News tagged with intervention
Research reveals understanding PMS can reduce women's distress
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women can significantly improve 'that time of the month,' by learning more about how premenstrual symptoms (PMS) can affect their minds and bodies and by adopting stress management and relaxation techniques.
Public expresses need for government intervention to reduce socio-economic disparities in health
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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As Congress debates the public health care option, a recent study reveals greater public support for reducing health care disparities among socio-economic groups (i.e. by income or education) than among racial groups. The ...
Leg movement training in preterm infants demonstrates positive changes in motor skills
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Preterm infants who receive leg movement training display feet-reaching behaviors similar to that of full-term infants, according to a randomized controlled trial reported in the October issue of Physical Therapy (PTJ), the sc ...
Oleocanthal may help prevent, treat Alzheimer's
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Oleocanthal, a naturally-occurring compound found in extra-virgin olive oil, alters the structure of neurotoxic proteins believed to contribute to the debilitating effects of Alzheimer's disease. This structural change impedes ...
Researchers find drug-eluting stents safe, effective for PCI in diabetics
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Results of a multicenter study in Asia, demonstrating that drug-eluting stents are effective with a low rate of complications in diabetic patients, will be presented at the 21st annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics ...
Weight loss is good for the kidneys
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Losing weight may preserve kidney function in obese people with kidney disease, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that t ...
Two treatment innovations improve heart function after heart attack
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Supersaturated oxygen (SSO2) administered during catheter-based treatments for heart attack can significantly reduce heart muscle damage, according to a new study reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, a jour ...
Eye Movements May Help Detect Autism
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most parents will attest that infants convey their needs and interests in a variety of ways, many times without ever making a sound. For researchers in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, ...
Better immune defense against anthrax
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Scientists discover a gene in anthrax-causing bacteria may help defend against this form of bio-warfare.
Immediate intervention for patients with ACS not always more beneficial
Sep 01, 2009 |
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For some patients with acute coronary syndromes, the strategy of immediate intervention at a medical center does not appear to result in differences in outcomes in comparison with an intervention performed the next working ...
Genetic variation associated with poorer response, cardiovascular outcomes with use of clopidogrel
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Patients with a certain genetic variation who received the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel had a decreased platelet response to treatment and among those who had percutaneous coronary intervention (procedures such as balloon ...
Vet scientists' work on diagnostic, intervention tools for H1N1 helps human health lab, too
Aug 18, 2009 |
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If some day you are tested for the H1N1 virus without the painful prick of a needle, thank a pig -- and a team of Kansas State University researchers and their collaborators who are connecting animal and human health.
Bureaucracy stifling studies
Aug 13, 2009 |
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A group of researchers whose planned leg ulceration study was hamstrung by a physician recruitment rate of 2% have published the reasons why so many doctors turned them down. The qualitative information, featured in the open ...
Shocked by therapies: psychologists reject sexual reorientation
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 06, 2009 |
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US psychologists are slamming therapies treating homosexuality as an illness, and warning mental health workers against promising patients their sexual orientations might be changed.
Research finds schools can help reduce depression
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- School-based intervention programs could help curb the amount of antidepressants being prescribed to adolescent boys, UQ research has found.
