Think memory worsens with age? Then yours probably will

Thinking your memory will get worse as you get older may actually be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that senior citizens who think older people should perform poorly on tests of memory actually score much worse than seniors who do not buy in t...

Swallowing-Breathing Dysfunction Worsens Lung Disorder

Timing of each altered in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, study finds THURSDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) -- A disrupted breathing-swallowing pattern may explain why people with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at increased risk for...

As Obama Urges Emergency Action on Zimbabwe, Health Crisis Worsens

When Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) released its emergency report on Jan. 13 detailing Zimbabwe's health system collapse the reported cholera death toll soared past 2,000. The number currently exceeds 3,000, according to the World Health Organization. PHR is calling on the Obama administration...

The American Red Cross Sends Aid as Humanitarian Situation Worsens in Gaza

Ten days into the conflict, medical supplies remain most urgent need WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Red Cross is contributing $250,000 to support the ongoing work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to address the growing humanitarian needs fro...

New Research Shows Chronic Stress Worsens Neurodegenerative and Inflammatory Illnesses

TORRANCE, Calif., July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at the 115th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA), reported that chronic stress can intensify inflammation and increase a person's risk for developing central nervous system infections, neurodegenerative disease...

Kidney disease worsens in a fourth of African-Americans despite therapy for hypertension

The best available treatment for chronic kidney disease from high blood pressure did not keep the disease from substantially worsening in about a fourth of African-Americans studied, according to long-term results of a National Institutes of Health study published April 28, 2008, in the Archives o...

Obesity worsens impact of asthma

Obesity can worsen the impact of asthma and may also mask its severity in standard tests, according to researchers in New Zealand, who studied lung function in asthmatic women with a range of body mass indexes (BMIs). This is the first prospective study to reveal a significant comparative differ...

Sea salt worsens coastal air pollution: study

Air pollution in the worlds busiest ports and shipping regions may be markedly worse than previously suspected, according to a new study showing that industrial and shipping pollution is exacerbated when it combines with sunshine and salty sea air. In a paper published in this weeks advance onl...

Impaired fat-burning gene worsens diabetes

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have in collaboration with researchers from Finland, China, Japan and the US discovered new cellular mechanisms that lead to in insulin resistance in people with diabetes. The results are published in the scientific journal Cell. ...

Secondhand Smoke Worsens Lung Function in Cystic Fibrosis Patients

No safe level for sufferers, especially those with genetic variant, study says TUESDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to secondhand smoke worsens lung function in people with cystic fibrosis (CF), especially those with certain genetic variations, say U.S. researchers. "Despit...

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Kaiser Permanente - Group Health Study Shows Depression Worsens HIV Treatment

OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest study to examine the effect of depression on HIV treatment found that depression significantly worsens a patient's adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy and clinical measures, but that effective antidepressant medication can reve...

FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Approval of Multaq(R) (dronedarone)

...amatically (two-to-three fold) in recent years in the U.S. Atrial fibrillation is a complex disease that increases the risk of stroke up to five-fold, worsens the prognosis of patients with cardiovascular risk factors, and doubles the risk of mortality. There are approximately 2.5 million Americans and 4.5 m...

New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Results From the Landmark ATHENA Trial with Multaq(R) (dronedarone) in Atrial Fibrillation

...cally (two-to-three fold) in recent years in the US(1). Atrial fibrillation is a complex disease that increases the risk of stroke up to five-fold(3), worsens the prognosis of patients with cardiovascular risk factors(4) and that doubles the risk of mortality(5). The authors' findings, as reported in th...

Soft Contact Lenses Do Not Lead to 'Myopic Creep' in Children, Study Shows

...children in the United States, but is much higher in some other countries such as Singapore and China. It typically develops around 8 years of age and worsens until age 15 or 16. A nearsighted child has difficulty seeing objects clearly at a distance, like a blackboard, but can see clearly up-close, such as ...

American Heart Association Scientific Statement: Heart Patients Should Be Screened, Treated for Depression

...There is no direct evidence yet that treating depression improves coronary heart disease outcomes, but plenty of evidence shows that having depression worsens those outcomes. By understanding the prevalence of depression and learning more about the subgroups of heart patients at particular risk of depression...

