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1. Trauma, Abuse In Childhood Linked To Shorter Lifespan, Weaker Immune Response Later In Life New research from the US suggests that trauma in childhood such as experiencing abuse or a serious stressful event like losing a parent is linked to a shorter lifespan and weaker immune system later in life, and that the immune impairment even adds to that caused by the stress of caring for a family member […]...
2. Share of Cost Medi-Cal, Alcohol Use May Be A Problem For Older Adults Some people whose drinking habits do not change over the years and decades may find that they develop problems with alcohol when they get older – aging lowers the body’s tolerance for alcohol. A drink now and again as one ages will not usually cause any harm....
3. DeepBrain Study Shows That Thinking About God Reduces Distress – But Only For Believers Thinking about God may make you less upset about making errors, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The researchers measured brain waves for a particular kind of distress-response while participants made mistakes on a test....
4. Autism Families With New Pregnancies Sought For Vitamin D Research Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Pediatrics (OHSU, Portland, Oregon) is seeking roughly 50-100 volunteer families to participate in a vitamin D study. The goal of the study is to find out whether giving Vitamin D to the pregnant mother, who already has had at least one previous child with autism, can prevent the recurrence […]...
5. Sea Lamprey Research Sheds Light On How Stress Hormones Evolved Michigan State University researchers are the first to identify a stress hormone in the sea lamprey, using the 500 million-year-old species as a model to understand the evolution of the endocrine system. Corticosteroid hormones control stress response in animals with backbones, including humans…...
6. Exposure To Parental Stress Increases Pollution-Related Lung Damage In Children Psychosocial stress appears to enhance the lung-damaging effects of traffic-related pollution (TRP) in children, according to new research from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. The results will appear online ahead of the print edition of the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical […]...
7. Computer-based Program May Help Relieve Some ADHD Symptoms In Children An intensive, five-week working memory training program shows promise in relieving some of the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, a new study suggests. Researchers found significant changes for students who completed the program in areas such as attention, ADHD symptoms, planning and organization, initiating tasks, and working memory....
8. Washington DC Share of Cost, Kyrgyzstan: Tension And Violence Continue In The South Washington DC Share of Cost, Kyrgyzstan: Tension And Violence Continue In The South: Five weeks after violent clashes erupted in the south of Kyrgyzstan, and despite an apparent return to a more peaceful situation, doctors, psychologists, and nurses working with the international humanitarian medical organization, Doctors Without Borders/MÃdecins Sans Fronti¨res (MSF) continue to deal with […]...
9. Michigan Share of Cost, National RN Relief Group Teams Up With Navy For Medical Mission To Haiti Michigan Share of Cost, National RN Relief Group Teams Up With Navy For Medical Mission To Haiti: The first team of registered nurse volunteers from California, Michigan, and Washington State will depart for Haiti Wednesday morning with the Department of Defense’s Continuing Promise, National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest organization of registered nurses, announced. […]...
10. Share of Cost, Medicare Doesn’t Work As Well For Younger, Disabled Beneficiaries As It Does For Older Enrollees [Web First] Medicare is not working as well for its eight million disabled beneficiaries under age sixty-five as it is for its older beneficiaries. We report on a 2008 survey that found significant differences between the two Medicare populations, with the younger group experiencing more problems of cost and access. Even with the Medicare Part D prescription […]...
11. Share of Cost, Less Than Half Of Adults Can Equate Alcohol Units To Drinks, UK Share of Cost, Less Than Half Of Adults Can Equate Alcohol Units To Drinks, UK...
12. Share of Cost Case Summary Your Medi-Cal case has been affected by a lawsuit called Sneede v. Kizer.  This lawsuit limits which family members may use medical expenses that are not billed to Medi-Cal to meet their family’s Share of Cost. If you are a spouse or a parent, you have the choice of listing your medical expenses in any […]...
13. A National Autistic Society Response To The Commission On The Funding Of Care And Support, UK The National Autistic Society (NAS) has welcomed the establishment of the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support today, but urged that it must consider how to fund support for those with lifelong conditions, such as autism, who are less able to save and pay for their social care…...
14. Share of Cost, The Number Of U.S. Adults Treated For Diabetes More Than Doubled Between 1996 And 2007 Approximately 19 million U.S. adults reported receiving treatment for diabetes in 2007, more than double the 9 million who said they received care in 1996, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. AHRQ also found that between 1996 and 2007: — The number of people age 65 […]...
15. New Breathing Therapy Reduces Panic And Anxiety By Reversing Hyperventilation New Breathing Therapy Reduces Panic And Anxiety By Reversing Hyperventilation...