Health & Medicine Week articles from March 2001

Health & Medicine Week archives from March 2001

Fiber In The Diet May Protect Against Oral And Throat Cancers.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The on-again/off-again status of dietary fiber as a player in cancer prevention may be on again when it comes to cancers of the mouth, throat, and esophagus. Taking into consideration patients'...

Study To Probe How Genetics And Environment Influence Stress Responses.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Being the main caregiver for a spouse suffering from Alzheimer's disease can be a physically and emotionally draining experience - the slow, unrelenting progression of the disease and its certain...

Uncomplicated Acute Cases Don't Require Antibiotics.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michelle Marble, staff medical writer -- Antibiotics may be prescribed more often than is necessary to treat bronchitis, researchers in the United States say. Bronchitis in otherwise healthy...

Living Near Where Pesticides Are Used May Boost Fetal Death Due To Birth Defects.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Living close to areas where agricultural pesticides are applied may boost the risk of fetal death due to birth defects, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study indicates. ...

Researchers Put Debate On The Web.(genetically modified food)
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Will genetically modified food benefit society, or will it ultimately pose threats to human health, the environment, and the world economy? These questions are debated in scientific circles, but the...

Homeopathic Treatment Provides Effective Relief From Early Symptoms Of Ear Infection.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal suggests that homeopathy is effective in providing symptomatic relief in the treatment of acute otitis media (AOM), a common type of ear...

Heavy Smokers At Increased Risk.(rheumatoid arthritis)
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Heavy smokers are at increased risk of developing the painful joint disease rheumatoid arthritis, finds a study in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. The research also shows that a family history of...

Teens With Emotional And Behavioral Problems More Likely To Smoke.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Teenagers with aggressive tendencies and who suffer from even low levels of depression may be more likely to start smoking, according to the results of the first study to collect information from teens...

Declining Mental Skills Can Catch You Unaware.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As if having recognizable "senior moments" isn't bad enough, now Pennsylvania State University researchers say that we may lose some basic mental skills and not even realize it. In a study of 15...

Antibiotic Use Can Raise Risk For Predisposed Children.(asthma )(asthma and allergies)
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michelle Marble, staff medical writer -- Epidemiologists say the use of antibiotics in predisposed children during their first years of life puts them at higher risk for asthma and allergies. ...

In Utero Exposure To Tobacco Smoke Increases Children's Risk.(asthma)
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers who studied 5,762 school-aged children residing in 12 southern California communities found that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in the womb increased the rate of...

Graded Exercise Can Benefit CFS Patients.(chronic fatigue syndrome)
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Many patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have inaccurate illness beliefs that may perpetuate their condition. A study in the February 15, 2001, issue of the British Medical Journal finds that...

Hypopituitarism Linked To Increased Mortality From Vascular And Respiratory Disease.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patients with impaired function of the pituitary gland have increased death rates associated with vascular and respiratory disease, new study findings reveal. Four previous retrospective studies...

Frequent Religious Attendance May Encourage Better Health Behaviors.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Individuals who attend weekly religious services may be more likely than less-frequent attenders to improve their health behaviors and to maintain already established good health habits, according to a...

Pre- And Post-Operative Health Problems Diminish Quality Of Life.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Swallowing and communication problems that burden patients prior to laryngectomy tend to persist for several months after surgery. University of Sydney experts suggest that long-term social support...

Endotoxin Exposure Causes Wheezing In First Year Of Life.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a study in the February 2001 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, molecules commonly found in house dust can cause babies to wheeze during their first year of life....

Families With Very Low Birth Weight Children Experience More Long-Term Adversity.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Compared with parents of children with normal birth weight who were born at full term, parents of children with birth weights less than 750 grams, reported lower perceptions of parenting competence,...

Home Environment May Hamper Inner-City Children's Development More Than In Utero.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In inner-city children, exposure to cocaine in the womb may not affect later development as much as their home environment. Caregivers and the home environment play a strong role in the development...

Apgar Reaffirmed As Accurate Predictor Of Newborns' Early Survival Rate.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have reaffirmed the value of the nearly 50-year-old Apgar score as a quick and easy predictor of 28-day neonatal survival....