Fovea Pharmaceuticals Receives Orphan Drug Designation from EC for RdCVF for the Treatment of Retinitis Pigmentosa

...progresses, the cone photoreceptors degenerate also and their loss is responsible of a narrowing of the peripheral field of vision which progressively worsens to become "tunnel-like". During the last phase of the disease, the central vision can decrease until the patient becomes blind. RP usually appears i...

New Study of Concerta(R) Showed Significant Improvement of ADHD Symptom Management in Adults Compared to Placebo

...ld develops abnormal thinking or hallucinations, abnormal, extreme moods and/or excessive activity, or if aggressive behavior or hostility develops or worsens while taking CONCERTA(R), consult your health care professional. The most common adverse events reported in children receiving up to 54 mg were headac...

Study Suggests Invega Helps Patients With Schizophrenia Maintain Symptom Control

...dverse event is defined as any event not present prior to the initiation of the treatments or any event already present that worsens in intensity or frequency following exposure to the treatments. CONTACT: Media - Ambre Morley, +1-609-730-3429, +1-908-507-0160...

Newly Published Study Reveals Femara Improves Chances for Harder to Treat Early Breast Cancer Relapse in Postmenopausal Women

...stmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive early breast cancer. This is particularly good news since we know that this type of recurrence significantly worsens the prognosis for these women," said Dr Andrew Wardley, study investigator and consultant medical oncologist at the Christie Hospital, Manchester, and...

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Pinkeye

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Pink eye

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Numbness and tingling

...can occur anywhere in your ... Numbness or tingling is in your legs and worsens when you walk. You have a rash ... More about Numbness and Tingl...can occur anywhere in your ... Numbness or tingling is in your legs and worsens when you walk. You have a rash ... Numbness and tingling are de...

Heart failure

...ms, treatments, complications, medications, ... Find out what happens when someone develops heart failure . ... Heart failure continues and worsens until these substitute processes no longer work. ... Fact sheet about congestive heart failure , the cardiovascular condition in which the h...

Dyshidrotic eczema

...vesicular hand eczema ). Authoritative facts about the skin from the New Zealand Dermatological Society. A common type of hand eczema , it worsens in warm weather. ... Dyshidrotic Eczema is a very itchy form of Eczema with lots of fluid filled ... Pompholyx, also known as dyshidrotic ...

Colic

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Colic

...er provides world class care and services to patients. ... Biliary colic is a condition characterized by extreme cramping pain ... The colic worsens at around six weeks of age and stops by 3 months of age. ... Also, they may need to be cuddled more than babies without colic . ... ...

Chondromalacia patellae

...t for chondromalacia patellae . Features causes, symptoms, and treatment options for the condition which occurs as patellofemoral syndrome worsens and the cartilage beneath a person's kneecap ... More about Chondromalacia Patellae : Causes and symptoms Diagnosis Treatment Alternative tre...

Chondromalacia

...acia include knee tenderness ... Features causes, symptoms, and treatment options for the condition which occurs as patellofemoral syndrome worsens and the cartilage beneath a person's kneecap ... More about Chondromalacia Patellae: Causes and symptoms Diagnosis Treatment Alternative treat...

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Inflammation worsens danger due to atherosclerosis

Stockholm, Sweden Current research suggests that inflammation increases the risk of plaque rupture in atherosclerosis. The related report by Ovchinnikova et al, "T cell activation leads to reduced collagen maturation in atherosclerotic plaques of ApoE-deficient- mice," appears in the February 20...

New study finds uncontrollable stress worsens symptoms of endometriosis

SAN DIEGO, CA Endometriosis is a poorly understood condition that incapacitates and affects the productivity and lifestyle of millions of women around the world. In the US, it affects approximately six million women and adolescents at a cost of some $1.6 billion per year. It is a chronic painful...

Iron is involved in prion disease-associated neuronal demise

... Singh laboratory suggests that accumulation of PrP-scrapie alters the metabolism of iron in diseased brains. The imbalance of brain iron homeostasis worsens with disease progression, and is not an outcome of end-stage disease. Since iron is highly toxic when mismanaged, this condition is likely to contrib...

