Hormone therapy may prevent heart attacks for women in their 50s
...opausal women need to consult their physicians and weigh their medical histories to decide whether HRT is right for them, said Cornell's Salpeter....Simple formula predicts blood needs in heart surgery
...se who have impaired kidney function and those who weigh less than 121 pounds. "At most U.S. hospitals, fou...ho have creatinine levels of greater than 1.2, who weigh less than 187 pounds, or whose heart function is moderately impaired. To determine how many units of...Studies determine patient risk from ICD replacement
BOSTON--Physicians should weigh the risks of replacing implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) after recalls and advisories issued by device manufacturers against the theoretic risk of device failure, according to two studies presented today at HEART RHYTHM 2006, the Heart R...Treatment for anorexia nervosa appears to have improved outcome
...y weight The majority of female teenagers want to weigh less than they do. By the age of 16, two-thirds of girls report feeling overweight, and have tried to diet. This can lead to wildly fluctuating daily calorie intake, which may spill over into 'dietary chaos' including the extreme bingeing-vomiting p...Sleeping less linked to weight gain
...N DIEGO--Women who sleep 5 hours or less per night weigh more on average than those who sleep 7 hours, acco...n that at one point in time, people who sleep less weigh more, but this is one of the first studies to show reduced sleep increases the risk of gaining weigh......He also suggested that women and physicians should weigh the benefits and risks and consider alternatives before prescribing tibolone for any indication....Patient care threatened by workforce shortage
... Institute, based at ANU, said Australia needed to weigh up the experience of our overseas counterparts. "We need to consider the experience of the United States and other comparator countries, like the UK, when trying to find solutions to our workforce shortage at home.These are serious issues and patie...Key event in cell death occurs as single, quick event
...ro- and anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins cooperate to weigh and balance cell signals that promote survival or death, in this way determining the final outcome. During apoptosis, these proteins are either already on the mitochondrial membranes or migrate to the membranes, where they trigger MOMP. "The slow, ...Hormone-replacement therapy hurts hearing, study finds
...pecially who already have a hearing problem should weigh this decision carefully. Women on HRT should consider having a thorough hearing check-up done every six months." Frisina is part of one of the world's leading groups in hearing research, the International Center for Hearing and Speech Research (ICH...Major cancer study aims to identify protein markers for early-stage disease
...s spectrometry: The instrumentation is not able to weigh an entire protein. The protein must first be cut, with an enzyme, into pieces. Once enough pieces of the puzzle are inputted into the database, it is expected that order will appear. The result could be the identification of biomarkers associated wit...Antipsychotic medications used to treat Alzheimer's patients found lacking
...s and patients with information to more accurately weigh the medications' benefits against their drawbacks, with the needs and unique reactions of their individual patients." The $16.9 million, five-year trial was conducted at 42 sites and included 421 people. Participants had Alzheimer's-related dement...Daily weighing and quick action keeps pounds off
...ht within five pounds, participants were taught to weigh themselves daily and to use the information from t... five or more pounds compared to those who did not weigh daily. However, daily weighing in the control group had little effect on the amount of weight regain...Breast cancer treatment procedure gives women more options
...d allows the patient and physician to consider and weigh the benefits of various treatment options, she said. The researchers studied ultrasound guidance of balloon catheter placement into the lumpectomy cavities of 75 new patients with early-stage breast cancer seven to 47 days after their lumpectomie...New info on eating disorders in two Stanford/Packard children's studies
...re quickly than adolescents with the condition and weigh comparatively less at diagnosis. Packard Children's adolescent medicine and eating disorder specialist Rebecka Peebles, MD, and Jenny Wilson, a Stanford medical student, collaborated on both studies. "If parents wouldn't let their kids go out to di...U of M study shows promoting self-weighing in teens is not helpful to weight management
Teenage girls who weigh themselves frequently are more likely to binge eat...ld tread cautiously before recommending that teens weigh themselves frequently when trying to manage weight, said Neumark-Sztainer, who is also the author of...Does too much protein in the diet increase cancer risk?
... a day. Members of the latter group also tended to weigh less than sedentary people but slightly more than the endurance runners. The average body mass index (BMI) in the low-protein, low-calorie group was 21.3. BMI averaged 21.1 among the runners and 26.5 among those who were sedentary. BMI is a measureme...Children who sleep more weigh less
Children who sleep more tend to weigh less than children who sleep less, and they are less likely than their counterparts to be overweight five years later.Thats one of the major findings of a new study published in the January/February 2007 issue of the journal Child Development. Conduc...Metacognition: Faced with a test, rats can check their knowledge first
...g the test would, in principle, have the chance to weigh the likelihood that they would pass the test (and receive a large reward) against the option of declining the test and receiving a certain, but smaller, reward. In the new work, researchers utilized this approach to study the knowledge rats had of ...Jefferson scientists find that drug-eluting stents are disappointing in bypass grafts -- sometimes
...f drug-eluting stents. Physicians should carefully weigh the options before inserting stents into them."...Treatment of in-hospital cardiac patients is focus of Jefferson University presentations
...n a beta blocker regimen when hospitalized, should weigh the benefits of reducing or stopping the beta blocker. Those patients whose initial inpatient beta blocker dose was reduced or stopped had a significantly increased LOS suggesting that it may be detrimental to decrease outpatient beta blocker dosage ...