'Study' Tag

• Racial disparities persist in hospice use

  March 10, 2010

  [Story ID: 770]
  Even as medical caregivers try to change practices, racial disparities in hospice care continue, according to a study in the March 8 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

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• Inpatient integrative medicine program can have significant impact on pain: Study

  March 6, 2010

  [Story ID: 706]
  Non-traditional therapies relieve pain among a wide range of hospitalized patients as much as 50 percent, according to a first-of-a-kind study in the Journal of Patient Safety.

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• Study indicates GABA neurotransmitters could play a key role in major depressive disorder

  March 2, 2010

  [Story ID: 655]
  The next advance in treating major depression may relate to a group of brain chemicals that are involved in virtually all our brain activity, according to a study published today in Biological Psychiatry.

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• Study confirms efficacy and tolerability of lacosamide for uncontrolled POS

  February 26, 2010

  [Story ID: 609]
  A recent multi-center study has confirmed earlier study results that 400 mg/day of lacosamide provides a good balance of efficacy and tolerability for patients with uncontrolled partial-onset seizures (POS), and doses of 600mg/day may provide additional benefit for some patients.

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• Study: Single, unhappily married men may have elevated risk of fatal stroke in the coming decades

  February 25, 2010

  [Story ID: 597]
  Single or unhappily married men may have an elevated risk of fatal stroke in the coming decades, according to a large study presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2010.

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• People who are happy and content are less likely to develop heart disease

  February 18, 2010

  [Story ID: 411]
  People who are usually happy, enthusiastic and content are less likely to develop heart disease than those who tend not to be happy, according to a major new study published today (Thursday 18 February).

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• Eczema can lead to behavioral and psychological problems in children

  February 11, 2010

  [Story ID: 316]
  Eczema in early childhood may influence behavior and mental health later in life. This is a key finding of a prospective birth cohort study to which scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum M-nchen contributed.

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• SCI indicates increased risk of declining kidney function in type 2 diabetics

  January 29, 2010

  [Story ID: 91]
  In patients with type 2 diabetes, silent cerebral infarction (SCI)’

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