Low birth weight affects 50% of all children in South Asia
Low birth weight affects 50% of all children in South Asia <BODY BGCOL... Child Health Research Project Low birth weight affects 50% of all children in South Asia A gathering of scientists announced today that nearly 50% of all...Faculty research contributes to new cervical cancer treatment
... according to NCI. "This is a disease that affects young women," Rose said. "When a womandies at the age of 30, the impact is devastating to her family and society ingeneral. In three of the studies, women were randomly divided into groups thatreceived either radiation alone or radiation plus...Novel drug therapy tackles third 'pathway' causing congestive heart failure
... to treat congestive heart failure, whichcurrently affects over 4.5 Americans." Co-authors were Anita Deswal; Biykem Bozkurt; Yukihiro Seta; SemahatParilti-Eiswirth; F. Ann Hayes; and Consuelo Blosch...Scientists show hormone involved in cryptorchidism
...sticular descent - is acongenital abnormality that affects 2 percent to 3 percent of full-term humanmales at birth. Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas havefound, in mice, that a hormone is involved in the regulation of testiculardescent. Their experiments, reported in the July issue of Na...Mitral valve prolapse less common, less harmful than previously thought
...ournal of Medicine, the researchersreport that MVP affects about 2 percent of the population rather than the 5 to35 percent of the population indicated in earlier estimates. And, contradictingearlier studies suggesting that MVP occurs more commonly in women, theresearchers found that men and women are equall......A Mayo Clinic survey found that pain significantly affects the quality of lifeof female cancer patients by limiting their physical abilities and socialactivities. Over 60 percent of a group of 107 women being treated for recurring breast andgynecologic cancers reported that pain interfered with their ability......om an on-goingproject to examine how parents' work affects family life and, in turn, child andadolescent development, particularly the middle childhood years. The Penn State Family Relationships Project, in the journal article,reports initial findings from a three-year study of approximately 200 ...Controversial performance enhancer "andro" affects brains as well as brawn, say UMass researchers
...ny researchers have beenconcentrating on how andro affects muscles and athletic performance, the UMassgroup of scientists has focused on what andro does to the brain. The study wasconducted through the University's Center for Neuroendocrine Studies, theNeuroscience and Behavior Program, and the department of...Study suggests need for better pain management in newborns
...procedures become more invasive and if prematurity affects how much theyrespond. She also wanted to know whether premature babies become more sensitiveto pain as they grow older. Porter and colleagues recruited 152 newborns ranging in gestational agefrom less than 28 weeks through full-term. The babi...Heart failure deaths reduced by 30 percent
...ity for a disease that, in the United Statesalone, affects as many as 4.7 million people and results in approximately250,000 deaths annually, according to the American Heart Association. The study looked at the effect of adding Aldactone (spironolactone), a drug thathas been used for decades to treat a varie...Bacterial vaginosis seems to affect miscarriage in early pregnancy
... that they are still not clear how this condition affects miscarriages. They speculate that the cause is mo...ndometritis (inflammation inside the uterus) which affects the implantation of the fertilised egg in the IVF process or its early embryonic development. They ......ebroplasty.org It is estimated that osteoporosis affects more than 10 million individuals inthe United States, 80 percent of whom are women. An additional 18 millionpeople have low bone mass which places them at increased risk for osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is also responsible for more than 1.5 million fr...Red wine can help maintain immune system, UF researcher finds
...immunity, conducted a study tofind out if red wine affects the immune system. Her research shows that thecirculating white blood cells that fight infection are not helped -- or hurt --by red wine. "There's been a lot of publicity lately on the health benefits of red wine, butwe also know that alcohol suppres...Bullies need as much help as their victims
...a-Heino et al. Both papers conclude that bullying affects the psychosocial and psychosomatic health of children and that both the bullied and the bullies deserve attention.......he Penn study focused on ulcerative colitis, which affects about 500,000Americans. "IBD is a chronic disease with waxing and waning activity and is verydebilitating in some patients," notes Wu. The symptoms in humans includeabdominal pain, diarrhea, intestinal bleeding, nausea, and vomiting. Many patients...UCSF researchers report new risk factors for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...driving Tcell activation. Therefore, anything that affects this activation process mightinfluence the rate of overproduction. The researchers reported that factors associated with an increased risk ofnon-Hodgkin's lymphoma include a history of splenectomy (5-fold increase),gonorrhea among men (2-fold increa......ayeffects." The Impact of Insomnia Insomnia affects nearly 84 million Americans, according to the NationalSleep Foundation (NSF). Insomnia may be caused by a number of factors,including a change in sleeping or daily environments, such as a new home or job;jet lag; a new work schedule; pain from arthr...A leading cause of blindness may be controlled by simple course of oral antibiotic
...UCSF) and lead investigator of the study. Trachoma affects the inner eyelid. Of the nearly 600 million people living intrachoma endemic areas, 150 million have active disease as conjunctivitis. After repeated episodes, which begin in childhood, scarring occurs, and theeyelids turn inward causing damage to t...Injured elite athletes need team support
...with an injury and the aftermath ofthe injury that affects not only the physical health but the social andpsychological health of an athlete." One of the most difficult aspects of being injured, apart from the injuryitself, is being removed from the team and its social support system, at a timewhen the athl...Mitral valve repair at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gets Los Angeles dentist on the road to recovery
... few if any symptoms accompany the disorder, which affects an estimated 5 percent to 20 percent of the population. Also known as "click-murmur syndrome," the condition results when the mitral valve, which regulates blood flow on the left side of the heart, "prolapses"-or collapses backward. This sometimes al...