Patient-centered approach can backfire
...ormation to match caregivers and patients. "When you see a physician, you are routinely asked a lot of background information already, often including patient preferences suc...Traditional Chinese exercises may increase efficacy of flu vaccine
...n many fronts, he said. So its not surprising that you can feel the immune part, the strength part, the p...e slogan, no pain, no gain. In Taiji, its no pain, you get big gain....Comparison of obstetric outcomes between on-call and patients' own obstetricians
Pregnant women frequently ask their physician will you be delivering my baby" Dr. Haim A. Abenhaim MPH and co-authors wanted to determine whether obstetric outcomes differed between women whose babies were delivered by their own obstetrician and those attended by an on-call obstetrician who did not prov...Study suggests loss of 2 types of neurons -- not just 1 -- triggers Parkinson's symptoms
... of their dopamine neurons are gone, which is when you cross some sort of threshold. Our study looked at ...lective loss of dopamine neurons. The truth is, if you look at postmortem Parkinson's disease brains, you will see that both dopamine and norepinephrine ne...Grandparents, older adults encouraged to seek help for a sleep disorder
... or caffeine. Not napping during the day. If you must snooze, limit the time to less than one hour ... later than 3 p.m. Stick to rituals that help you relax each night before bed. This can include such things as a warm bath, a light snack or a few mi...Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
... is at all representative of the larger community, you can see that the number of people with diabetes is growing very rapidly over time. I also think it's likely that we would find comparable results if we had done similar research in Detroit or Atlanta or New York City." Schootman says more studies w...Hispanic drug use rises in US culture
...er time, Akins said. In states such as California, you have large Hispanic enclaves that have a protective buffering effect for new residents. But we wanted to find out what was happening in Washington, a state with a relatively small Hispanic population (only 9 percent statewide), which is disproportion...Investigators uncover intriguing clues to why persistent acid reflux sometimes turns into cancer
...portant to prevent reflux, because the more reflux you have and the longer you have it, the more it might predispose you to getting Barretts esophagus. So you want to suppress tha...Pathway links inflammation, angiogenesis and breast cancer
...s, programmed cell death known as apoptosis. "If you can control IKKa, you get a double-dip effect," Hung says. "You not only activate p53, the good guy, you keep the bad guy ...Hormone regulates fondness for food
...n between the pathways in the brain that know when you are hungry or full and the parts of the brain that are involved in how much you desire and enjoy food. They postulated that leptin, one of the major hormones controlling weight, mi...To gain muscle and lose fat, drink milk: study
...ical implications of these results are obvious: if you want to gain muscle and lose fat as a result of working out, drink milk. As reported in the first phase of the study, the milk drinking group came out on top in terms of muscle gain with an estimated 40 per cent or 2.5 pounds more muscle mass than ...Where's the beef? Not enough of it is on elders' plates, muscle-metabolism study suggests
...response to eating the same protein-rich meal that you eat, which might over time contribute to muscle loss, said Douglas Paddon-Jones, an associate professor in UTMBs departments of physical therapy and internal medicine. Paddon-Jones is the senior author of a paper on the study published in the August ...Metabolic study in mice could lead to 'good cholesterol' boosters
...nipulate good cholesterol levels to whatever point you like. He emphasized, however, that the new findings represent basic research in animals. Further investigation will examine to what extent the pathway is preserved in humans, Jin said. The authors will also look for chemicals capable of modifying t...Miniature implanted devices could treat epilepsy, glaucoma
...everal parts of the brain at the same time enables you to predict when a seizure is about to start, and then you can take steps to prevent it." Data from the implanted transmitter will be picked up by an externa...Rutgers professor Bart Krekelberg is named 1 of 20 US Pew Scholars for 2007
...f your eye, explains Krekelberg. To see correctly, you need to move the expensive camera around. On an ... to look right, then left and then right again and you will clearly see his or her eyes moving back and forth. You know your eye is going to move before ...Old McDonald's has a hold on kids' taste buds, Stanford/Packard study finds
STANFORD, Calif. - Say what you will, Shakespeare, but a McNugget by any other name is just not as tasty. At least, not to the 3- to 5-year-old set. Asked to sample two identical foods from the fast-food giant McDonald's, children preferred the taste of the version branded with t...Backache sufferers who fear pain change movements
...he National Institutes of Health. "It's like if you run every day, and then a friend invites you to a game of racquetball," Thomas said, noting that the sports use different muscle groups. "The nex...World's largest respiratory health study launches next phase
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