How to avoid the health risks of Hajj
... Mecca, is a once in a lifetime obligation for all adult Muslims who are physically and financially able. Each year, more than two million people globally, including more than 20,000 Britons take part in the Hajj. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are important hazards, write Abdul Rashid Gatrad and Aziz She...Number of adults with high blood pressure set to soar by 2025
...lable in German. The proportion of the world's adult population with high blood pressure is predicted to increase from a quarter to a third by 2025, totalling over one billion, conclude authors of a study published in this week's issue of THE LANCET. High blood pressure is the leading risk factor for m...Marijuana associated with same respiratory symptoms as tobacco
...thor of the study. "Because more than two million adult Americans are heavy marijuana smokers, these risks...gs were based on 6,728 questionnaires completed by adult men and women, 20 to 59 years old, in 1988 and 1994. The data was from the National Health and Nutri...Complementary & alternative medicine use
... 14 years has shown a consistent level of usage by adult Americans," said Dr. Eisenberg. "While there have been a few notable changes in which CAM therapies people are using, the overall number of adults employing some type of CAM has remained remarkably consistent since we began our surveys in 1990. Thi...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
...e heightened electrical activity that indicates an adult taking a treadmill test isn't getting enough oxygen to his heart is now being measured during labor to see if it can better identify babies in serious distress who need immediate delivery.The Medical College of Georgia in Augusta is the lead site in ...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center receives SPORE grant for brain cancer research from NCI
...stigator-initiated research projects that focus on adult gliomas, the most common form of tumors that origi...ial testing the effectiveness of this treatment on adult gliomas. Project 3 will study a protein that brain cancers use to invade surrounding tissue so that...New findings on patient safety at children's hospitals
...tes shows that many of the same indicators used in adult hospitals can be used to measure preventable compl...s Institute of Medicine. They have been applied to adult hospitals as a way to measure quality and safety of care, adjusted for the severity of illness among...Social development program in childhood aids in positive functioning as an adult
... in poverty in encouraging positive adolescent and adult outcomes. J. David Hawkins, Ph.D., from the Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues examined the long-term effects of the Seattle Social Development Project (SSDP) in participants...Non-narcotic treatment for migraines
...llow researchers has helped clarify approaches for adult patients seeking headache relief in an emergency setting. Results of the study, which involved reviewing data from 13 trials involving 655 adults, were published this month in the British Medical Journal. In studies comparing metoclopramide with plac...Guidelines for following pediatric cancer survivors aim to reduce medical complications
...ld the promise of reducing illness and death among adult survivors of childhood cancers. These guidelines, ...e and life-threatening in as many as 25 percent of adult survivors of childhood cancer. Anticipating potential complications provides the opportunity to impr...Aspirin underused to reduce heart disease risk in diabetic women and young adults
... of cardiovascular disease events in any high-risk adult older than 30 years with diabetes. Although their study found an encouraging increase in aspirin use in recent years among adults with diabetes, Persell and Baker noted a significant disparity in aspirin use between diabetic men and women that was n...ER patients with substance abuse treatment need incur higher health care costs
...nt." The researchers estimated that 27 percent of adult emergency department patients in Tennessee have unmet substance abuse need. Compared to patients without substance abuse treatment need, patients with unmet need were younger, more likely to be male, and uninsured or enrolled in TennCare, Tennessee's...Early learning leaves lasting changes in brain, Stanford owl study shows
...might make new connections that remained intact in adult animals. They turned out to be right. Neurons in t...ajor structural changes early in life, leaving the adult with a stable map. Other parts of the brain, such as those involved in learning and memory, remain m...2004's top 10 hot topics in plastic surgery
...tem cells from fat? Doctors can harvest and store adult stem cells from liposuction fat and successfully grow stem cells. While this advance is exciting, treatment of medical disorders using stem cells from liposuction has yet to be developed. For referrals to ASPS member plastic surgeons certified by th...Few Americans aware they have chronic kidney disease
...s than half the kidney function of a healthy young adult and another 11.3 million consistently having protein in their urine. The researchers can't explain this paradox, but suggest that fewer patients may be dying and more may be progressing to dialysis faster. "Given the high prevalence of chronic kidney...Kinder, gentler procedure gives superior results for stem cell transplants
...The regimen was administered to 11 pediatric and 5 adult patients at St. Louis Children's and Barnes-Jewish hospitals and the Children's Hospital of New Orleans who had non-malignant bone marrow or metabolic disorders such as sickle cell anemia, thalassemia or Hurler's syndrome. Symptoms and disease parame...Families inform roadmap to improve care for dying in nursing homes
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Nearly one in four adult Americans dies in a nursing home, yet basic needs for pain medication, emotional support, hospice care often go unmet, according to a new study conducted by Brown Medical School researchers and published by AARP. In the report, experts offer severa...Cumulative trauma in adulthood can worsen health in later years
...stingly, say the authors, adversity encountered in adult life affected adult health more than adversity encountered in childhood. "Trauma could have the same adverse effects on ...Reducing anti-rejection meds after transplant shows less complications
...nts, 55 involved children, while the other 68 were adult cases. The current success of this novel ant...nd 10-year patient survival rate is 42 percent. An adult and child transplanted more than 14 years ago at the University of Pittsburgh are the world's longes...NIAID-sponsored clinical trial aims to boost flu vaccine supply
...ltimore, Cincinnati and Houston will be recruiting adult volunteers into the trial. Four out of every five participants in the new trial will receive Fluarix, while the fifth will receive a placebo. Those receiving placebo vaccine will be offered U.S.-licensed flu vaccine at the conclusion of the month-lon...