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Tag: "rhythms" at medical news

The alarm clock in you

...arch has shown that people's bodies have their own rhythms which can help them wake at regular times each day, but - says Professor Born - this is the first real evidence of an internal "mechanism which quickly adapts the sleep-wake rhythm to environmental challenges." Fifteen healthy volunteers with an av...

Vasopressin Found To Boost Survival In Sudden Cardiac arrest

... because epinephrine sometimes increases irregular rhythms and decreases oxygen supply to the brain after resuscitation. Researchers studied 1,186 cardiac arrest patients treated in 33 communities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland from 1999 to 2002. After ambulance crews tried defibrillation, half the p...

Stress can Trigger Heart Problems

...rhythm. Researchers studied the variation in heart rhythms while patients were under mental and physical stress. They included patients who were at risk for arrhythmias and healthy patients. For the study, researchers measured mental stress by having patients recall a recent incident that made them angry an...

Circadian Rhythm Could Determine Lung Function

...n the time of day. Researchers say that Circadian rhythms can greatly influence how patients with respiratory conditions respond to certain therapies ,thus by knowing how the respiratory system naturally responds at different times during the day, healthcare providers can adapt treatments and procedures to ...

Epilepsy Patients Could Benefit From Pacemakers

...during seizures among the group. Interrupted heart rhythms during seizures might be responsible for the higher rate of unexplained death seen in epilepsy patients. Treating the condition with a pacemaker could avert many of these deaths say researchers. All of the patients in the study received an implantab...

Drug addiction can be genetical, says study

... group also had more problems with their circadian rhythms when under the influence of cocaine; they were hyperactive with less sleep and exhibited a distinct preference for the location where the drug was administered.The research suggesting the link between lack of sleep and tendency to abuse drugs may ope...

Anger and exercise set off irregular heartbeats

...r and physical activity can trigger abnormal heart rhythms in patients with implantable heart defibrillators. Future therapies looking at anger management techniques and ways to stop responses to physical stress may help patients avoid abnormal heart rhythms....

Timing Of Women's Labor May Determine Effectiveness Of Pain Medication

...s could be due to the impact of natural daily body rhythms // that may influence the effectiveness of spinal...al was to determine if the body's natural internal rhythms can affect the effectiveness of pain medication for laboring women. The study, involved 77 women who...

Taking Music Lesson To Reduce Stress

..., say the authors, while calm is induced by slower rhythms or pauses. The researchers suggest that this could therefore be helpful in heart disease and stroke. Source: Newswise...

Roller-Coasters Isn’t The Perfect Place For Cardiac Patients To Be

...ease could result in heart attack, irregular heart rhythms and possibly sudden cardiac death. Individuals w...f heart attack, cardiac disease or irregular heart rhythms are not ideal candidates for a roller coaster ride. It is generally advisable to consult with your f...

The “Enough Sleep” Project to study mechanism of sleep regulatin

...ning of brain and will help in understanding sleep rhythms and wakefulness which would help in treating sleeping disorders and mental disorders. The project is funded with ￡ 1.4 million for 3 years by the 6th Framework Program. The “Enough sleep” project combines the results obtained from both experimental d...

New Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators to avoid unnecessary shocks

... devise helps to detect small alterations in heart rhythms accurately by scanning the whole heart, which could avoid unnecessary electric shocks to the chest. This new Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs), detects shock waves from the whole part of the heart by working as an Electrocardiogram r...

Disturbance in Serotonin Levels Result in Reduced Gasping In Kids with SIDS

... physiology at Yale University said that breathing rhythms and the ability to gasp are developed in infants in the womb but this study helps in the identification of the cause of SIDS....

Is Music Therapy A Better Option To Treat Parkinson’s Disease

...king out to find about the efficacy of the musical rhythms for treating Parkinson’s disease. // The research ...the Methodist NI, is studying the use of different rhythms to facilitate movement in people with the debilitating disease. “We already know that rhythm can ma...

Alcohol Intake During Pregnancy Is Bad For The Baby’s Hear

...alcohol and their ability to synchronize circadian rhythms was studied. The results of the study were published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. Circadian systems are responsible for coordinating multiple physiological systems with environmental factors. Most of our body processe...

Link Between Solar Flares And Strokes Under Study

...e study of biological cycles such as the circadian rhythms that affect human sleep. Kovac used a time graph...ound tapeworms occurring in seven-year and 12-year rhythms in swine as well as sheep. Another study found abortions among girls occurring in 10-year cycles i...

Long Hours of Sleep Increases the Risk of Parkinson's disease

...says that rotating night shifts disrupts circadian rhythms and may have a wide range of physiologic, psychological and social effects on shift workers. The researchers mainly collected data from the U.S. Nurses' Health Study. He also analyzed the effect of sleep on 84,794 female nurses to study the associati...

Jolt to Quit Smoking

... that are placed within the chest to monitor heart rhythms and deliver electrical charges directly to heart muscle to correct abnormal rhythms. Abnormal rhythms can occur without warning, and some can cause death rapidly if no action is taken. A recent study de...

Chronic Pain And Depression Cured By Music Therapy – Study Find

...le the second music group chose from five relaxing rhythms selected by the researchers. Previously used recordings like piano, jazz and orchestra tapes, were been used this time too. The music groups reported about 12 and 21% of the pain being reduced and also reported 19 - 25% less depression at the end o...

Further Studies Needed To Completely Understand About Ventricular Fibrillation

...ldren. This is a life-threatening disordered heart rhythms that may accompany full cardiac arrest. It is fata...ical care. Previously it was thought that abnormal rhythms during cardiac arrests were uncommon in children but by this study it was revealed that its occurren...

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