Baltimore, MD — Exposure to environmental endocrine disrupters, such as bisphenol A, which mimic estrogen, is associated with adverse health effects. Bisphenol A is commonly found in plastic bottles and plastic food containers. New research from a team including Carnegie’s Daniel Gorelick and Marnie Halpern on the effects of these chemicals on zebrafish shows that embryonic heart valves could be particularly in danger. It is published by Environmental Health Perspectives.(more…)
Ob klassische Fastenkur oder modernes Dinner Cancelling – kalorienreduzierte Ernährung gilt als gesundheitsfördernd. Wissenschaftler am Institut für Biomedizinische Alternsforschung der Universität Innsbruck suchen im Rahmen ihrer Forschungsarbeit Ursachen dafür.
Dass Fasten gesund ist, wussten schon die alten Ägypter und alle Weltreligionen kennen Fastenzeiten in ihrem Jahreskalender. Auch wenn die Hintergründe der reduzierten Kalorienaufnahme damals unbekannt waren, bestätigen neueste Untersuchungen diese alte Volksweisheit. „Tests an Mäusen haben gezeigt, dass sie bei einer 20 – 40-prozentigen Restriktion ihrer Kalorienzufuhr ohne Unterernährung wesentlich länger leben: ihre maximale Lebensspanne erhöht sich dadurch von durchschnittlich 2 ½ Jahren auf vier Jahre“, beschreibt Univ.-Doz. Dr. Werner Zwerschke vom Innsbrucker Institut für Biomedizinische Alternsforschung ein Phänomen, das in der Wissenschaft bereits seit 30 Jahren erforscht wird: die Kalorische Restriktion. (more…)
AUSTIN, Texas — A new study correlating brain activity with how people make decisions suggests that when individuals engage in risky behavior, such as drunk driving or unsafe sex, it’s probably not because their brains’ desire systems are too active, but because their self-control systems are not active enough.
This might have implications for how health experts treat mental illness and addiction or how the legal system assesses a criminal’s likelihood of committing another crime. (more…)
UA anthropologist Susan J. Shaw and UA pharmacist Jeannie Lee have been awarded $1.48 million from the NIH to study medication adherence and health literacy.
UA associate professor of anthropology Susan J. Shaw and UA assistant professor of pharmacy Jeannie Lee have received $1.48 million from the National Institutes of Health to study factors that impact medication adherence among residents in Massachusetts, where state law mandated that nearly every resident receive a minimum level of health care insurance coverage. (more…)
Using a smartphone to cram in more work at night results in less work the next day, indicates new research co-authored by a Michigan State University business scholar.(more…)
ANN ARBOR — Sooner or later, everyone faces decisions about whether or not to have surgery, take a new medication or have a cancer-screening test.
A new University of Michigan study published in Health Expectations explores the costs and benefits patients say are important in making these kinds of medical decisions, and how those costs and benefits explain what they actually decide to do. (more…)
Researchers found specific racial/ethnic differences in discussions of HIV medicine adherence in a newly published analysis of recorded office visits between 45 doctors and nurse practitioners and more than 400 patients.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A lot of evidence shows that a patients’ race or ethnicity is associated with differences in how health care providers communicate with them, the health care they receive, and their health outcomes. In HIV care, a key to those outcomes is whether people take their medications as prescribed. A new study of the doctor-patient dialogue about HIV drug adherence found several specific differences in those conversations depending on patients’ race and ethnicity. (more…)
The third floor of the CMHC houses the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit (CNRU), an inpatient and outpatient research facility. It’s an honor to be asked to start a dialogue with you about what we do on the CNRU. Over the next few months, I’d like to introduce you to the scientists and clinicians and their teams that work on the CNRU. Today I’d like to introduce you to some of the things we do on the 3rd floor.
Just as others in the building, my CNRU colleagues and I come to work to tackle the problems addressed on the other floors of the CMHC: the debilitating symptoms of mental illness including depression, hallucinations, delusions, drug addiction and anxiety to name a few. (more…)
