"The Arkansas schoolyard shooting and other recent acts of school violence are a wake-up call to the nation about our children," said Michael Faenza, President and CEO of the National Mental Health Association.
"Full parity is cheap and good public policy precisely because behavioral health treatments work. Treatment restores functioning at home, work and school, reducing other social costs by improving lives," said Michael Faenza, President and CEO of the National Mental Health Association.
African Americans are not necessarily genetically predisposed to hypertension, according to a study by a team of researchers from Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University that has discovered that hypertension, obesity and high cholesterol in African Americans can be prevented with a radical change in lifestyle.
Calcium supplements reduce bone loss in elderly women, although only modestly, and can help prevent osteoporosis in women who don't already have the condition, reports a Mayo Clinic study.
First care providers can now have the latest knowledge from top medical experts in the field of emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology at their fingertips. The book will help family physicians, as well as emergency medicine doctors, quickly and effectively diagnose and treat emergency gynecologic and obstetric problems.
The co-founders of Volumetric Medical Imaging, Inc. will conduct a media briefing to demonstrate Volumetric Sonography (tm) "” the first fundamental breakthrough in diagnostic ultrasound in more than decade.
A temporary heart device used by cardiac doctors at UCLA Medical Center saved a 24-year-old patient dying from heart failure. The cardiac-assist device avoided the need for an emergency heart transplant.
Benign, non-cancerous brain tumors, called meningiomas, can impair brain function and even kill. So UCLA medical researchers have begun testing a new form of chemotherapy to treat them.
Although researchers know that half of all folks who take up exercise quit during the first six months, they have failed to ask how peopleÃs thoughts and feelings during workouts affect their decision to drop out.
Two out of every three female veterinarians have reported accidental needlestick wounds while they were on the job, according to a recent study.
Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a new intervention program that shows early signs of helping children and teenagers with mood disorders.
A University of Colorado study of marijuana dependence among adolescents in a university treatment program found that such youth reported serious problems in their lives related to dependence on the drug.
Based on a new study, researchers are suggesting physicians use two simple tests to screen patients for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).
A prostate cancer treatment that kills cancer cells while largely sparing healthy organs has been successfully tested in mice and will be ready for clinical trials this fall if approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to University of Minnesota researchers who devised the treatment.
Until every primary care physician in the United States recognizes and responds to the signs of life-depleting and sometimes fatal sleep disorders, Dr. William C. Dement believes his work is unfinished.
For the first time, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center have confirmed that bone--similar to that found in the human skeleton--is present in a substantial portion of diseased heart valves.This finding could lead to the development of therapies to prevent or treat heart-valve disease.
Bill J. Gurley, Ph.D., associate professor and chairman of the Department of Pharmaceutics in the UAMS College of Pharmacy's recent study of herbal medicines containing ephedrine has attracted media attention. Supplements containing ephedrine are widely used, especially by students to help them stay awake to study. The danger is that too much ephedrine can cause adverse side effects and even death.
STANFORD -- Daughters serving as the primary caregivers for an ailing parent show more cardiovascular stress than do wives caring for their ailing husbands, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Ever since vitamin C was found to prevent scurvy -- a disease that has killed millions of people throughout history -- scientists have known that the vitamin plays an essential role in the body's defense against disease. Immune cells, for example, are known to accumulate and retain high levels of vitamin C, but just how this process occurs, has largely remained a mystery.
Fewer than half of the patients under treatment for schizophrenia are receiving proper doses of antipsychotic medications or appropriate psychosocial interventions, according to a national study funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study identified gaps in effective care for people with schizophrenia and opportunities for improvement in all aspects of treatment.
Research Triangle Park, N.C., March 24, 1998 -- Amerge(TM) (naratriptan hydrochloride) Tablets, a therapy for the acute treatment of migraine, is now available to consumers in the United States by prescription.
STANFORD -- Infants' immune systems are not fully developed at birth, so infections contracted before or during birth are extremely dangerous. But these infections are also hard to diagnose.
Despite living in a society that is increasingly weight and appearance conscious, many American children may be headed toward sedentary, overweight adulthood. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center have found that as the hours of television watched by American children increases, so does their weight.
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When patients with type 2 diabetes took two new medications together, rather than separately, they experienced further improvement in controlling their blood glucose levels, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Yale.
New Orleans, LA--Re-living in your mind a brief, though stressful event--like being cut off on the freeway or insulted by a stranger--not only is unpleasant, it can result in a temporary increase in you blood pressure, even days after the original experience.
With new drugs, ongoing research and prevention programs, an AIDS diagnosis is no longer considered a swift death sentence. This was not the case 17 years ago, when Yale School of Medicine's Peter Selwyn, M.D., M.P.H., found himself in the midst of the AIDS epidemic at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York
A study from Northwestern University Medical School and the HIV Outpatient Study shows that aggressive combination antiretroviral therapy--specifically including protease inhibitors--dramatically reduces death rates and opportunistic infections in HIV-infected patients.
