Behavioral support from peers and primary care office staff can help patients improve their blood pressure control by as much as starting a new drug, a new study found. Barbara J. Turner, M.D., M.S.Ed., M.A., M.A.C.P., of UT Medicine San Antonio, is the senior author. The randomized, controlled trial examined ...

SAN ANTONIO (May 21, 2012) Behavioral support from peers and primary care office staff can help patients improve their blood pressure control by as much as starting a new drug, a new study found. Barbara J. Turner, M.D., M.S.Ed., M.A., M.A.C.P., of UT Medicine San Antonio, is the senior ...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) Rather than adding a new medicine for African-American patients whose blood pressure was not well controlled, researchers trained peers and primary care office staff to provide behavioral support to help achieve safer blood pressure. The study found this intervention could improve ...

Children in the United States and Great Britain share a number of common risk factors that increase the likelihood that they will have behavioral problems-and Britain's broader social welfare programs don't appear to mitigate those risks, according to a new study in the June issue of the Journal of Health ...

A drug that has been shown to prevent HIV infection in a significant number of cases must be combined with behavioral approaches if the U.S. health care establishment is to succeed in reducing the spread of the virus, according to the American Psychological Association. "Exclusive reliance on a drug to ...

(American Sociological Association) Children in the United States and Great Britain share a number of common risk factors that increase the likelihood that they will have behavioral problems -- and Britain's broader social welfare programs don't appear to mitigate those risks, according to a new study in the June issue ...

WASHINGTON A drug that has been shown to prevent HIV infection in a significant number of cases must be combined with behavioral approaches if the U.S. health care establishment is to succeed in reducing the spread of the virus, according to the American Psychological Association. "Exclusive ...

Researchers have found that severely obese children respond well to behavioral treatment, but not severely obese adolescents. The study, conducted by Dr. Pernilla Danielsson, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, was presented at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France. The researchers evaluated 643 children who began behavioral obesity treatment ...

(American Psychological Association) A drug that has been shown to prevent HIV infection in a significant number of cases must be combined with behavioral approaches if the US health care establishment is to succeed in reducing the spread of the virus, according to the American Psychological Association.

A new study suggests clinicians might be able to identify children at risk of later emotional or behavioral problems by paying attention to a few key signs during early well-child check-ups. Researchers found that boys with early sleep problems and girls with language and speech delays tended to have more ...

According to a study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, children born after 42 weeks of pregnancy (post-term birth) are more likely to have behavioral and emotional problems, especially Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) problems, in early childhood. Lead author Hanan El Marroun, explained: "Post-term children have a considerably higher ...

THURSDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- Children born after a longer-than-normal pregnancy are at increased risk for behavioral and emotional problems, a new study suggests. The study found that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is an especially common problem among children who were born post-term, defined as birth after a ...