Fat may promote inflammation, new study suggests
... author. "While we don't fully understand the link between obesity and heart disease, our study suggests that inflammatory proteins produced by fat itself may play a role." The study, to be published in the April issue of the American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology and Metabolism, evaluated whether inf......nts with normal transaminases. The relationship between statins and cancer raises another important question. Statins have been shown to cause various tumors in rodents, though short-term studies have revealed no carcinogenic effects in humans. Still other studies have suggested that statins have an anti-...Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
...V-related cognitive dysfunction, or an association between HCV and comorbid psychosocial disorders. To bette...rategy. The authors examined 32 studies published between January 1990 and June 2004. Fifteen compared HRQOL in HCV patients with that of healthy patients. Th...Researchers search for first sign of congestive heart failure
... the heart muscle relaxes, differences in pressure between the upper and lower chambers should move the blood into the lower chamber, the left ventricle. The atrium, the upper, collecting chamber, then contracts. In very early heart failure, the heart also begins to rely on the contraction of the atrium to f...Hopkins begins human trials with donor adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged from heart attack
... in Baltimore, Md., be referred by a physician, be between 21 and 85 years old, and have no pre-existing heart condition that has been treated or requires treatment during the study period. Physicians interested in referring patients should call tel. 410-955-1160 for further information. Upon acceptance in ...Billions in cost estimated for firefighter injuries
...rams and protective gear and equipment. The range between the $2.8 billion to $7.8 billion reflects different cost estimation models--one with a narrow approach to possible related firefighter injury costs, the others with broader views of economic impacts. Fire departments can use the information to plan t...Vaccine against childhood pneumonia shows promise
...vaccine (8718), with intervals of at least 25 days between doses. 333 of the 8189 children given the pneumococcal vaccine had an episode of pneumonia confirmed by chest x-ray compared with 513 of 8151 in the control group. The vaccine reduced the first episode of pneumonia diagnosed by chest x-ray by 37% an...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...nings. Three cancers were diagnosed by other means between screenings. Approximately 69 percent of patients had at least one false-positive finding. False-positives are uncalcified lung nodules proved benign by observation or biopsy. Among the cancers identified through CT screening, false-positive rates ran...Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage
...esearcher Dr Jeremy Duffield explained: "The links between the immune system, inflammation and scarring in the liver have not been well understood, and this has hindered progress in finding ways to prevent and repair liver damage. Now that we have shown how the macrophages work, we aim to find out how to cre...Child care may affect entire community's risks of infection
...ent knows how quickly a cold or a cough can spread between children who play together. However, child care ma.... The level of pneumococcal carriage varies widely between communities, and Harvard Medical School researchers hypothesized that one influence might be the ext...NYU College of Dentistry study equates poor oral health with preterm birth risk
...and disability. Preterm deliveries rose 27 percent between 1982 and 2002, to a total of 480,812, or 12.1 percent of all U.S. births, an increase attributed to such factors as the growing use of fertility drugs, increasing teenage pregnancy and smoking levels, and physicans' improved ability to successfully d...NIH state-of-the-science panel calls for 'demedicalization' of menopause
...k to sleep disturbance. But the evidence of a link between menopause and mood symptoms, cognitive disturbance, and urinary incontinence is weak. This would suggest that treating these symptoms with hormones may be inappropriate. Although there is increasing interest in bioidentical or "natural" hormones for...Oral bacteria may predict pregnancy outcomes
...to better understand this potential important link between periodontal status and prematurity." This issue of the JOP included another study, Periodontal Diseases and the Risk of Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight: A Meta-Analysis. Findings from this study indicate that periodontal diseases in the pregnant m...Cardiac deaths peak in sleep hours for patients with sleep apnea
...p studies at the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorder Center between 1987 and 2003 and who died suddenly of cardiac cau...than half (54 percent) of the 78 OSA patients died between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., while only 24 percent of the 34 cardiac deaths among non-OSA patients occurred d...Treatment of cardiac lesions without anaesthesic
...closure of patent ductus (congenital communication between the aorta and the pulmonary artery). This involves...e selected with precision, involving co-ordination between neurologists and cardiologists in order to confirm that a "contrasted" event has arisen with this le...Can you read my mind? W.M. Keck Foundation funds innovative brain research at Carnegie Mellon
...picture or reading a sentence. It can discriminate between words about different semantic and grammatical content, such as buildings versus tools, nouns versus verbs," Mitchell said. While they trained their software, the researchers had focused on nouns. They now will turn their attention to nouns and ver...RIT takes eye-tracking research to next level
...Rochester Institute of Technology studies the link between eye movements and cognition. His latest research, ...nderstand how deaf students divide their attention between instructor, interpreter and a graphic display. Another study, conducted with a team including gradu...Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
...rug problem. The number of IDUs is estimated to be between 1 million and 1.4 million. By mid-2000, 36 percent...$71.8 million for the NEP resulted in a savings of between $1.3 billion and $4.1 billion. Martin noted that the contrast between Australia and the United State...NIAID initiates trial of experimental avian flu vaccine
...ay evolve into one that is more easily transmitted between people. If this were to happen, a worldwide pandemic could follow. Influenza pandemics are global outbreaks that emerge infrequently and unpredictably and involve strains of virus to which humans have little or no immunity. H5N1 is one such flu viru...Three-year cervical cancer screening recommendations may be applicable for certain women with HIV
...pdated and now advise using an interval of 3 years between screenings in healthy women 30 years or older who ...te differences in the cumulative incidence of SIL" between the two groups of women. "In this observational cohort study, HIV-seronegative and HIV-seropositive...