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Web-based Asthma Program Improves Disease Management for Black Students

...udents took part in four tailored web-based asthma intervention educational sessions. By contrast, a control group of 152 students had access to generic asthma websites. The web-based program, which the researchers call Puff City, tried to teach the teenagers positive behaviors to help them better manage their ...

Vitamin D Might Prevent Development of Active TB, Study Says

...itamin D. 'What makes this a potentially very good intervention is that it is cheap and easy to administer,' he said, adding that additional clinical trials are needed to confirm the study's findings....

Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy

...gainst prostatectomy," Dr. Vaughan adds. "A simple intervention like this could make that choice a lot easier." Prostatectomy involves the excision of the prostate gland, as well as some adjacent tissue, depending on the extent and aggressiveness of the tumor. "Unfortunately, this can weaken structures that con...

Low-Carb Diet Effective for Teens Trying to Lose Weight

.... Pediatricians are often frustrated in finding an intervention that is feasible and successful in the office setting. A low-carb diet may be one answer. The study was conducted in 25 pediatric offices composed of 47 practitioners in the Cincinnati area. Participants included children between 12 and 18 with a b...

Talking With Families may Help Prevent Childhood Obesity

...lies into three groups: a control group, a minimal intervention and an intensive intervention. The control group r...y a physician or registered dietitian. The minimal intervention group received physician-only counseling and the intensive group received motivational counseling by...

Saliva Helps to Identify Child Victims of Chronic Bullying

...their finding may aid in the early recognition and intervention of long-term psychological effects on youth. 'Bullying is mainly self-reported either by students or observed by teachers,' said JoLynn V. Carney, Associate Professor of Counselor Education. The researchers looked at the hormone cortisol in stu...

New Substance Use Prevention Program Being Developed

...expert systems to develop effective prevention and intervention strategies that will reinforce children's healthy ...ry engaging for the students. If the expert system intervention results in the predicted outcomes, it will be an important breakthrough for school-based multiple ri...

Angioplasty Reduces Long-term Cardiac Risk in Heart Patients With 'silent' Ischemia

...with intensive drug therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI, angioplasty) was more beneficial in reducing the long-term risk of major cardiac events among heart attack survivors with 'silent ischemia', according to a study. Cardiac ischemia is caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle tiss...

Significant Differences in Stroke Prevalence Among U.S. States & Territories - CDC Report

...40-64 years) with risk factor screening, lifestyle intervention strategies and referral services to reduce their risk for stroke....

Bali Bombings Helped Improve Trauma Care

...pace had been violated, Guscott added. The early intervention by mental health nurses proved invaluable for many of the patients. It was seen that in a short period, many changed from providing limited verbal responses to starting to communicate more confidently. The mental health nurses also provided vital, ...

Kalam Stressed the Need for Stem Cell Research to Cure Neuro Disorder

... the portion of the brain and then initiate direct intervention - physiologically or by mathematical methods. The president donated Rs.1 million to the institute for enhancing research and rehabilitation works. Kalam also visited the Manovikas Biomedical Research and Diagnostic Centre and interacted with five...

Yoga Helps to Combat Depression, Anxiety

...he development of an inexpensive, widely available intervention such as yoga that has no side effects but is effective in alleviating the symptoms of disorders associated with low GABA levels has clear public health advantage," added senior author Perry Renshaw, MD, PhD, director of the Brain Imaging Center at Ha...

Drug Treatment Slows Decline in Lung Function in COPD Patients

...(39 vs. 55 milliliters per year). "Until now, no intervention except smoking cessation has been shown to alter the rate of decline in lung function for patients with COPD," says one the study authors, Bartolome R. Celli, M.D., of St. Elizabeths Medical Center in Boston. "This is the first time that pharmacother...

Improved Communication may Help to Accept the Death of Loved Ones With Poise

...ing in 22 ICUs in France. The huge effect of the intervention is surprising, says lead researcher Elie Azoulay, M.D., of Hopital Saint-Louis in Paris. We cannot compare our levels of family symptoms of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome with those from other countries, he noted. We are looki...

14-year-old Killed in School Shooting in Canada

.... Marleen Wong, director of crisis counselling and intervention services for the Los Angeles Unified School District felt that the challenge for counsellors and parents will be to identify those students who are at the greatest risk of psychological trauma. It's called a triage: Those who witnessed the violenc...

Experts to Develop New Weapons Against Food Poisoning

...gulators have stated that they believe that timely intervention is needed at the farm level to supplement the extensive, but not fully effective, controls already in place in food processing. GangaGen has demonstrated in production animal trials that we can isolate and use phages with full regard for safety, and ...

Delivering Baby, the Natural Way.

...oblematic because of three main factors - poverty, intervention and fear. "As long as clean water and reasonable living standards are available - as they are to many women in the west - then the task is to eliminate the other two factors and a natural birth will be as safe as it can be." Britain's Departmen...

Cosmetic Genital Surgery may Be Fuelling Womens Insecurity About Their Bodies

...ry even more. Surgery is an extreme and unproved intervention in this instance, and it should be thought of as the last resort, not the first port of call, they argue. Initiatives involving health agencies, educational bodies, the voluntary sector and the media are needed to help women and girls deal with fee...

Hypnotherapy may Help Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

...otherapy has also been reported to be an effective intervention for IBS in small trials, although a recent review of hypnotherapy trials found insufficient evidence to recommend its widespread use and suggested that this treatment option should be restricted to specialist centres dealing with more severe cases of...

Robotic Surgery May Improve Survival Rate For Prostate Cancer Patients

...e of the pioneers of the technique. Therefore, any intervention or technique to lower positive surgical margins, we think, will translate into a better long-term cure rate. The study demonstrates that even in a high volume center with an established laparoscopic radical prostatectomy program, which has been in...

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