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Research may Yield Improved Treatment for Diseased Lungs

...rtery biomechanics that could play a role in heart failure in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Patients who have the disease may have narrowed, thickened pulmonary arteries in which scar tissue accumulates, blood flow is blocked and tiny blood clots form. There are treatments, but no cure, f...

Watch Out for Signs of Autism in Babies!

...ng school. The authors say warning signs include failure to: focus on sights and sounds by 2 months. initiate joyful behavior with parents by 4 months. exchange smiles and sounds with parents by 8 to 9 months. take a parent's hand to find a toy and point to objects by 12 to 16 months. Last year, ...

Doctors Strike Paralysed Health Services in Bihar

...undreds of doctors went on a strike to protest the failure of the police in rescuing two abducted school stu..., went on a two-day strike Thursday to protest the failure of the police in rescuing Saurav, 12 and Gaurav, 12. Both the boys are student of DAV school at Bara...

Online Education Program Better Source of Information for Patients

...ery disease (CAD), atrial fibrillation (AF), heart failure (HF), high cholesterol or hypertension who registered to use Heart Profilers were invited to answer an Internet questionnaire. Their responses were compared with a randomly selected control group who had not used the Heart Profilers. "Patients who ...

Cultural Bias Against Women Hampering Fight Against AIDS in Africa

...iminatory beliefs linked to sexual risk taking and failure of traditional and government leaders to promote the equality, autonomy, and economic independence of women. The group recommended both African governments end discrimination against women in marriage, inheritance, property and employment laws, as ...

TB Patients in Marginalised Groups Need Social Support for Effective Medical Treatment

...quality and overcrowded housing, homelessness, the failure of TB control in institutionalised populations and lifestyle factors related to drug misuse have all played a role. "Models of care that can cater for both the social and medical needs of patients are an essential, but often neglected, aspect of TB...

Heart-Assist Device Gives Culver City Man a Good Quality of Life

...ion therapy, permanent support for end-stage heart failure patients who are not eligible for heart transplantation. Heiner, 57, a former prop man in the entertainment industry, has a history of cardiomyopathy, in which the heart becomes enlarged and less efficient. He also was diagnosed in 1999 with non-Ho...

More Than 270 Medicines in Testing for Heart Disease and Stroke

...ociation found that death rates and rates of heart failure in hospitalized heart attack patients were cut nearly in half since 1996, probably due to better treatments like new cholesterol-lowering drugs and blood thinners, and angioplasty.' The report notes that according to the National Center for Health ...

New Strategy To Tackle Rheumatic Heart Disease

...imary prevention of ARF and RHD . . . reflects the failure to provide Indigenous communities with the appropriate type and level of housing and environmental conditions that all Australians should expect....

Long-term Use of Herceptin Does Not Increase Heart Failure in Patients

...n Chicago states that the risk of congestive heart failure in women treated with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and ... will help oncologists to assess the risk of heart failure in individual breast cancer patients before treatment with Herceptin and chemotherapy. These finding...

Stem Cell Therapy Could Provide Cure for AMD in Five Years

...l on the normal functioning of these cells, and so failure of these cells leads to progressive loss of vision. In addition, the disease often provokes a scarring process at the back of the eye leading to the formation of new blood vessels within the retina which subsequently leak fluid resulting in exudat...

Metabolic Syndrome may Be Associated With Heart Function

...on. The results indicated that symptomatic heart failure and severe cardiac structural and functional abnormalities rise progressively with increasing degree of metabolic syndrome, regardless of symptoms. This association was independent of the 10-year predicted risk of coronary heart disease by Framingham...

Low Serum Potassium Levels Linked to Increased Death Risk in Heart Patients

...s of normal serum potassium in patients with heart failure to increased risk of death. The study was conduc...vestigation Group, a large clinical trial of heart failure patients conducted in 302 centres in the United States and Canada from 1991-1993. Researchers fou...

Dire Future Predicted for Europe's 4 Seas

... was likely to affect fisheries, though success or failure was currently clearly tied to the total allowable catch set through the Common Fisheries Policy, Prof. Mee said. As such, unless European countries took urgent action to prevent further damage from current and emerging patterns of development, the ...

Understanding and Treating Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

...ongenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), results from failure of normal diaphragm formation which in turn allows abdominal organs to migrate into the chest cavity. Abnormal lung development, so-called pulmonary hypoplasia, frequently co-occurs with CDH, and in fact is the major predictor of morbidity and mortal...

Research Shows How Women Deal With the Stress When Trying for a Baby!

...dvice. While they may be extremely stressed at the failure to conceive they try very hard not to show it and dont even confide their worries to their partner. The decisives occupy the middle ground between the two other types and when they have decided to face up to the facts whatever they may be they ar...

Aerobics Turn Enlarged Heart into a Trimmer, More Efficient Organ

...y . The study showed that when patients with heart failure did aerobic exercise several times a week, the ove...he total direct and indirect costs linked to heart failure exceed 33 billion dollars annually. In most cases, heart failure is the result of years of high bloo...

Boffins Identify Fifth Gene Behind Joubert Syndrome

...ophthisis, the most common genetic cause of kidney failure in children. All these conditions share disruptions in the protein networks of cilia. The study also exemplifies the power of international collaborative research, an increasingly important trend in biomedical discoveries....

HIV Drug Resistance can Be Identified by Genome Sequencing

...low abundant resistant variants and to predict the failure of antiretroviral therapy. <br454 Sequencing ...ent at the one percent level can lead to premature failure of therapy, said Kozal. It is our hope that in the future, clinicians can use this knowledge to bett...

New Hypertension Drug Wins FDA Approval

...strain on the heart that eventually leads to heart failure and death. The disease affects about 100,000 Ameri... It can cause severe shortness of breath and heart failure and, if untreated, leads to death in about three years, Gilead said. The approval of Letairis is ...

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