National Study Suggests Heart Attack Severity May Be Declining
... kind of measure, based on whether patients had an abnormal pulse rate, or had an abnormally low systolic blood pressure (the first number of the two in the typical blood pressure statement), showed little change. Thus, he said, the results from the severity indicators "are somewhat inconsistent," but a...UI Researcher Determines Vital Sign Norms For Cesarean Section Procedure
...ce cases is that when you see very large,seemingly abnormal changes in vital signs in the operating room, it does notnecessarily indicate that care has somehow been substandard," Dexter said. Dexter examined records from 1,300 women who underwent cesarean section at Dukewith general or spinal anesthesia betwe...UF Researcher Explores Complex Relationship Between Smoking And Fertility
..., such as in the fallopian tubes, sometimescausing abnormal bleeding and scarring, and interfering with fertility. Shiverick found that a toxin in cigarette smoke, benzo(a)pyrene,actuallyinhibited the growth of cells that could migrate and develop intoendometriosis. "But if the chemical has t...Migraine Pain: Not Mainly In The Brain
...o adds. That, the researchers believe, comes from abnormal nerveactivity. Animal studies elsewhere show that electrically stimulating thetrigeminal nerve, the major nerve leading from the brain to head and face,inflames the meninges. Unlike inflammation sparked by trauma or infection, this "neuro...Abraham Rudolph To Receive Howland Medal For Contributions To The Advancement Of Pediatrics
...es advancedphysicians' understanding of normal and abnormal heart development in newbornhumans. They pioneered the use of radionuclide microspheres to find how bloodflow is directed in the fetal heart and circulatory system, and how thatcirculation changes at birth. The knowledge and techniques developed duri...Cure For Abnormal Heart Rhythm Available To More People
...le not immediatelydangerous to most patients, this abnormal rhythm imposes an extra burden on itthat eventuall...tion of these patients is to find thesource of the abnormal beat in the heart and to destroy the culprit tissue byradiofrequency ablation. "Because the electro...Irritable Bowel Syndrome The Focus Of Three UNC-CH Reports At Digestive Diseases Conference
...tion of persistent and recurrent abdominal painand abnormal bowel habit (diarrhea, constipation, or both). Pain often beginsafter eating and goes away after a bowel movement. Other symptoms are bloating,passage of mucus, and a feeling of incomplete emptying. IBS is not caused bystructural, biochemical or infe......ferentiated orpoorly differentiated cells are more abnormal and characteristic of moreaggressive cancers. The higher the Gleason score, the poorer the patient'sprognosis. They evaluated these scores and the varying radiation doses patients infour separate studies had received. They found that overall......n performing biopsieswhen the screening test shows abnormal cells, and in surgical procedures totreat the precancerous lesions, the study notes. At present, surgery for thiscancer is difficult and expensive. Co-authors of the study, along with Goldie and Palefsky, are Karen M Kuntz, Sc.D.,assistant professor ...Ordinary Touches Multiply Into Severe Pain For Fibromyalgia Patients
...defied easy diagnosis. UF scientists have found an abnormal central nervous system reaction inthose with fibromyalgia: The body magnifies ordinary repetitive stimulationinto an experience of crippling pain. "This is particularly important because it has been unclear if fibromyalgiawas just an imagined illness...Study links body image to athletes' fertility
...range. Only 19 percent of thenon-athletes reported abnormal cycle lengths. Williams notes, "What was ...atory, almost60 percent of them were found to have abnormal levels of reproductive hormones,even though many had normal cycle lengths of 27 to 31 days. These al......inologists, the doctors who care for children with abnormal hormonesystems. Now scientists at UC San Francisco, working with a new experimental model thatturns yeast cells into little versions of human adrenal glands, have learned theanswer: they have shown how the drug, medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) inhi...Discussion about learning processes reopens
...he scientists from Heidelbergcould not demonstrate abnormal learning behaviour in the mutant mice. Rather,the mice lacking LTP were, like normal mice, capable of accurately finding asubmerged, invisible platform in a pool of murky water ("water maze") and toswim there immediately when placed in the water. Fur...Bacterial vaginosis seems to affect miscarriage in early pregnancy
...r. Bacterial vaginosis is the most common cause of abnormal discharge among women of childbearing age and prevalence rates of between 13 and 31 per cent have been reported in pregnant women, say the authors. In their study they found that 24.6 per cent of women had bacterial vaginosis, but that there was no ...New imaging method in development to show Alzheimer's progression
... The Alzheimer's disease brain is characterized by abnormal amyloid plaquedeposit in an amount that roughly correlates with the severity of symptoms atthe time of death. While many factors strongly suggest that amyloid formationprecedes neurodegeneration, a direct proof is lacking, Lansbury notes. For thatr...Renowned researcher in prenatal diagnostics joins Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
...y, comprisingabout 50 percent of all chromosomally abnormal babies. The level of risk isdetermined by looking at two proteins in the mother's blood, the thickness ofthe skin on the baby's neck, and the mother's age. Specifically, the two blood proteins that have been found to be indicators ofrisk are called "...Light alcohol use may protect against sudden cardiac death
...e quantities of alcohol ina brief period -- causes abnormal heart rhythms that can lead to sudden cardiacdeath. "Based on the data, I wouldn't recommend that non-drinkers start drinking. Onehas to consider all the risks and benefits of drinking alcohol," Albert says. "You don't know how likely a person is to...Scientists provide first detailed maps of wiring circuitry in the living human brain
...Byknowing that, scientists may be able to identify abnormal connections betweenbrain areas that might be important in diseases such as schizophrenia." The study, published in today's issue of Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences, also may provide a way to tell if behavioral differencesamong ...Stress and social support linked to prostate cancer
... PSA levels, they found that the risk of having an abnormal PSA testwas over three times higher for men with h...s of social support weretwice as likely to have an abnormal PSA as were those with high levels ofsupport (12.9 percent of low-support men compared with 6.8 perc...UCSF researchers discover new piece of puzzle in cancer development
...o normal prostate cells, therewas an indication of abnormal signaling, as the epithelial cells began toreplica...born with abnormalfibroblasts, in which case these abnormal cells could serve as a marker fordiagnosing cancer, said co-author Aria F. Olumi, MD, UCSF, a former...