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Unfavourable Lipid-Lipoprotein profiles in older adults has been linked to abdominal visceral fat

According to investigators from the Department of Human Services at the University of Virginia, in persons over 60 years of age, elevated levels of abdominal visceral fat are associated with unfavourable plasma concentrations of lipids and lipoproteins. Abdominal fat was also found to be a primary determinant in the release of growth hormone in these individuals. The investigators assesse...

Environment and Diet Found To Precipitate Asthma

Asthma is found to be more common in developed countries and has increased over the past three decades in many countries. According to a new // study environmental factors and diet may be the reason for higher rates of asthma seen in developed countries, according to a new study. In the study involving more than 10,000 primary-school children from three cities in China, the children from...

Nifedipine Found To Effective For Patients With Angina

Angina pectoris is the most common symptom in patients with plaque build-up in their coronary artery. A recent study shows the heart medication // nifedipine (Adalat or Procardia) may be safe for long-term use as it was found to relieve angina symptoms and prolongs heart-problem-and-procedure-free survival. For the study angina patients from 19 countries randomly received nifedipine gas...

Transfer Of Rabies Virus Possible From Organ Donor To Recipient

In a study published in New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers have reported that rabies encephalitis may be spread from infected organ donor //to organ recipient. There had been report of four organ recipients (kidneys, Liver, and arterial segment) from a common donor dying of rabies encephalitis in US. The researchers conducted reviews of medical records of the donor and rece...

Kidney Donors Health Can Cause Anxiety Among Kidney Recipients

Recipients of kidneys from living people are reluctant to accept kidney donors// unless they are sure that donation will nor cause any harm to donors a stusy form Cardiff University research has shown. Paul Gill, from the School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies recruited 11 kidney donors and their recipients from a regional transplant centre. After interviewing them about...

Kidney transplant donor and recipients need to talk it out

Before a kidney transplant surgical procedure, it helps if the donors// and the recipients sit in front of each other and talk out their queries. In a research by the Cardiff University investigators it had come to light that recipients of kidney often prefer to have a talk with their donors as they feel they would personally like to ensure that donating kidney might not be in any way...

The Link Between Oxidized Phospholipids And Coronary Artery Disease

According to a recent study published for the first time, researchers have made the first causal connection between concentrations of oxidized phospholipids and the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD).// As levels were also closely related to those of Lp(a) lipoprotein, the researchers suggest that that the established ability of the latter to promote atherosclerosis may be partly me...

The ideal composition of intravenous lipid emulsion

The body responds to a diverse range of insults, such as surgery, infection and injury by the activation of a wide range of cell types of the immune system, creating a number of potent cellular actions and mediators.// The inflammatory response, although essential for fighting infection, may damage the host. Its strength depends on pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators, cytokines and lipid...

Negative Impact Of Hepatitis C Infection In Renal Transplant Recipients

Recent research demonstrates that hepatitis C virus infection is a bad prognostic indicator for patient and graft survival duration in renal transplant recipients//. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is reported in 3%-64% of renal allograft recipients; the prevalence depends on the geographic area. Infections are the commonest cause of death in renal transplant recipients. Researchers...

Medical Breakthrough - Kidney Transplant Recipient Survives Without Drugs

In what can be called a medical breakthrough, a Singaporean, who had a bone marrow transplant in July last year, survived a recent kidney transplant operation without taking drugs to prevent rejection//. Koh Hock Heng, 43, was diagnosed with kidney failure four years ago. Two years later, doctors discovered he also had a stem cell disease called myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Accordi...

Patients with HIV-1 can predict plasma lipids level based on race

It is a known fact that your race has a profound effect on your health status. Confirming that study is a research held at University of Massachusetts// and Pennsylvania which shows that race/ethnicity is a predictor of plasma lipids in patients with HIV-1 on HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy). The study was conducted on 626 patients participating in several ongoing AIDS Cli...

TNF Protein Can Predict GVHD Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients

The outcome of bone marrow transplant could be determined in just one week by measuring levels of a protein called tumor necrosis factor (TNF). // The inflammatory marker can help doctors identify which patients will develop graft vs. host disease (GVHD), the most commonly observed complication following the surgery. The early identification of related complication can enable the atte...

Kidney Transplant Recipients Tardy In Taking Vital Medications

Waiting for a kidney transplant is agonizing, but taking the medications for preventing a transplant rejection more so. But it has emerged that more than 25 out of 100 transplant patients do not take their medications.// Now, a nursing researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia is studying the pattern of missing does and is trying to work on intervention methods. Cindy Russell,...

