Americans leading healthier lives, reducing risk of death from heart disease, UCSF study finds
...art disease related mortality were attributed to a fall in smoking rates. UCSF researchers analyzed the data of the Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) Policy Model, a validated computer simulation model of heart disease among the Americans between the ages of 35 and 84. Using this information, they estimated ...Tissue engineering could become new coronary bypass
... are not constructed properly. And if VEGF levels fall too low, vessels are even subject to "pruning and remodeling," the researchers report. The new polymer formulation combines proper doses of VEGF and PDGF in a way that encourages the proper structure of vessels and guides their growth for weeks. It...Budget received mixed reviews from Canadian Dental Association
... this concern, Canadians saving through RRSPs will fall even further behind. Its particularly disappointing in light of the fact that Finance Committee recommended an increase to RRSP contributions following the pre-budget consultation process....Study shows alcohol boosts death risk for boat passengers as well as operators
... Center. Frequently, people who have been drinking fall in the water even if a boat is not moving, become disoriented and drown. Actress Natalie Wood apparently died that way 20 years ago in November after falling off her stationary yacht in California. A report on the study appears in the Dec. 19 issu...New safety regulations reduced injuries requiring treatment for children, study suggests
...gust 2000 and surveyed 178 center directors in the fall of 1999. Of the injuries, almost 91 percent happened in childcare centers, 3.5 percent occurred in homes offering care, and it was unknown where the remaining 5 percent took place, he said. Boys were injured most often and by bumping into or bein...College freshmen more politically liberal than in the past, UCLA survey reveals
...tions students entering undergraduate classes. The fall 2001 survey conducted by the Higher Education Rese...er education researchers throughout the world. The fall 2001 survey included 411,970 entering freshmen at 704 of the nations higher education institutions. ...More students choosing health profession sciences as major due to unstable job atmosphere
...na Passalacqua, 18, came to Northeastern this past fall as a pharmacy major, and is absolutely confident that upon graduation she will have a job. "Just speaking with upperclass pharmacy majors and my academic advisor, has reassured me that the present rocky conditions of the economy is not going to affec...Yale researcher receives $1.4 million grant to study the hypocretin cells involved in narcolepsy
...eir best intentions to the contrary, spontaneously fall asleep, raising the ire of their employer. Then at night they may have trouble sleeping, and may suffer from hallucinations when falling asleep or waking." Van den Pols laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Stanford and the Scripps Research...American Chemical Society meets April 7-11 in Orlando
...aces. The American Chemical Society will hold its fall meeting August 18-22 in Boston....Gene linked to accelerated brain aging in healthy adults
...g mental capacity well into their 90s while others fall into progressive decline or dementia. "The frontal lobe is the site where the earliest and most consistent effects of aging occur in the brain," said P. Murali Doraiswamy, M.D., a psychiatrist at Duke and lead researcher on the study. "Virtually ever...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March (first issue)
...isol levels which, at night, precede the nocturnal fall in lung function values and may lead to less suppression of airway inflammation in susceptible persons, with subsequent airflow limitation. The investigators found that children with asthma had lower serum cortisol levels at all six daily time points...Husbands of fibromylagia sufferers in slightly poorer health, more depressed than other men
.... However, scores for all three problems generally fall within, or very close to, normal range. In addition, other indicators of psychosocial well-being -- including self-rated satisfaction with life, tension and anxiety -- were similar in the two groups of men. Health care costs in the two groups of men...Fatigue may be red flag for postpartum depression
... severe postpartum depression did not experience a fall off in fatigue as time progressed." The study found that the choice of breast or bottle-feeding had no effect on who became depressed. Neither did the presence nor absence of other children or partners. None of the women had been diagnosed previous...Behavior management programs help seniors with chronic illnesses sleep better
...e naps, avoid activities that make it difficult to fall asleep, and to stay in bed only when drowsy or sleeping. The HART group consisted of seven commercially produced audiotape recordings derived from a program created for the U.S. Air Force to train pilots and shift workers to sleep better. HART was...Obese lung-transplant recipients at higher risk of death
... In the UF study, researchers followed through the fall of 2000 the progress of 85 patients who had undergone lung transplants at Shands at UF medical center between March 1994 and October 1998. Using WHOs body mass index measure dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared the transplant re...Injuries uncommon in youth football, Mayo Clinic study reports
...ears, who participated on 42 football teams in the fall of 1997. Injury incidence, prevalence and severity were calculated for each grade level and player position. Additional analyses examined the number of injuries according to body weight. A game injury was defined as any football-related ailment that ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April (second issue)
... dust mitesubstances that would cause an immediate fall in lung function test results of at least 20 percent. The researchers found that the stress connected with a final exam was associated with enhanced eosinophilia and eosinophil-derived neurotoxin at 6 and 24 hours post-antigen challenge. Eosinophil...Mild kidney disease doubles risk of death after angioplasty or bypass
...ng up only as blood tests for kidney function that fall out of the usual range. The condition is expected to become more common due to increasing rates of diabetes in this country and an aging population.The 3,608 patients in the study were part of a larger trial called the Bypass Angioplasty Revasculari...Stroke survivors have brittler bones, more likely to fracture
...a stroke. Research has shown that stroke patients fall to the side of the paralysis and are less able to stretch out an arm on that side to cushion the fall. Lower limb dysfunction and visual impairment also make them more likely to fall. Stroke patients who break their hips also have a higher mortality...