http://www.upsilonphidelta.org Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:02:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While health experts recommend that people eat more fatty fish, the varieties most Americans buy vary widely in their amount of healthy omega-3 fats, a new study suggests. The American Heart Association (AHA) and other groups recommend that people regularly eat fish, especially fattier varieties such as salmon, trout and mackerel. ... http://www.upsilonphidelta.org/fatty-fish-not-equal-in-good-fats-study/ A new study shows that a substantial minority of men receiving so-called androgen deprivation therapy, or ADT, for prostate cancer experience erectile dysfunction (ED). However, many respond well to ED therapy, doctors from Memphis have found. Men with advanced prostate cancer may be given ADT to stop their production of testosterone, ... http://www.upsilonphidelta.org/ed-from-prostate-cancer-hormone-therapy-treatable/ Older adults may get a needed mood boost from a prescribed antidepressant, but they're also at increased risk for bone fractures, a growing number of studies suggest. In one of the latest reports, Leslie Spangler, a researcher at Group Health, a Seattle-based health plan, found that antidepressant use in postmenopausal women, ... http://www.upsilonphidelta.org/do-antidepressants-make-bones-brittle/ Women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are more likely to have abnormal body fat distribution, especially those with a normal weight, compared with men with RA or women without the disease. Women with RA are also more likely to experience loss of muscle mass -- what doctors call sarcopenia - as well ... http://www.upsilonphidelta.org/body-composition-changes-plague-women-with-ra/ People who are hospitalized for severe heart failure and have been taking beta blockers should be kept on those medications while in the hospital, a new study finds. And if they weren't taking beta blockers already, most of them should be started on the medications when they leave, according to a ... http://www.upsilonphidelta.org/beta-blockers-help-hospitalized-heart-failure-patients/ Baby boomers, take comfort: A new study among older would-be jugglers suggests the aging mind doesn't lose the ability to learn new skills. The finding is based on an analysis of brain scans taken while people aged 50 and up learned the art of juggling. Although they typically picked up the ... http://www.upsilonphidelta.org/aging-brain-can-learn-new-tricks/ Parents may be able to use their lunch hour to learn how to talk with their children about sex, a new study suggests. Researchers found that a program held at 13 California workplaces helped parents learn ways to speak with their adolescent children about sexual health. After eight lunch-hour sessions of ... http://www.upsilonphidelta.org/work-based-program-helps-parents-talk-about-sex/ The widely prescribed blood-thinning drug heparin is associated with an increased risk of serious bleeding in patients who have suffered a cardioembolic stroke, new research shows. But another thinning agent, warfarin, did not seem to have any harmful effects in the same group of patients. This finding led the authors of a ... http://www.upsilonphidelta.org/warfarin-safer-than-heparin-for-some-strokes/ Visual impairment alone does not significantly increase the risk of suicide, but it does seem to do so when it is associated with poor health, according to a report in the Archives of Ophthalmology. The findings suggest that better treatments for the underlying conditions that cause visual impairment, along with factors ... http://www.upsilonphidelta.org/visual-impairment-indirectly-linked-to-suicide/ Three genes may play a strong role in determining why some young men raised in rough neighborhoods or deprived families become violent criminals, while others do not, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. One gene called MAOA that played an especially strong role has been shown in other studies to affect antisocial ... http://www.upsilonphidelta.org/study-finds-genetic-link-to-violence-delinquency/