News tagged with transitions


Hormone replacement therapy—clarity at last

The British Menopause Society and Women's Health Concern have today released updated guidelines on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) to provide clarity around the role of HRT, the benefits and the risks. The new guidelines ...

Cancer created May 24, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As people live longer and reproduce less, natural selection keeps up

In many places around the world, people are living longer and are having fewer children. But that's not all. A study of people living in rural Gambia, published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on Apr ...

Health created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Risk factor for depression can be 'contagious'

A new study with college roommates shows that a particular style of thinking that makes people vulnerable to depression can actually "rub off" on others, increasing their symptoms of depression six months later.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Reading wordless storybooks to toddlers may expose them to richer language, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Waterloo have found that children hear more complex language from parents when they read a storybook with only pictures compared to a picture-vocabulary book. The findings ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Misregulated genes common to tobacco-related cancers offer potential new prognostic tool

Believe it or not, while researchers have explored which genes are mutated in each type of tobacco-associated cancer, until now no one had thought to look across these types for common genes that might predict patient outcomes. ...

Cancer created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New model may pinpoint timing of final menstrual period

For women enduring hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, a new model could better estimate the timing of the final menstrual period, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology created Mar 26, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Map to avoid detours on road to HIV treatment success: Focus on transitions in care may improve outcomes

(Medical Xpress)—Addressing on the challenges that accompany transitions between health care settings could be a key strategy for improving clinical outcomes for people living with HIV, according to researchers from the ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tracking the cell transitions that cause cancer

Researchers think that for cancer to develop, damaged cells have to undergo certain transitions that cause them to spread, or metastasize. Junior Tristan Bepler, a biology and computer science major, is te ...

Cancer created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows psychotropic drug dispensing increases on entry to care homes

A study by Queen's University Belfast has found that the dispensing of psychotropic drugs to older people in Northern Ireland increases on entry to care homes.

Health created Feb 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chronic alcohol and marijuana use during youth can compromise white-matter integrity

Chronic use of alcohol and marijuana during youth is associated with poorer neural structure, function, and metabolism, as well as worsened neurocognitive abilities into later adolescence and adulthood. This may be due to ...

Addiction created Dec 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Common mental disorders, unemployment and psychosocial job quality: Is a poor job better than no job at all?

Employment is usually associated with health benefits over unemployment. However, an article published in Psychological Medicine by a group of researchers from Australia and the UK has shown that having a job with poor p ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HF patients treated by a cardiologist, rather than hospitalist, have fewer readmissions

When a cardiologist attends to heart failure patients, even when the severity of illness is higher, patients have reduced rates of hospital readmissions, compared with those patients who are treated by a hospitalist, according ...

Cardiology created Nov 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cheap, simple bacteria test could spare newborns deadly infections

(Medical Xpress)—For babies, the trip from the womb to the outside world is a transition from a blank, sterile slate to host for what will eventually be trillions of microscopic organisms.

Medical research created Nov 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survey: Clinicians believe EHRs will have positive impact on health care

Survey results released today reveal that an overwhelming majority of clinicians believe that the electronic exchange of health information will have a positive impact on improving the quality of patient care, coordinating ...

Health created Oct 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most discontinue mental health services as they transition to adulthood, researchers find

(Medical Xpress)—A new study by researchers at the Silver School of Social Work has found that among 60 young adults with a history of significant mental health difficulties, few used psychiatric services, medications, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0