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Study indicates different treatment may be needed for infection-related breathing problems
01-31-2007 · EurekAlert!New research suggests that different treatments may be needed for chronic asthma, depending on whether it results from allergies or lung infections.
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- Study indicates different treatment may be needed for infection-related breathing problems
01-31-2007 · UT Southwestern Medical Center
New research suggests that different treatments may be needed for chronic asthma, depending on whether it results from allergies or lung infections.
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- Drugs used to fight cancer-related bone problems boost odds of jaw- or face-bone disease
06-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Treatment with intravenous bisphosphonates -- drugs used to reduce harm done to bones by cancer or cancer therapy -- increases the risk of jaw or facial bone disease or infection, a large-scale comparative study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) has found.
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- Creative and noncreative problem solvers exhibit different patterns of brain activity, study reveals
01-29-2008 · EurekAlert!
Why do some people solve problems more creatively than others? Are people who think creatively somehow different from those who tend to think in a more methodical fashion? A new study led by John Kounios, professor of psychology at Drexel University, and Mark Jung-Beeman of Northwestern University addresses these questions by comparing the brain activity of creative and noncreative problem solvers.
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- Treatment discovered for deadly childhood disease
12-06-2006 · EurekAlert!
Researchers have discovered that a treatment involving enzyme replacement therapy dramatically reduces the risk of death in children with Pompe disease, a rare genetic disorder in which most children die before their first birthday. The disorder causes profound muscle weakness and heart and breathing problems and affects as many as one in 40,000 births. The study is published in the online edition of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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- Longer treatment benefits sleep apnea patients
06-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
Adults with obstructive sleep apnea benefit significantly from longer nightly use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a device to improve breathing during sleep, according to a new study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. This is the first study to identify the nightly duration of CPAP use needed to gain maximum benefit for daytime alertness and functioning.
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- High-quality adolescent friendships may come at a cost for youth with shared deviant values
09-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
This study found that the quality of interactions in adolescent peer relationships (such as good eye contact and responsiveness), is related to incidences of problem behavior. Three groups of adolescents representing different histories of problem behavior were observed for this study. Adolescents who had high quality interactions with peers but who also spent a lot of time talking about deviant topics, had higher levels of problem behavior.
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- African-American and Hispanic alcohol abusers need more residential alcohol treatment
10-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
In the US, minority-group drinkers are more likely to develop alcohol-related dependence problems but less likely to receive treatment. New findings indicate that racial disparities in treatment completion could be reduced by increasing enrollment in residential alcohol treatment for African-American and Hispanic alcohol abusers.
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- Girls will be girls longer when home life is stable
11-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
A study from the University of Arizona and the University of Wisconsin indicates that girls who come from supportive homes with stable parents are more apt to experience puberty later and avoid a host of related health problems associated with early puberty.
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- More attention needed to conflicts presented by institutional relationships
02-12-2008 · EurekAlert!
A new study indicates that many US medical schools do not have policies that govern conflicts of interest related to financial interests the institutions have with public or private companies. The report finds that, while about 70 percent of responding medical schools have policies related to the financial interests of key institutional officials, only about than a third have policies addressing the interests held by the institution itself.
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- Bisphosphonate treatment is associated with jaw bone problems
06-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Patients treated with intravenous bisphosphonates are at an increased risk of jaw or facial bone deterioration or infection, according to a study published online June 26 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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