Bad Gossiping Can Have A Positive Side

Dirty Gossiping among friends can have a pleasant positive side too, a study now reports. Bad gossip or sharing negative attitudes about others,// the study says that it may create or increase intimacy between two people. In the study, published in the June issue of the journal Personal Relationships, researchers have found that the negative attitudes that are frequently shared among fr...

Bush Administration to Exempt Medicaid Recipients on Proof of Citizenship

The White House has declared on Thursday that it would exempt the millions of vulnerable Medicaid recipients from the new law which requires them to give proof of their citizenship// by showing passports, birth certificates or other documents. This move was mainly seen as an attempt to pre-empt a ruling by a federal judge who is scheduled to hold a hearing on Friday on a lawsuit challen...

Low Dose Anti Rejection Protocol Helps Intestinal Transplant Recipients

Rakesh Sindhi, a surgeon and a researcher at the children hospital of Pittsburgh is planning to present how the new low dose anti rejection protocol //has appreciably improved the outcomes of the intestinal transplant recipients. Research performed by Rakesh Sindhi, MD, Co-Director of Pediatric Transplantation, and associates at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, shows that the new prot...

Pakistani Child is India's Youngest Liver Transplant Recipient

A one-year-old Pakistani boy has undergone a successful liver transplant in a New Delhi hospital, becoming the youngest ever such recipient in India// , said doctors here Wednesday. Shreyar, who is from Karachi, underwent the over eight-hour-long liver transplant surgery on June 19 at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here. He was discharged on July 21, doctors at the private hospital said. <...

Visual impairment risk in preterm infants with reduced occipital brain volumes

According to a study published in the August 2006 issue of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS), low weight babies with smaller occipital regional volumes// are at higher risk for impaired visual function in early childhood. A study was conducted in New Zealand on 68 infants born between 23rd and 33rd weeks of gestation. Magnetic resonance imaging was done in all the in...

Lipitor Reduces Risk of Major Cardiovascular Events

Lipitor could help in controlling heart disease, and other major cardiovascular risk factors, which are commonly called as ‘Metabolic Syndrome’. // According to the new study that has been published today on the Lancet's Web site, larger doses of Lipitor, the cholesterol-lowering drug of Pfizer further might lower the so-called ‘bad’ cholesterol and prevent serious heart or circulatory...

Women Given Liver Transplants Outlive Male Recipients

Female liver transplant recipients outlive men given the same procedure by an average of 4.5 years, suggests research published ahead of print in Gut. // And while younger people tend to live longest of all, they also stand to lose more years of their life compared with those who have not had liver transplants, the research shows. The research team assessed the life expect...

Neo-Natal Intensive Care Ordered to Shut Down in Phillipines

An order to shut down the neo-natal intensive care unit of the Rizal Medical Center in the province of Rizal with immediate //effect was passed by the Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque III following reports of the death of seven new born babies. The unfortunate deaths of all the 7 babies have been certified by the hospital to have occurred due to uncontrolled bacterial infec...

Diabetes on the Rise among Filipinos

The health indicator statistics of the Department of Health (DOH) has found that diabetes is the ninth leading cause of death// in the Philippines, affecting 1 out of 25 Filipinos. An estimated 3.36 million Filipinos are affected by the disease today. This number is is expected to rise to about 8 million in about 20 years. Dr. Rosa Allyn Sy, president of the Philippine Society of Endo...

Lethal dose of cosmetic injections paralyzed recipients

In a shocking incident 2 years ago, four persons had to be hospitalized following cosmetic injections.// They received injections in the face with an cosmetic product that was unlicensed. The injection contained botulism toxin A, which was 40 times greater than the lethal dose for humans, reported by The Journal of the American Medical Association. The weakened form of the same toxin, b...

Chinese Red Yeast Rice Lowers Lipid Levels

Chinese red yeast rice (RYR) is known to contain several ingredients with medicinal properties. One of them is lovastatin, and several trials have confirmed// its possible lipid-lowering effects. This analysis was conducted to assess the effectiveness and safety of RYR extract in changing lipid levels in people with primary hyperlipidemia. In this study, 93 randomized con...

Stem cell transplant recipients face significant risk of second cancer

A new study has highlighted that patients who receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), face a considerable risk of developing a second cancer, especially// if they are older during the time of the transplant or have received stem cells from a female donor. A peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study shows that within a decade of an allogeneic HSCT, t...

Filipinos Hospitalized After Inhaling Toxic Fumes

Around 60 people were hospitalised Tuesday after inhaling hazardous chemicals dumped into a stream just outside the Philippine capital, said a police //official said. About 3,000 residents from five villages in Marilao town in Bulacan province have been temporarily evacuated to prevent them from inhaling the fumes, said Superintendent Edwin Aquilates. The victims vomited...

