Stroke awareness low among women, especially minorities
...ent More white women (92 percent) knew treatment exists that can break up blood clots and reverse the course of an ischemic stroke if patients arrive at a hospital soon after the onset of symptoms. Comparable figures were 84 percent for African-American and 79 percent for Hispanic women. "These data supp...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...e than all cancers combined. However, there still exists a disturbing gap in the knowledge, understanding, and general awareness of cardiovascular disease in women, not only in the women themselves, but across medical audiences as a whole. CVD is seen as a 'male disease' by the general public and, since w...Physicists find patterns within seemingly random events of physiological systems
...bited in events such as avalanches, where a system exists in a quiet state, accumulating energy, until it reaches a "tipping" point and collapses, only to build up again and repeat the cycle. The researchers, therefore, speculate that the dynamical patterns found in these wakefulness periods may hint at un...Chronic fatigue patients show lower response to placebos
...eries surrounding CFS, a great deal of controversy exists among both doctors and patients as to whether its origins are primarily psychological or physiological. Current evidence suggests that emotional or social stresses such as bereavement or problems at work, combined with other triggers such as common v...Child care may affect entire community's risks of infection
...iseases, now available online. S. pneumoniae often exists in the nose and throat without causing problems, but if the bacteria grow out of control, they may result in illness ranging from minor conditions such as ear infections to more serious diseases like sinusitis, pneumonia, and meningitis. A childhood ...New study in 'Nature' demonstrates protection against cell death during heart attack
... presumably, protect it." A class of drugs already exists that blocks cyclophilin D. The most well known one is cyclosporine, a drug used to prevent rejection in organ transplantation. Cyclosporin has a downside, however. In addition to blocking cyclophilin D, it also blocks calcineurin, an agent that pr...Strategy effective against drug resistant tuberculosis
...stant (MDR) tuberculosis in the world. Little data exists to guide policy on how to best control and prevent tuberculosis in areas where drug resistance is prevalent. Ma de Lourdes Garcia Garcia (Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Mexico) and colleagues analysed data from 436 tuberculosis patients from So......good practice of medicine, yet conclusive evidence exists that doctors need help with ethical problems, writes Daniel Sokol of Imperial College London. About a fifth of NHS acute trusts currently have a clinical ethics committee. Although these provide a valuable service in drafting hospital policies and he...