Penn finds atrial fibrilation cure eliminates need for pacemakers, medicine
...oes not cure afibrillation but merely prevents the fast heart rate that frequently accompanies atrial fibrillation, and patients still require blood-thinning medication. The Penn procedure is more specific in targeting the triggers for atrial fibrillation, rather than blocking the main electrical road to...JDRF launches multimillion-dollar Center for Islet Transplantation at Emory University
...erscores JDRFs determination to keep research on a fast track to find a cure for a disease which affects more than 16 million Americans," said Charles J. Queenan III, Chair of Research for JDRF. "JDRF has been in the forefront worldwide with islet transplantation as one of its priorities. The possibiliti...Beating heart bypass surgery reduces postoperative complications....
...th on-pump surgery. Atrial fibrillation (irregular fast heartbeat) was reduced by 25%, chest infection by 12%, the need for red-blood-cell transfusion by 33%, and extended hospital stay (more than one week) by 13%. Mid-term mortality data (gathered from 1-3 years follow-up) were similar between the two...Chip design has potential as artificial retina
...processor that is compact while offering extremely fast computations for image processing could possibly l...ger for the CNN project. The CNN chip is small and fast and has programmable capability. Other potential medical applications in addition to the artificial...Genetic connection in link between permanent hair dye use and bladder cancer risk
...e recipe for making the enzymes. The genes come in fast and slow varieties. The research team looked at 159 female bladder cancer patients in Los Angeles and compared them to 164 similar, healthy women, analyzing their genetic makeup through blood and urine samples.They found that in women with certain sl...Physics tip sheet #9 April 17, 2002
...asma. Understanding these high fields is vital for fast ignition schemes in laser fusion and hybrid plasma containment. Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0204039...Ten percent fatigue at work within one year
... role. Overweight men became fatigued 1.3 times as fast as colleagues with a normal weight. For men who where physically inactive during leave time, the same factor applied. For women, being underweight increased the risk of future fatigue by a factor of three. In 1998, the researchers sent a personal let......were either prereleased on the journal Web site or fast tracked. Twelve "control" articles published in the usual way were matched to the case articles according to journal, topic and year of publication. Forty-two general internists rated the articles, using 10-point scales, on 6 dimensions addressing th...Mayo Clinic researchers develop 'cancer snitch'
...ting to the cancer cells; how is it spreading; how fast is it eliminated? And until now, weve had no way of answering these questions. What were missing, Dr. Russell says, were the basic pharmocokinetics and pharmocodynamics studies. Pharmocokinetics and pharmocodynamics refer to analytical processes in t...Researchers seek new hope in old asthma treatment
...ich involves blowing into a tube that measures how fast you can blow out each morning before he or she uses his or her regular daily medication, usually an inhaled steroid. The other potential benefit -- if theophylline is proven effective as an add-on therapy -- is its price. In generic form, theophylli...The low-down on high blood pressure more focus on prevention and treatment goals
...ountry. However, these rates are not improving as fast as majority populations. The gap that has existed for a number of years between majority and minority populations is actually widening, so we need to continue and renew our efforts in special populations, says Jones....Writing email about traumatic events can improve health
COLLEGE STATION - Sure, it's a fast and convenient form of communication and even a method for proliferating corny jokes and outrageous hoaxes, but email, according to a new Texas A&M University study, may actually benefit a person's health when used properly. The study, which is amon...Research explains possible origin of Parkinson's tremors
... key part of the brain fire almost twice as fast as normal. While this increase in frequency could be used to explain other Parkinson's symptoms, such as stiffness or slowness of movement, it cannot easily explain tremor, Terman explained....New, non-invasive surgical procedure to eliminate epileptic seizures
...atient's head is placed inside the helmet and held fast at four points to the skull. Each of the "drain holes" is actually an aperture that creates beams of varying strength and diameter allowing precise delineation of the area to be treated. When the individual beams converge, that area receives the full...Doppler test detects those with gene for early heart enlargement risk
...me noninvasive ultrasound procedure that shows how fast the heart muscle moves during contraction and relaxation. Researchers found that individuals who had HCM tended to have lower velocities during the relaxation phase of the cardiac cycle. Three groups of individuals were studied: Eighteen individuals ...A helping hand: Healthy arm helps retrain stroke-impaired arm
...ould and then relaxing. "We wanted to compare how fast they turn on' their muscles before and after rehabilitation," Cauraugh says. Again, the stimulation/bilateral group had faster reaction time 227 milliseconds (ms) vs. 255 ms for the unilateral group. The third test measured sustained muscle contra...Nation's leading hospitals serving up fast food
... sure to exercise. So, when you see your favorite fast food restaurant inside the hospital that just told...s top health institutions had regional or national fast food franchises on their main medical campuses. It's a statistic that is alarming to the authors of...UNC study: Americans getting obese earlier, ethnic groups put on weight at different rates
...asons, black women become obese more than twice as fast as white women, and the rate for Hispanic women is about midway between the two. U.S. men of different races and ethnic groups also put on pounds at varying rates. We found Hispanic men became obese 2.5 times faster than U.S. men of European ancestry...Gene expression profiles predict survival of lymphoma patients after chemotherpy
...s that affected response to therapy, including how fast tumor cells were dividing and from what type of normal lymphocyte (a type of white blood cell) the tumor originated. Many of the predictive genes suggest that a patient's immune response to the tumor is important for achieving a cure with chemother......g the day-to-day health of seniors are mounting as fast as the nation is aging. By the year 2030, the number of people older than 65 will climb to 70 million in the U.S. alone. Schroeder's research aims to preserve the quality of life for many of these older men and women. In his study, researchers monit...