Study suggests smoking while pregnant may increase chromosomal abnormalities in fetal cells
... during pregnancy has many consequences during and after pregnancy, such as infertility, coagulation problems, obstetric complications such as extrauterine pregnancy and placenta previa, and intrauterine growth retardation, according to background information in the article. However, only indirect data ha...Blood pressure treatment could cut risk of strokes and heart attacks
...d strokes. In November 2004, the trial was stopped after the Steering Committee of ASCOT accepted the recommendation of its Data Safety Monitoring Board that the blood pressure arm of the trial should be stopped, due to far better results for those patients on the new treatment. The newer treatment strateg...Emory Study finds HIV is not an independent risk factor for severe heart disease
...ith angiographicallysevere heart disease. However, after we adjusted for age, gender, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol levels and tobacco use, HIV status was no longer associated with severe CAD," says Dr. Sola. "In fact, therewas no significant relationship between angiographically significant CAD...New system for the analysis of facial movement in three dimensions
...oftware that processes facial movements before and after reconstruction. In this way, an exact method for measuring and evaluating the various parameters has been devised: angles, the speed of the spreading movement by facial muscles at the corners of the mouth, etc. Moreover, apart from analysing the out...Emotional memory study reveals evidence for a self-reinforcing loop
... first to really test recall of emotional memories after a long time period," said Cabeza. "Previous studies had only allowed a short time interval, for example minutes, between encoding of the memory and retrieval. Hence, they could not distinguish between the process called consolidation -- in which memo...Researchers close in on breast cancer vaccine
...east cancer and in patients who have had a relapse after initial treatment," Mohanakumar says. "We want to see if giving patients the DNA vaccine can prevent or eliminate breast cancer or at least slow its growth."...Cigarette smoke worsens respiratory infections in infants
...her or not they smoked cigarettes either before or after giving birth. And they asked mothers about their o...tro says, "but it's equally important not to smoke after pregnancy. Kids spend a lot of time with their mothers during the first few months of life, and if t...Pet scanning better for heart disease diagnosis, management
... attack and cardiac death were significantly lower after one year in patients managed by PET. The number of angiograms, balloon angioplasty with stenting and coronary bypass surgery also was significantly lower in the PET-managed patients. The average cost to manage a patient with coronary artery diseas...Simple question from your doctor can help identify your risk for breast cancer
...rff, MD, lead researcher for the study. However, after studying the medical records of almost 2000 women, only 1 in 4 were found to have had this important documentation. Researchers found that "less than 1 in 7 of African-American and Hispanic women less than 40 years of age, a group in which the early...Pregnant women should exercise to keep depression away
...roup of multi-ethnic women, during and immediately after pregnancy. Over the course of their pregnancy, re...se, were most associated with poor health, before, after and during pregnancy. The article states that "depression is more common among disadvantaged and mi...Even mild depression increases long-term mortality in heart failure
...on alone predicts a significantly worse progrnosis after one year. Jiang is currently investigating whether the use of anti-depressant medication has an effect on the outcomes of depressed heart failure patients. Joining Jiang in the study were Duke colleagues Maragatha Kuchibhatla, Ph.D., Michael Cuffe, M...Gender gap for lung cancer rates narrowing
...atients who all underwent surgery, they found that after two years, 74.3% of women survived, compared to 66.0% of men, and, after five years, 56.8% of women survived, compared to only 48.3% of men. Researchers speculate that the ...Laughter helps blood vessels function better
... were acquired. Changes in blood vessel reactivity after the volunteers watched a movie lasted for at least...lood vessel measurements were performed before and after the laughter and mental stress phases of the study. There were no differences in the baseline mea...Implanted devices detect high-risk heart failure patients
...would expect that as their heart function improves after implantation, their heart rate variability would i... were almost two-and-half times more likely to die after one year. "A person with normal heart rate variable would have a very wide footprint, while those wi...Tobacco industry pays scientists to challenge secondhand smoke's link to infant death risk
...pany carried out this disinformation campaign even after the landmark 1998 settlement between all of the ma...ion over the first 25 years and continuing amounts after that, and agreed to stop creating controversy about the evidence linking smoking and disease. The to...Beta-blockers may help broader group of patients with heart problems
...failure patients. But the investigators found that after five years, 65 percent of patients treated with be...ker therapy still showed a strong survival benefit after researchers adjusted for patients' age, gender, hypertension, diabetes and coronary artery disease. ...Study finds drug eluting stents as effective as vascular brachytherapy in preventing restenosis
...patients were still in the hospital and six months after discharge. The SES patients also had a lower rate of in-hospital total higher major adverse cardiovascular events." Conventional VB treatment, which is a logistically demanding procedure, exposes patients to radiation and is associated with a risk o...Study says rare allergic reactions to drug-eluting stents may raise risk for heart attack
...sh tubes, are routinely used to prop arteries open after angioplasty clears them of potentially heart attac... percent). However, they can happen hours to weeks after stent deployment and physicians need to be aware of that possibility -- and when hypersensitivity do...Portable system offers dialysis patients 'liberating' changes
... dialysis three times a week, go home and rest and after that I would crawl into work. "No pep, no get up and go whatsoever," says Bunch a postal worker who has been on dialysis since 2001. "Now, I can take those stairs at work and at home. The energy level I have now is so much higher. It's all so very li...... The same rats' stress hormones were also measured after being placed briefly in a new tunnel.The cautious females had lower stress hormone responses than the curious ones. This finding in female rats is the opposite of the result Cavigelli saw in an earlier study with male rats.The males' stress hormones ...