Reduced Heart Disease Risk In Middle Age Lowers Eventual Medicare Costs
...ol and blood pressure levels andcigarette smoking, during young adulthood and middle age. In an art...major cardiovascular disease risk factorsbefore or during middle age may dramatically reduce future Medicare costs. "These findings imply improved qu...Elderly Patients May Be Undertreated For High Cholesterol, Wake Forest Doctor Says
...S participantsusing at least 1,800 calories a week during moderate or vigorous exercise havinga five-year death rate of 15.5 per thousand, with death rates rising as level ofactivity fell. The most sedentary, doing less than 57.5 calories of activity perweek, had a death rate of 52.1 per thousand -- more th...Physicians Slow To Adopt Newer Drugs For Atrial Fibrillation
...eta blockers andcalcium channel blockers increased during the study period. Digoxin, theresearch team noted, has several limitations not found in beta blockers andcalcium channel blockers. For example, patients taking digoxin may be morelikely to experience shortness of breath when they exert themselves. ...Study Shows Three-Drug "Cocktail" Needed To Keep AIDS Virus Curbed
...patients aftertriple-drug therapy began to rebound during the less rigorous maintenance treatment. Forethical reasons, the double-blinded study was then halted in January. Patients receivingthe one or two-drug regimens were returned to the more effective three-drug combination. During maintenance therapy, ...Microwaves May Provide Early Detection Of Breast Cancer
... said. "Further, the duration ofmicrowave exposure during the breast scan will be shorter than many phone callsand much, much less frequent." The discomfort of X-ray mammography will also be eliminated, Hagness said."Instead of compressing the breast between two plates, the microwave antennaarray will gent...Study Finds Less Intensive Treatments May Not Maintain HIV Suppression
...the magnitude of the increase in CD4+ T-cell count during thetriple-drug therapy phase of the study also correlated highly with subsequentviral load rebound. For each increase of 100 in the CD4+ T-cell count, therewas a 30 percent increase in the risk of rebound." Dr. Havlir explains that anincrease in th...Restaurant Meats Higher In Suspected Carcinogens
...ompounds known as heterocyclic amines, oftenformed during cooking, were found in restaurant-prepared meats at levels as muchas ten times higher than similar fast food items previously analyzed by thescientists. The study involved beef hamburgers, steaks and pork ribs, purchasedfrom three different national......ho do not havetwins, and have not had any bleeding during their current pregnancy are eligibleto participate in the study. Before deciding whether to participate in thestudy, women should discuss the matter with a physician or a genetic counselor.A genetic counselor at Northwestern Memorial Hospital will be...Ovarian Hormone Could Play Key Role In Easier, Safer Childbirth
...romoted dramatic growth and softeningof the cervix during pregnancy -- the findings "encourage the view that...ix, relaxin can be broughtin as a therapeutic tool during latepregnancy to soften the cervix. The key is delivering relaxin by a means thatassures that it ent...Encapsulating Insulin-Producing Cells For Possible Diabetes Therapy
...on't understand how muchinjury we do to the islets during this isolation procedure. It's been difficultto even show that the free islets are functional immediately after isolation." Despite those obstacles, Duke researchers have already done their firstpreliminary trials in animals, harvesting isle...Cedars-Sinai Surgeons Present TeleSurgery
...s. "We're closing a blood vessel that's important during a baby's development inthe womb. Once the child is...thoutthe blurring or "ghosting" that used to occur during satellite transmissions,said Pemon Rami, manager of Medical Media and Conference Services atCedars-S...Medication Offers Hope For Relief From Burning Mouth Pain
...ing asleep difficult yetdoesn't awaken the patient during the night. Grushka's study tested the effect of clonazepam, a form of benzodiazepine that is often used ananticonvulsant. Her sample consisted of 30 patients who had experienced BMS for anywhere fromone month to 12 years. One subject was an 83-year-o...How Ritalin Enhances Memory: Clues Provided By Brain Scans of ADHD Patients Using The Drug
...ver active in some areas and underactive in others during thetask. Task-related neural activity among men with ADHD was not noted in thefrontal region, an area traditionally associated withworking memory, as it was in the normal control subjects, but rather appeared inthe PET images to be most concentrated...This Week's Forecast May Be A Heart Attack
...00 men studied, 2,524 suffered 3,314 heart attacks during thedecade studied. A total of 1,281 died of heart attacks with 700 men having atleast one recurrent heart attack. In general, the risk of heart attack increased as the temperature dropped belowthe average for the day and decreased as temperatures ro......he transgenic tobacco was harvested multiple times during the summer at a point far earlier than tobacco is harvested for traditional uses. In 1995, a team consisting of Cramer and her associates at Virginia Tech and CropTech, a biotechnology company located in Blacksburg, was the first to induce a plant ...Lifetime Risks And Costs Of Heart Disease Much Higher For Obese
...ercent chance of developing coronary heart disease during their lifetimes;risks increased to 38 percent for those who were mildly obese, 42 percent forthose who were moderately obese, and 46 percent for those who were severelyobese. Risks increased from 25 percent for the women who are not obese, to 29perc...Mechanism By Which Estradiol Protects Women From Heart Disease Suggested By Emory Team
...ual cycle, and women hyperstimulated withestradiol during in vitro fertilization. "Our results showed that estradiol at physiologic concentrations had no effecton oxidation, and LDL isolated from these subjects did not differ in itsoxidizability in the presence of copper," the team reports. ...Painful Births For Babies Could Lead To Violent Suicide In Adulthood
...) Minimising pain and discomfort for an infant during birth seems to be of importance in reducing the risk of committing suicide by violent means in later life, claim a team of researchers from Sweden in this week's BMJ. Professor Bertil Jacobson and Professor Marc Bygdeman from the Karolinska Institut......female statuettescarved in various parts of Europe during the Paleolithic period were intendedprimarily to protect the health of mother and child during childbirth. White'sfindings contradict the long-held assumption that the main intent of thesestatue......4 timesmore likely to report "never" using condoms during sexual intercourse. Similarfindings were not observed for heterosexual men or women. As the use of antiretroviral medications, including protease inhibitors, hasrevolutionized the clinical management of HIV, protease inhibitors have becomean integra...