International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
...h study chair. "Thousands of women have already beat breast cancer thanks to recent research on aromatase inhibitors. As a result, we think this could be an effective approach to preventing it from developing in the first place." The ExCel research study will follow more than 4,500 postmenopausal ...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
...king around," Juvonen said. "The students who were beat up and those who were called names were equally bothered. Kids reported feeling humiliated, anxious or disliking school on days when they reported incidents, which shows there is no such thing as 'harmless' name-calling or an 'innocent' punch." Stude...Depression predicts heart rhythm abnormalities in heart attack patients
...mportant, the researchers said, because this heart beat irregularity, known as ventricular tachycardia, ca...drugs as beta blockers, occurs whenever ventricles beat more than 100 times in a minute. In some cases, the tachycardia may only last for a few beats; howev...Regular cannabis may increase risk of stroke in young users
...cardiovascular effects. These include rapid heart beat (tachycardia), excessively high or low blood pressure, and the decreased oxygen carrying capability of red blood cells. Cannabis also quadruples the risk of a heart attack within an hour of consumption. They are at pains to point out that despite the...Mount Sinai stroke prevention trial published in JAMA
...l upper chambers of the heart (known as the atria) beat rapidly and unpredictably, which sometimes allows blood to pool and clot. If a section of the blood clot breaks off and travels to an artery in the brain, a stroke may result. AF affects more than two million Americans, and this number is expected t...Small band of nurses plays key role keeping germ threats at bay
... Units (VTEUs) supply the nurse power necessary to beat back or altogether prevent infectious disease. The VTEUs assess the safety and effectiveness of potential vaccines; the targets include new diseases, like bird flu; tenacious killers that re-appear every year, like the flu; and even diseases that hav...Country's first 'simplified maze' using new ultrasound technology is done at Northwestern Memorial
...er in which the upper chambers of the heart do not beat effectively because of abnormal electrical activity. AF results in reduced cardiac output, exacerbates heart failure and can lead to stroke or other neurological problems. AF affects more than six million people worldwide. "Ultrasound technology dr...Animal studies show stem cells might make biological pacemaker
...searchers then selected clusters of the cells that beat on their own accord, indicating the presence of pa...ve that the human heart cells were controlling the beat of the guinea pigs' hearts, colleagues Fadi Akar, Ph.D., and Gordon Tomaselli, M.D., conducted caref...Pacemakers could protect patients with epilepsy from sudden unexplained death
...rammed to record automatically for very slow heart beat (bradycardia, 40 beats per minute or less) or very fast beats (tachycardia, 140 beats or more per minute) were detected. Patients were studied for up to 22 months; ECG patterns monitored heart rhythms during 377 seizures. Heart rate during habitual ...Assessing the season: LSU hurricane experts learned lessons during Hurricane Season 2004
...te Climatologist Barry Keim, Hurricane Season 2004 beat the averages. It also kept LSU experts on their toes. There were 15 named storms, eight of which became hurricanes. Six of those fell into the intense/severe category. Keim said that 10 named storms and six hurricanes is considered average. Two in...Book celebrates centenary of city's advances in public health
...Edinburgh in 1902, the book describes the fight to beat the killer diseases of smallpox and tuberculosis which plagued the city a hundred years ago, and the current battle against the 'new' challenges of HIV, herpes, and hepatitis C, cardiovascular disease and genetic diseases. The book sets the Edinburgh...Ephedrine and unheralded sudden cardiac death
...he part of the nervous system that makes the heart beat stronger and faster. In past experiments on obese, otherwise healthy individuals ephedrine did not raise their heart rates when they were either at rest or exercising." Dr. Adamson spoke today at the American Medical Association's 23rd Annual Scienc...Listening in on the whispering heart
...upper chambers of the heart, the atria, quiver and beat rapidly: a condition that can often lead to heart ... The method is designed to resynchronize the heart beat and restore its normal rhythm. Cardioversion is very successful in stopping an AF or VF episode and ...Cedars-Sinai Medical tipsheet for May 2004
...ched an ambitious and innovative model designed to beat these dire odds. The Institute for Professional Nursing Development opened in June 2002, and is already helping to meet the needs of local nursing schools and students, while simultaneously creating a larger, more highly educated pool of nurses for t...New research in atrial fibrillation
...atria) of the heart that causes the whole heart to beat rapidly and irregularly," said Dr. Donahue, assistant professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. "The two conventional treatment strategies are to either try to keep the rhythm from becoming irregular, or t...Link between caffeine consumption, high blood pressure found in adolescents
... pressure inside blood vessels that the heart must beat against, was the most impacted. They also found that despite the fact that the highest consumers who were white consumed even more caffeine than their black peers, the blacks' pressures were most impacted. Black adolescents who consumed the most caff...Diagnostic method based on nanoscience could rival PCR
...emonstrate technology that can compete with -- and beat -- PCR in many of the relevant categories," said Chad A. Mirkin, director of Northwestern's Institute for Nanotechnology, who led the research team. "Nanoscience has made this possible. Our alternative method promises to bring diagnostics to places P...Expert calls for standard epinephrine doses when treating children in cardiac arrest
...lmost a century to increase the heart's ability to beat automatically and to redistribute the blood flow to vital organs such as the brain and the heart. The standard dose of 0.01 milligrams per kilogram of body weight recommended in the PALS guidelines, published in 1986, may be the safest bet, he said. ...New light shed on atrial fibrillation after bypass surgery
...ch cause the upper pumping chambers, the atria, to beat much faster than normal. This abnormal beating causes the lower pumping chambers, the ventricles, to pump erratically and inefficiently, leading to an inadequate amount of blood being pumped throughout the body. For their analysis, the international ...Human rights abuses common in southern Iraq between 1991 and 2003
...oth men and women agreed that a man had a right to beat his wife if she did not obey him. Respondents support an Iraqi society that protects and promotes human rights, but neither men nor women support a full range of human rights for women. (JAMA. 2004;291:1471-1479. Available post-embargo at JAMA.com ...