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Louisiana Residents Warned Against Brown Recluse Spiders

...er bite are intense pain, rigid abdominal muscles, muscle cramping, malaise, sweating, nausea and high blood pressure. If untreated, symptoms usually last 3-5 days. Other experts say that the bite of the brown recluse spider can result in a painful, deep wound that takes a long time to heal. Fatalities ar...

Research Reveals Way to Speed Up Treatment of Deadly Malignant Hyperthermia

...a is a silent, inherited metabolic disorder of the muscle that is triggered by specific inhaled anesthetics ...nt disorder can turn deadly. Treatment with DS, a muscle relaxant that restores a healthy level of calcium in the muscles and reduces high body temperature, ...

UCLA Researchers Discover Link Between Parkinsons and Narcolepsy

...essness and cataplexy, the sudden loss of skeletal muscle tone without loss of consciousness; that is, although the person cannot talk or move, they are otherwise in a state of high alertness, feeling, hearing and remembering everything that is going on around them. In fact, said Siegel, Parkinson's disea...

Debate Focuses on Door-to-balloon Time in Heart Attack Treatment

...er you unblock the coronary artery, the more heart muscle you can salvage." Timothy D. Henry, M.D., FSCAI, has no quarrel with keeping a close eye on the clock when treating heart attack patients, but said a hard-and-fast deadline may be counterproductive in some cases. "Time is important, and we need to ...

Transplanted Heart Goes to a Second Recipient in a Rare Surgery

...prior to each transplantation may damage the heart muscle further. Czer said that the short time the heart spent in the first recipient may have been critical to the success of the retransplantation. With longer periods, there may have been more significant immune issues. The new recipient is now severa...

Quick, Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy

...dder, such as the puboprostatic ligaments, related muscle and other key anatomy," Dr. Tewari explains. "Together, these structures form a kind of sphincter that must remain strong and supported to maintain urinary continence." Numerous attempts have been made to modify prostatectomy and preserve continenc...

Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Checked Through Testosterone Gel

...stosterone is the main male hormone that maintains muscle mass and strength, fat distribution, bone mass, sp...e body, including: * Decreased energy * Reduced muscle mass and strength * Decreased cognitive function * Less sexual interest or potency * Depressed mo...

Sylvester Stallone Admits He Tried to Smuggle Banned Growth Hormone to Australia

...which is advertised as reducing body fat, boosting muscle mass, improving sexual prowess and regenerating ma...he laboratory. It is used, for example, to reverse muscle wasting in AIDS patients. But this has led many athletes to consider using the hormone as a performa...

Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy

...dder, such as the puboprostatic ligaments, related muscle and other key anatomy," Dr. Tewari explains. "Together, these structures form a kind of sphincter that must remain strong and supported to maintain urinary continence." Numerous attempts have been made to modify prostatectomy and preserve continenc...

Ontario Court Awards Compensation To Paralyzed Worker

...nd other neurological syndromes, including flaccid muscle paralysis. In 2002, more than 390 cases of West Nile virus were reported in Ontario, 19 of whom died. The Ontario Ministry of Health notes that only four of those deaths can be "directly attributed" to West Nile. There has been a sharp decline...

Angioplasty Reduces Long-term Cardiac Risk in Heart Patients With 'silent' Ischemia

... is caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle tissue. Silent ischemia can occur without accompanying signs or symptoms of angina (chest pain due to inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart muscle), but can be detected by electrocardiogram (ECG) and other techniques. Silent ischemia has been sh...

'Muscle Noise' may Diagnose Neuromuscular Disease Sans Radiation Exposure

...ute of Oceanography researchers works by measuring muscle noise to reveal a patients condition. Karim Sabr... vibrations produced by his vastus lateralis thigh muscle under different stresses. With the help of this sensor array, the researchers measured the velocit...

Pediatric Cancer Stem Cell Identified

...ssive cancer that arises from a primitive skeletal muscle cell called a "rhabdomyoblast". Depending upon on the histology of the cancerous cells, there are several different subtypes of RMS. Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) is the most common subtype, usually found in children under 15, in the head and nec...

Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle During Adulthood may Delay Old Age Disability

...lower physical activity, contributing to decreased muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness and greater declines in physical performance, she added. The data were adjusted to account for factors such as smoking, education, age, race and level of physical activity at baseline that could have influenced t...

Stimulating the Ankle Can Help Patients With Overactive Bladder

...ss with medication, behavioral therapies or pelvic muscle exercises, but who do not want to undergo surgery." The treatment consists of placing a fine needle, similar to an acupuncture needle, into the skin just above the ankle to access the posterior tibial nerve. A small electrode is then placed on the ...

New DNA Tests Advances Treatment of Lysosomal Storage Diseases

...e skin rash, distended belly, failure to grow, and muscle weakness or decline in motor skills. Type I Gaucher disease was the first genetic disorder that could be treated effectively with enzyme replacement therapy (ERT). Over the past decade, ERT has become available for Fabry disease, Mucopolysaccharido...

Exercise can Slow Down the Aging Process in Elderly People

...ise, particularly resistance training, rejuvenates muscle tissue in healthy senior citizens and hence rever...l dysfunction has something to do with the loss of muscle mass and functional impairment, which is commonly seen in older people. The study, co-led by Buck ...

Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Reverse Heart Failure in Animals

...d at all even when a large percentage of the heart muscle had died. At the same time, other animals with heart cells lacking the gene for the protein couldn't handle the stress of part of the heart dying and went on to develop heart failure. S100A1, part of a larger family of proteins called S100, is prim...

Unique Electrical Stimulation Device to Restore Mobility in Stroke Survivors

...ulation to the peroneal nerve to activate the calf muscle and correct their gait. Doctors at the medical centre have also shown that the device improves walking co-ordination, speed and blood flow, and decreases the effort required in walking. "Our patients have been very enthusiastic about this remarka...

Researcher Studying Disease That Cripples Newborns

... by far the severest form of DM. Because they lack muscle tone, afflicted newborns are floppy like rag dolls. Typically, they suffer from poor sucking and swallowing responses, respiratory ailments and impaired motor development. Twenty-five percent of them die within a month. The outlook for those who surv...

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