Community efforts can reduce alcohol fatalities
...ood Johnson Foundation. Beginning in January, 1992 twelve such grants were awarded to communities throughout the United States to support the implementation of 10-year programs aimed at reducing substance abuse and related problems. The communities developed 15 different kinds of programs or actions that ta...Atorvastatin shows promise in small trial for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease
...s were evaluated at baseline, three, six, nine and twelve months to determine the effect of atorvastatin on cognitive and/or behavioral decline, using standard measures of cognitive function, psychiatric symptoms, activities of daily living and cholesterol levels. Sixty-seven individuals were randomized to ...Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century
... report. Since 2000, vaccines against nine of the twelve vaccine-preventable diseases of childhood have been in short supply. As of 2004 only four commercial companies produce vaccines for young children, and vaccines for seven of the preventable diseases of childhood are manufactured by only one company....Women rising to the challenge of weightlessness
...o be held on 2 June.The volunteers in question are twelve women, drawn from seven European countries. Since ...tation phase once they are back on their feet, the twelve volunteers will have spent three months at the MEDES clinic, in what they all agreed was an extraord...Within six months, one in three patients fail to take medications as prescribed
...hs, 35.9 percent at six months and 35.8 percent at twelve months. At each time interval, an additional 25.3 to 29.6 percent were taking one, but not both, drugs as prescribed. The strongest predictor of taking both medications as prescribed was the number of other prescriptions the patient was taking in t......and one milk based in a group of obese adults for twelve weeks. Both groups lost weight. The soy-based group lost slightly more weight in any given week, and displayed lower serum cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels. Soy intake also produced small but significant reductions in serum glucose values. This...Drinking for just eight weeks impairs learning and memory in mice
...durations as short as eight weeks produce deficits twelve weeks after withdrawal. This is a much shorter duration than previously reported to produce such deficits. The implications are that the deficits are permanent. Two, that the deficits appear to be global, affecting all types of learning. Three, t...Female volunteers prepare for a second 'bedrest'
... team in Toulouse, France, is now actively seeking twelve new volunteers to enable them to continue and enhance the research. At the beginning of June, the twelve volunteers from the first phase of the WISE study (Women International Simulation Experiment), were ...Study shows how sleep improves memory
...key role in preserving memory. In this new study, twelve healthy, college-aged individuals were taught a sequence of skilled finger movements, similar to playing a piano scale. After a 12- hour period of either wake or sleep, respectively, the subjects were tested on their ability to recall these finger mo...Nature publication reports key links between mechanisms of aging and metabolic disorders
...exciting possibility! In the United States, nearly twelve million people have type 2 diabetes and another 60+ million are obese. The numbers are growing dramatically and are expected to double over the next 25 years. In addition to the direct burdens (e.g. patient quality of life, economic) of these metab...Desire to stop drinking could be more important than therapy
...s: those who had attended either none, one, or all twelve of the treatment sessions. Overall, Cutler and Fi...n's data showed that participants who attended all twelve sessions had better outcomes, but there was only a very slight improvement over participants who att...Mental health following stroke, spinal cord injury; sensory evaluation tools
...ke emotional recovery in veterans. One hundred and twelve veterans discharged from the hospital one month poststroke completed in-home interviews and the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), which were compared to evidence of depression from patient records. Data indicated that 35 percent of the veterans were ...Creating and supporting family therapists of color
...herapists of color. The authors address the first twelve years, in which the Diversity and Social Work Training Program of the Ackerman Institute for the Family trained fifty-seven graduate students of color. Of those, twenty-seven elected to remain in their program for post graduate training-- a high fif...Wake up, doc: Lack of sleep affects young doctors just like alcohol does
...in, young doctors can spend anywhere from three to twelve years in residency and fellowship training. The first year, called the internship, is considered the most intense and also features more rotation between different sub-specialties and hospital wards. Arnedt hopes that this growing body of research on...Hypnotherapy an effective treatment for IBS
...ve suffered from IBS for over two years were given twelve one-hour sessions, during which they were given an explanation of how the gut works and what causes their symptoms. "IBS is ideal for treatment with hypnosis, as there is no structural damage to the body," explained Professor Whorwell. "During the ...Novartis MS drug shows promising results
...ation on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at month twelve irrespective of their FTY720 treatment dose (1.25 ... reported adverse events in patients treated up to twelve months were non-serious infections (colds, influenza), headache, diarrhoea and nausea. About FTY72...High fat diet alters hepatic immune system in mice
...ts with different nutritional contents for four to twelve weeks. The mice were then sacrificed to obtain liver and serum tissue. The researchers isolated hepatic mononuclear cells, which they then incubated and evaluated by flow cytometry. They also isolated total hepatic RNA for analysis. Finally, they mea...Positive study results for methylphenidate transdermal system
..., and efficacy was assessed throughout the day for twelve hours. MTS demonstrated statistically significant improvement over placebo on the measures tested. Behavior, which was measured using the Swanson, Kotkin, Agler, M-Flynn, and Pelham Deportment (SKAMP-D) scale, was improved with MTS overall (mean sc...Study findings show improvement in work attendance after consistent treatment of IBS
...zed baseline data and survey responses at four and twelve weeks from 483 patients. They found that treatment with tegaserod was associated with a decrease in self-reported absenteeism in patients with symptoms of abdominal pain/discomfort, bloating and constipation: 27 percent of patients reported improvem...Positive study results for methylphenidate transdermal system
..., and efficacy was assessed throughout the day for twelve hours. MTS demonstrated statistically significant improvement over placebo on the measures tested. Behavior, which was measured using the Swanson, Kotkin, Agler, M-Flynn, and Pelham Deportment (SKAMP-D) scale, was improved with MTS overall (mean scor...