Clinical Trial Volunteers Uneasy About Some Financial Ties

They were least surprised when researchers got paid but more upset when they owned stock FRIDAY, April 11 (HealthDay News) -- Many volunteers in clinical studies aren't overly concerned if researchers have financial conflicts, but there is some loss of trust, suggests a U.S. study. ...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

UK authorities are asserting that they are not pressing panic buttons, at least not yet, in the matter of employing overseas doctors or taking in students from countries under the scanner for terrorist networks. All eight people arrested in the aftermath of two bungled car bombings here la...

More U.S. Kids Taking Diabetes, Blood Pressure Drugs

... said. "However, the researchers don't mention patient and parent discomfort. From personal experience, I can tell you that many parents are extremely uneasy with the idea of their son or daughter taking a lipid-lowering medication for the rest of his or her life. The idea that these problems affect childre...

Easing Social Anxiety During the Holidays: Tips from Harvard Women's Health Watch

... Harvard Women's Health Watch . It's perfectly normal to feel nervous about meeting new people or attending parties. But if you feel inordinately uneasy and self-conscious in such everyday social situations, and sometimes find yourself skipping them, you may have social anxiety disorder. The thought of...

Sleep variables affecting school performance are different with each educational level

...ages. Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is when you have a strong urge to move your legs. This urge is very hard to resist. It often comes with other uneasy feelings deep inside the legs. The urge to move the legs grows worse at night and eases in the morning. RLS makes it very hard for you to rest or ...

International health experts to enlist the public in war on African malaria

...Improving collaboration between traditional healers and health workers The relationship between traditional healers and health workers is often an uneasy one. The traditional healer may fear a loss of prestige and patients when health workers come to his village. Medical personnnel, for their part, are ...

Radiation therapy technique reduces length of prostate cancer treatment

...ed with prostate cancer, the thought of undergoing surgery or having to lie on his back and undergo more than 40 radiation treatments left him with an uneasy feeling and a decision to make. The Lewisville resident decided he would not seek treatment for his early-stage prostate cancer. After Mr. Br...

Radiation therapy technique reduces length of prostate cancer treatment

...ed with prostate cancer, the thought of undergoing surgery or having to lie on his back and undergo more than 40 radiation treatments left him with an uneasy feeling and a decision to make. The Lewisville resident decided he would not seek treatment for his early-stage prostate cancer. After Mr. Br...

New study: Pine bark extract reduces ADHD symptoms in children

...he original study. Pycnogenols ability to naturally treat symptoms of ADHD is what makes this extract exceptionally pleasing to parents who may be uneasy about medicating their children with stimulant medications,"said Dr. Peter Rohdewald of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Germanys Universi...

Attitude Determines How Much Exercise is too Much

... over exercising. She says that some people may be exercising too much if they feel that they cannot miss their workout, and feel extremely guilty and uneasy whenever they miss a workout. Despite noticing that instead of helping their body, they are damaging it, if people feel like having to exercise, ...

Uneasy in Medical Dictionary

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Trench mouth

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Pregnancy Complications

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Uneasy in Biological News

On a wing and a prayer - Alaska researchers seek clues to bird flu

... While Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" made many of us uneasy at the sight of amassing gulls years ago, today public health officials around the world are beginning to cast an equally uneasy eye toward migratory birds, especially in Alaska, following recent outbreak...

Uneasy in Biological Technology

Midwest cities in fight over municipal broadband access

.... The "war" people are talking and writing about is between municipalities on one side and telecommunications and (surprise!) cable companies in an uneasy alliance on the other side. They are joined by interested parties on both sides who sometimes voice their arguments even more loudly than the principa...