January 21st, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
Hope was recently given to users of cholesterol lowering drugs known as statins because the suggestion was that the drug there were taking would help reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. A new study involving 929 Catholic clergy members, with an average age of 75-years, challenges those findings.
At the beginning of the study all 929 participants were [...]
January 20th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
An examination of published studies of 12 widely prescribed antidepressant drugs, approved between 1981 and 2004, showed a discrepancy in results from FDA studies.
Erick Turner, M.D., Medical Director of the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s Mood Disorders Program, reviewed the FDA’s trials for 12 widely prescribed antidepressant drugs and compared the result with the literature of [...]
January 19th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
The earlier Alzheimer’s disease is detected the more benefit a patient will gain from available treatments. Unfortunately, it isn’t until overt signs of a decline in cognitive ability, that threaten a person’s well being, is the individual brought into a clinic for testing.
Testing for early signs of Alzheimer’s usually require assessing the person’s cognitive ability. The test is [...]
January 18th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
When it comes to medication there is always a question of its effectiveness. How well any medication works varies from one individual to another. Researchers decided to examine if diet and lifestyle can contribute to the variation of effectiveness for drugs.
Dr. Daniela Delneri, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, devised a clever study involving baker’s [...]
January 17th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
When occupational rehabilitation professionals consider when an employee should return to work they tend to emphasize the ability of a worker to perform tasks associated with their jobs.
Workers returning to their job after an injury are more likely to quit or be fired if their job requires more hours than the traditional 40-hour week. Allard Dembe, [...]
January 16th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
Who doesn’t hate to wait? Well meaning wait management strategies focus on moving the line along with the intent of reducing stress. The strategy may work well at Disney World, but may backfire when implemented in a hospital waiting room.
Elizabeth Gelfand Miller, Boston College; Barbara E. Kahn, University of Miami; and Mary Frances Luce, Duke [...]
January 15th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
There is an old expression–”It is the cheap man who pays the most.”–that best explains why the higher co-payments for drug prescriptions or to see a doctor that took effect January 1, for many people, may actually cost a company more money.
The University of Michigan and Harvard University researchers studied the concept called “value based [...]
January 14th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
While conducting a clinical study on Parkinson’s disease researchers came across a participant who felt strongly that his condition was the result of exposure to tricholoraethylene (TCE). Further research involving co-workers of the original participant suggest that there is a connection.
Don M. Gash and John T. Slevin, University of Kentucky–Lexington, studied the group of co-workers [...]
January 13th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
When children imagine their future selves as astronauts, politicians, or superheroes they are using episodic memory. Episodic memory allows individuals to project themselves both backward and forward in subjective time.
Creating an imaginary event, known as constructive-episodic-simulation, requires an individual to recall details of a previous experience and to put them together to create the imaginary [...]
January 12th, 2008 by Richard Brassaw
Since the 1950s stress has directly been linked to coronary heart disease. In one study chronic stress at work or at home was attributed to a 30% increase of death during a 9-year study. Depression has also been linked as a result to stress. But it is also noted that both heart disease and depression [...]
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