Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
...le to think that this is something that they might want to bring into their clinic or their treatment syst...cements, it changed the counselors. The counselors want the patients to get better, and when they saw the patients get better, it was really persuasive." "I...Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
...people and in social activities. I sort of tend to want to be a hermit. However, I find it relaxing to go window-shopping in a mall. A crowd of a hundred strangers is more relaxing than a dozen neighbors whom I know,'" Behrmann said. Behrmann and Galia said that much remains to be learned from the individ...Metabolic side effects of antipsychotics are known, but rarely monitored
...rug will make her gain weight. She said she didn't want to take it. I said you really don't have a choice to take nothing. It's awful having to present people with such difficult choices, especially when they're already stressed dealing with mental problems," he says. Noncompliance has long been a problem......focussed and less invasive care for people. Now we want to take our idea forward to bigger and better things. More and more people are being cared for in their own homes through care in the community and we believe that our research can improve their care and quality of life." Dr. McAdams already has his ...Hormonal birth control, bacterial infections in women linked to increased shedding of type-2 herpes
... help slow the spread [of HSV-2], and right now we want to do anything to slow the spread," he said....Fink receives National Pharmacy Leadership Award
...LS. "He has impacted so many lives and for that we want to say thank you on behalf of the profession." At the UK College of Pharmacy, Fink focuses on pharmaceutical public policy and pharmacy law. He also is professor of Public Health in the UK College of Public Health and professor in the Martin School o...Vigorously active adolescents are leaner, fitter
...on is that you need to do vigorous activity if you want to be lean." Researchers used an accelerometer that discriminates between light, moderate and vigorous physical activity to monitor the usual physical activity of 421 black and white adolescents for five days. Cardiovascular fitness was measured b...ISHLT updates guidelines for heart and lung transplants
...t intend to throw wisdom out the window, rather we want to update widely held beliefs and offer continued support of relevant concepts," Mehra says. "There is a lot of knowledge out there that is robustly worthy of our support."...Belgium doctors treating critically ill infants favour legalising euthanasia
...issues in the euthanasia debate. He states: "If we want a policy that would reduce acts of killing to a minimum, we need far better evidence from various practice settings about the impact of end-of-life-care policies on actual clinical practice."...OHSU develops instant, computerized notification system to communicate patients' end-of-life wishes
... example, a patient with advanced lung disease may want to be hospitalized with pneumonia, but may not want to be placed on a breathing machine in the intensive care unit. Doctors need to know this immediatel...Liver may be source of 'good' cholesterol
...ing could be important in drug development. "If we want to raise HDL levels, it might make sense to focus on drugs that target the liver," he said. Parks said research into Tangier disease is a good example of how learning more about a rare disease can lead to important new information. "When studying th...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
...0 percent of smokers undergoing screening say they want to quit, many researchers have been interested in using cancer screening results as an opportunity to motivate smokers to quit. Previous studies have found smokers recently diagnosed with medical conditions are more interested in, and successful at, ...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
... basis to narrow down the range of affinities they want to identify from the library. Between the modeling and future experimental studies, they hope to refine their drug delivery design to get the optimal rate of drug release. "We started with a model I'd previously developed, then added in som...'Nanoshells' simultaneously detect and destroy cancerous cells
...it [just through imaging]," says Drezek. "We don't want to simply find the cancerous cells. We would like to locate the cells, be able to make a rational choice about whether they need to be destroyed and, if so, proceed immediately to treatment." To this end, Drezek and West collaborated to develop a new...Delay in Alzheimer's disease onset seen for first time
... option for mild cognitive impairment patients who want an aggressive approach, he explains. This study involved 769 participants at 69 medical centers in the United States and Canada. The National Institute on Aging funded this study with additional support from Pfizer, Eisai and DSM Nutritional Product...Pessimism and depression increase dementia risk
...ta to the individual. Certainly the last thing you want to do is to say, 'Well, I am a pessimist; thus, I am doomed to develop dementia 20 or 30 years later,' because this may end up becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy." The investigators are not recommending any specific intervention. "Even though we do...College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
... and five for males at a time is dangerous and we want them to stay under this limit, then we absolutely must do a better job of teaching them what a drink is," added White. "Not doing so would be like telling people that it's OK to have one order of french fries per day without telling them whether we ...Dermatologists use knowledge of patterns to recognize melanoma
...ead physicians to listen carefully to patients who want a mole resected [removed], because patients may perceive subtle changes that they may be unable to communicate."...Institute of Medicine news: Human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS
... of $35,000 annually for skilled professionals who want to make a difference overseas but are stymied by financial and logistical barriers. Fellows would provide health care, training, or technical assistance in a PEPFAR focus country for at least one year, the report says. GHS also would include a loan......different psychological interventions. People, who want to loose weight benefit from behavioural and cogni...ta to go on and there's no doubt that if we really want to know whether it's cost-effective we need to do a larger and longer randomised trial measuring qua...