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New Study Suggests Special Cocoa may Lead to Sustained Improvement in Blood Vessel Function

...ring compounds abundant in freshly harvested cocoa prior to their destruction during the typical processing...avanols that are naturally abundant in fresh cocoa prior to their destruction during typical handling and processing practices. For more than 15 years, Mars'...

Multiple Course of Steroids Protects Preterm Baby’s Lung

...dy was based on infants who received betamethasone prior to birth, and they did not show the same adverse effects as previous studies. "Perhaps these babies didn’t react the same way as in other studies because the timing of brain maturation is different. It could also be because these babies received a ...

New Device Offers Hope to Children With Chest, Spinal Deformities

...correct any spinal problems. The use of the device prior to this surgery actually makes the procedure more “straight forward,” say Farley. About nine months ago, Ariana underwent surgery to implant the VEPTR device. The procedure kept her in the hospital for about a week and in intensive care at Mott for...

Research Improves Kidney Transplant Chances for Sensitized Patients

...n, no matter how long they are on the list. Due to prior transplants, pregnancies or blood transfusions, these patients have developed antibodies that make it very difficult to match them with donor organs. Researchers at Emory University have developed a decision process, based on innovative technology,...

Reactions to 'false-positive' Prostate Cancer Screenings Assessed

... on how the men originally felt about their health prior to screening. In addition, the study focused primarily on Caucasian men. Source-Eurekalert...

Freezing Kidney Tumors Effective and Less Expensive Than Laparoscopy

...If necessary, adjacent structures can be displaced prior to the ablation to minimize collateral damage. Laparoscopy, on the other hand, requires general anesthesia, as well as multiple abdominal incisions to allow access for the surgical instruments. It is also associated with a longer recovery time. “Th...

Want a Baby? No Hot Baths Please !

...minutes or more per week for at least three months prior to participation in the study. Patients were excluded from the study if they had received infertility treatments in the previous year, or if female infertility was a co-existing factor. The only previously published study to examine this link was p...

HIV Tests Offered to Los Angeles Hispanics Insufficient: Study

...itted infection or safe sex to patients during the prior six months. Only 36 percent had offered more than ...d with AIDS tested HIV-positive less than one year prior to their AIDS diagnosis. Thus, the challenge to providers practicing in predominantly Hispanic commu...

Study Examines Negative Reactions to Sexual Assault Victims

...s: ? Questioning the survivor about her behavior prior to or during the assault. Criticizing what she did or how she is coping is also harmful and should be avoided. ? Attempting to distract the survivor (e.g., telling her to get over it or get on with her life). ? Treating the victim differently or ...

Primary Health Care Parishioners of Second Largest HIV Infected Area in US Fail to Offer HIV Tests

...itted infection or safe sex to patients during the prior six months. Only 36 percent had offered more than ...d with AIDS tested HIV-positive less than one year prior to their AIDS diagnosis. Thus, the challenge to providers practicing in predominantly Hispanic commu...

Vitamin D Deficiency Widespread During Pregnancy

...and 2001. Samples of maternal blood were collected prior to 22 weeks pregnancy and again just before delivery, Samples of newborn umbilical cord blood also were tested for 25 hydroxyvitamin D, an indicator of vitamin D status. Finding such a proliferation of vitamin D insufficiency in spite of prenatal mul...

Researchers Develop Resin Beads That Capture Mad Cow Disease Agent From Blood

... places the filtered blood in a separate blood bag prior to infusion into a patient or blood donation recipient. The filter device, to be manufactured under the trade name P-Capt? Filter by MacoPharma, has received CE Mark regulatory approval in Europe. Carbonell and his colleagues are now looking for ...

Simple Solutions to Postpartum Weight Retention

...y white, college-educated women with normal weight prior to pregnancy — a group generally characterized as being at low risk for weight problems. However, the results should encourage pregnant or postpartum women to stay as active as they were pre-pregnancy, Artal said. “Our findings aren’t that you ne...

Inner-ear Volume Study Leads to Higher Surgery Success Rates

...s in the ear. Holes result from either injury or prior ear problems, such as ear tubes. Perforated eardrums can predispose the ear to infection or result in hearing loss. “Until this study, there were no clear guidelines as to when kids should have surgery to patch the holes,” Hassan Ramadan, M.D., pri...

Diesel Exposure Model Reduces Allergy Risk Assessment Errors

...nmental health experts say their research improves prior methods of classifying exposure to diesel exhaust ...etter predict a child’s risk for wheezing. Many prior air pollution studies rely heavily on what are known as proximity (distance) exposure models, which ...

A Combination of Botox and Surgery Cures Migraines

...ed a treatment algorithm that includes using Botox prior to deciding whether to perform surgery. During the past several years, numerous peer-reviewed articles have been published in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery detailing their research efforts and the researchers have presented the technique at prof...

New Imaging Technique Tracks Traffic Patterns of White Blood Cells

...l fluorescence videomicropscopy vastly improves on prior intravital observations of leukocyte behavior in vivo by allowing the near-simultaneous observation of cell surface markers and microdomains.” Researchers explored various mouse models including that of Sickle Cell disease which is a common inherit...

Study to Look at Aspirin as Aid to Conception, Healthy Pregnancy

...of 18 and 40, have had one miscarriage in the year prior to entering the study, wish to become pregnant and are not already pregnant when they start the study. All will take 400 micrograms of folic acid (a B vitamin shown to reduce the chance of certain birth defects if started early) plus either an 80 mil...

Abnormalities in Eye Movements and Attention can Predict Schizophrenia

...ched to their illness.” According to Lezenweger, prior studies started with someone who had the illness a...hreads of work that I had been developing over the prior 15 or 20 years,” he said. “I proposed the study in a way that tied together several methodological a...

Women’s Health Takes the Spotlight in Ma

...en often have different symptoms and warning signs prior to heart attacks. Women are disproportiaetly affected by osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases, and mental health conditions, just to name a few conditions. The Society for Women's Health Research has educational materials available for both health ca...

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