Tanning devices may contribute to incidence of common skin cancers
...g, and sun exposure, did not appear to explain the excess risk of either type of skin cancer associated with tanning lamps. The authors conclude that the use of tanning devices may contribute to the incidence ratesof basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma, which together are the most common malignancy inth...Stroke news tips for Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
...n homocysteine and exercise in stroke survivors.An excess of homocysteine, an amino acid found in blood, has...he American Heart Association does not consider an excess of homocysteine a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Souvik Sen, Seton Hall University Sc...Childhood stroke deaths drop, but still higher among blacks
...evalent in blacks than whites fully accounted for excess stroke deaths, Fullerton notes. Boys were 30 percent more likely to die from subarachnoid hemorrhage and 21 percent more likely to die from intracerebral hemorrhage than girls. Stroke is also more common in adult men than women. With further res...Using cocaine during pregnancy may damage developing fetuses, causing lifelong learning disabilities
... neuron learns," Morrow said. "We believe that the excess activation in the prefrontal cortex plays an important role in the poor short term memory in these." He said the studies were another step toward understanding and treating the long-lasting effects on the circuitry of the brain that occurs after expo...Scleroderma research receives a boost from multiple NIH grants
...t to stimulate cells called fibroblasts to produce excess collagen. Currently, there is no treatment that controls or stops the underlying problem: the overproduction of collagen. Little is known about the cellular changes that cause the skin and organs to harden, and the disease may be difficult ...Gene therapy to treat angina appears safe
...raging because the response that we saw was far in excess of what we would have expected. Our estimate was that we would have needed a lot more patients to detect any effect on ETT, says Engler, who is also a professor at the University of California in San Diego. He stresses that the small number of subje...Oral diabetes drug shows promise in preventing miscarriage in common infertility disorder
...hormone testosterone, which may cause them to grow excess facial or body hair. Also, PCOS patients have a higher than normal risk of developing non-insulin-dependent, type 2 diabetes.In the article, the study authors noted that women with PCOS often have a history of recurrent miscarriage. In earlier stud...UT Southwestern researchers identify mechanisms by which cocaine elevates blood pressure
... from blood vessels into the nerve endings and the excess levels of noradrenaline cause blood vessels to constrict. However, we found that this mechanism plays a very small role in humans. Instead, cocaine increases blood pressure by stimulation of the heart to cause rapid heartbeat and increased cardiac ou...Research links level of spina bifida defect and need for shunt after newborn surgery
... is located higher on the spine. The shunt carries excess spinal fluid away from the childs brain to prevent a life-threatening buildup of pressure. The researchers, led by Leslie N. Sutton, M.D., director of Neurosurgery at Childrens Hospital, reported on 297 children at Childrens Hospital who received sur...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March (first issue)
...U.S. had COPD in 1994. The authors estimated that excess unemployment due to COPD was approximately 366,600 persons in 1994, and that total lost productivity due to the disease cost $9.9 billion in that year. The study was published in the first issue for March of the American Thoracic Societys peer-revie...Clot-busting drugs linked to increased mortality in elderly
...thout contraindications to therapy, experienced an excess risk of mortality compared with untreated patients," the authors write. "Findings of this study suggest a need to re-assess our approach to the use of thrombolytic therapy in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction patients older than 75 years."...Yale study shows 25 percent of obese children are at high risk for developing diabetes
... upon the ability of the liver to absorb and store excess glucose as glycogen. Caprio and her co-researchers looked at a multi-ethnic group of 167 severely obese children and adolescents. All underwent a two-hour oral glucose tolerance test during which glucose, insulin and C-peptide levels were measured. ...First IBIS results show tamoxifen reduces breast cancer in healthy high-risk women
...rence in one trial and a statistically significant excess of deaths in the IBIS trial. Professor Cuzick said...ancer deaths appeared to be similar, but the small excess of PE deaths in IBIS and one other trial the American P1 study indicated that thromboembolism was t...High protein diet along with calcium and vitamin D increases bone mineral density
...ct synergistically to promote bone health, whereas excess protein in the diet may result in bone loss when calcium intake is low. The finding that BMD may be improved by increasing protein intake in conjunction with calcium supplementation is important, given that bone fracture is a major cause of mortality...Statins may inhibit calcium growth on aortic valve in the elderly
... "A large percentage of elderly people suffer from excess calcium in their aortic valve. Excessive calicum buildup can prevent the valve from opening normally. Because we currently have no way to treat them with medicine, heart surgery to replace the valve is the only solution when the buildup is severe. ...Aventis Pasteur donates approximately 75 to 90 million doses of smallpox vaccine to the U.S.
...ing stock and has an estimated commercial value in excess of $150 million. It will provide a short-term safety stock for emergency use during this period of time in which the U.S. may be particularly vulnerable to a terrorist smallpox attack until new vaccine supplies are available. The company has worked ...Accidental overdose with Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) carries a greater risk of death
...ffective and safe painkiller. However, if taken in excess it can be fatal. Taking an acetaminophen overdose ...helms the liver's ability to process the drug. The excess acetaminophen is then processed into toxic chemicals, which can kill liver cells. If enough cells ar...Excessive weight gain during pregnancy can increase breast cancer risk, study finds
...han 50 pounds during pregnancy, and not losing the excess weight post-pregnancy, could triple a womans risk of developing breast cancer after menopause, according to a study conducted by researchers at Lombardi Cancer Center in Washington, DC, and in Finland. Pregnancy weight gain of 40 pounds increased bre...Longer lasting pack for long-lasting heartburn relief
...imes brought on by eating and drinking by stopping excess acid release at the source. Heartburn occurs when ...omach acid flows back up into the food pipe. This excess acid is the main cause of the painful symptoms experienced by sufferers and it is by reducing the am...Newly published data show at-home dialysis therapy may benefit more patients
...fused. Through the process of osmosis, toxins and excess fluids move across the membrane into the solution, which is then drained from the abdomen. The other form of therapy is called hemodialysis (HD), which removes waste products from the blood accessed through a needle inserted into a blood vessel. ...