 million healthy men and women, registered at 318 general practices over a period of 12 years up to April 2007, recording first diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. All the participants were aged between 35 and 74 at the start of ...Obese girls less likely to attend college
...f the journal Sociology of Education. The study tracked nearly 11,000 American adolescents, using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. "Obesity has been identified as a serious public health issue, but these results indicate the harmful effects extend far beyond physical heal...Brief motivational interviews work best long term for college students sent to alcohol counseling
... group for this study." White and her colleagues tracked 348 mandated students (209 males, 139 females), randomly assigned to either in-person personal feedback intervention within the context of a BMI (n=180) or WF only (n=168), examining them at four and 15 months after the interventions. Most of the st...U of M report says early-childhood intervention improves well-being through young adulthood
...vailable to low-income families. The children were tracked through age 24 using various methods, including records from schools, Medicaid and county, state and federal agencies, as well as a survey completed by the participants between ages 22 and 24 years. Early childhood interventions have demonstrated c...