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Adult COPD or asthma could be effectively treated with Xopenex

...ex as a viable first-line therapy for hospitalized adult COPD or asthma patients. Lead author of the study, Terrance Truitt said that Xopenex is safe in a hospital setting, and is an effective alternative to racemic albuterol in treating the bronchial smooth muscle spasm associated with diseases such as CO...

Children who used anaesthesia drugs could suffer brain damage

...o adulthood. Researchers tested the month old and adult rats to see how the anaesthesia affected their learning and memory. They also recorded electrical activity in the rats' hippocampus, a brain structure that plays an important role in learning and memory. The rats were tested in several kinds of mazes...

More risks connected with live-donor liver transplants

...octors thought. The study indicated that donors in adult live-donor liver transplants had a 1-in-7 chance of serious complications for the donor. This type of transplant involves giving the donor's right liver lobe, the larger one, to the transplant// recipient. Each lobe grows to the size of a full liver ...

Adult stem cells in treatment for Multiple sclerosis (MS)

Researchers have found that treatment with adult stem cells has cured mice suffering with a form of... mice with stem cells extracted from the brains of adult in the bloodstream or spinal cord. On examination mice showed that the stem cells had migrated to an...

Canadian Youth at risk of heart disease

... are between 15 and 29 years. About 80 per cent of adult Canadians have at least one of the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and about 10 per cent have three risk factors associated with them. Its expected that thousands of Canadians will have premature deaths. Federal Health Minister said health m...

Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses

...dolescents who died was double the total number of adult deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.// In 2000 10.8 million children under five years old died, over half of them from just five preventable communicable diseases and malnutrition. 99% of these deaths are in developing countries. "Thi...

Childhood Sunburn Can Lead to Skin Cancer Later

...er time those cells damaged in childhood become an adult skin cancer," Rigel says. Earlier this year, research conducted at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston was even more specific in pinpointing the dangers to children. According to Dr. Lynda Chin, it may all come down to the recently disc...

Aspirin Lowers Leukemia Risk

...rs to have a more potent protective effect against adult leukemia than non-aspirin NSAIDs. There was no reduction in leukemia risk associated with NSAIDs other than aspirin, contrary to the researchers' expectations. Recent studies have shown aspirin reduces the risk of other cancers and cardiovascular di...

When Man Bites Man

...ween 1990 and 2000. The average victim was a young adult male.// About two-thirds received their bites while incarcerated in a local prison and most occurred during an altercation. The most common site of the bite was the ear, and more than two-thirds of the patients presented with exposed cartilage. Patie...

Diabetes on the Increase but Death Rate Falling

...e the risk of getting it.Patients with type II, or adult onset, diabetes produce too little insulin and too much glucose. It can lead to blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, disability and death....

Nitrous Oxide for Kids

...ze scale. It doesn’t require deep breaths like the adult delivery system, and the masks are sprayed with good-smelling scents. Most importantly, it relieves pain.. It reduces pain in mild to moderate situations when it’s used alone, it is also said to reduce anxiety and memory of the event.. Nitrous oxid...

Better Diet Even Late in Life May Prolong It

...er dietary restriction constantly throughout their adult life," says one of the study's authors, Linda Part...le-aged flies as if they had been on it throughout adult life," says Partridge....

Eat Less ... Exercise Less

...rom moderate to vigorous. More than 200 overweight adult women were included in the study. . Women were randomly assigned to one of four exercise regimens and all were instructed to reduce caloric intake to between 1,200 and 1,500 calories and reduce their dietary fat to between 20 percent and 30 percen...

Weight and Blood Pressure

...een early childhood socio-economic environment and adult obesity could make prevention strategies more effective....

Benefits and Risks of Asthma Treatment Questioned

...th ICS therapy is not substantially different from adult height attained by nonasthmatic children. Conclusions could not be drawn on the effect of ICS therapy on bone thinning in adults or eye problems such as cataracts and glaucoma due to a lack of sufficient medical evidence. Researchers from Thomas Je...

Midlife Brain Activity a Predictor Of Alzheimer’s Diseas

...nd the brain’s natural capacity and the process of adult brain development and becoming ‘wiser’ has this downside that evolution could not anticipate. Researchers say the new brain model suggests the best time to address myelin depletion is when it begins -- middle age. They say by the time Alzheimer’s b...

Insulin Resistance Linked To Difference In Gender

Type 2 diabetes used to be considered an adult disease, but now more children are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.// Research has shown girls are affected more than boys. Now, a new study shows sex-linked genes may explain this difference between girls and boys being diagnosed with type 2 d...

The Reason For Depression in Adolescents

...tween depression and brain size. Choosing to study adult patients may have introduced side effects of long-term illnesses or treatment. Researchers say these conclusions should be considered preliminary, considering the small sample sizes used however they plan to do future experiments with larger numbers...

Hope for Babies Born With Spinal Muscular Atrophy

...n IQ tests. The pathology of SMA is similar to an adult disease called ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. The drug riluzole slows the progression of ALS, and a small study shows it may do the same for babies with SMA. Of the 10 babies in the trial, three received a placebo. All died in the first year. Seven w...

Smoking Linked to Blindness

...d macular degeneration is the most common cause of adult blindness, which results in irreversible loss of central vision. // A recent study shows smokers are up to four-times as likely to become blind later in life from age-related macular degeneration. The study showed quitting smoking slows the developme...

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