New asthma research opposes current drug treatment, says UH prof

...tagonists (or beta blockers) instead. This approach, termed paradoxical pharmacology, suggests patients may be treated with medication that initially worsens their symptoms before eventually improving their overall health. Beta blockers currently are contraindicated for asthma because they typically tr...

Brain tweak lets sleep-deprived flies stay sharp

...ists have long recognized. Mental performance is at its peak after sleep but inevitably trends downward throughout the day, and sleep deprivation only worsens these effects. For the first time, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a way to stop this downward sli...

Resuscitation technique after brain injury may do more harm than good

...n these animals, it did impair recovery," Dr. Kernie said. "Our research shows even brief exposure to 100 percent oxygen during resuscitation actually worsens white-matter injuries." Dr. Kernie said adding pure oxygen to the damaged brain increases a process called oxidative stress, caused by the formatio...

Many African-Americans have a gene that prolongs life after heart failure

...ody's secretion of adrenaline to compensate for a lower blood flow. Overproduction of the hormone makes the weakened heart pump harder, but eventually worsens heart failure. Beta blockers alleviate this problem by blocking adrenaline at its receptor in the heart and blood vessels. GRK enzymes mimic this ...

First-ever study to link increased mortality specifically to carbon dioxide emissions

... the amounts of ozone and airborne particles that result from temperature increases, caused by increases in carbon dioxide emissions. Ozone causes and worsens respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, emphysema and asthma, and many published studies have associated increased ozone with higher mortality. [Oz...

Heart failure: Intervention possibilities from imaging programmed cell loss

... bound to the damaged heart muscle. "We discovered that higher uptake was uptake with a worse outcome. Cell death is one of the biological events that worsens left ventricular events," said Hofstra. "Our results indicate that heart muscle cell death is an active and ongoing process in heart failure, and...

Study to explore using magnets to correct 'sunken chest'

...to exercise, according to Harrison. Some patients also suffer serious emotional difficulties and low self-esteem, especially since sunken chest often worsens during adolescence when children are self-conscious about their appearance and seek peer acceptance. "This is not a trivial problem for these kid...

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Windows exploit worsens as stop-gap measures fill in for official patch

Update: Microsoft has promised an official fix on January 10, following its normal "patch Tuesday" schedule. Microsoft and Gartner have both cautioned users about the unofficial patch, both because of its outsider status and because it will have to be uninstalled when the official patch is install...

Accera, Inc. Launches Neuera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

...physiological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. Defective metabolism of glucose has been shown to precede the onset of symptoms or diagnosis of AD and worsens as the disease progresses. Axona was developed as a substitute for glucose when it cannot be metabolized by neurons in the brain. About Accera,...

Enobia Completes Target Enrollment in Clinical Trial for Infantile Hypophosphatasia

...esulting from poor mineralization) in adults. Disease severity is inversely proportional to the age at symptom onset, but morbidity is cumulative and worsens with age. Clinical severity ranges from the severe perinatal or infantile forms, with profound skeletal hypomineralization and respiratory compromise...

FDA Approves CONCERTA(R) (methylphenidate HCI) Extended-release Tablets for Treatment of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in Adults

... develops abnormal thinking or hallucinations, abnormal or extreme moods and/or excessive activity; or if aggressive behavior or hostility develops or worsens while taking CONCERTA(R). Stimulants may impair the ability of the patient to operate potentially hazardous machinery or vehicles. Caution should be...

VC Community Shares Perspectives on Midwest Life Science Funding

...in general to get VC funding versus their east coast and west coast counterparts. However, when we look at Midwest life science funding, the situation worsens as a paltry $56 million was invested. The amount of Midwest VC funding for life science deals has been scarce. The Midwest accounts for only ap...

Serial Dilution with the Bravo Liquid Handling Platform

...is increased (Figure 2). Three mixes yielded an average CV of 11.8%, while 20 mixes had a considerably better CV of 1.7%. The precision in all cases worsens as the serial dilution proceeds across the plate; this is expected as the error in the earlier columns is propagated with each transfer. ...