Kidney Transplant Recipients Can Do Away With Steroids

Daily steroids form a major part of anti-rejection medications for kidney transplant recipients. It is well known that long-term steroid use has significant side// effects. Long-term steroid use is associated with bone disease, obesity and slow growth rate in pediatric patients. Therefore, much effort has been made toward decreasing, withdrawing or completely avoiding the use of stero...

Once-Diabetic Heart/Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Recipient Enjoys Life (And Eating Again)

At holiday dinners this year, Calabasas, Calif., resident Jim Stavis, 52, was able to eat the same pumpkin pie and special desserts everyone else had//, not the sugar-free variety. And when dinner was over, he didn’t have to reach for his insulin pump to try to compensate. A pancreas transplant performed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in late October cured him of diabetes, which had contr...

Lipid Plays Big Role in Embryonic Development

A little-known lipid plays a big role in helping us grow from a hollow sphere of stem cells// into human beings, researchers have found. They found that in the first few days of life, ceramide helps stem cells line up to form the primitive ectoderm from which embryonic tissues develop, says Dr. Erhard Bieberich, biochemist at the Medical College of Georgia. Probably 90 per...

Filipino Children Brush Teeth in Bid to Break World Record

Manila: More than 41,000 Filipino schoolchildren on Wednesday brushed their teeth simultaneously in three cities in the Philippines// in a bid to break a world record, organisers said. A total of 41,038 children gathered in open parks in Manila, the central city of Cebu and the southern city of Davao to make the bid successful. Organisers said the bid broke Britain's curre...

75 Filipinos Afflicted With TB Die Everyday

The World Vision Foundation, Incorporated (WVFI), a Geneva-funded organization, appropriated $4.6 million dollars to fight the menace// of tuberculosis (TB) in at least 22 countries in the world, including the Philippines, for a period of five years. WVFI national project manager Marlon Villanueva made the announcement during the launching on Thursday of Social Mobilization on Tuberc...

Wiping Out Memories Selectively, is Possible Now

It could be possible to wipe out memories selectively from the human brain. Researchers are now emboldened on this front, as they have been able// to wipe out a single specific memory from brains of rats using a drug, leaving all other recollections intact. If that experiment can be successfully replicated in the case of human beings, it could be possible to help relieve sufferers of...

Forsyth Scientists Wiping Out Tooth Decay Through School-based Cavities Prevention Program

Today, during the 85th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research, Forsyth Institute scientists are reporting that they have developed an effective program for eliminating cavities. //This program, called ForsythKids, is an innovative school-based cavity prevention program, which provides elementary school children with oral health education, dental exams, cleani...

New Therapy for Lipid Disorder Demonstrates Varied Results

Preliminary research suggests that use of a novel, potent drug to treat cholesterol disorders decreases triglycerides and increases// HDL-C, the 'good' cholesterol, but also raises some safety concerns, according to a study. Several different classes of drugs are used to treat lipid disorders. Fibrates reduce the liver's production of a triglyceride-carrying particle and speed up rem...

Mylan Wins Its Amlodipine Case With Pfizer

PITTSBURGH, Mylan Laboratories Inc. (NYSE: MYL) today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today granted its motion for a reversal of the district court judgment in its patent infringement litigation with Pfizer concerning amlodipine besylate. On February 22, 2007, the district court for the Western District of Pennsylvania had ruled in favor of Pfizer a...

Transplanted Heart Goes to a Second Recipient in a Rare Surgery

Surgeons at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have reported that they have successfully removed a transplanted heart from a patient who had died and retransplanted it in another recipient. To my knowledge, this is the first time this has been done with a transplanted heart, said Dr. Lawrence S. C. Czer, medical director of the centers heart transplant program. Even with o...

Filipino Mothers Go Bare Protesting Against Milk Formula Companies

A group of Filipino women exposed themselves outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday in support of breastfeeding as milk formula companies launched a legal challenge against advertising restrictions . The 21 women, aged between 37 and 72, said they had all raised healthy children on natural breast milk. They unbuttoned their blouses to reveal hand-painted slogans across their breasts....

Protein That Absorbs Lipids may Provide Future Weight-loss Strategies

A study conducted by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has led to the identification of a protein that absorbs lipids in the upper part of the intestine, raising hopes that it may provide a novel approach for obesity treatment in the future. Principal investigator Dr. Nada A. Abumrad, the Dr. Robert C. Atkins Professor of Medicine and Obesity Res...