The study, titled "Project Achieve" and funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), was the largest of its kind focusing on children aged 3 to 5 who have shown significant symptoms of ADHD. It also involved researchers from Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa. The researchers, led by George ...
“Medical family therapy is a proven benefit for children and families dealing with a serious illness,” said Linda Hoover, dean of the College of Human Sciences. “With this new research, we can begin treating more children and their families and hopefully improve recovery and responsiveness to illness.” The research, examining the ...
Acrylamide, a compound found in a variety of widely-consumed foods ranging from French fries to coffee, does not appear to cause breast cancer, researchers report. (Credit: American Chemical Society) "At levels consumed in the diet, it appears unlikely that acrylamide in foods is related ...
"Based on these findings, physicians may be able to diagnose multiple sclerosis more accurately and identify patients at risk for developing progressive disease," said the study’s lead author, Rohit Bakshi, M.D., associate professor of neurology and radiology at Harvard Medical School and director of clinical MS-MRI at Brigham and ...
In addition to receiving essential nutrients, breastfed infants have lower rates of ear infections, gastroenteritis, asthma, obesity and diabetes. Benefits for mothers include decreased incidence of breast and ovarian cancer. National goals in the U.S. are a breastfeeding initiation rate of 75 percent (with an exclusive breastfeeding rate for the ...
Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) is the sudden, abnormal narrowing of the vocal cords during inhalation causing obstruction of the airflow, and is characterized by a noise that can mimic the sound of wheezing. A VCD attack can easily be mistaken for an asthma attack though it does not respond to ...
Researchers have pinpointed a genetic variant associated with human height -- the first consistent genetic link to be reported. (Credit: Image designed by Bang Wong, Broad Institute) The findings, published in Nature Genetics, stem from a large-scale effort led by scientists at the Broad Institute ...
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) set out to determine if an obesity prevention program called 5-2-1-Go! could reduce the risk of eating disorder symptoms and harmful weight-control behaviors in adolescents. The study showed that almost 4% of middle-school girls receiving only their regular health education began ...
This leads to pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a serious condition characterized by high blood pressure in the arteries that carry blood to the lungs. "NAC fools the body into thinking that it has an oxygen shortage," said Dr. Ben Gaston, UVa Children’s Hospital pediatrician and researcher who led the study. ...
The Institute of Medicine estimates that 1.5 million medication errors occur each year in the United States and poor labeling is one cause of the mistakes. While the Food and Drug Administration has some standards on what prescription labels must include, few regulations guide the format of the information, said ...
They range from problems such as government corruption to complex questions surrounding community and public engagement, cultural acceptability and gender. The study, conducted by an international team of bioethics experts from the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health in Toronto (MRC), was supported by the Grand Challenges in Global Health (GCGH) initiative, ...
A total of 113 million Americans searched for health information on the Internet in 2006, according to background information in the article. Of those, 29 percent searched for information on specific hospitals and physicians. At the same time, pressure from insurance companies and the public for transparency and accountability in ...
Depression, a condition experienced by millions of people round the world, has been described by the World Health Authority as an escalating epidemic, likely to become the second leading cause of death by 2020. Many drugs exist for the treatment of depression. However, how individuals respond to antidepressant ...
In the study, which appears in the September 2007 issue of The Journal of Pediatrics, the researchers reviewed three U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission databases for deaths related to crib bumpers and crib-related injuries from 1985-2005. They found 27 accidental deaths reported by authorities of children from 1 month old ...
The drug -- a corticosteroid called betamethasone -- is given to women at risk of premature delivery to hasten the development of their baby’s lungs. One course of steroids has been shown to reduce neonatal mortality and improve lung function with little risk to the infant.* Up until the year 2000, ...
Dietitian Katrina Campbell, who graduated with her PhD from QUT yesterday, monitored the diets of 62 pre-dialysis patients at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RB&WH) and supported them with regular contact as part of her thesis. Dr Campbell said depending on the patient’s individual situation, a dietitian could intervene by ...
"Our analysis found that hemodialysis patients who had undergone imaging studies using a gadolinium-containing contrast agent have more than 10 times the risk of developing NSF as do patients with no prior exposure to gadolinium," says Jonathan Kay, MD, director of the Rheumatology Clinical Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital ...
Dr. Pam Okada is the local lead investigator of an $11.5 million multicenter clinical trial examining the effectiveness of induced hypothermia as a therapy for brain swelling in children who have suffered severe traumatic brain injuries. (Credit: Image courtesy of UT Southwestern Medical Center) The ...
Researchers at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston studied patients in emergency rooms who complained of serious chest pain. They measured and recorded pH levels in the esophagus of 31 patients for two days to determine whether excessive acid caused their chest pain. Researchers found more women than ...
’Qingyitang’ a representative prescription of Traditional Chinese Medicine for severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) was widely used in the orients countries. But its real pharmacological mechanisms of protective effects on SAP have not been investigated still now. Baicalin, the most effective monomer of Baical skullcap root (an essential Traditional Chinese Medicine ...
One of the tools used for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer is the Gleason scoring system, which grades adenocarcinomas (malignant tumors) of the prostate based on the patterns of prostatic glands. Many studies have confirmed the prognostic significance of the Gleason score with respect to time to recurrence ...
Isaac Kohane and his team at the Children’s Hospital, Boston, US, collected umbilical cord tissue samples from 54 premature infants born at less than 28 weeks of gestation, including 20 samples from infants who later developed BPD. When DNA expression profiles were compared, the researchers found that infants who subsequently ...
In 2006, 150 kids at Nationwide Children’s, seven percent of all speech therapy patients, were diagnosed with apraxia of speech. That’s more than double the year before. Meanwhile, the number of speech pathology patients overall increased by just 13 percent from 2005 to 2006. While there is little national data ...
In the study of 17 men and seven women between the ages of 19 and 68, two-thirds of the women reported moderate to severe dissatisfaction with their sexual lives, with scores lower than those of healthy women. By contrast, 64 percent of the men reported being moderately or very satisfied ...
The results of this study may help scientists develop new medications that dramatically improve the removal of excess iron in patients diagnosed with blood diseases such as B-Thalassemia (Cooley’s anemia) or Sickle Cell Disease. The study appears in this month’s issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and was conducted by ...
Researchers studied "BMI rebound age" -- the age at which BMI reaches its lowest point before increasing through later childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The new study, one of the first of its kind, investigated BMI rebound age in 308 children, 158 boys and 150 girls, beginning at age 3 and ...
Researchers have developed a novel way to control the extreme weight loss, common in late stage cancer, which often speeds death. Their findings suggest it may soon be possible to prevent this condition, giving people the strength to survive treatment and improve their ...
In humans, the p53 tumour suppressor gene, also known as the ’guardian of the genome’, is known for its role in the prevention of cancer. Mutations in the gene are associated with a high incidence of cancer due to the uncontrolled division of cells which give rise to tumours. In childhood ...
As many as half of all infants born with congenital heart disease who survive heart surgery are known to suffer widespread deficits in cognition, including memory, attention, and higher-order language skills, as well as deficits in fine motor skills. Despite the significance of these impairments, the underlying reasons for them ...
In a major study of over 27,000 women in the Women’s Health Study, researchers assessed a variety of risk factors and different levels of exercise in women who were followed for 11 years for new diagnosis of heart attack and stroke. "Regular physical activity is enormously beneficial in ...