Baboon Studies Suggest Strategies For Coping.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Every summer since the late 1970s, Stanford University physiologist Robert Sapolsky has traveled to Kenya to study the stressful lives of baboons, whose competitive, stratified society resembles our...

Impact of Maternal Behavior Confirmed.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- There is an investigator at McGill University in Montreal who has proven with rat litters in the lab what everybody knows in life: loving and caring mothers make for smart rats and children. "The...

Personality Influences Psychological Adjustment And Recovery.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pre-stroke personality has a greater influence on stroke recovery than the brain injury itself, neurologists report. Some stroke survivors are highly susceptible to emotional changes from the brain...

Sleep-Associated Risk Factors Identified.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sleeping for more than eight hours a night, snoring, and daytime drowsiness were associated with an increased risk for stroke in a recent study. According to a presentation to the American Stroke...

Publication Focuses On Quitting And Smoke-Free Environments.
March 5, 2001... 2001 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The February 2001 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings featured four studies related to tobacco use. Each article shows that people have an overall interest to either quit smoking or have a smoke-free...

Feeling Of Inevitability May Keep Older Women From Getting Screened.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Older women who fear the possibility of becoming ill still forgo recommended routine breast cancer screening unless they feel that they could successfully overcome health problems, according to the...

Over Third Of Diabetic Patients Don't Follow Vision Care Guidelines.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer - A study shows many diabetic patients do not follow vision care guidelines the way they should. Researchers at New York's University Medical Center at Stony...

More American Children And Teens Are Overweight.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The latest findings from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey show that more and more children and teens are overweight, continuing the...

Mild Cognitive Impairment Appears To Be Early Stage Of AD.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that most of the people diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) by the school's Memory and Aging Project (MAP)...

Exposure To Cats Can Induce Tolerance.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Children exposed to cat allergens at home can produce an immune response without developing asthma, report authors of a study in the March 10, 2001, issue of the Lancet. However, in some children,...

Bad Habits, Non-Cholesterol Risk Factors In Youth Linked To Fatty Plaques.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study links "non-lipid" risk factors - obesity, smoking, high blood pressure, and diabetes - to the development of early atherosclerosis in youth with recommended cholesterol levels, according to...

Bone Erosion Can Accompany Allergic Fungal Rhinosinusitis.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- About a fifth of patients with allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS) also experience bone erosion, which can confuse diagnosis, otolaryngologists say. Brian Nussenbaum, MD, and colleagues at the...

Screening Rates Remain Low.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Colorectal cancer screening rates in the United States remain low despite evidence that shows that at least a third of deaths due to colorectal cancer could be prevented if people 50 years and older...

Viagra Passes Initial Safety Test, But More Research Is Needed.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study in the March 15, 2001, British Medical Journal finds no evidence for a higher incidence of fatal heart attack or ischemic heart disease among English men taking sildenafil (Viagra). ...

CDC Reports Levels Of Physical Activity In The 1990s Remained Unchanged.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Three out of four U.S. adults were not physically active enough to obtain health benefits, according to a study by researchers at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion....

Social Deprivation Linked To Increased Risk Of Blindness.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- People with the least material and psychosocial resources seem to be at greatest risk of going blind from glaucoma, University College London researchers say. Their study has important implications...

Follow-Up Care By Phone Helps Reduce Risk Of Relapse Into Serious Depression.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Several brief office visits along with continuing telephone calls or even e-mailed notes can help prevent relapse into depression among patients known to be at risk. A University of Washington...

Young People With Social Anxiety Disorder At Risk For Depressive Disorders.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia, during the teenage years or young adulthood is an important predictor of subsequent depressive disorders. Moreover, the presence of both social...

Purpose Of Putative Vomeronasal Organ: Only The Nose Knows.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in Germany have gone in search of the putative vomeronasal organ in humans. It turns out that the organ is detectable in about two-thirds of us. In other species it supplements the...

Small Amounts Of Alcohol Linked To Accelerated Chronic Disease.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Mayo Clinic study has linked small amounts of alcohol to accelerated pancreatitis. The finding may change physicians' recommendations to their patients with idiopathic non-alcoholic chronic...

Spectrum Of Tumors And Malformations Described In Children.
March 26, 2001... 2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center surgeons have described the range of tongue lesions observed over a nine-year period in their pediatric patients. "This series revealed an interesting spectrum...