Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
...ther assets, and subtracting debts. The median net worth in the study was $98,400, and 311 of the participa...at there was a relationship between a person's net worth and the drop in their well-being after disability. The researchers looked at data from a sub-group ...Dermatologists use knowledge of patterns to recognize melanoma
...tographs, based on a global cognitive approach, is worth being assessed. Our study also confirms how much a recent change is important for a reliable diagnosis of MM. In this regard, the fact that an MM was found in nine (1.68 percent) of the 535 nevi that were removed only to reassure the patient should l...Researchers identify marker of heart disease in low-birthweight babies
...igher apo C-1 levels in these infants that we find worth watching as an early predictor of heart disease. A low-fat diet is particularly important for these children to reduce their risk of heart disease."...Alcohol-impaired driving on the increase, study shows
... in their lifetimes. Such accidents cause damages worth more than $50 billion a year. "Deaths from alcohol-related crashes had been declining for years," added Quinlan, "but around 1999 they stopped going down, despite safer cars and highways." The researchers, all based at the time at the CDC, analyzed...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...to get their teeth as clean as possible then it is worth investing in a brush with a rotating-oscillating head. "Toothbrush choice is as much about personal preference as anything else, and people tend to take affordability, availability and professional recommendation into account. However, it is importan...Milk thistle does not reduce deaths from liver diseases, best studies find
...d rest and diet, and treatments like silymarin are worth pursuing," Strickland says, calling for more research funding. "We should consider doing randomized clinical trials with higher doses of silymarin," Dr. Rambaldi concurs. According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine , ...Health-care ethics practical, smart: U of T study
...long life with various treatments to whether it is worth allocating hospital resources to a particular, expensive course of medication to whether to give a patient the truth about a dire diagnosis. "This model allows and encourages ethical responsibility across the whole organization," says MacRae. "Witho...Study: Americans willing to pay more for greater vaccine coverage
ANN ARBOR, Mich. How much is it worth to you and your family to have a health insurance plan that covers the latest innovations in adult and childhood vaccines for certain types of cancer or even influenza and pneumonia? A new national web-based study from the University of Michigan Heal...Younger is better when implanting cochlear implants, IU study finds
...er implanting children before they turn age one is worth the potential risks associated with such early surgeries, the researchers said. The work will be presented next week at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. The study, by Mario Svirsky, Ph.D., professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surg...Melbourne trailblazer scoops medical research award
...iths Research Foundation announced research grants worth $276,000 in the areas of palliative care, multiple sclerosis, motor neuron disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and stroke recovery. Since its inception in 1994, the Foundation has committed over $2.7M to research bodies in Victoria incl...Medical journals are an extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies
...dustry. "For a drug company a favourable trial is worth thousands of pages of advertising, which is why a company will sometimes spend upwards of a million dollars on reprints of the trial for worldwide distribution." Unlike ads, readers see these trials as the highest form of evidence, says Smith. "Fort...Don't skip chest CT in the ER just because x-ray checks out okay, warns study
... of trauma patients high-tech imaging like MDCT is worth it and needs to be performed," said Dr. Novelline. The full results of the study will be presented on May 18 during the American Roentgen Ray Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA....Most heart failure cases are discovered after patients are admitted to hospital
...time in the hospital. The study included a year's worth of inpatient records from more than 2.5 million people admitted to 350 hospitals in the United States . More than half a million of these patients were diagnosed with CHF. "We expected to see some patients with secondary congestive heart failure, bu...Removing the spleen may help fight leukemia, mouse model suggests
...urgically removing a diseased or damaged spleen is worth further investigation. Researchers suggest that early surgical intervention by removing the spleen and suppressing the related factors might be considered as a treatment model for human hematological malignancies, cancers of the body's blood-forming...Researchers develop new concept for single molecule transistor
...e, and high efficiency the hurdles are definitely worth tackling....IBM and EPFL join forces to uncover the secrets of cognitive intelligence
...ertain simulations we anticipate that a full day's worth of wet lab research could be done in a matter of seconds on Blue Gene." The system that will be installed at EPFL will occupy the floor space of about four refrigerators, and will have a peak processing speed of at least 22.8 trillion floating-point......ad returned to normal, emphasising that it is well worth smokers quitting....Dieting linked to increased wealth, study finds
...ze wealth, Zagorsky said. White women had peak net worth at the low end of the normal range (BMI 20), white males and Black women reached peak net worth at the upper end of the normal range (BMI 24) and Black males peaked in the obese range (BMI 32). Za...The rich die differently from you and me, U-M study shows
...cifically, men and women age 70 or older whose net worth was $70,000 or higher were 30 percent less likely than poorer people to have felt pain often during the year before they died. This difference persisted after the researchers controlled for age, gender, ethnicity, education and diagnosis. Wealthier e...Benefits of nitric oxide vary in preemies, Stanford/Packard researchers say
... its use, fearing the potential benefit may not be worth the risk in this group. The current study is the first large multicenter trial testing the effects of inhaled nitric oxide in the very sickest and smallest premature infants. All 420 infants in the study were born before 34 weeks gestation and weighe...