People with lower intelligence before a traumatic experience are more likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, according to the first study to identify a cognitive risk factor for PTSD. Conversely, higher intelligence may protect against the development of PTSD.
A new landmark study suggests that pregnant women should ask their physicians for a prenatal supplement that contains "natural" vitamin E for optimal health insurance.
Baltimore, MD ó A study published today in the March issue of the journal Neurology provides more evidence that the medication Copaxone", the only non-interferon treatment for multiple sclerosis, reduces the number of relapses and slows the progression of disability.
An easily detectable protein may hold the key to more reliably warning women about early cell abnormalities in the cervix before they get life-threatening cancer, a University of California, Irvine researcher reported today.
DALLAS, March 24 -- By lowering blood cholesterol levels by just 10 percent in a population, the result could be a 20 percent reduction in heart attack deaths suggest authors of a study published in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
DALLAS, March 24 -- Major changeable risk factors for heart attack include smoking, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure and physical inactivity. According to a study published in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, high blood levels of the fat triglyceride may need to be added to the list.
1) Weight Gain in Ex-Smokers Impairs Lung Function, 2) Standard Therapy Could Benefit Those with Mild to Moderate Sleep Disorders, 3) Indoor Allergens More Likely to Cause Asthma Than Outdoor Allergens
In the first major twin study to compare genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the risk of alcoholism in both sexes, researchers have found that genetics plays an important role in determining alcohol dependence in women as well as in men. The study contradicts the long-held assumption that a womanÃs environment is more likely to influence whether she becomes dependent on alcohol.
Vascular surgeons at Johns Hopkins are participating in a nationwide test of a procedure that uses 3-D images and a metal-supported cloth tube to repair stretched and weakened abdominal arteries before they burst and kill.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas are offering the first plausible molecular explanation of why the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is more easily transmitted to or from people with syphilis. This knowledge could lead to treatments to slow progression of the disease.
When newborns are exposed to the odor of their own amniotic fluid during the separation period following birth, infant distress can be lessened, according to Vanderbilt University researcher Richard Porter, whose previous studies found that babies locate their mother's nipple by its scent.
Johns Hopkins researchers have identified genetic mutations that appear to cause or contribute to more than half of all non-inherited or sporadic cases of the deadly muscle disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease.
The leather weightlifting belts worn by many people while working out at health clubs may hinder development of back and abdominal muscles and are not needed by most weightlifters, according to a study by Sohail Ahmad, M.D., chief resident physician in orthopedic surgery at Albany Medical Center.
Physicians reporting at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting this week will describe how the Digital Holography System from Voxel (NASDAQ:VOXL) improves the display of trauma and anomalies of the cervical spine.
The cholesterol-lowering effect of soy is the result of natural compounds in the soy known as isoflavones, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researchers reported today at an American Heart Association meeting in Santa Fe, NM. John R. Crouse III, M.D., said the project was the first to dissect the effects of isoflavones in soy from the overall soybean.
Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy markedly reduces the occurrence of atherosclerosis in the internal carotid artery in monkeys, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center research team reported today. Hormone replacement therapy from soy protein with phytoestrogens provided equivalent stroke-prevention benefits to the standard Premarin therapy prepared from mammalian estrogens.
Soy proteins contain "phytoestrogens" -- biochemical cousins of the female hormone that are a possible alternative therapy to protect against artery disease. In a new 3-year study, postmenopausal cynomolgus monkeys were fed an artery disease-causing diet.
Adding more fuel to this ongoing research debate is a new analysis by the Los Angeles Atherosclerosis Study: Data from 577 symptom-free utility workers age 40 to 60 show a "significant" relation between total alcohol intake and fractionally less thickness of the wall of the large carotid artery in the neck -- but only in women.
In a large study involving 12,466 middle-aged African and European Americans, researchers report finding a "strong association" between at least two episodes of angina pectoris (chest pain due to heart disease) and migraine headaches, especially in those who also experience "aura," the visual sensation that can accompany migraine.
Santa Fe, N.M. -- Sex-related differences in an enzyme that breaks down blood fats -- particularly "bad cholesterol" known as LDL -- may explain why men develop heart disease earlier than women, say scientists today at the American Heart Association's epidemiology and prevention conference.
Santa Fe, N.M. -- Genetic make-up may significantly influence how a person responds to a cholesterol-lowering drug, according to researchers who presented their findings at the American Heart Association's epidemiology and prevention conference today.
Santa Fe, N.M. -- As men and women add extra fat over the years, a silent killer -- high blood pressure -- is creeping up along with the numbers on the weight scales, researchers reported today at the American Heart Association's epidemiology and prevention conference.
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