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Relationship Between Sleep Apnea And Aggression In Sex Offenders Explored

...ignificantly better post-CPAP treatment, but it is unclear whether this treatment will lead to observational changes in behavior. “The current study shows a potentially important relationship between sleep and aggression, and supports the need for further investigation of sleep disorders and disordered sex...

Pandemic Planning for Hospitals

...a expert from the University of Sydney, said it is unclear how many hospitals have drawn up detailed and comprehensive plans for pandemic or disaster management. Mr Itzwerth and colleagues have put together a checklist of factors that hospitals should consider in planning for an influenza pandemic. "Pa...

Drug Coated Stents Under the Scanner

...ese life threatening blood clots. Yet, it is still unclear if the drug, Plavix, is safe to consume long term for stent patients. According to some doctors, the risk is not always detrimental, because an approximate 5 clots are found in every 1000 drug coated stent patients. An FDA panel is due to meet so...

Creating Memories During Sleep

It is still unclear how the brain actually stores or deletes memories. Several researchers, who study the intricate functioning of the human brain,// feel that the theory of consolidation offers the best explanation. This theory postulates that fresh impressions are sto...

Kids With Higher IQ May Turn Vegetarian At 30

...ome 30, says a new study,// though researchers are unclear about vegetarianism's link to IQ scores. British researchers, including senior research fellow Catharine Gale at England's University of Southampton, studied 8,170 people born in Britain in 1970, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD...

Uric Acid Levels (High-Normal) Associated With Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly

...blems in old age. The researchers say that it's unclear why mild cognitive problems appear with high-normal uric acid because, paradoxically, uric acid also has anti-oxidant properties that are thought to be protective in other situations. The authors are also researching links between uric acid and vascu...

Drug Therapy Offers Little Benefit for Some Patients Undergoing Angioplasty or Stent Procedure

... failure was also similar at day 90. ‘It remains unclear whether other myocardial protection strategies including anti-inflammatory, antiapoptotic [prevention of cell death], or metabolic manipulation might be successful. Whereas a proinflammatory state relates to worse outcomes, and we have previously sho...

Why Immune System Doesn't Attack Small Intestine?

...hology at Harvard Medical School. "But it has been unclear how dendritic cells, which are extremely sensitive to microbial agents such as bacteria, teach T cells to resist attacking healthy intestinal cells." In the new study, Turley and her colleagues found that, in fact, dendritic cells aren't essential ...

Variation in U.S. Healthcare Spending

...owever its influence on total healthcare was still unclear to researchers. The research will be available in the February issue of the journal Health Affairs....

New Computed Imaging Technique Uses Hazy Images to Improve View

...ting clear, three-dimensional images from hazy and unclear data. The technique, named Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy, ISAM is beneficial to optical microscopy, just the same way ‘magnetic resonance imaging’ is to nuclear magnetic resonance, and what computed tomography did for X-ray imaging,...

Stem Cells Passed From Mother to Child Live On and Make Insulin

...y tolerated by the new host. However, it is still unclear as to whether the presence of such cells can be harmful to the recipient. A Bristol team has looked for maternal cells in children with type 1 diabetes, an immune-mediated disorder, and found that around 20 per cent of these children have unusually...

Research Explores Chiropractic's Effect on Diabetes

...Sacro Occipital Technique Organization-USA, "It is unclear how much impact chiropractic care might have on the primary or secondary care of patients with diabetes. Further study is necessary to determine if there is a subset of patients with diabetes that might respond to chiropractic care incorporated in a ...

Symptoms of Depression Associated With Artery Diseases

...opment of coronary artery disease, it is currently unclear whether depression, anxiety and other negative emotions play a role in early disease processes. Jesse C. Stewart, Ph.D., then at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and now at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, and colle...

Growth Factors Given With Chemotherapy may Increase Risk of Blood Diseases

... use of growth factors," the authors write. "It is unclear if the growth factors cause an increased risk or if the requirements for their use cause an increased risk; however, the absolute overall risk appeared to be small, even among the elderly patients we studied. Nevertheless, if further research confirm...

Reading Hidden Intentions in Brain

...in goal-related neural processing, but it has been unclear whether patterns of activity might encode an individual's current intention. The observed goal-related activity might also (or, alternatively) represent other processes, such as preparing for a motor response, accessing memories of past-related respo...

Smoking Increases Risk of HIV Acquisition

... decreased release of cytokines. However, it is unclear how these immunological changes relate to clinical outcomes. Investigators therefore conducted a systematic review of studies, published in journals and presented to recent international AIDS conferences to see if smoking was associated with an incre...

Researchers Discover Key to Body’s Ability to Detect Subtle Temperature Change

... and two cold-sensitive ones. “But, it was still unclear how only six temperature-sensor channels could cover wide ranges of temperature and still discriminate subtle differences,” Zheng said. Using a novel method based on a technique first used by physicists, Zheng and his colleagues now have shown that...

Drug Addicts-you Could Blame Your Genes

...eeking, or impulsivity, are linked but it has been unclear (at least till, now)– which comes first impulsivity or drug addiction. The scientists did a simple test to find out which rats out of a batch of them, were impulsive. The impulsive rats were then introduced to drugs. It was seen, several brain scan...

Couple Therapists Plays Vital Role in Keeping Couples Bond Intact

...that couples therapy can be helpful. However, it’s unclear whether it can transform unhappy relationships into satisfactory ones, and whether the effects last. Improvement is usually maintained for six months, but often there is a relapse after a year or two. Therapists may try different treatment approaches...

Toddler Infected With Rare Side Effect of Smallpox Vaccine

...tificial ventilation and life saving drugs. It's unclear why the father was allowed to have contact with his son, who had a history of eczema, shortly after the vaccination. The skin condition is a well-known risk factor for eczema vaccinatum, and official guidelines warn that people with eczema should a...

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