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Poor People Worse Off Following Heart Attack

...e and to have other illnesses such as diabetes and peripheral vascular diseases. Researchers first looked at who was more likely to have an angioplasty or coronary bypass surgery and then did a one-year follow-up after the emergency department visit to see whether the patient was still alive. The study is publi...

Reduced Iron in Blood May Help Few Heart Patients

... to a latest study, blood letting in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) is effective if carried out at a young age//. This finding was published in the February issue of Journal of the American Medical Association. Iron deposit in the body is considered a risk factor for developing heart ailments. ...

Parasomnias are Common in Children: Study

... periodic lib movements in sleep, features such as peripheral neuropathy or myelopathy," the authors wrote. According to Mason and Pack, clinicians should be aware that many pediatric parasomnias are benign, self-limited and may not persist into late childhood or adolescence. The bottom line, said the autho...

Does Anti-TNF Therapy Control Ankylosis ?

...sis, stiffness and fusion of bone in the spine and peripheral joints. Ankylosis is an incapacitating condition that ultimately results in loss of spinal mobility and function severely affecting a person's quality of life. Currently, inhibition of tumor necrosis factor á (TNFá) is the most effective strategy f...

Researchers Investigate Gene Linked With Circadian Liver Clock

...eus (SCN) in the brain. "Phase adjustments" in peripheral tissues ensure that each clock follows the same sc... question is whether cyclically expressed genes in peripheral tissues are controlled by local circadian clocks or by systemic cues that are directly or indirectly...

Kalam to Commission India's First Tele-Radiology Network

...mages of patients sent from hospitals in rural and peripheral areas and provide instant consultation. Kalam, who is arriving on a two-day visit to Andhra Pradesh Wednesday night, will commission the network at Tolichowki here. The network has been developed by Kakarla Subbarao Radiological and Imaging Educ...

Stem Cells Passed From Mother to Child Live On and Make Insulin

...significantly higher levels of maternal DNA in the peripheral blood of 94 children and adults with Type 1 diabetes as compared to 54 unaffected siblings and 24 unrelated healthy subjects they studied. Originally, the study of 172 individuals and pancreatic tissue from four males was designed to ask the questi...

Big Brother to the Rescue

...rmond Street Hospital. The second son Nathan had peripheral blood stem cells donated from his mother while the third son Daniel, 10, underwent bone marrow transplant from another donor. Now Nathan’s recovery is so marked that he is fit and healthy enough to be a donor himself, to his little brother, Luke. ...

A New Technology for Safe Tumor Surgery

...n experienced radiologist specializing in advanced peripheral nerve imaging using the 3-Tesla MRI, we have devis... tremendous applications to many patients who have peripheral nerve tumors in more common locations.’ Source-Eurekalrt PRI...

Mitochondrial Protein Maintains Appetite During Fasting

...d energy expenditure. Mitochondrial dysfunction in peripheral tissues such as liver and muscle has been shown to play a critical role in insulin resistance in diabetes. This study indicates that brain mitochondrial dysfunction may also play a critical role in the etiology of obesity and diabetes. Source: Yale ...

Hypertension, Prehypertension in Youngsters Linked With Heart Enlargement

...blood the heart pumps out at each beat), and total peripheral resistance index (a reflection of how constricted peripheral blood vessels are – peripheral constriction causes blood pressure to rise). There was an early preva...

Estrogen Curbs Appetite In Same Way as the Hormone Leptin

...tradiol’s weight reducing effects without altering peripheral tissues such as the breast and ovaries,” said Horvath. Source: Yale Universty SRM...

Glaucoma: Silently Stealing Sight from Millions

... loss from glaucoma. It may begin with the loss of peripheral vision and then advance to a narrow area known as ‘tunnel vision.’ If left untreated, it can lead to total blindness. Sadly, most people don't notice symptoms until they have already lost significant vision and, unfortunately, this loss is irreversib...

Estrogen Curbs Appetite: Research

...tradiol's weight reducing effects without altering peripheral tissues such as the breast and ovaries," said Horvath. Source-Eurekalert SRI...

A ‘Good Samaritan’ to the Aid of Lepes

...r the scars of the disease that destroys the skin, peripheral nerves and mucous membranes, resulting in the loss of fingers, toes and limbs and damage to eyes. Fu Pochu used to work as a nurse at Nam Lang Hospital in Hong Kong. After a leg injury, she was given artificial hipbones in an operation and decided ...

Fluid Displacement From Legs To Neck May Lead To Obstructive Sleep Apnea

...ng states such as heart failure, renal failure and peripheral edema of unknown cause." "Our data show that displacement of a small amount of fluid such as 340 ml, about 12 ounces, from the legs is sufficient to cause a 102 percent increase in airflow resistance of the pharynx in healthy, non-obese subjects," ...

Type 1 Diabetes Linked to Stimuli from Nervous System

...develop the disease. Diabetics often complain of peripheral neuropathy, a disorder characterized by numbness of extremities described by patients as “pins and needles” or burning. This disorder could be the result of the nervous system’s role in the development of the disease, postulated the researchers. S...

Severity of heart failure in elderly can be measured with a seven-point system

...to the heart muscle are hardened and narrowed) peripheral vascular disease (similar to coronary artery disease but involving blood vessels outside of the heart and brain) low sodium in the blood (an indication of neurohormonal imbalance) high urea in the blood (a reflection of poor cardiac output th...

Proteins in lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis

...trachea, and from lower down in the airway, in the peripheral lung, where gas exchange takes place. This lower ...ys and is absent in the gas-exchange tissue of the peripheral lung. · LPLUNC1 is found in both the small airways and in the upper airways· SPLUNC2 is found in the...

Joint Effort: Striking ‘Bone’ Homie with Arthrits

...e synovial joints. This can afflict any joint, but peripheral joints, such as the hands, fingers and toes are more susceptible. RA is known to cause impairment in the functional ability, and can even cause irreversible damage to joints. Excruciating pain is the curse of the severely arthritic, indeed pain ma...

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