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Pacemaker Patients Should Be Screened for Sleep Apnea

...rt at a uniform lower pacing rate. Sleep apnea was defined as an apnea hypopnea (abnormally shallow breathing) index of 10 or more an hour. Fifty seven patients (59 percent) had sleep apnea and 21 (21 percent) had severe sleep apnea, Lévy said. Half of the patients with heart failure, 68 percent of patient...

Flies too Have Immune Memory!

...s exposure to pathogens. Because immune memory was defined as nonexistent, no one ever did the experiment to question whether the fly's immune system could adapt. Then graduate student Linh Pham arrived in Schneider's lab. She was interested in pushing the boundaries of the assumptions of the innate immune...

Physical Activity Reduces Hypertension Risk in Young Adults

... 30. Overall, 634 adults developed hypertension, defined as having systolic pressure — the top number — of at least 140 mm Hg or diastolic pressure of at least 90 mm Hg or needing to take antihypertensive medications. But “when we looked at average activity over a long period of time and the change in ph...

Bacterium Could Treat PCBs Without the Need for Dredging

...r the first time we have been able to cultivate in defined media naturally occurring bacteria that can extensively dechlorinate PCBs right at the site of the contamination," said Donna Bedard, professor of biology at Rensselaer and lead author of the paper. "This is a major step toward the development of cos...

Prescribing Off Label Drugs for Children may Be Hazardous

... groups. This study measured off-label use only as defined by age, not by indicated conditions. "With nearly 80 percent of children receiving off-label medications during hospitalizations, we need to focus our attention on the process by which medications are approved for pediatrics," said senior author An...

Body Mass Index may Not Reflect Fat Accurately

...suring the amount of fat in a person's body. It is defined as the individual's body weight divided by the square of their height. Generally, a BMI of 25 or above indicates a person is overweight; 30 or above indicates obesity. A person with a higher BMI is thought to be at a greater risk of heart disease, ...

UN Health Agency, Partners Seek Total Eradication of Polio

...llion children many times each year. The meeting defined specific milestones to monitor whether the collective capacity of all polio eradication stakeholders is being fully harnessed to make concrete and rapid progress. The meeting, convened by WHO Director-General Margaret Chan brought together top repr...

Cloning Ban Built into Stem Cell Research Bill

...ony to engage or assist in human cloning, which is defined as "replication of a human individual by cultivating a cell with genetic material through the egg, embryo, fetal and newborn stages into a new human individual." "It's a backstop against what they're saying the slippery slope is," Kahn said. But ...

Want a Baby? No Hot Baths Please !

... the purposes of this study, wet heat exposure was defined as the immersion of the body in a hot tub, heated Jacuzzi or bath at a temperature warmer than body temperature for 30 minutes or more per week for at least three months prior to participation in the study. Patients were excluded from the study if th...

Learning to Prevent Medical Mistakes in Caring for Stroke Patients

...er Medical Center in Rochester. Adverse events are defined as an injury to a patient occurring during medical...ecessarily because of an error. Medical errors are defined as incorrect actions or plans that may or may not cause harm to a patient. Of the 1,440 stroke pat...

Sexualization Linked to Mental Health Problems in Girls and Women

...f products aimed toward girls. Sexualization was defined by the task force as occurring when a person's value comes only from her/his sexual appeal or behavior, to the exclusion of other characteristics, and when a person is sexually objectified, e.g., made into a thing for another's sexual use. Examples...

New Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Models Developed for Women

...1956 and 1966, investigators in Framingham, Mass., defined age, hypertension (high blood pressure), smoking, diabetes and hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol levels) as major determinants of coronary heart disease and coined the term coronary risk factors," according to background information provided by the au...

Women Wary of Coronary Diseases Get Two More Risk Factors to Worry About

... (hs-CRP). From 1956 through 1966, investigators defined what they named "coronary risk factors” which were, hypertension, smoking, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia and which were then codified into global risk scores. For the present study, around 25,000 previously healthy women were analyzed for these ris...

Genes May Trigger Repeated Premature Birth In Blacks

...ged 33 weeks gestation. Preterm birth is usually defined as delivery at less than 37 weeks of gestation. The new study used 34 weeks gestation as a cut-off to avoid any errors in calculating the due date. The researchers considered 37 weeks gestation to 42 weeks full-term. The study appears today in the...

Man-Made Proteins Could Be More Useful Than Real Ones

...synthetic a-peptides adopted very little or poorly defined tertiary structure, and no one had yet shown that a a-peptide could self-assemble into the kinds of stable bundles of spiral-shaped helices that are characteristic of natural proteins, Schepartz said. In their studies, Schepartz and colleagues syn...

Teens More Likely to Become Victims of Online Harassments

... journals. Online interpersonal victimization is defined as unwanted sexual solicitation or harassment, according to background information in the article. Approximately 9 percent of online youth are targets of harassment and 13 percent are targets of unwanted sexual solicitation each year. These incidents...

Mental Health of Kashmiris Needs Urgent Attention: Survey

...valley over 11 weeks in mid-2005. The survey group defined 1989 as the beginning of the conflict period. I...perienced a range of violence such as crackdowns - defined as the surrounding of houses and all occupants being asked to remain in one room during the search -...

Is Extreme Irritability - a Childhood Bipolar Disorder?

...e researchers maintain that pediatric BD should be defined more broadly to include children with SMD, an asse...ight be inappropriate for a child with classically defined bipolar disorder," he said. Source-Eurekalert SRI...

Managing Early-Onset Menopause

...nset that defines it, premature menopause is often defined as menopause before age 40. There are no more menstrual periods, no ovarian function, and pregnancy is no longer possible. Premature ovarian failure: This is similar to premature menopause, but women can have intermittent, unpredictable ovarian fu...

Remicade Therapy Effective in Treating Severe Psoriasis

...ts (68 percent) met criteria for severe disease as defined by a body surface area (BSA) of at least 20 percent. Out of the 991 patients, 73 percent and 69 percent of study patients had received previous phototherapy or systemic therapy, respectively. At week 10, among patients with severe psoriasis treated w...

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