Indiana University researchers closer to helping hearing-impaired using stem cells
...e future, said Dr. Hashino, an associate professor and Ruth C. Holton Scholar in the Department of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery. The cells used in the research are called marrow stromal cells -- a type of stem cell ...Acupuncture found to lower elevations in blood pressure
...apeutic regimen for long-term care of hypertension and other cardiovascular ailments in people. "This st... John C. Longhurst, director of the Samueli Center and study leader. "The Western world is waiting for a clear scientific basis for using acupuncture, and ...Corrected metabolism leads to health benefits and weight loss
...onary weight loss program that balances metabolism and hormone levels has stabilized a variety of medical conditions such as diabetes, arthritis and high blood pressure, says a leading Canadian General Practitioner. The Metabolism Correcting prog...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
...the first study to examine daily school harassment and the first to examine the effects of witnessing oth... most common types of harassment were name-calling and physical aggression such as kicking and shoving. "Bullying is a problem that large numbers of kids c......een shown to decrease the risk of artherosclerosis and related diseases. In the United States, doctors wr...isease is common in patients with high cholesterol and their liver condition may create a higher cardiovascular risk that could be addressed through statin...Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies
...hose to peanuts. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National ...s such as sneezing, wheezing, itching, watery eyes and sometimes asthma. When a cat-allergic person touches or inhales a protein found in cat saliva or dan...Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
...es measured in patients, including liver histology and ALT levels, do not necessarily correspond with HRQ...gnitive dysfunction, or an association between HCV and comorbid psychosocial disorders. To better understand how HCV influences health-related quality-of-...New evaluation tool reliably predicts recovery from coma
A Department of Veterans Affairs and Northwestern University researcher has developed t...rcent certainty. The study, by Theresa Pape, DrPH, and colleagues, is described in a two-part series in Volume 42, Issue 1, of the Journal of Rehabilitatio...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...pital (MGH) will appear in the journal Circulation and has received early online release at http://www.c...r clinical research in the MGH Cardiology Division and lead author of the current study. "The ability to identify dangerous plaques before they rupture an...Some brain cells 'change channels' to fine-tune the message
.... Doing so lets the cells fine-tune their messages and adjust connections within the cerebellum, the brai...ins team has identified two proteins, called PICK1 and NSF for short, that help replace channels that let charged calcium ions in with another kind of chan...Researchers search for first sign of congestive heart failure
As stress can make blood vessels constrict and blood pressure rise, it may also reduce the heart's ability to relax and fill with blood, researchers says. If they are right, this may be one of the earliest changes that e...Hopkins begins human trials with donor adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged from heart attack
...live today have suffered at least one heart attack and so are at greater risk for chronic heart failure, ...stone on the journey to better cardiovascular care and to realization of the promise of adult stem cell research," says lead study investigator and cardiol...Hospital acquired infections present major problem for infants in developing countries
...) Data suggest that unhygienic practices in labour and delivery, and in after-birth care, put babies in the developing world at great risk of infections and death soon a...Billions in cost estimated for firefighter injuries
...during training--with an estimated 81,000 injuries and 100 deaths in 2002 alone. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released a study* that estimates the cost in 2002 of addressing firefight...Vaccine against childhood pneumonia shows promise
A vaccine against pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disease, a severe form of ba...tion, can substantially reduce hospital admissions and improve the survival of children in developing countries, concludes a trial published in this week's...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...s lead author, Stephen J. Swensen, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at Mayo Clini...ncers that the patient would likely have died with and not from. Other cancers were so aggressive that early detection with CT did not make a difference." ...New estimates for the causes of child deaths worldwide
...sepsis or pneumonia (10%), preterm delivery (10%), and asphyxia at birth (8%). Robert Black (Johns Hopkin...Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA) and colleagues in an independent group on child health epidemiology, along with those from the World Hea...US attempting to flout ethical practice for patient trials abroad
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed that observ...access to the best proven prophylactic, diagnostic and therapeutic methods identified in the study" and places some limits on the use of placebos in develo...NHS target driven culture is failing patients
... spread across three sites, delivered by six teams and by numerous members of within each team, while the..." he says. "The presiding tick box culture allowed and even fostered suboptimal assessment." Although individual clinicians did what they were asked, they ...... deprived neighbourhoods has little effect on diet and health, says an editorial in this week's BMJ. Ensu...nt's joined up strategies to improve public health and reduce health inequalities. However, evidence to inform how, when, and where to reduce these inequa...